2-Letter Words Starting with P

A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

An intuitive feeling

Ready to embrace New Age foreboding

Now it holds men in premonition of evil

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

Fireworks expert

Student of fossil plants with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

The music man who always makes a hit

Striking musician

Bell ringer

One seeking the ideal

He likes his work all right

One aiming for the best

PHENOMENALISE phenomenal

""A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.""

Space studier

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

Abstract painter's mood wanting a way that describes later works (wordplay)

English word

Emily's massage (wordplay)

Young lad one treated with respect

Young European about to do Cologne

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

ENROLLMENT The act of enrolling; registration.

""EXPERIMENT Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.""

""The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.""

ORDAINMENT Ordination.

""RETIREMENT The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. as, the retirement of an officer.""

""SETTLEMENT The act of setting, or the state of being settled.""

""TOURNAMENT A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.""

He's reel handy

Movie theater employee

Theater worker

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

Person associated with (-ist)

Expert on fossils (US spelling)

One who studies fossils

Student of fossils

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

English word

Dead

COMMUNITY

ARRANGEMENT The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

REVISIONIST

Banner of the Bourbons, perhaps

In this poor bit, I displayed banner

Spirits-free

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with the replacement of missing teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by bridges, dentures, or other artificial devices.""

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

Classifier of facts or experiences

One on the staff of Life

... on a Braille magazine staff (wordplay)

One who produces pictures for stories in the press

PREFORMATION An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

Green Park is, in part

Quack of a sort