2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Pourboire

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Pourpoint

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Poussette

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Adjective meaning resembling

Powerboat

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Poxvirus

Pozzolana

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Praenomen

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Bird painter circling round pass

Behavior ()

Preadopt

APPROVE to regard favourably

Preboil

Prebook

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precensor

Choir leaders

Preceptor

Preceptive.

Regular change in direction of an axis

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

Precious

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Niceties

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

COMPUTE to calculate

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Parboiling

Precool

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

EMBARGO to prohibit trade by a governmental order

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

Preemptor

Prefocus

Prefocus

Preformat

Preform

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Early primate

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Prelusion

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Premold

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Prenotion

OPENING a vacant space

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Bought before the official release

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

Influence beforehand

Favorably prejudice

Bias favourably

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Code in advance

Presbyope

Form of long-sightedness

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Preschool

Prescore

Preshow

Presoak

Presort

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Printing-plant areas

Parts of newspaper plants.

Where compositors gather

Presswork

STORAGE a place for storing

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

Pretorian

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

Prevision

VOCALIC a vowel sound

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Territories for royal heirs

Some wimple wearers

Religious leaders

Ranking nuns

Industrial "Me-firsts."

Before one draws prime concerns

What's important

PRIORITIZE

Priorship

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

Conditions of indigence

Probation

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

PROCAMBIA

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Variant of prokaryote .

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

On-going course of action

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Chip ingredients (wordplay)

Canneries, for example

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

One who proclaims.

Proclitic

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Proconsul

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Brings into being

One producing young

Progenitor

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Proctor

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

Disease and Illness ()

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

Proenzyme

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

Top-ranking teachers

So, press for change in the universities

Campus group

Tendering for public relations, initially

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Profusion

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

These are important for differentiation of endometrium

Proglottis.

""One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.""

Prognose

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Programer

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Fed the computer.

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

Lists of bouts favouring lightweights

Presumably wanting pounds set aside for schemes

Supporting metric units for series of measures

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Advances steadily

Given initial publicity, more than one horrible female advances

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

Project

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

PROJECT to extend outward

Projector

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prolapse

One who speaks for another.

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Prologize

Prologue