2-Letter Words Starting with P

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Paraboloid

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Drumming staples

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Paradrop

Paraffin

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

Paragraph

Writer of news items for newspapers

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

The quality or state of being parallel.

Parallel

Paralogism

Paramagnet

Paramecium

Of EMS treatment

PARAMETRIZE

Paramnesia

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

Paranormal

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

One who paraphrases.

Shortens a sentence, say

Waste not and want not

Expresses in different words.

Paraplegia

Paraplegic

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

Like leeches

PARASITISE

Parasitise

Parasitism

PARASITIZE

Parasitize

Parasitoid

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

""PARBUCKLE 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.""

Parcenary

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

Parenthood

""Body, Human , Perception""

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Parotitis

Parquetry

Parsimony

""The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. as, the partibility of an inherttance.""

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Potentially dangling verb forms

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

In a partitive manner.

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Composition on a ground bass

Composition with a repeating ground bass

Composition over a ground bass

Corridors with awkward gaps, as we say

Corridors, e.g

Corridors, for example

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

Showing no emotion

Frigid

PASSIVATE

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Passivity

Pasteboard

Pastellist

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Like much yogurt and apple juice

Dairy apparatus.

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

Pastiness

PASTORALI

PASTORALI

Pastorship

lamb's place

Patchboard

Patchouly

Having the form of a patella.

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Benevolent despot

Paternity

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Patination

Fancy bakeshop items

Mushy peas I resist in shops

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Patriciate

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Patrimony

Patriotism

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Patroness

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronymic

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

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

Pavilion

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

Peaceful

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

Peacemaker

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

Peacocky

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

Peasantry

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

Pederasty

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Pedestal

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Pediatrist

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pediculate

PEDOLOGIC

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

PEDUNCULATE

Psycho and others

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

Pelycosaur

Penetrance

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to penology.

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

Pentagonal

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Pungent plant

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

Portions

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

PERENNATE