2-Letter Words Starting with P

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

Take for granted

With supper prepared, sit and consider ...

Assume

SURGERY the treatment of medical problems by operation

Preunite

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

Proconsul

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

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

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

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Profusion

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

One who speaks for another.

Prologue

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Prolusion

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Promulge

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Propagule

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Prorogue

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""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

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

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

""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.""

Early ancestor (wordplay)

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

Provirus

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Very minutely downy.

Teenage years

PUBLIC people as a whole

PUBLICISE

Publicise

Publicist

PUBLICIZE

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Puckery

Puerilism

Birth

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

Pulverize

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Puncture

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Pupillage

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Adjective meaning resembling

Puppetry

Hound minorities (wordplay)

PURBLIND partially blind

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Arabian horses, for example

Pureness

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Purloiner

Purloin

Puromycin

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

Pursuance

""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.""

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

Purulence

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Pustulant

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Putrefy

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Putschist

Puttyroot

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

In a puzzling manner.

Pyrethrum

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Pancratium

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Panjandrum

Paperbound

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Paramecium

""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.

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parquetry

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Like much yogurt and apple juice

Dairy apparatus.

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

lamb's place

Patchouly

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Peaceful

Peculation

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Pediculate

Insects

Insects

Pedicurist

PEDUNCULATE

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

Pelycosaur

Pemphigus

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Penurious