2-Letter Words Starting with P

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

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

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Propend

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

A salt of propionic acid.

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

Prorogue

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

Prosect

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Prosimian

Prosper

Protamine

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Protend

Drawn out; extended.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Protistan

Early ancestor (wordplay)

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA 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.""

Protozoan

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Provides cattle with food

Proverb

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Provolone

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Very minutely downy.

Teenage years

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Puncture

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PURBLIND partially blind

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Pureness

Purgation

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Purloiner

Purloin

Puromycin

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

Pursuance

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

Purulence

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

Pustulant

Putrefy

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

In a puzzling manner.

One of the Pycnogonida.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyramid

English word

Pyrethrin

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Pyromania

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

Pyroxylin

Pacemaking

Sports See pacemaker .

Evergreen ground cover

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Natives of Germany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Palliation

Beating with excessive rapidity

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Biology ()

One way to cook meat

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Panjandrum

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

Paperbound

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

The process or craft of making paper.

Jumping from a plane

Paraffin

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Paramagnet

Paramnesia

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

Paranormal

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parcenary

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

Parenthood

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Parsimony

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Showing no emotion

Frigid

PASSIVATE