2-Letter Words Starting with P

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postnatal

English word

English word

Postsync

Mightily

Latently.

Pottering

Powerless

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

Preaching

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Affirmative; positive.

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

Introductory (measure or statement)

Initial - action before the main event

Minor match before the main event

LITERARY pertaining to books and writings

Prelusive

Before the due time

Before time

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""The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius. as, the prematurity of genius.""

""Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv. as, premonitory symptoms of disease. Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly (#), adv.""

Antecedent - type of school

Draft list to knock up in hunting target

Serving to make ready

Prepayment

Prepotent

Presbyopia

Presbyopic

With presciense or foresight.

PRESENT to introduce

Confidently; arrogantly.

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Pretended

Prettify

In a prevalent manner.

Priceless

Ape man's study

"Ape" man's study

Originally; at first.

""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.""

In the main.

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

Odds favouring bishop's competence

Chance for second-rate talent

In fairness, breaking bail is a likelihood

Procaryote

Spendthrift's problem

Toy girl paid wildly for - such extravagance!

Generosity - wastefulness

PROFANE to treat with irreverence or insult

By profession.

Competence, skill

Competence

Very discouraging

Prokaryote

PROKARYOTE

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

In a distinguished manner

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Promising

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

Health

Action taken to prevent disease

Nearness

Nearness.

Kinship

Relating to ownership

Privately owned; trade-mark protected

Sold under a trade name

Prosaical

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Proteolyse

Process undertaken by enzymes to make amino acids

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

Pl. protogalaxies A mass of hydrogen that is sufficient to form or is already beginning to form a galaxy.

""The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.""

Same as Prothonotary. Prothonotary.

PROTOTROPH

Protoxylem

In a provident manner.

Provoking

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

Psilocybin

Psilophyte

PSILOPHYTE

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

Psychical

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Instrument for spirit writing.

Thought-related

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

'Mad Men' (wordplay)

Mad Men (wordplay)

Serial killers, for example

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

Purported

Purposive

Purveyance

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Wary one

Pycnogonid

Pycnometer

Pyracantha

Like a pyramid.

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

Pyranoside

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

Pyrethroid

Pyridoxine

Pyrimidine

One type of flow from a volcano

Pyrogallol

Pyrolusite

Pyrolysate

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyzate

Pyromancy

Lighting enthusiasts (wordplay)

Compulsive fire starters

Pyrometry

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyroxenite

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pyroxenoid

Pyrrhotite

Pythoness

Pachysandra

Pleasant-tasting quality

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

Palliative

Palynology

Biology ()

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

PANSEXUAL

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

Paraldehyde

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parathyroid

Paratyphoid

Parenteral

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

See pathology .

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pennycress

Pennyweight

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

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

Perceptual

Percipient

Percussive

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

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

In a perfidious manner.

English word

From time to time.

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

Peripheral

Peritoneal

Perjurious

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

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

Pernicious

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Representing in human form

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Chicanery

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

Phagocytosie

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

PHENOTYPIC

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()