2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pervade

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Pervert

One who perverts (a person or thing).

Piassava

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

PLACATE to conciliate

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

Portable.

Positive

Good things I have in premises

River, one in West Country town - yes, yes, yes!

Assume it's true that there's nothing negative over the saint of Cornwall

Postcava

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

Poverty

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

REVIEW to view again

Kept in an unaltered condition

Maintained in unaltered condition

Kept page folded finally under book

Thing on a big boat (with "life")

He keeps quiet about the waiter

A keeper before a waiter

Jarring matter (wordplay)

Jam them for keeps

Keeps quiet in front of the substitutes

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Kept from doing

Before one gave utterance to, stopped

Kept from happening

What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires

Obviator

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

VIABLE capable of living

Watched ahead of time

Saw an out-of-town play opening.

Seen in advance, and quietly assessed

Online photo album feature

Previse

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

Previsor

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Privacy

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Private

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

Privity

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Tending to advance

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Provide

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Proviso

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Provoker

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

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

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

A little cushion or pad

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

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

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purvey

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

Pyruvate

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Green-trunked shrubs

Palsgrave

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

""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.""

PASSIVATE

Passivate

Passivism

Passivist

Pavilion

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Perceiver

Perceive

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

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

PERMEATE to spread through

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

Soldiers on a hard section

Persists in a pursuit

Steadfastly continues

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Pervasion

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Perverter

Pervert

Plural or third person singular

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Multivalent.

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positive

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Logical philosopher

Positiveness.

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

Poxvirus

APPROVE to regard favourably

Preaver

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Drowning preventers (with "life")

Those keeping safe the president, including one who waits

Canners

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Before starting a tennis game (wordplay)

Keeping safe

Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam

Like some winds and opinions

Two priests sick, but gaining strength

Most general.

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Prevalent

Anticipatory.

Preventer

Before sounding off (wordplay)

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Previewer

Preview

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

Prevision

VOCALIC a vowel sound

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

PRIVATIZE

Privatize

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

They're not enjoyed by everyone

Special rights

Exclusive rights

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

PROJECT to extend outward

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

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Drawn out; extended.

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Provides cattle with food

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Proverb

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Provirus

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Provolone

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

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

Pulverize

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Purgative

""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.""

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

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Palliative

Papaverine

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

In a partitive manner.

PASSIVATE

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Passivity

Pavilion

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Psycho and others

Pendentive

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

Perfective

Perovskite

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view