2-Letter Words Starting with P

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

Adherent of widespread religious belief

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Positive

Logical philosopher

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

Superlative adjective

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Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

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

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

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

PRESENT to introduce

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

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

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

Puckery

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

""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

Painful

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

PASTORALI

Benevolent despot

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Peacocky

""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.

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonology.

Person associated with (-ist)

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Pitiful

Pleasant

Person associated with (-ist)

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

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

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Prior

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.""

Profound

(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

A writer of palindromes.

Biology ()

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

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Peaceful

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Person associated with (-ist)

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Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

The chemistry of plants.

PICTORIALISE pictorial

Person associated with (-ist)

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

English word

Superlative adjective

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

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A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

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.

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

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

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

Fireworks expert

Student of fossil plants with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

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

PHENOMENALISE phenomenal

""A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.""

A collector or coiner of phrases.

Space studier

English word

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

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

English word

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.""

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

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

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

One who is versed in pteridology.

Fossils

(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived palaeoecological   adj

Person associated with (-ist)

Expert on fossils (US spelling)

One who studies fossils

Student of fossils

Fossils

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

Person associated with (-ist)

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

Dead

COMMUNITY

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 .

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

Classifier of facts or experiences

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

Quack of a sort

""Biology the study of the relations or interrelations between body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system. ; psychobiologist, ; psychobiologic, psychobiological,""

Stimuli-response researcher

Healer with issues (wordplay)

One who treats mental disorders

One dealing with issues