2-Letter Words Starting with P

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

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

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

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

An early settlement

PRESENT to introduce

Anticipatory.

Model prices kilt - that's the most irritating thing!

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

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

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

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

Very minutely downy.

Puckery

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

PASTORALI

Benevolent despot

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

One versed in the study of rocks.

Person associated with (-ist)

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

Person associated with (-ist)

English word

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

English word

Superlative adjective

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

Prior

Decision made before hearing evidence

Having a feeling of foreboding now one starts to experience nasty tremors

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

Priestly

""PRIMITIVE Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church. as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.""

Princely

""One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.""

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Profound

Marx brothers (wordplay)

The people; workers

Real patriot agitated working classes

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

A writer of palindromes.

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

An advocate of partitioning a country.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

English word

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

PICTORIALISE pictorial

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

An intuitive feeling

Ready to embrace New Age foreboding

Now it holds men in premonition of evil

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Fireworks expert

One who holds to particularism.

The music man who always makes a hit

Striking musician

Bell ringer

One seeking the ideal

He likes his work all right

One aiming for the best

A collector or coiner of phrases.

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

Abstract painter's mood wanting a way that describes later works (wordplay)

Emily's massage (wordplay)

Young lad one treated with respect

Young European about to do Cologne

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

ENROLLMENT The act of enrolling; registration.

""EXPERIMENT Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.""

""The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.""

ORDAINMENT Ordination.

""RETIREMENT The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. as, the retirement of an officer.""

""SETTLEMENT The act of setting, or the state of being settled.""

""TOURNAMENT A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

He's reel handy

Movie theater employee

Theater worker

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

One who is versed in pteridology.

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

Dead

COMMUNITY

ARRANGEMENT The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

REVISIONIST

Banner of the Bourbons, perhaps

In this poor bit, I displayed banner

Spirits-free

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with the replacement of missing teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by bridges, dentures, or other artificial devices.""

The biological study of protozoans.

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

One on the staff of Life

... on a Braille magazine staff (wordplay)

One who produces pictures for stories in the press

Helper of the sick

One who treats by massage and exercise

Occupational doctor

PREFORMATION An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

Green Park is, in part

Healer with issues (wordplay)

One who treats mental disorders

One dealing with issues