2-Letter Words Starting with P

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

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

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postnatal

Mightily

Latently.

Pottering

Powerless

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

To all intents and purposes

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

Preaching

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

Prelusive

Before the due time

Before time

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Prepotent

With presciense or foresight.

PRESENT to introduce

Confidently; arrogantly.

Pretended

In a prevalent manner.

Priceless

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Originally; at first.

In the main.

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

Odds favouring bishop's competence

Chance for second-rate talent

In fairness, breaking bail is a likelihood

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

By profession.

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

In a distinguished manner

Promising

Prosaical

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

In a provident manner.

Provoking

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

Psychical

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

Purported

Purposive

Like a pyramid.

Pleasant-tasting quality

Fossils

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

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

Palliative

PANSEXUAL

Paralyzing

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parenteral

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

See pathology .

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

Perceptual

Percipient

Percussive

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

In a perfidious manner.

From time to time.

Peripheral

Peritoneal

Perjurious

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pernicious

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Something worthy of praise.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

POLAROGRAPH

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

TONALITY a system of tones

In a pontifical manner.

Portentous

Positional

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-ery)

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

State of possessing latent power

A realistic matter

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Predictive

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

Premarital

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Procedural

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Productive

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Pronounced

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Prosodical

In a affluent and successful manner

Protective

Protensive

""; protozoologist , Biology""

In a protrusive manner.

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

In a provincial manner.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

Pugnacious

Puristical

Purposeful

In a most careful way

In meticulous style

Capital removed from country, betting on pound and yen with great care

Panegyrical

PANORAMIC

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

In a way that's contrary to what's expected

Ambiguously

PARALYTIC Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

""PARANORMAL Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.as, paranormal phenomena.""

PARASEXUAL

Soldier to brood with one cold fellow-soldier as a hanger-on

Relating to highest legislative body in Britain

Governmental

Standard complaint about one on a railway regarding diet (wordplay)

In the sense or manner of a participle.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

A. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""

Patronizing

Pedagogical

""The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.""

In a penetrating manner.

Start to write it, by way of punishment

Penultimate

PERAMBULATOR One who perambulates.

Durability; lastingness.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.

Periodontal

Perishableness.

With steadfastness.

Optically; as through a glass.

Perspicuous

In a pestiferuos manner.

Pharisaical

Study of extraordinary events.

Study of conscious, direct experience

PIANISTIC

Equips with cruelty in a slovenly manner, or a charming one

Pietistical

Pneumatical

Polyphonous

Postcranial

In a pragmatical manner.

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.

Precipitous

COPULATORY Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Predicative

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

Prejudicial

In a preliminary manner.

Premonitory

By way of preparation.

Preparatory

Prepositive

Prestigious

""By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.""