2-Letter Words Starting with P

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Profit

Groups of descendants.

Children and more children

Offspring

Progeria

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Prognose

Go on press trips to get forecasts

No press go abroad for forecasts

Assessments of likely outcomes

Poor signs perhaps for medical forecast

TV show is following numbers in forecast

Stormy signs and poor outlook

Robotic variable

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

Prolog

To deliver a Prologue.

Prologue

Introductions.

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Prolonge

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Causing, bringing about

Promulge

Promulge

Pronate

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Prophage

Propine

Propone

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

To prorogue.

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

Protegee

Provide

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

Puddling

Chubbiness, plumpness

Puggaree

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Athrob

Vibrant.

Pummel

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Purpose

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

Purvey

Dawdling

Pygmyism

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Some race action

Paddock

Padlock

Adjective (-ic)

Paganise

Paganizer

Paganize

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Fortifying with fences.

Palliate

Palsgrave

Biology ()

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Panelling

PANGENES pangene

Transmission theory accounting for rotary engines keeping in step

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

Paragon

Two charts (wordplay)

Bar chart and scatter diagram

New ones are usually indented

Attorney's aides

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

Paralyse

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

Partly cooking

Parcel

Paregoric

Parentage

Parenting

Parget

Pargyline

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

Duct, for instance

Die when embracing Georgia in corridor

Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley

Fares going up on flights (wordplay)

Go by the greens (wordplay)

1 across is not expressly for them

Pasturage

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Patinate

Patinize

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

Peculate

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Pedagogy

They have pupils

Teachers striving ultimately to cut rampant dope usage

Pedicure

Pedology

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Pellagrin

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Penology

Prison warden

Pension

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pentangle

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Perceive

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

Percuss

Peregrine

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perigyny

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

PERIWIG a wig

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

Noun (-age)

Permit

Perorate

Peroxide

Perpend

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Continuing to exist

Individual dates of birth of celebrities

Illustrious people

V.I.P.'s

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Persuade

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

Perturb

Pervert

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Phagocyte

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

A plant that produces seeds.

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Phellogen

Philter

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Phonogram

Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea

Edison's child

CD player's predecessor

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Physic

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Pickeer

Alfresco enjoyment

Gets a bite lying on the grass with a royal garden party host (wordplay)

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

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