2-Letter Words Starting with P

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

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Prolonger

Continuing desire to follow master

Expert sportsman with desire keeping going

Prolusion

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

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

PROMOTE to help forward

Actions taken to increase sales

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Promulge

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

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

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Propagule

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

Sell proper pants (those supporting choppers?)

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Propellor

Propend

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Correct wear for the stage (wordplay)

Correct neckwear (wordplay)

That's right. Bonds and real estate

Prophecy

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A prophet.

Forecasts

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Propolis

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Propretor

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prorogue

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Ham in cooking pot? Scour it!

Raw cured Italian ham

Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosect

Prosector

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Proselyte

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Prosimian

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Bards

Looked for something to claim

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Prosper

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

PROSTOMIA

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Shows subservience

Protamine

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Bodyguards

Shields.

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

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Protend

Drawn out; extended.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

Lab staff (wordplay)

People holding signs, say

Walkout stagers

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Protestor

""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.""

""The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Protistan

Protocol

Protoderm

Early ancestor (wordplay)

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA 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.""

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

Protostar

Botany A stele that forms a solid core of xylem encased by phloem.

English word

Having the same metabolic capabilities and nutritional requirements as the wild type parent strain: prototrophic bacteria.

Constituting a pattern.

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Protozoan

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Proustite

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Provides cattle with food

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Proverb

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Provirus

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Provolone

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)