2-Letter Words Starting with P

Promulgate

One who promulgates or publishes.

""PROPAGATE To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree. as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.""

Spread of ideas, for example

Spread of ideas, e.g

Breeding; transmission

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

Town criers, for example

Town criers, e.g

Their business is increasing naturally

Explosive charges

Rocketry substances

Propellent

A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

Nearness

Nearness.

Kinship

Propionate

Made peace with

Wins the favor of

One who propitiates or appeases.

Proplastid

Proportion

Golfer's lie (wordplay)

Solicit a plan

Professional job in theory

Propraetor

Relating to ownership

Privately owned; trade-mark protected

Sold under a trade name

Conventions of rugby player concerned with accepting one having links

Sportier pro playing for the landlords

Owners

PROROGATE To prorogue.

The act of counting in duration; prolongation.

Prosciutto

""PROSECUTE To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.""

Legal proceedings against a person

Accusation of guilt in court

Action in open court is disturbed

District attorneys

COURT POSERS

""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 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.""

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Looking for gold

Likely to happen in the future

Searchers whose views include people from the ranks

Prostatism

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the prostate.

Artificial body parts

(Branch of surgery concerned with) artificial body parts

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

Prostitute

""One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes.""

""PROSTRATE Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate prostrate""

""The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body. as, the prostration of the body.""

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

Protectant

Protection

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

""PROTECT to shield from harm, attack or injury""

Proteinase

The presence of excessive amounts of protein in the urine.

Proteolyse

Process undertaken by enzymes to make amino acids

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

In England, dissenters

Hard-working colonists marching for political reasons (wordplay)

English word

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

""Pl. prothoraxes or prothoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.""

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

Prothorax

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Protocol

Pl. protogalaxies A mass of hydrogen that is sufficient to form or is already beginning to form a galaxy.

Protohuman

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

PROTONATE

PROTONATE PROTON a subatomic particle

""Pl. protonemata (-n m -t , -n m -) The green filamentous growth that arises from spore germination in liverworts and mosses and eventually gives rise to a mature gametophyte.""

Same as Prothonotary. Prothonotary.

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Protoplasm

Protoplast

Protostele

PROTOSTELE

Protostome

Prototroph

PROTOTROPH

Protoxylem

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Protract

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Mechanized farmer's stance (wordplay)

In favor of John Deere (wordplay)

Gizmos used in geometry class

Protreptic

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

Protrusion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

In a provident manner.

Provitamin

An agent provocateur.

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

Proximity

Psilophyte

PSILOPHYTE

Psittacine

Plural or third person singular

Disease of birds (especially parrots)

Contagious disease of birds

Disease of birds

Birds

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

'Mad Men' (wordplay)

Mad Men (wordplay)

Serial killers, for example

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

Pteranodon

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

Publicity

Puerility

Pugnacity

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

""A germinating, or budding.""

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Punctation

Attentive to detail

Showing great attention to detail

Precise in formalities of etiquette

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

Punctuator

Sanctions, e.g

Penalties

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Purgatory

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Puritanism

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

Purported

Pursuivant

Purtenance

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Wary one

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

Putrescine

Putridity

Puzzlement

Pycnometer

Pyracantha

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

Pyrethroid

One type of flow from a volcano

Pyrolusite

Pyrolysate

Pyrolyzate

Pyrometry

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyroxenite

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pyrrhotite

Pythoness

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

Pacificator

Adjective (-ic)

Painstaking

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

Pleasant-tasting quality

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Fossils

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

A writer of palindromes.

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Palliative

Palpitation

Paltriness

Biology ()

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See aplastic anemia .

PANSEXUAL

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Marcel Marceau and others.

PANTOTHENATE

They help keep down correspondence

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

Fall Guys

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Body, Human , Perception""

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Weakly attracted by poles

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Anything used to destroy parasites.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another