2-Letter Words Starting with P

Protohuman

""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

English word

An agent provocateur.

Elsie Dinsmore's forte.

Easily offended nature

Pruriency

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Pseudocoel

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Pl. pseudomonades (-m n -d z ) See pseudomonad .

An irregular or deceptive form.

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Pubescence

""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.""

PUBLICISE

Publicity

PUBLICIZE

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

Publishing

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

Pudginess

Puerility

Puffiness

Pugnacity

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

""A germinating, or budding.""

Pulpiness

PULVERISE

Pulverizer

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

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

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Gambling devices

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

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

Punkiness

On the market

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

Having no aim or goal

Without an aim

Without aim

Purposive

Pursiness

Pursuivant

Purtenance

Purveyance

PUSHFUL {pushy=adj}

Pushiness

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

Pyrolusite

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

Fall Guys

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Regions suitable for grazing

Peaceful

Tranquillity

Adjective (-ous)

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pelargonium

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Perceptual

Percussive

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

In a perfidious manner.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

PERILOUS dangerous

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

Perpetuity

Persecution

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Disquiet

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

Phosphonium

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Past tense or past participle

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pittosporum

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

Something worthy of praise.

Devoid of pleasure.

Pluckiness

Plushiness

Plutocracy

""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.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllum

Poliovirus

Polyanthus

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

""Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.""

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polysulfide

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

Porousness

Portcullis

Portentous

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

Portraiture

Positronium

Superlative adjective

One who lived after the flood.

Adjective (-ive)

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ical)

Postulancy

Postulation

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Prefocus

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

Forms of bigotry