2-Letter Words Starting with P

""Flowing forward,""

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Prompt

Proper

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

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

Puddly

Punchy

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

Gone to the bad

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

""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 pacifist.pacifist.

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Eulogist

Panicky

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

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

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

Patient

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

Variant of pediatrician .

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Prison warden

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Showing acute insight

Perfect

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Phlegmy

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

One drawn to controversy

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Multivalent.

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Positive

Logical philosopher

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Superlative adjective

English word

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

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

An early settlement

PRESENT to introduce

Anticipatory.

Model prices kilt - that's the most irritating thing!

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

Very minutely downy.

Puckery

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

""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.""

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

Painful

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

PASTORALI

Benevolent despot

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Peacocky

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

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

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

One versed in the study of rocks.

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonology.

Person associated with (-ist)

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Pitiful

Pleasant

Person associated with (-ist)

Having full power

English word

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

English word

Superlative adjective

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

Prior

Decision made before hearing evidence

Having a feeling of foreboding now one starts to experience nasty tremors

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

Priestly

""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.""

Princely

""One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.""

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Profound

Marx brothers (wordplay)

The people; workers

Real patriot agitated working classes

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

A writer of palindromes.

Biology ()

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

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Peaceful

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Person associated with (-ist)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

English word

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

The chemistry of plants.

PICTORIALISE pictorial

Person associated with (-ist)

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

English word

Superlative adjective

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

English word

A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

An intuitive feeling

Ready to embrace New Age foreboding

Now it holds men in premonition of evil

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

""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

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

Fireworks expert

Student of fossil plants with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

One who holds to particularism.

The music man who always makes a hit

Striking musician

Bell ringer

One seeking the ideal

He likes his work all right

One aiming for the best

PHENOMENALISE phenomenal

""A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.""

A collector or coiner of phrases.

Space studier

English word

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

Abstract painter's mood wanting a way that describes later works (wordplay)

English word

Emily's massage (wordplay)

Young lad one treated with respect

Young European about to do Cologne

""CAPITALIST One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.""

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

ENROLLMENT The act of enrolling; registration.

""EXPERIMENT Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.""