2-Letter Words Starting with P

Presswork

Imprinted beforehand.

STORAGE a place for storing

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

SURGERY the treatment of medical problems by operation

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

Pretaste

'Money Talk' band

Money Talk band

Chrissie Hynde's make believe rockers

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

Preterite

Pretermit

Pretest

Pretorian

Prettify

1 across (anagram)

It presents terrible beauty

Show off present - it's easy on the eye

Prevalent

Preventer

Previewer

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

Prevision

Prewash

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

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Priestly

Priggery

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Primipara

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Primness

Territories for royal heirs

Princelet

""A male member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a son of the monarch.""

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

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

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

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

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.

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Chip ingredients (wordplay)

Canneries, for example

Proclitic

Proconsul

Brings into being

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

Proenzyme

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

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.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

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.""

Prognose

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Programer

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

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Projector

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prolapse

Prologize

Prolonger

Prolusion

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Like an IOU

IOU "note"

and 13: Written undertaking to pay a sum of money

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

Sell proper pants (those supporting choppers?)

Propellor

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

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

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

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Propretor

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.""

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

Prorogate

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

Bodyguards

Shields.

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

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

""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

Protoderm

Protonate

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

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

Protozoan

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

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

Proustite

Provides cattle with food

Provirus

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Provolone

Prurience

Pruritus

Psalmbook

Psalmody

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

English word

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?