2-Letter Words Starting with P

Positiveness.

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Fit to drink.

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

Behavior ()

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Rear area (wordplay)

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

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Like an IOU

IOU "note"

and 13: Written undertaking to pay a sum of money

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

PENTAPLOID

Penurious

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Supplicatory; making a petition.

The art of writing on stone.

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

Cast of one's features

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Astronomy ()

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

Plenteous

Without point.

Poisonous

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

Polemical

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

English word

POLYDACTYL

Polygonal

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

Polytonal

In a ponderous manner.

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

Easily carried quality

Possessed

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postnatal

English word

English word

Mightily

Latently.

Pottering

Powerless

Affirmative; positive.

""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.""

Antecedent - type of school

Draft list to knock up in hunting target

Serving to make ready

Prepotent

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Odds favouring bishop's competence

Chance for second-rate talent

In fairness, breaking bail is a likelihood

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

PROFANE to treat with irreverence or insult

By profession.

Competence, skill

Competence

Very discouraging

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

In a distinguished manner

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Promising

Nearness

Nearness.

Kinship

Relating to ownership

Privately owned; trade-mark protected

Sold under a trade name

Prosaical

Pl. protogalaxies A mass of hydrogen that is sufficient to form or is already beginning to form a galaxy.

Same as Prothonotary. Prothonotary.

PROTOTROPH

In a provident manner.

Provoking

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Purported

Purposive

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

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

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

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

With great ardour

With great emotion

See pathology .

Pejorative

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfidious manner.

English word

From time to time.

Peritoneal

Perjurious

Pernicious

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Chicanery

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

English word

In a Platonic manner.

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

POLAROGRAPH

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

TONALITY a system of tones

In a pontifical manner.

Portentous

Positional

In a possessive manner.

English word

Noun (-ery)

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

English word

State of possessing latent power

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

In a precocious manner.

A previous discovery.

Predominance.

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

Procedural

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Pronounced

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Prosodical

In a affluent and successful manner

Protective

Protensive

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

History

""; protozoologist , Biology""

In a protrusive manner.

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

In a provincial manner.

Provisional.

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

Hygrometry.

Pugnacious

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Purposeful

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

PANORAMIC

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

In a way that's contrary to what's expected

Ambiguously

""PARANORMAL Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.as, paranormal phenomena.""

The production of fruit without fertilization.

""Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.as, participatory democracy.""

""PATHOGENIC Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.""

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""