2-Letter Words Starting with P

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positiveness.

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Fit to drink.

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

In a meaningful or inventive way

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

Before birth

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

Childhood stage

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Rear area (wordplay)

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

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

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

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.""

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

""The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. as, the partibility of an inherttance.""

In a partitive manner.

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

PENTAPLOID

""PEPPERMINT An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.""

PERCEPT something that is perceived

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Perinatal

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Stubbornness

Pertinent

Perverted

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Supplicatory; making a petition.

The art of writing on stone.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

Gym rat's concern

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Piratical

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Plaintive

Astronomy ()

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

In a plastic manner.

A. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

Plenteous

In quantity

Without point.

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

English word

POLYDACTYL

Polytonal

Easily carried quality

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postnatal

English word

English word

Mightily

Latently.

Pottering

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Prattling

Affirmative; positive.

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

Before the due time

Before time

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""The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius. as, the prematurity of genius.""

""Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv. as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv.""

Antecedent - type of school

Draft list to knock up in hunting target

Serving to make ready

Prepotent

With presciense or foresight.

PRESENT to introduce

Pretended

In a prevalent manner.

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Originally; at first.

""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.""

In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.

Odds favouring bishop's competence

Chance for second-rate talent

In fairness, breaking bail is a likelihood

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

PROFANE to treat with irreverence or insult

Very discouraging

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

In a distinguished manner

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Nearness

Nearness.

Kinship

Relating to ownership

Privately owned; trade-mark protected

Sold under a trade name

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

Same as Prothonotary. Prothonotary.

PROTOTROPH

In a provident manner.

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

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

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

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

Purported

Pleasant-tasting quality

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Palliative

PANSEXUAL

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

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parenteral

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

See pathology .

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Percipient

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

English word

Peritoneal

The quality or state of being permeable.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Chicanery

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

In a phonetic manner.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

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

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Something worthy of praise.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

TONALITY a system of tones

In a pontifical manner.

Portentous

Positional

English word

Noun (-ery)

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

English word

State of possessing latent power

A realistic matter

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Predictive

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

Premarital

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Protective

Protensive