2-Letter Words Starting with P

PERENNATE

In a perennial manner.

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Perforator

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Perinatal

Magazines laid so price may be seen

Monthly magazines, for example

Many are mailed out monthly

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

Peripatus

Plot reversals in novel

Keyboard, monitor, mouse and other devices

Periphrase

Use of circumlocution

Circumlocutory speech

Roundabout expression

Some refrigerator contents

They won't keep his beer pals in order

Grocery items

Bodily Functions

Process accompanying digestion

Alimentary motion

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

Permafrost

Permanence

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permillage

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

Peroxidase

PEROXISOME

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Carries out, as an immoral action

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Caused to continue

Perpetuate

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Persiflage

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Subjectivity

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Monogram, maybe

Acting a part.

Act of mimicry

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personator

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Persuasion

Stubbornness

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Pervasive

Supplicatory; making a petition.

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

The art of writing on stone.

Petrolatum

Wearing an underskirt

Petulancy

""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.""

English word

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

Phanerogam

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

Self-righteously hypocritical

Pharisaism

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

Philately

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Phlebogram

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

Photomap

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

Photomural

Photophase

A dread or intolerance of light.

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

Pl. phyllotaxies also phyllotaxes The arrangement of leaves on a stem.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Phylloxera

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Pianissimo

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaninny

Picaresque

Picaroon

Piccalilli

Pickaback

Picketboat

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Piggyback

Pigheaded

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilgrimage

Items of bed linen

They touch your hair at night

Linen closet items

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

Piperazine

Pipsissewa

PIQUANT having an agreeably sharp taste

Piratical

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pitapat

Master endocrine glands

Some glands

Pixilation

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Placekick

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Placeless

Placidity

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

Plagiarise

Plagiarism

Cheating types can crush a gal's spirit

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Prose appropriator

Plagiarize

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Plainchant

Plainness

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

Plaintive

Plaister

Planarity

Planchette

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Astronomy ()

Plangency

Planimeter

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Once-common Georgia sights

Farms with banana trees

Large farms that were often established as pioneers moved farther west

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

Plasmagene

See cell membrane .

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Plasmolyse

Plasmolysie

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

PLASMOLYZE

Plasmolyze

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

In a plastic manner.

Plasticene

Plasticine

PLASTICIZE

PLASTICIZE

Plasticize

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platterful

Platyfish