2-Letter Words Starting with P

Prolonger

Continuing desire to follow master

Expert sportsman with desire keeping going

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Promulge

Black Hills beasts

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Propagule

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Propend

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prorogue

Prosect

Prosper

Guardian's job

Protend

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

Proverb

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Pterygium

Pterygoid

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Puncture

Pungency

Pupillage

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Purgation

Purgative

Purloin

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

Putrefy

In a puzzling manner.

One of the Pycnogonida.

Pyramid

""A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes. pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.""

Pyrolize

Pyrology

Pyrolyze

Pacemaking

Sports See pacemaker .

Spectacular displays

Pagination

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Beating with excessive rapidity

Biology ()

One way to cook meat

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

The process or craft of making paper.

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Jumping from a plane

Paraffin

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

Paragraph

Writer of news items for newspapers

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Paralogism

Paramagnet

Paraplegia

Paraplegic

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Composition on a ground bass

Composition with a repeating ground bass

Composition over a ground bass

Corridors with awkward gaps, as we say

Corridors, e.g

Corridors, for example

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

PASSIVATE

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patterning

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDOLOGIC

Pedologist

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Pemphigus

Pencilling

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Of or pertaining to penology.

Ones looking at sentences

Pentagonal

Pungent plant

Pepsinogen

Portions

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

PERENNATE

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Permillage

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Persiflage

Acting a part.

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

Petrology

One versed in the study of rocks.

Pettifog

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

""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.""

English word

Phanerogam

Phantasy

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phenology

Philology

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

Phlebogram

Phlogiston

Phlogopite

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

Phonology

One versed in phonology.

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

PHOTOLYZE

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

Phycology

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Phylogeny

Cast of one's features

Physiological.

Picaroon

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Puts into small compartments

Classifies

Compartmentalizes.

Pigeonwing

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Piggyback

Pigheaded

Pigsticker

The act of hunting for wild boar

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilgrimage

Locating exactly

Pinprick

Pinwheel

Swiveling, in ballet

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Placating

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

Plagiarise

Plagiarism

Cheating types can crush a gal's spirit

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Prose appropriator

Plagiarize

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Plaister

Astronomy ()

Plangency

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

Plasmagene

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Plastering

Present participle or gerund

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Playacting