2-Letter Words Starting with P

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

Pistareen

Pistoleer

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Plagiary

Planarian

Planisher

Members of a construction team.

They leave their coats on the wall

Workers on the surface

Key men, in basketball.

Pleurisy

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

Plumbery

Plunderer

PLUNDER to rob by force

Pluralism

For them living is not enough

Pluralize

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Podiatry

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

Pogromist

Opposite conditions

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

They reveal lies in old college charts

Polymorph

Polypary

Polywater

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Ponderosa

Industrial-revolution creations

Poorness

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

Hollowness ratios

The quality of being porous.

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

Portapack

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Service charges

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Portress

Portulaca

Owners

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Bums

Those who prefer suspense (wordplay)

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

Pothunter

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Pourboire

Pourpoint

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Powerboat

Poxvirus

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Practicum

Praenomen

Pragmatic

Mischievous ones

Preassign

Prebless

Precancel

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precensor

Choir leaders

Preceptor

Precious

Faces

Precisian

Niceties

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

Precrease

Forerunners

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

Predefine

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

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Predigest

Preemptor

Preferrer

Prefigure

Prefocus

Preformat

Prefreeze

Preheater

Prejudger

Jury selection issues

Prelature

Prelusion

Shells that explode too soon

Prenotion

Prenumber

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Influence beforehand

Favorably prejudice

Bias favourably

PREPPIE one who {preps=v}

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Prepunch

Presbyope

Elders given squash containing some bits, right (wordplay)

Preschool

Prescreen

Prescribe

Prescript

Chooses beforehand

Oscar winners, for example

Recipients

Journalists keeping record of TV staff

For now, they begin to put the show on

The leading statesman walks in showers

Drowning preventers (with "life")

Those keeping safe the president, including one who waits

Canners

Preshrink

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

Presidium

Pressmark

Printing-plant areas

Parts of newspaper plants.

Where compositors gather

Presswork

'Money Talk' band

Money Talk band

Chrissie Hynde's make believe rockers

Preterite

Pretermit

Pretorian

Prettify

1 across (anagram)

It presents terrible beauty

Show off present - it's easy on the eye

Prevalent

Preventer

Previewer

Prevision

Priggery

Primipara

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Primness

Territories for royal heirs

Princelet

Di and Margaret

Elizabeth and Margaret Rose.

Royal daughters incorporated into crowds

State's sense of duty to school teachers

Leading figures.

Rules of personal conduct

Yin and Yang, for example

Ethical standards

Printery

Printhead

Some wimple wearers

Religious leaders

Ranking nuns

Industrial "Me-firsts."

Before one draws prime concerns

What's important

Priorship

""Prissier , prissiest Excessively or affectedly prim and proper.""

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

Privatize

They're not enjoyed by everyone

Special rights

Exclusive rights

Probation

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

Chip ingredients (wordplay)

Canneries, for example

Proclitic

Proconsul

Brings into being

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

Proenzyme

Top-ranking teachers

So, press for change in the universities

Campus group

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

Profusion

These are important for differentiation of endometrium

""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.""

Programer

Lists of bouts favouring lightweights

Presumably wanting pounds set aside for schemes

Supporting metric units for series of measures

Advances steadily

Given initial publicity, more than one horrible female advances

Projector

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prologize

Prolonger

Prolusion

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Actions taken to increase sales

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

""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

Articulates

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

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Propagule