2-Letter Words Starting with P

Passado

Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways

Passband

Balanced reading materials (wordplay)

Hurl some reading material (wordplay)

Revision aids issued by building societies

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

A book of the saints and martyrs

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

""The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.""

PASSIVE a verb form

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

Nisan observances

Jewish holidays

Spring holidays

Jet-setters' papers

Canadian travel documents

Polo, archery, soccer

Epees to get by (wordplay)

I'll skip it, thanks (wordplay)

"I'll skip it, thanks" (wordplay)

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Perhaps pall, or a sticky state, perhaps

Father's pallor gets Tess around in it

Pall or in the face of it

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Poems about country life

Former Ph.D. tests

Big name in 19th-century fur trading

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Pastor

Deli orders

Deli offerings

Pastromi

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Pasturer

Pasture

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Patency

What Edison and Westinghouse were.

Certain inventors

Successful inventors

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Inventors might contact them

Granters of protection

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Any infectious agents

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Patience

Patient

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Patinate

Acquires a green film

Acquires a green coating

Patinize

Patinize

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Patness

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Sponsor of a social affair

She'll give you support, but not a press

Monica or Veronica

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Pattamar

Fast-talking comedians.

Sound of rain on the roof

In the style of, with "after"

Argyle, say

That's not made it plain

Squash varieties

Some squash

Paucity

Pauldron

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

Paunchy

Pauper

Penury

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

They're all under more than one foot

They're all at the edge of the street

Get along there by the foot

State fair structures

Park shelters

Summerhouses

Pavillon

Fence posts (wordplay)

Loan sources, of a sort

Symbolized by three balls

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Paygrade

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy...

PEACE to be or become silent

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Peacock

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pearmain

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

Peasecod

In a peccant manner.

Peccary

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Pedalfer

Foot keyboards

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

Pederast

Athenian relationship custom

Cycles round established bases

Stands deep and lasts

Supporters must turn round past Leeds

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedipalp

Pedlary

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Peekaboo

Pegboard

Granite

Pellagra

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Pemmican

Subjected to punishment

Put at a disadvantage

Peru deals in Scotch - is made to pay for it

Fines little boy interfering with organs

Docked

Puts in a box, maybe

Puts in a box, perhaps

Subjects to punishment

Spot the deciders!

They can cause a spot of bother!

Football rule-breaking punishments

Penance

Strong likings, predilections

Predilections, strong likings

Inclinations to write church music

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

A nearly flat land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion.

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Tarot suit

Occult stars

Esoteric symbols

Structures like one on the Potomac.

Five-sided shapes

Okra cross sections, e.g

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Pentanol

Pentarch

Government by five persons

Pentosan

Same as Penult. Penult.

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Penumbra

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

Peponida

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

PERBORATE

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

PERENNATE

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Perhaps

Perianth

Pericarp

Pericope

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""Pl. perimysia (-m zh - , -m z - ) The sheath of connective tissue enveloping bundles of muscle fibers.""

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

""A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.""

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Perisarc

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Permease

Spread into every part of

Spread through

Diffused through

Seeps through.

Diffuses

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Speaks at length.

Harangues.

Discourses

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Back-of-magazine feature

Certain classifieds

Newspaper items

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Induced by argument.

Twisted someone's arm, metaphorically

Twisted someone's arm

One convincing; gun

Induces, prevails upon

Convinces through reasoning

Brings around

Was applicable (to something)

Was relevant (to)

Belonged, but need a trip away ...

Pervader

Pervade

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Pessary

Resembling a leaf

Petasos

Petasus

Petechia

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""