2-Letter Words Starting with P

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Polythene

Multivalent.

Polywater

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Hollowness ratios

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

Portapack

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Service charges

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Portion

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

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Portress

Portulaca

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.

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.""

Fit to drink.

Potassium

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Pourpoint

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

Poussette

Powerboat

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

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

Praelect

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

Mischievous ones

Bird painter circling round pass

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

Preadapt

Preadopt

Precast

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precent

Choir leaders

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Preceptor

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

COMPUTE to calculate

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

CONTACT to communicate with

Precut

Predation

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

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

Predict

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Predigest

Preedit

Preelect

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

Supplanting

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

Preemptor

Preenact

Preerect

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

Lived before

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

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

Preformat

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

In a meaningful or inventive way

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

Preheater

Oven-ready act

Warming up

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

Prelature

Prelect

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

Prelimit

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Shells that explode too soon

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Before birth

Prenotion

Prentice

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

Prepaste

An early settlement

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

Preprint

Childhood stage

Elders given squash containing some bits, right (wordplay)

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

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

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

Preset

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

Presift

Presort

Imprinted beforehand.

STORAGE a place for storing