2-Letter Words Starting with P

Procural

They make acquisitions for doctors

They get it

It takes a professional to be getting you well

Getting

People funding a play

Shumlin, Abbott, Gordon, etc.

Con artists in a 1967 Mel Brooks film

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

""The period immediately before estrus in most female mammals, characterized by development of the endometrium and ovarian follicles.""

""Flowing forward,""

Profound

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Prologue

Introductions.

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Promulge

Promulge

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

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

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

English word

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Proteus

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Prudence

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Bluenose specialties.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

Psyllium

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

A growth over the cornea

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

PUBLIC people as a whole

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

Puckerer

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

In a mischievous manner

Puddly

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Birth

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Puggaree

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Pulicide

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

Stop by the side of the road starting to sense some wear

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

The quality or state of being pulpy.

Pulpwood

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Pulsejet

Pulsojet

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

A little cushion or pad

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Pummel

Pummel

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Punchy

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Punition

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Pupation

Pupfish

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

Puppydom

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Adjective meaning resembling

Legally acquired

Bought

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Shopping, including tea bags

Buys tea in bags

Acquires and takes round the tea bags

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Certain cattle or canines

No Heinz 57s

Pointers, perhaps

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Purifier

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purpurin

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

State of being pursy.

Salad plants

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

Purvey

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Pushball

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Pushdown

Irritating quality

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

Gone to the bad

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Putterer

Dawdling

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pylorus

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Pyruvate

Painful

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Litters of the Orient.

Palladium

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pandanus

PANICULATE

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

In some common women's office attire

Not hardcover

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paramylum

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

""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.""

Parbuckle

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Pasturage

Patchouli

Asian figwort trees

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off