2-Letter Words Starting with P

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

Palliate

With pressure everything I chewed in the end disintegrates and softens

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

In a palmate manner.

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

Leaf shapes used decoratively

Tropical trees

Reading between the lines!

Handyman's work (wordplay)

Method of fortune-telling

A salt of palmitic acid.

Palmitin

Cream-colored horses

California's "golden" horses.

Mr. Ed and family

State tree of Ariz.

Palpate

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Palpator

Palpebra

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Trembling? Drink up and gasp swallowing vermouth

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Palterer

Palter

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Paludism

Pamperer

Mollycoddling sick man with grippe

Waiting-room reading

Small booklets

Publications that are rarely bound to sell

Long, thin cigars

Slim open-ended cigars

Long slender cigars

Panbroil

Landing a plane trickily

Pancetta

Panchax

Very widespread diseases

Go-betweens, of a sort

Playing to the base

Catering (to)

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Paneling

Quiz show judges

Game show group

*New Haven alums

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

Heather below window beginning to level part of wall (wordplay)

Spanish cigars.

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Panfish

Action prone to causing oil spills (wordplay)

World's most trafficked mammals

Scaly anteaters

Certain anteaters

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Panicky

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

English word

Random mating within a breeding population.

Panmixia

Pannikin

Equipped as a knight of yore.

Equipped for a raid, by the sound of it

Metal suits vessel, then nothing works

Suits of armor

Splendid arrays

Grand Canyon offerings

Cape MAY seascapes, for example

Virtual reality images

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

Once-modish frills.

Ruffled drawers

Commedia dell'arte character

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

English word

Readiness to believe in all or many gods

Belief that God is in everyting

Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Temples dedicated to all the gods

Extraordinary classes

Pantofle

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Some office attire

Two-piece ensembles

Clothing associated with Hillary Clinton

Flash mob (wordplay)

Some shooting stars (wordplay)

Photographers who pursue celebrities

Shutterbug who bugs

Celeb stalker

Shot taker

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

News casters (wordplay)

Deliverers on bikes

Certain carriers

Lacking printed news

Like the modern computerised office with bare walls (wordplay)

Daily assignment (wordplay)

Dealing with documentation

Clerk's concern.

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Papillon

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Pappoose

Papyrus

Bowl-shaped antennas

Certain conic sections

Graded curves in math class

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Parachor

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

20 cents (wordplay)

Measures equivalent to 20 cents (wordplay)

Shining examples

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Places with no problems

Shangri-La and Eden

Eden and others.

Parados

Seeming contradictions

Nothing wrong in displays - things just seeming to be wrong (wordplay)

Soldier solves about ten logical puzzles, apparently

Paradrop

Sibelius and Saarinen (wordplay)

Sibelius and Saarinen?

$10 (wordplay)

Paraform

Paragoge

Served as a model of

Block of words soldier attached to chart

Group of sentences

Short news item.

Peak rates (anagram)

They don't build love nests

Pet shop birds

Parakite

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Their line is never to go to the meeting

They'll never meet real palls like these

Lines of latitude

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Paralyse

Loss of the ability to move

That will keep the lays still in Paris

Inability to act/function

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Immobilized

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Paralyze

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Parament

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Average sum or highest (wordplay)

An equal sum overall (wordplay)

Even a horse is of the utmost importance

A couple, perhaps

Mary Tyler and Dudley?

Mary Tyler and Dudley (wordplay)

""A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.""

Paranoea

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Paranoia

Paranoic

Wimpy duo (wordplay)

People with delusions

Bridesmaid, in ancient Greece

Like castle walls

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Paraquat

Paraquet

Parasang

Parashah

Two locations (wordplay)

Spongers/rubber areas (wordplay)

The Sphinx and the Parthenon (wordplay)

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

""PARAE a New Zealand fish, also PORAE""

""The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; opposed to syntax. syntax.""

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

Drop-in (wordplay)

Relating to a military group

Specially trained airborne infantry.

Mine sweeps on ships

Devices used by minesweepers.

Parawing

Parazoan

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Allotted, British style

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Joint heirs Law.

Parchesi

Parchisi

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

Pardoner

Excusing fellow getting hooked by edge of nail

Excusing

Parecism

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

Ornamental plasterwork

Parget

English word

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Recreational spaces

Idioms

Letting ride, as at the track

Conferee, as at San Francisco and Ottawa

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

PARLOUS dangerous

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

Mickey-takers offering censure upset poets

Impressionists in times gone including Rodin? Not quite

Sending up

Sending up staff involved in handing over wages

Burlesquing

Paroquet

Inflammation of the parotid glands.

Parotoid

Sudden outbursts

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Parridge

Parroket

Parroter

Mindlessly repeating

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

Containing parsley

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

Golf pros (wordplay)

Those who share

Sharers

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Opera-house sections

Theaters' rear seats

Orchestra circles.

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

People who take sides.

Ones taking sides

A sin in bits in bits for the fans

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

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

Partizan

Teamed up (with)

Teamed up with

United in a twosome

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Parvolin

Pashadom

Pashalic

Pashalik