2-Letter Words Starting with P

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

Statements about the future

Prednisone

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

Predrill

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

Preelect

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

Preemption

Preenact

Preerect

Prior

Preexist

Kinks perhaps, pop's first characters

First choices.

First choices

Preferment

FIGURING figure

FINANCED finance

Prefinance

FOCUSING focus

Prefrank

Prefreeze

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Prefrontal

They come before deliveries

Prehension

Prehominid

Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed.

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

Decision made before hearing evidence

Biasing

Prelection

""A. tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste; as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss. as, a prelibation of heavenly bliss.""

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

Prelimit

LUNCHEON a midday meal

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.

NOTIFIED notify

Prenotify

Prenumber

Fated to happen

Unhappy acceptance of original order, as decided in advance

Preorder

Iron parapet (anagram)

Specially made up medicine

Preliminary measure

Prepayment

Preplan

PLANTING a plantation

Preportion

Word like after or for (grammar)

'Before' or 'after', say

One could be across or down

Prepotent

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

Preprint

Prepunch

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

Prescience

With presciense or foresight.

Prescind

Prescreen

Advising the use of (medicine)

How every Santa should look?

How every Santa should look (wordplay)

Ready for show

PRESENT to introduce

SENTENCE to declare judicially the punishment

Having a feeling of foreboding now one starts to experience nasty tremors

Presentism

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

The quality or state of being present; presence.

SHRUNKEN shrink

Prestamp

Confidently; arrogantly.

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence

Presweeten

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Pretended

Before conflicts begin (wordplay)

Aspirations of loony person in set

Pompous, self-important

All fuss and feathers

Affectedly grand

TERMINAL an end

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Prettify

Prevalence

In a prevalent manner.

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

Prevention

Preventive

VISIONAL imaginary

Prevision

Prewrap

Prewriting

""The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.""

Primeness

Princely

Princeling

Princeship

In the main.

Printmaker

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

Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

""PRIVILEGE A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.""

Appreciate the best (wordplay)

Appreciate the victor (wordplay)

One gaining award

In favour of the medical provision of abortion

Probationary.

Tester of a person's conduct

One on trial in post

Offender on conditional release

Probenecid

Crooked cop resigned in legal action

Action

Affairs.

Meetings of McEnroe and Borg

Formal marches

Continuous courses.

Proclaim

Of a Roman official

PROCREATE To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Masterwork (wordplay)

Enforcing conformity to a standard

(adj.) having a predilection for French bread

Enforcing conformity regardless of individuality; scent uproar (anagram)

The act of procuring; procurement.

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Production

'Bum', 'fart', 'poo' in an act of irreverence

PROFANE to treat with irreverence or insult

""The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.""

Profanity

Medicine, law et al.

Careers

Competence, skill

Competence

Proficient

Profound

Extravagance; profusion.

Progenitor

Steroid hormone used in oral contraceptives

Projection of the jaws.

""Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.""

Prognostic

Programing

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

Moving forward

Advancing

Forward motion seeing prisoners go free

Advance of prisoners go amok

Poser so moved with Ring Cycle

Prohibit

Ban (eg on alcohol)

Anti-Saloon League goal

The 18th Amendment, briefly

Proinsulin

Projection

Literary introductions

Ordinary worker (Marxism)

Relating to the workers

Frisky pair, later on common

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Standing concert audience

Drapers work to cover sign for concert goers

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

Prominence

In a distinguished manner

Promising

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

Proneness

Pronouncer

""Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. as, a pronouncing dictionary.""

Propaganda

""PROPAGATE To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree. as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.""

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

Explosive charges

Rocketry substances

Propellent

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

Nearness

Nearness.

Kinship

Propionate

Proportion

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

Those who put forward paid pugilists (wordplay)

Setting forth (an idea)

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

Propulsion

PROROGATE To prorogue.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Proscenium

Prohibiting professional writing

""PROSECUTE To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.""

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Proseminar

Addictions to the commonplace

One of the Prosobranchiata.

Looking for gold

""PROSTRATE Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate prostrate""

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

Protectant

Protection

Proteinase

The presence of excessive amounts of protein in the urine.

In England, dissenters

Hard-working colonists marching for political reasons (wordplay)

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

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Protohuman

PROTONATE

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

""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.""

Same as Prothonotary. Prothonotary.

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion