2-Letter Words Starting with P

Protract

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Protrusion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

Ownership histories

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Providence

In a provident manner.

Unsophisticated ones

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

Supplied with food.

Provision

Provitamin

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

Provoking

Elsie Dinsmore's forte.

Easily offended nature

Pruriency

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

""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 .

Psilocybin

Psittacine

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Pteranodon

Pubescence

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

Publishing

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

Pudginess

Puffiness

Pugnacity

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

""A germinating, or budding.""

Pulpiness

PULVERISE

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Gambling devices

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

Punctation

Attentive to detail

Showing great attention to detail

Precise in formalities of etiquette

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

Punctuator

Sanctions, e.g

Penalties

Punkiness

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Puritanism

Pursiness

Pursuivant

Purtenance

Purveyance

PUSHFUL {pushy=adj}

Pushiness

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

Decay, rottenness

Decay

Putrescine

Puzzlement

Pycnogonid

Pycnometer

Pyracantha

Pyranoside

Pyridoxine

Pyrimidine

Pyromancy

Lighting enthusiasts (wordplay)

Compulsive fire starters

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyroxenite

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pyroxenoid

Pythoness

Pachysandra

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features See also neoteny paedogenetic   [ˌpiːdəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk] , paedogenic adj PAEDOMORPHIC (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""

Adjective (-ic)

PAINLESS without pain

Painstaking

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Fossils

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

A writer of palindromes.

""Birth 1 . the phase in the development of an organism in which its form and structure pass through the changes undergone in the evolution of the species. 2 . the morphological and structural changes that occur during insect development. Also palingenesia, palingenesy. ; palingenetic,""

China in first phase regeneration

The old man's low-down getting through punishment is reincarnation

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Pallidness

Palpitation

Paltriness

Palynology

Biology ()

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Marcel Marceau and others.

PANTOTHENATE

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Putting up wall covering

Paperiness

Papermaking

Paradrop

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Parallel

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

Parasailing

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

English word

Parenteral

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Mass society (wordplay)

They mass for Mass

French city by Rhone is desperate for churchgoers

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""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).""

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Sharers.

Factionalism making old weapons trendy

Favouring craft in mixed Spanish and Greek character heading west

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Some businesses

Businesses that go with the navy (wordplay)

Parturition

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

""PASTORALE A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 68 or 128 time.""

Regions suitable for grazing

Patchiness

Paternalism

Paternalist

Paternoster

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pathfinding

PATHLESS having no path

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Pawnbroking

Tranquillity

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Peakedness

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

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

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pennycress

Pennyweight

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

Pensionary

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Pentathlete

Pentazocine

Pentlandite

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Percipience

Percipient

Percolation

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

Peregrinate

Perennation

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Adjective (-al)