2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pother

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

Potstone

Fiddling around with work on the wheel, perhaps

Making progress unhurriedly - like Harry (wordplay)

Enclosures for cattle.

POURING the act of pouring

""A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.""

Powder

Powwow

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Pozzolan

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Little talk sounds so loose

Talking too much

There's little talk of the piano sounding as if there's something loose in it

Bible-thumping, perhaps

Get to pulp it for to be doing this

Power coming to pulpit activity

Preact

Anticipating battle

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

Prebake

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Former priest going bald (wordplay)

Coming before Penny again giving way

Coming earlier, quietly going back

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Precent

Choir leader

Queen Anne died despite Johnson's 'most universal genius'

City districts

Policeman circling about in court's grounds

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Precis

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

Preclean

Precode

Precure

Antecedent to

Perhaps coming before not being a vegetarian

Making an appointment in advance may be the death of one

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

To define beforehand.

Like an aperitif

Preenact

Preceding

Prefade

Prefile

Prefire

Prefix

Prefrank

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

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

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

Staffing up early

Prehuman

LAUNCH to set in motion

Prelude

A prelude or introduction.

Premise

Premix

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Prenomen

Prenomen

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

An idea arrived at beforehand.

Prentice

They used to be bound to have about ten prices

NUMBER to {count=v}

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

Setting the stage

Getting ready

1 Making ready

Prepay

Very powerful

Preprint

RETURN to go back

Prerinse

This could give an indication of the port ending

The awful creep isn't far-seeing

Prophetic spectre in play

Knowing of future events

Prescind

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Imposing personalities

Seance visitors

Gave formally, award say

Be introduced to the current editor

It was given here by the editor

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

Awards show host, perhaps

Here she rules over us, the shower!

Perhaps do nor as one for the show

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

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

In the near future

SHRANK shrink

Treat (a garment) before use so it keeps its size

Like treated jeans

Sanforized

A soft living for one at the top

Magsaysay, for instance.

Head, of a republic say

It sounds soft, living in the chair

Showing bias before taking the chair

Wielding the gavel

Record might have a limited amount of them

Print quantities

Taking for granted

Making suppositions.

Overconfident

Pretape

Futures for verbs, by the sound of them

Secret pen describes affectations

Do they claim falsely to sound like the future parts of the verbs (wordplay)

Made believe with intent to deceive

Made believe, feigned,

Put on an act

James Stuart, for one

Not a genuine claimant (wordplay)

Claimant (to a throne)

Works of fiction (wordplay)

Deceptive outward appearances

They may be false

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Pretrain

Adorning (with "up")

Gussying up

Pretype

Preunion

Preunite

Preunite

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Kept from doing

Before one gave utterance to, stopped

Kept from happening

What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires

Obviator

Previse

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

Prewarn

Pricking

Make a small hole in fish, causing sensation

Priest

The quality or state of being first.

Monaco, for one

Rank of Charles or Andrew

Jurisdiction of Charles or William

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

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Three-book Newton work

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Princock

Princox

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial

Editions running beginning to end

Publishers' lots

Lacking clues, as a murder weapon

Hard copy pages

Hard copies of computer documents

They're one type of record

Record holders (wordplay)

Pen pals (wordplay)

Subject of Paris talks

Prison

Pristane

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Probate

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Procaine

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

It takes a professional to be getting you well

Getting

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

""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.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Sacrilegious types

Profane

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

Profile

Profit

""Flowing forward,""

Profound

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Groups of descendants.

Children and more children

Offspring

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Prognose

Go on press trips to get forecasts

No press go abroad for forecasts

Assessments of likely outcomes

Poor signs perhaps for medical forecast

TV show is following numbers in forecast

Stormy signs and poor outlook

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

Prolog

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.""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Causing, bringing about

Pronate

Faulty foot posture

Pronator

""The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.""

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

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

Propend

Propenol

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

Propine

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Propone

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

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

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Protend

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

PROTON a subatomic particle

""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.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Provide

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Prudence