2-Letter Words Starting with P

Openers for documents

Preliminary or preparatory statements

New rep strolls around making introductions

Anticipating battle

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Took first (wordplay)

Broken into on TV (wordplay)

Forestalled or thwarted a plan

PREEMPT to acquire by prior right

FORMAT to follow the style or manner of procedure

Did hesitation set back, if made earlier (wordplay)

Prehuman

Prelimit

MARKET to offer for sale

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

Premedic

MERGER the combining of two or more businesses into one

Introduced a show.

Was first performed when empire changed colour

Came out

Where stars might be seen

Reasons for red carpets

Red carpet events

Premise

Propositions for where they say one can't smoke

Premix

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

MODIFY to alter slightly

Premolar

Premold

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Prenomen

Prenomen

NUMBER to {count=v}

Ruling body in U. S. S. R.

Malenkov, Beria, et al.

Soviet high council.

Printer's sign.

Sarah Sanders spot

*White House conference site

Where the fourth estate gets briefed

Prestamp

Presumer

Taking for granted

Making suppositions.

Overconfident

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

Leave undone

Prewarm

Priapism

Priggism

Archbishops' jurisdictions

The quality or state of being primal.

Party times (wordplay)

Important political events.

Pre-election votes.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Primatal

Primatical.

The quality or state of being first.

Proper pair treated a first-time mother

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Path adornments (wordplay)

Plants can make proper wines

Proper nozzles for watering flowers

Monaco, for one

Rank of Charles or Andrew

Jurisdiction of Charles or William

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

Prismoid

PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

English word

Yes to insurance paperwork!

Declares in favour of applications

Gives out Oscar with limp shake

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

Prodrome

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

Robotic variable

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""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

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Promisee

Yellow "evening" flowers

They gave their word

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Promisor

Boxing advocates (wordplay)

Fight arrangers

Lobbyists.

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Tending to advance

Certain theatre employes.

They put a word in when required on stage

Prompt

Causing, bringing about

Promulge

Promulge

English word

Prosaism

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Field that was using the term "social distance" way before it was cool

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

Sunday text

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Psammite

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Psyllium

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

A growth over the cornea

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Juvenility

Pugilism

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Pummel

Pummel

Puppydom

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pygmyism

Pyoderma

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Some race action

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

Palimony

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Palladium

Palmation

""Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.""

PALMETTO a tropical tree

Palmitate

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Pantheism

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

The process or craft of making paper.

Papilloma

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Team with spare over taking runs, boundaries

A charge concealed by fiddling preset boundaries

Limits

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paramylum

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

Like a sudden outburst

Passivism

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Pauperism

They may cut the checks or call the shots

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Post-treaty periods

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Step counters

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Penstemon

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Penultima

Peperomia

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

They all have a part of this

Actors for each previous scene, initially

Actors in theatre promoted previous show at first

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perilymph

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Peristome

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Noun (-age)

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Permittee

Permitter