2-Letter Words Starting with P

Situated behind the cranium.

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

""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.""

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postillion

Present participle or gerund

Adjective (-al)

Postnatal

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

""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.""

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Postulator

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

The quality of being drinkable.

Mightily

Latently.

Potentilla

Potlatch

Pottering

Pourparler

Powerless

Feasible

Realistic

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Praelect

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

Pratincole

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

Preaching

Saved for future use

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Prebless

CALCULUS a branch of mathematics

Precancel

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

Preclusion

Plural or third person singular

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Predicable

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

Predrill

Preelect

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Prefrontal

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

Prelection

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

Prelimit

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

Lacking written records

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Prelusive

Before the due time

Before time

... E-A-R-L-Y

MAXILLAE maxilla

Premaxilla

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Preplan

PLANTING a plantation

Prepotent

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

PUBERTAL of puberty

Prerelease

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

Preschool

With presciense or foresight.

Chosen beforehand

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

PRESENT to introduce

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

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

Confidently; arrogantly.

Pretended

TERMINAL an end

Prevalence

In a prevalent manner.

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

VISIONAL imaginary

Priceless

""The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.""

Priestly

Primality

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Originally; at first.

Princely

Princeling

In the main.

In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.

""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.""

The doctrine of the probabilists.

""One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.""

Odds favouring bishop's competence

Chance for second-rate talent

In fairness, breaking bail is a likelihood

Probationary.

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

Procedural

""Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.""

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Adjective (-ible)

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) duo

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" duo

Twins Craig and Charlie Reid, with "The"

Proclaim

Of a Roman official

Medical Specialties

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

By profession.

Cream-filled pastry ball

Filled pastry ball

Cream-filled, chocolate-covered pastry

Profligate

Proglottid

Proinsulin

PROJECT to extend outward

Scheme with lies when playing darts, say

Literary introductions

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

Marx brothers (wordplay)

The people; workers

Real patriot agitated working classes

Reproduce a lot

Grow rapidly in number

Breed for long stretch with speed

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

Prolixity

Prolocutor

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

PROLOGUIZE

Prologuize

In a distinguished manner

Promising

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

Made known

Promulgate

One who promulgates or publishes.

Explosive charges

Rocketry substances

Propellent

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

Health

Action taken to prevent disease

Proplastid

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

Propulsion

Prosaical

""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.""

""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.""

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

Proteolyse

Process undertaken by enzymes to make amino acids

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

English word

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Protocol

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

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Protoplasm

Protoplast

Protostele

PROTOSTELE

Protoxylem

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

English word

In a provident manner.

Unsophisticated ones

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

Provoking

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

Pseudocoel

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Psilocybin

Psilophyte

PSILOPHYTE

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Psychical

Thought-related

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

PUBLICISE

Publicity

PUBLICIZE

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

Publishing

Puerility

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

""A germinating, or budding.""

Pulpiness

PULVERISE