2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A soft meal of oatmeal, also PORRIDGE, PARRITCH""

Able to be parsed

Section of a theatre.

First tier of boxes in the Met.

Part of the main floor of a theatre

Divisible

Piece of dust, perhaps

Phosphorus, maybe a bit

Bit dim keeping right in charge

Newly wealthy woman

Pan revue featuring an upstart

Recently wealthy woman

Soft as fur, okay (wordplay)

Good enough to get by (wordplay)

Unblocked all right (wordplay)

Capable of feeling

Impressionable.

Chap's tie (anagram)

It's cheap (anagram)

Artistic work in someone else's style

Lozenge, to soothe the throat perhaps

A sucker may stick around being sick

Stick around 14 down for a sucker

They're attached to quads

Bones in the head all turned to point

The formal kneecaps

It's right for one to be exclusive

Inventor, at times

Inventor of peg attached to plate

Quip for those tired of waiting (Part 2)

Card came for one

Waiting game, in Westminster (wordplay)

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

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

Resembling a peacock

Having collateral value

Military monetary scale

Union-contract stat

Military salary determiner

Resembling a peak

Constituent of steel and cast iron.

Constituent of steel.

Carbon and iron alloy.

* Messy and flawed (wordplay)

Liable to sin.

Embezzle money with cute plea

Embezzle money

Embezzle money having pale, cute appearance

Like painter's tape

See plain (anagram)

Disadvantage in a sleep being disrupted

Punish for falling asleep in

Deduct points from, say

Order back five yards, say

Move the ball back 15 yards

Star of the Magic Circle (wordplay)

Magic Circle star (wordplay)

Star of many horror movies (wordplay)

A catalyzing agent

Fill the nooks and crannies of

Flow or spread into every part of

Fill up as foreign peer grabs heart

Speak at length

Make (or conclude) a big speech

Conclude a speech

Dramatis follower (cast)

"Dramatis" follower (cast)

Characters of a novel or play

Convince by arm-twisting, maybe

Convince or induce, maybe coax

Convince (by argument)

Leafy, as certain flowers.

A bone of the finger or toe.

Bone of a finger.

Bone of the hand or foot

Air sheep (anagram)

Strict follower of Jewish law

Hypocritical Biblical official

Too small for notice.

Of little account

Insignificant or petty

Fee for work that's sky-high!

Guide's fee

(Fee for) bringing a ship into harbour

Name of stage fame

Sort of apron

This bit of the stage Navy is so wearing

The top pub in the place, perhaps

The highest point, say of fame

Highest point (of fame or building)

Pinnula

Piscina

A shade of green

Pathetic theatrical part I fit

Bite a lip nervously, arousing sympathy

Poor and holy, albeit dancing around

A cent tip, perhaps!

Perhaps holiness is not worth much

Inadequate amount (of money)

Easily calmed questionable revolution with line to power

Forgiving

Tolerant

Planula

Expressing praise

Like a baseball in fair territory

The pitch needs to be this

What a pitch is usually declared

Recess appointment (wordplay)

Very early appointment (wordplay)

Tot's appointment

Resembling a theatrical performance

Calendar girl (wordplay)

Chum; Ate my pal (anagram)

My palate (anagram)

When the show must go on - what fun!

Recess, for one

Part of a child's day.

Will Pearl and Sue go haywire (wordplay)

A repulse (anagram)

Hedonist's chief goal

An area of land

Fit for tilling

Tillable

""An extra amount, also PLUSAGE""

Set at opposite extremes of opinion

Separate group wanting nothing before a hike

Missile with onset of explosion split in two

Divide into two camps

Divide sharply

Cause dissension

People as a mass

The inhabitants of an area

Mob's coup plea concocted

Work, you say, in helping people

Fill, as with data

Supply with inhabitants

Laptop perhaps left with expert

Wine expert? Lightweight!

Easy to carry

{demeanor=n}

Following a base word

As potted (anagram)

Put 12/31/2020 on checks, say

Be subsequent to

A brief note placed at the end of a publication

When scores are settled (wordplay)

Like locker-room interviews

Time for a locker room interview

Following a race

""An Indian winter festival, also POTLACH""

""A spayed hen, also POULARD""

The weight of sterling silver (eastern)

Body weight up and ego shattered!

Tax by weight - due on gap (anagram)

Like wet cement

Fit to decant

Like wet concrete

It makes perfect, they say

Perfect maker (wordplay)

Become perfect, perhaps.

Be engaged in (profession)

Rehearse scene in lift

Rehearse Eric and Pat's arrangement

""A legal writ, also PRECIPE""

Postquarantine permission to use a port

Sailor returns in a huff, needing permission to enter port

Opening remarks before walk (wordplay)

Introduction before a stroll (wordplay)

A more perfect Union source

Precava

Preceding a flame

To paste beforehand

To place beforehand

To shape beforehand

Sample of what's to come

Early sample

Abbot's assistant's office

Office of a certain religious leader

Office of the head of an abbey

A chemical compound

Likely but not certain

Likely to be the case

Likely to happen but not certain

Old-time dental anesthetic

Dentist's anesthetic

Dental anesthetic

To accumulate sediment and hence advance seaward

Slip out of place (medical)

Slide out of place

Slip out of place Med.

A form of virus

The first stage in mitosis

Gland inclined to Erastianism (wordplay)

Gland about the size of a walnut

Organ in favour of the government

Plants start to excrete enzyme

Substance in body supporting rib

Digestive enzyme

Able to be demonstrated

Meriting a "Q.E.D."

Capable of being established

Like a rose bush

Pam times processing of sandstone

A general term for sandstone

Pteryla

Pain to me (anagram)

Food poisoning from a pimento (wordplay)

Food poisoning cause

Up, up with a horse over a lough to go on ahead

Pointlike.

Learning so to get one in the eye at a time

Acquire grip (wordplay)

Buy tea in container for cash

How Alaska was acquired from Russia.

Weed with pink, fleshy stems.

Weed with pink fleshy stems.

Portulaca plant in salads

Supposed - tie up vat (anagram)

Commonly accepted as such

Supposed or reputed to be

A simple sugar

A chemical salt

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Spangle or sequin

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

A salt of palmitic acid.

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Commedia dell'arte character

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

""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.""

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

English word

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

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

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

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

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

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

Comblike

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Granite

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

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

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

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

Pericope

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Resembling a leaf

Petechia

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

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

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

""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.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Adjective meaning resembling

PLACATE to conciliate

PLACE to assign to a position

""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.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Like some court cases

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Make sibilant, perhaps

Keen emotion

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece