2-Letter Words Starting with P

""The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.""

ORDAINMENT Ordination.

""RETIREMENT The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. as, the retirement of an officer.""

""SETTLEMENT The act of setting, or the state of being settled.""

""TOURNAMENT A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

He's reel handy

Movie theater employee

Theater worker

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

One who is versed in pteridology.

Fossils

(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived palaeoecological   adj

Person associated with (-ist)

Expert on fossils (US spelling)

One who studies fossils

Student of fossils

Fossils

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

Person associated with (-ist)

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

Dead

COMMUNITY

ARRANGEMENT The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

REVISIONIST

Banner of the Bourbons, perhaps

In this poor bit, I displayed banner

Spirits-free

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with the replacement of missing teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by bridges, dentures, or other artificial devices.""

The biological study of protozoans.

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

Classifier of facts or experiences

One on the staff of Life

... on a Braille magazine staff (wordplay)

One who produces pictures for stories in the press

Helper of the sick

One who treats by massage and exercise

Occupational doctor

PREFORMATION An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

Green Park is, in part

Quack of a sort

""Biology the study of the relations or interrelations between body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system. ; psychobiologist, ; psychobiologic, psychobiological,""

Stimuli-response researcher

Healer with issues (wordplay)

One who treats mental disorders

One dealing with issues