2-Letter Words Starting with P

Prolapse

Prolapse

Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric

In rhetoric, anticipation and answering of objections

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Wordiness

Prolog

To deliver a Prologue.

Prologue

Introductions.

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Prolonge

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Promisee

Yellow "evening" flowers

They gave their word

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Promisor

Boxing advocates (wordplay)

Fight arrangers

Lobbyists.

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Tending to advance

Certain theatre employes.

They put a word in when required on stage

Prompt

Causing, bringing about

Promulge

Promulge

Pronate

Faulty foot posture

Pronator

""The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.""

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

English word

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

Propend

Propenol

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

Proper

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Propine

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Propone

Offers of marriage

Season-ending events on "The Bachelor"

They're made for girls

Those on bended knee

Poppers of the question.

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

Pl. propositi (-t ) The person immediately concerned about or affected by an action.

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

""Pl. proptoses (-s z) Forward displacement of an organ, especially an eyeball.""

""Pl. proptoses (-s z) Forward displacement of an organ, especially an eyeball.""

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

To prorogue.

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

Prosaism

Fielding, Dickens, etc

English word

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Prosect

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Prosody

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Chances of success, outlooks

Searches for wide views

Looks for gold and hopes for the future

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Prostate

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Protease

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Protegee

Proteide

Protend

Proteose

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Proteus

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""Pl. protheses (-s z ) Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn," from Latin spina.""

A credence table; so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Diplomat's concerns

Correct conduct code

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Protopod

Concept in cosmology

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Protoxid

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Provide

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Proviso

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Provoker

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Prowess

Field that was using the term "social distance" way before it was cool

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

Prudence

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Bluenose specialties.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psoralea

Psoralen

Plural or third person singular

Cause of scaling

Target of some shampoos

Dermarest target

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Puberty

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Puckerer

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Birth

Puffery

Puggaree

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

Stop by the side of the road starting to sense some wear

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Pulmotor

Washing machine components

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

Legally acquired

Bought

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Shopping, including tea bags

Buys tea in bags

Acquires and takes round the tea bags

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Certain cattle or canines

No Heinz 57s

Pointers, perhaps

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Purifier

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Claimed (to be)

Signified.