2-Letter Words Starting with P

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

Petnap

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

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

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Infantry formations

Pan has leg to remodel - and parts of fingers

Toes*

Groups of similar things

Military units

Infantry formations

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Phallism

Phallist

Phallus

Apparition

They're in one's head

Haunted house residents

Ghostlike figures

Phantast

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

Scholarly sect of yore

Group attacked by John the Baptist

Opponents of the Sadducees.

Links to esophagi

Pharynx

A gradual reduction.

Phaseout

Gamekeeper's concern

Game birds with brightly coloured males

Long-tailed birds

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Phenazin

Salt of carbolic acid

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Philabeg

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Land in ancient Palestine

Phonate

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

Pictorial photograph

Photomap

English word

Photopia

Waldo Salt supply

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

Wordings

Phratry

Phthalin

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

Piassaba

Piassava

Picador

English word

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

Things of very small value

Choose one of the players for the ride

One way to shoulder the job of team selection

Act as a football selector - see this in celebration after goal (wordplay)

Pickadil

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Pickax

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Picloram

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Pieplant

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

Pignolia

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Roof-truss supports.

Rectangular columns

Architectural columns

Fish and chips cooked with lard

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Huns, for example

Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer

The medicine is gettint too old, so it's robbery

It's robbery when the medicine is getting too old

Pillar

Pilotage

PINAFORE a child's apron

Little girl's wardrobe.

Savoy operas get to be so wearing

G. & S. seagoing productions.

Pinaster

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

Pineland

Somewhat thick

Stupid.

Having spires

They're tops

Clan possibly hidden among trees and peaks

In places the pub in there is in places right at the top

In a pinnate manner.

Pintado

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Piquance

In a stimulating way.

Pirarucu

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

See babesia .

Piscary

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Pistache

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Adjective meaning resembling

Spots for slices

Neighborhood eateries

Pasta centers

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

PLACE to assign to a position

Placebo

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

Having no place or office.

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

Unpretentious quality

Simplicity

The headland at the end of the flat land is without much beauty

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Plaister

Braids

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Planaria

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

Planish

""One who, or that which, planishes.""

Hammers metal to smoothness

Planking

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Exercises in logistics.

Planosol

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Plashy

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

Plasmoid

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plastron

Plastrum

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Important parts of blood.

Certain cell fragments

Coagulant bodies in the blood

Adjective meaning resembling

Plateful

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Platinum

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Platoon

PLATY a small tropical fish

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Playdown

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids