2-Letter Words Starting with P

SIGNIFIED signify

Presignify

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

Profanation

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

Characteristic of an academic

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

In a proficient manner.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

Eclair-like dessert

Eclairs as a sweet

Small filled pastries

Profligacy

In a profligate manner.

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Mushrooms and battered tripe for sale

In plentiful fashion

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Ones who tell you when your slip is showing (wordplay)

They use first impressions to eradicate wrong types

Study ace (wordplay)

Checking printed text for errors

The Royals' employee checking passage

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Pacification

Painfulness

""Of, relating to, or designating any of a group of paramyxoviruses that are similar to the viruses that cause influenza and are associated with various respiratory infections, especially in children.""

Parfocality

PARFOCALIZE

Pasqueflower

Tropical climbing plant (granadilla)

Climbing plant, Passiflora

Wasp flies on or off climbing plant

That sounds farther from Rome

Classically, the head of the household

V.I.P. on a low level

Won't get any better with unseemly imperfections

One seeking the ideal

He likes his work all right

One aiming for the best

Perfectness

Performative

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.

Perfusionist

In a pestiferuos manner.

Petrifaction

See Petrifaction. Petrifaction.

Pettifogging

Jockey's other job (wordplay)

Pitifulness

Playfulness

Plentiful

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificator

Plural or third person singular

Noun (-tion)

Prayerful

Preamplifier

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

Prefabricate

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

""The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.""

Showing by prefiguration.

""The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.""

FORMATIONS formation

FORMATTING format

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Preformulate

Prequalify

SANCTIFIED sanctify

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Presignify

Prespecify

Their living's in a ring

Boxers

Boxing for money

Boxing

Profaneness

Tour-ready players

Opposite of amateurs

Experts changing order of pair of lessons

Professorate

""The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.""

Professoriat

Chair (at university)

Chair for shoppers is broken

An office chair

Proficiency

Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial .

Profuseness

Multiplying rapidly

How the professional life is reckoning to be spreading around

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

Prolificacy

Prolificity

Purification

Pushfulness

Putrefaction

PACIFISTIC

Parainfluenza

Passionflower

Plural of paterfamilias .

Peacefulness

The quality or state of being perfectible.

Perfectionism

In respect of its being transformed, they demand the best

Perfective

Perfectivity

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.

To carry out or do (an action)

Petrification

Pettifoggery

Photofinisher

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

Pontification

""Inflected form of FABRICATING Inflected form of FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

Preferential

Prefiguration

Prefigurement

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""MANUFACTURE The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.""

""PERFORMANCE The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

""UNIFICATION The act of unifying, or the state of being unified.""

Pridefulness

PRIZEFIGHTING prizefight

Very skilfully and competently

Person's loyal if working for money

Professorial

Professoriate

Chairs looking small amid rocking horses, if amongst items on stage

Profitable

Profoundness

For energy, limits the amount of rapid increases

Prolificness

Purposeful

""PERFECTIONIST One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.""

The quality or state of being perfunctory.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Pestiferous

Photofinishing

PHYTOFLAGELLATE

PLENTIFULNESS plentiful

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

PRAYERFULNESS prayerful

Things made earlier than absolutely necessary

Preferability

Prefigurative

PREFORMATION An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

MANUFACTURED Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.hand-made.

Premanufacture

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Plural or third person singular

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Prettification

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Profitability

Like astrology or psychokinesis

(Of knowledge) not based on rigorous investigation