2-Letter Words Starting with P

Postform

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

Those who prefer suspense (wordplay)

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

English word

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

Pothunter

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

""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

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

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

Praelect

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

Praenomen

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

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

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

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

PRANKISH mischievous

Mischievous ones

Bird painter circling round pass

Behavior ()

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

Preadapt

Preadopt

APPROVE to regard favourably

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

Preassign

Preaver

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

Prebill

Prebind

Prebless

Prebless

Preboil

Prebook

CALCULI calculus

Precancel

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Precast

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precensor

Precent

Choir leaders

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Preceptor

Preceptive.

Precess

Regular change in direction of an axis

Precheck

Prechill

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.

Faces

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

Precisian

Niceties

Preclean

Preclear

Counteracting in advance

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

Eliminating beforehand

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

CREASED crease

Precrease

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Precut

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

DEFINED define

Predefine

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Affirms what may be said of subjects

They're grammatically red, I see, in the heads

before one can place a lot of detectives back here,they become verbal

Predict

Weatherman's job.

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

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

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Predigest

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.""

Predrill

Preedit

Preelect

EMBARGO to prohibit trade by a governmental order

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

Supplanting

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

Preemptor

Preenact

Preerect

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Lived before

Prefab

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

Preferrer

Liking (something) better

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

FINANCE to supply the money for

Prefocus

Prefocus

Preformat

Preform

Prefrank

Prefreeze

""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.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

In a meaningful or inventive way

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Preheater

Oven-ready act

Warming up

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

""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

Prejudger

Prejudge

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelature

Prelect

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

Prelimit

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Prelusion

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Shells that explode too soon

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

MEASURE to compare with a standard

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

Viewed first

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Premold

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Before birth

Prenotion

Prentice

Prenumber

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

OPENING a vacant space

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Bought before the official release

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Prepack

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

PREPARED prepare

Prepaste

An early settlement

In a premeditated manner.

Preplace

Intentional