2-Letter Words Starting with P

Polynomial

Polyonomous.

Polyrhythm

Polytheism

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Pomologist

Pompadour

Pomposity

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

Positivism

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Postform

Adjective (-al)

Postmark

Postmaster

Spiritless examinations (wordplay)

Stiff examinations (wordplay)

Nonmusical encores

English word

Praemunire

Praesidium

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

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Tiresome sermons

Preadmit

COMPUTED compute

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Precompute

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

Preemption

Preferment

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Prehominid

Decision made before hearing evidence

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

Prelimit

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

Before the due time

Before time

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

""The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius. as, the prematurity of genius.""

MAXILLAE maxilla

Premaxilla

MEASURED measure

Premeasure

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Peter made it work to plan

Think out in advance

Plot

Office of Prime Minister

English football's top league

Top soccer division

MODIFIED modify

Premodify

Premoisten

Premonish

Premonish

Feeling something is about to happen

Sandra Bullock film

Presentiment, forewarning

""Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv. as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv.""

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Forenamed; named beforehand.

Prenumber

Prepayment

Preprogram

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Presentism

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

Prestamp

In very quick tempo

In a very quick tempo; music

As fast as possible, in music

Confidently; arrogantly.

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

Based on probability (but not apparent)

US rep met VIP abroad, as expected

TERMINAL an end

Pretrim

Primality

""The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.""

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Primeness

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

Originally; at first.

Cult of eg tribal art

Painting genre of Grandma Moses

""PRIMITIVE Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.""

""PRIMITIVE Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.""

Printmaker

""The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.""

Prismatoid

The doctrine of the probabilists.

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

Procambium

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) duo

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

Twins Craig and Charlie Reid, with "The"

Proclaim

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Projection of the jaws.

Programing

Computer workers

Computer coders

Q: See title A: "None--that's a hardware problem"

Arrangement for being a 2, possibly, without a lot of grace

Literary introductions

Standing concert audience

Drapers work to cover sign for concert goers

""PROMENADE A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.""

Promethium

Prominence

In a distinguished manner

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Indiscriminate, unselective

Loose - wanton

Dissolute

Promising

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

Promptbook

Quickness of action; readiness

Detroit pump (anagram) - readiness to act

Made known

Promulgate

One who promulgates or publishes.

Proscenium

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

Proseminar

Prostatism

English word

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

Protohuman

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

""Pl. protonemata (-n m -t , -n m -) The green filamentous growth that arises from spore germination in liverworts and mosses and eventually gives rise to a mature gametophyte.""

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

Protoplasm

Protostome

Protoxylem

Provitamin

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

Proximity

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Pl. pseudomonades (-m n -d z ) See pseudomonad .

An irregular or deceptive form.

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Sanctions, e.g

Penalties

Puritanism

Puzzlement

Pycnometer

Like a pyramid.

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

Pyrimidine

Pyromancy

Lighting enthusiasts (wordplay)

Compulsive fire starters

Pyrometry

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

A writer of palindromes.

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

See cholecystokinin .

Pandemonium

Marcel Marceau and others.

Papermaking

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Parallelism

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

Paranormal

English word

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Pastoralism

Paternalism

Peacemaking

Pelargonium

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Pentamidine

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Permutation

Personalism

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

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

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

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