2-Letter Words Starting with P

Prechill

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Preclean

Preclear

Made impossible in advance.

Made impossible

Ruled out note in introduction to Debussy's first

Musical compositions comprising 100 bars

Makes impossible

Some way through introductory pieces, music finally stops

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

COITAL relating to coitus

Precool

Predrill

Preelect

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Prefile

FILLED fill

Before take-off

Before boarding, as an inspection

Kind of inspection

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Prelacy

Group of clergymen

LAUNCH to set in motion

Prelect

Prelimit

Preluder

Prelude

A prelude or introduction.

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

Premolar

Premold

Preplace

Preplace

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

Choose in advance, as an in-flight meal

Pick beforehand

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)

In the near future

Having a garrison

Of Truman's office.

Like packaged meats, often

Preslice

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Pretrial

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

VIABLE capable of living

Very valuable, some say it's hilarious

Highly valued as hilarious (wordplay)

Highly esteemed? That's hilarious!

Prickly

Make a small hole in fish, causing sensation

The quality or state of being primal.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Primatal

Primatical.

A little royalty types the hindrance, by the sound of it

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Lacking clues, as a murder weapon

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

Probable

Yes to insurance paperwork!

Declares in favour of applications

Gives out Oscar with limp shake

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

Procural

Prodigal

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

CPAs (wordplay)

Relatives of police sketch artists

Manicurists and tax preparers, by trade (wordplay)

Profile

""Flowing forward,""

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

Prolamin

Prolapse

Prolapse

Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric

In rhetoric, anticipation and answering of objections

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Wordiness

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

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Promulge

Promulge

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

""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.""

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

Propenol

Offers of marriage

Season-ending events on "The Bachelor"

They're made for girls

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

Diplomat's concerns

Correct conduct code

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Sunday text

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psilocin

Psoralea

Psoralen

Having a sixth sense

Psyllium

Ptyalism

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

PUBLIC people as a whole

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

In a mischievous manner

Puddly

Puddling

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Pulicide

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

Stop by the side of the road starting to sense some wear

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

The quality or state of being pulpy.

Pulpwood

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Pulsejet

Pulsojet

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

A little cushion or pad

Pummel

Pummel

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Adjective meaning resembling

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Purfling

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

Salad plants

Bodily Functions

Pushball

Gone to the bad

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Pylorus

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

Pyrolyse

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Pyrolyze

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyze

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Capable of being appeased

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

Game resembling squash

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

""A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.""

Padlock

Paillette

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance