2-Letter Words Starting with P

Polygony

Polygonum

Polygyny

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

Polymyxin

Polyphone

Polyteny

Polythene

Ponderosa

Pontifex

Poorness

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

The quality of being porous.

Porphyrin

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Poshness

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Those who prefer suspense (wordplay)

Postulant

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Pothunter

Pourpoint

Pozzolana

Praenomen

Mischievous ones

Preassign

Precancel

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precensor

Choir leaders

Precisian

Niceties

Predation

Predefine

Prelusion

Prenotion

Prenumber

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

PREPPIE one who {preps=v}

Prepunch

Prescreen

Oscar winners, for example

Recipients

Journalists keeping record of TV staff

For now, they begin to put the show on

The leading statesman walks in showers

Preshrink

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

'Money Talk' band

Money Talk band

Chrissie Hynde's make believe rockers

Pretorian

1 across (anagram)

It presents terrible beauty

Show off present - it's easy on the eye

Prevalent

Preventer

Prevision

Primness

Territories for royal heirs

Princelet

Di and Margaret

Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.

Royal daughters incorporated into crowds

State's sense of duty to school teachers

Leading figures.

Rules of personal conduct

Yin and Yang, for example

Ethical standards

Printery

Printhead

""Prissier , prissiest Excessively or affectedly prim and proper.""

Conditions of indigence

Probation

Proconsul

Proenzyme

Profusion

These are important for differentiation of endometrium

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prolonger

Prolusion

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Actions taken to increase sales

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

""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

Articulates

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.

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

The ayes

Advocates

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

Prosimian

Protamine

Protistan

Protonate

Protozoan

Provides cattle with food

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Provolone

Prurience

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Pteridine

""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.""

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.

Punchball

Punctilio

Punctuate

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Pureness

Purgation

Purloiner

Puromycin

Pursuance

Purulence

Pustulant

Pyrethrin

Pyromania

Pyroxylin

Pacemaking

Spectacular displays

Pagination

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

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

Natives of Germany.

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

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

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

Palliation

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

Panjandrum

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Pantograph

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

Paperbound

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

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Paramagnet

Paramnesia

Paranormal

Parcenary

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Parenthood

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

Parsimony

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Parturient

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Showing no emotion

Frigid

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Pastiness

Paternity

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Patination

Patrimony

Patroness

Patronymic

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Peasantry

Peculation

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Pencilling

Pendentive

Penetrance

Penicillin

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

Pennyworth

Ones looking at sentences

PENSIONE a boarding house

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

Pentagonal

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

Pentaploid

Pentarchy

Pentathlon

Pentstemon

Peppercorn

""Of, containing, or resembling pepper; sharp or pungent in flavor.""

Breath-freshening candies

Oil-yielding herbs

Pungent plants.

Peppiness

Pepsinogen

Portions

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

One's ways of conceiving things

Percipient