2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pastedown

Certain artists.

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

Pasticcio

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Pastness

Cantatas on rural themes.

Compositions with rural themes

History/brewed beverages

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Clergyman's terms

Late talks for groups of clergymen

Fathers' offices

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

Pasturage

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Non-uniform quality

Patchouli

Patchwork

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

Pathetic.

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Patient

Patinate

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Patinize

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Chefs in a bakery

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patroller

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Asian figwort trees

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

Pauperism

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pauperize

Paupiette

Pavilion

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

They may cut the checks or call the shots

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Post-treaty periods

Peacocky

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEACOCK to strut vainly

PEAKED peak

Pearlash

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Peccancy

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Peculator

Oddly

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Pedagogy

They have pupils

Teachers striving ultimately to cut rampant dope usage

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Pedestal

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Lousy, literally

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pellagrin

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Peneplain

Peneplane

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Penetrant

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Imbues; steeps

Affects deeply

Enters.

A plural of penicillium .

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Pentangle

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Penultima

Peperomia

Peptidase

Perborate

Percaline

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

PERENNATE

Perennate

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Perfusate

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

PERIHELIA

PERIKARYA

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

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

Periplast

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

Noun (-age)

Changeable

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Individual dates of birth of celebrities

Illustrious people

V.I.P.'s

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

Pervasion

Petalody

Petnap

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Petulance

Querulously

Phagocyte

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

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

See Phallism. Phallism.

A plant that produces seeds.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Phasedown

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""