2-Letter Words Starting with P

Portulaca

Poshness

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positive

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Logical philosopher

Positiveness.

Posology

Having groups of friends, sign off

Having power over gangs, turn informer

Having power over Eoin speaking in Gulf

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

Owners

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Superlative adjective

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

POSTDEBATE

Bums

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

Postfix

English word

Postform

English word

Posthaste

Like new work from writer, now late

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

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)

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

English word

Postsync

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""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.""

Potassium

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Pothunter

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Pourboire

Pourpoint

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Poussette

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Powerboat

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Poxvirus

Pozzolana

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

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

Praenomen

""(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 ]""

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

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Preassign

Prebless

Prebless

Precancel

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Precast

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precensor

Choir leaders

Preceptor

Precess

Regular change in direction of an axis

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

Precisian

Niceties

""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

CREASED crease

Precrease

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

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

Predefine

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

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

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.""

Preemptor

Lived before

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

Preferrer

Prefigure

Prefocus

Prefocus

Preformat

Prefreeze

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

Preheater

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

Prejudger

Jury selection issues

Prelature

Prelusion

Shells that explode too soon

MEASURE to compare with a standard

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

Prenotion

Prenumber

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Prepaste

In a premeditated manner.

Influence beforehand

Favorably prejudice

Bias favourably

PREPPIE one who {preps=v}

PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Prepunch

A critic might listen to one

Full of presages; ominous.

Presbyope

Form of long-sightedness

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Elders given squash containing some bits, right (wordplay)

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

Preschool

Antedating physics (wordplay)

Sibyl's forte

Seer's gift

Prescind

Prescore

Prescreen

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

One who prescribes.

Prescribe

Prescript

Chooses beforehand

Presell

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

Doing a demo of

What is the hostess doing giving out (wordplay)

Gift in fourth programme is for working in television

PRESENT to introduce

PRESENT to introduce

Drowning preventers (with "life")

Those keeping safe the president, including one who waits

Canners

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Before starting a tennis game (wordplay)

Keeping safe

Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam

Preset

Preshape

Preshow

Preshrink

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Presidium

Presift

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

Preslice

Presoak

Presort

SPECIFY to state in detail

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Pressmark

Printing-plant areas

Parts of newspaper plants.

Where compositors gather

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher