2-Letter Words Starting with P

Playground

Playmaking

Theater notables

Dramatists

The writing of plays.

PLURALIZE To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

Respiration recorder

Pockmark

PODZOLIZE

POETICIZE

Poignancy

Politick

POLLINATE Pollinose.

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Polygamist

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygamize

Polygenes

GENESIS an {origin=n}

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

Polygonal

Polygraph

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polyphagia

Polyphagy

Potentially happy soul about to become open-mouthed

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Pomologist

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

Aligning

Locating

English word

Present participle or gerund

Postform

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Present participle or gerund

Postmark

Postsync

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Present participle or gerund

Pothunting

Potlatch

Potshot

Pottering

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Praelect

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Prattling

Preaching

Preadapt

Preadopt

ARRANGED arrange

Reps rang re a change in schedules

Preassign

Preaver

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

Plural or third person singular

CREASING crease

DEFINING define

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Predigest

Predrill

Preelect

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

Preenact

Preerect

Preexist

FIGURING figure

FOCUSING focus

Prefrank

Prefreeze

They come before deliveries

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

Decision made before hearing evidence

Biasing

Prelimit

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

Preorder

PACKAGED package

Prepackage

Preplan

PLANTING a plantation

Preprint

Preprogram

Prepunch

Choose classes early

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

Prescind

Advising the use of (medicine)

Prestamp

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

Group's ties I treated as impressive

Having glamour and influence

Having high status

Plural or third person singular

Confidently; arrogantly.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Prettify

Prewrap

Prewriting

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Princeling

""The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.""

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

""PRIVILEGE A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.""

Some scenes in "Raging Bull"

Boxing matches

Crooked cop resigned in legal action

Action

Affairs.

Proclaim

PROCREATE To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Medical Specialties

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

Profligate

Progenitor

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Proglottid

Projection of the jaws.

""Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.""

Prognostic

Programing

Computer workers

Computer coders

Q: See title A: "None--that's a hardware problem"

Arrangement for being a 2, possibly, without a lot of grace

Moving forward

Advancing

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

Prohibit

Literary introductions

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

PROLOGUIZE

Prologuize

""PROMENADE A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.""

Promising

Made known

Promulgate

One who promulgates or publishes.

""Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. as, a pronouncing dictionary.""

Propaganda

""PROPAGATE To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree. as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.""

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

Town criers, for example

Town criers, e.g

Their business is increasing naturally

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

Setting forth (an idea)

PROROGATE To prorogue.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Prohibiting professional writing

""PROSECUTE To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.""

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Looking for gold

""PROSTRATE Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate prostrate""

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Pl. protogalaxies A mass of hydrogen that is sufficient to form or is already beginning to form a galaxy.

PROTONATE

Protract

Provoking

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Instrument for spirit writing.

Thought-related

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

Publishing

Pudginess

Pugnacity

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Purgatory

Pycnogonid

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

Pyrogallol

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features See also neoteny paedogenetic   [ˌpiːdəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk] , paedogenic adj PAEDOMORPHIC (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Adjective (-ic)

Painstaking

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

""Birth 1 . the phase in the development of an organism in which its form and structure pass through the changes undergone in the evolution of the species. 2 . the morphological and structural changes that occur during insect development. Also palingenesia, palingenesy. ; palingenetic,""

China in first phase regeneration

The old man's low-down getting through punishment is reincarnation

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Palynology

Biology ()

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons