2-Letter Words Starting with P

Lay bricks, maybe

Cover ground (wordplay)

Smoothe (the way)

Neither meat or dairy

Pet grouse (wordplay)

Pet annoyance (wordplay)

Pet problem (wordplay)

Make it stick say

Solve a geometry problem say

Make it stick, say

Prepared without meat or milk

Having no meat or milk, in Judaism

Suitable for a kosher meal

Stately court dance

Quaint, dignified dance for couples

Stately court dance of yore

""A large medieval shield, also PAVIS, PAVISSE""

Movie sneak peek (Var.)

Advance showing (var.)

Sneak peek, informally

""An enclosed area in front of a church, also PARVIS""

Really laid-back

Kind of resistence

Opposite of active

Introspective, maybe moody

Thoughtful writer given heart

Thoughtful writers I have to follow

Be everywhere in

Deprave (anagram)

Spread right through

Noisy initial consonant

Like b or d, phonetically

Like the "p" in "pit"

Preceding a dive

To {foresee=v}

Soldier's retiring (wordplay)

Hargrove, for one.

'Saving - - Ryan' (film)

PR video (anagram)

Prove about what I would set before you

Supply writer had absorbed in test

Stimulate (a reaction)

Tease is acceptable in show

Excite to action.

Device causing marine mines to surface

Navy device for detecting mines.

Underwater device used in mined areas.

Newly wealthy woman

Pan revue featuring an upstart

Recently wealthy woman

Resembling a peacock

The sound of the sea (wordplay)

Make out, discern

Catch sight of.

A work by 22, perhaps capricious

How poets are paid (wordplay)

Not co-operative in the way of poetry

Expressing praise

""Pertaining to rain, also PLUVIOUS""

Sure is optimistic!

Definite sign of an increase

Certain, confident in opinion

Following a dive

Precava

Quietly order kipper (wordplay)

Jam in pupil's first book!

Conservationist's field (wordplay)

Able to be demonstrated

Meriting a "Q.E.D."

Capable of being established

Ontario, for one

Backing Cable's department (wordplay)

Munster or Leinster, say

Kind of damages, in law

Intended to inflict punishment

Inflicting penalty for an offence

Supposed - tie up vat (anagram)

Commonly accepted as such

Supposed or reputed to be

A chemical salt

State tree of Ariz.

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Keep at it, like Percy Holmes (wordplay)

Continue (against odds)

Serve peer (anagram)

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

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

Portable.

Postcava

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

VIABLE capable of living

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

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

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Tending to advance

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

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.

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

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

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.

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]""

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Tending to pervert.

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

APPROVE to regard favourably

""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

SERVICE to {repair=v}

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

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

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

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

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

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

""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

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

English word

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

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

Adjective in a linguistics class

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

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""

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.

""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.""

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""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.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

One way to reproduce a picture

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

Adjective (-ive)

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

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

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

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.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

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

Forbidding; condemnatory

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

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

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

Taking part

Adjective (-ive)

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

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

Worker after job following surgery

Relating to period after surgery

Spy who works for a Washington paper (wordplay)

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

Showing by prefiguration.

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

To render provincial.

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Responding to light

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

Noun (-ure)

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style