2-Letter Words Starting with P

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Portion

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positive

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Logical philosopher

Positiveness.

Posology

Having groups of friends, sign off

Having power over gangs, turn informer

Having power over Eoin speaking in Gulf

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Adjective (-ic)

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

Bums

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

Postfix

English word

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

Present participle or gerund

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

English word

Fit to drink.

Potassium

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poultice

Pourboire

Pourpoint

Adjective meaning resembling

Poxvirus

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

PRANKISH mischievous

Bird painter circling round pass

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Preassign

Prebill

Prebind

Preboil

Prebook

CALCULI calculus

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Precast

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precent

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Precess

Regular change in direction of an axis

Prechill

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

Precious

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Faces

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

Precisian

Niceties

Counteracting in advance

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

Parboiling

Precool

Precut

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

DEFINED define

Predefine

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Affirms what may be said of subjects

They're grammatically red, I see, in the heads

before one can place a lot of detectives back here,they become verbal

Predict

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Predigest

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

Predrill

Preedit

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

Supplanting

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Lived before

Prefab

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

Liking (something) better

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

FINANCE to supply the money for

Preform

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

Oven-ready act

Warming up

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Early primate

Prejudge

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelect

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Prelimit

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Prelusion

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

Viewed first

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Premold

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Prenotion

Prentice

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

OPENING a vacant space

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Prepack

Prepaste

Preplace

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

PREPPIE one who {preps=v}

Preprice

PRIMARY a preliminary election

Preprint

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

To require beforehand.

Form of long-sightedness

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

Prescind

Prescore

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

One who prescribes.

Prescribe

Prescript

Presell

Doing a demo of

What is the hostess doing giving out (wordplay)

Gift in fourth programme is for working in television

PRESENT to introduce

PRESENT to introduce

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Before starting a tennis game (wordplay)

Keeping safe

Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam

Preset

Preshape

Preshow

Preshrink

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Presidium

Presift

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

Preslice

Presoak

Presort

SPECIFY to state in detail

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

Pretaste