2-Letter Words Starting with P

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

Pretaste

'Money Talk' band

Money Talk band

Chrissie Hynde's make believe rockers

Acting quietly, get dinner served

Claiming that the last of it's lasting

Role-playing before acting like shepherd

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

Preterite

Pretermit

Pretest

The act of alleging as an excuse

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

Pretorian

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Prettify

1 across (anagram)

It presents terrible beauty

Show off present - it's easy on the eye

Preunite

Prevalent

Anticipatory.

Preventer

Before sounding off (wordplay)

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

WRITING the act of {recording=v}

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

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Priestly

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Princelet

Printery

Printhead

Currier or Ives

Industrial "Me-firsts."

Before one draws prime concerns

What's important

PRIORITIZE

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

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

PRIVATIZE

Privatize

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

Probation

Variant of prokaryote .

Proclitic

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Brings into being

One producing young

Progenitor

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Proctor

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

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Disease and Illness ()

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

These are important for differentiation of endometrium

Proglottis.

""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.""

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

Project

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

PROJECT to extend outward

Projector

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

Prolactin

One who speaks for another.

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

PROMOTE to help forward

Actions taken to increase sales

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Correct wear for the stage (wordplay)

Correct neckwear (wordplay)

That's right. Bonds and real estate

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Propretor

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prosateur

""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

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

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

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

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

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

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Bodyguards

Shields.

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

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

Protend

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

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""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

Protocol

Protoderm

Early ancestor (wordplay)

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

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

Having the same metabolic capabilities and nutritional requirements as the wild type parent strain: prototrophic bacteria.

Constituting a pattern.

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Protozoan

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

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

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

Proustite

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

English word

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

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Psychotic

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Pterygoid