2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pervasive

Perversion

Perverted

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Plaintive

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Positivism

Positivist

They express ownership

English word

Superlative adjective

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

APPROVED approve

Preapprove

Preaver

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Adjective in a linguistics class

Word with prefix pre-

INVASION the act of {invading=v}

Prelusive

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Like something that will get you ready

Preliminary

""Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. as, a prepositive particle.""

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.

Based on probability (but not apparent)

US rep met VIP abroad, as expected

Prevalence

In a prevalent manner.

Offer an untruth

Beat about the bush

Speak or act evasively

Avertible (A, not I)

Like some diseases

That could be stopped

""(tr) to keep from happening, esp by taking precautionary action""

Prevention

Preventive

VISIONAL imaginary

Prevision

Originally; at first.

Cult of eg tribal art

Painting genre of Grandma Moses

""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.""

""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.""

Marauded, in a way.

Seclusion from company or society; retirement; privacy; secrecy.

PRIVATISE

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

PRIVATIZE

""PRIVILEGE A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.""

Having the power to beget; generative.

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

(Of a price) excessively high

(Of price) excessively high

I have bar first excessively high

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

Likely to happen in the future

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

English word

Ownership histories

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Providence

In a provident manner.

Unsophisticated ones

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

Supplied with food.

Provision

Provitamin

An agent provocateur.

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

Provoking

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.""

Purposive

Pursuivant

Purveyance

Palliative

Parvovirus

Passivation

Pejorative

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

Perceptive

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

Percussive

In a perfective manner.

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

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

In a permissive manner.

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

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

PERSEVERATE

Perseverate

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Perspective

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

Perversity

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

One way to reproduce a picture

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

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

""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.""

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Poliovirus

Polyvalence

""The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positive, a.""

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Positivity

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-ery)

One who lived after the flood.

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-al)

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

Adjective (-al)

English word

APPROVING approve

Preclusive

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Preemptive

""INTERVIEW A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President. as, the secretary had an interview with the President.""

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Preparative

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

Prerogative

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

Prevenient

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

In a preventive manner.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

Prevision

Primitivism

"Return to nature" group.

Return to nature group.

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Cruising in a privateer.

Proclivity

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

Progressive

Projective

Forbidding; condemnatory

Protective

Protensive

In a protrusive manner.

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

In a provincial manner.

Provisional

Provisional.

PROVISIONER provision

Provision

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Papovavirus

""Pl. paramyxoviruses Any of a group of viruses that contain RNA and are similar to but larger and more variable in size than the related myxovirus. The paramyxoviruses include the Sendai virus, the parainfluenza viruses, and the viruses that cause measles and mumps.""

Taking part

Passiveness

Peevishness

Pensiveness

Peradventure

Performative

Perseverance

PERSEVERATE

""PERSEVERATE PERSEVERE To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken.""

With steadfastness.

Optically; as through a glass.

Widespread attribute

Perverted

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

Photoengrave

Photogravure

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

Biology Drawn to light; exhibiting a positive phototactic or phototropic response.

Photovoltaic

Plaintive

Postdiluvian

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

English word

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

CONCEIVING conceive