2-Letter Words Starting with P

A type of ball-game

English word

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

In a palatable manner.

Palpebra

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Panbroil

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

News casters (wordplay)

Deliverers on bikes

Certain carriers

Bowl-shaped antennas

Certain conic sections

Graded curves in math class

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

""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.""

Passband

Balanced reading materials (wordplay)

Hurl some reading material (wordplay)

Revision aids issued by building societies

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

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

PEACE to be or become silent

Pebbly

Peekaboo

Pegboard

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Penumbra

Spice holder

Turret or another object with a similar shape

PERBORATE

Periblem

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Philabeg

Philibeg

Complaint when hip belt is adjusted

Inflammation of a leg vein

Inflammation of a vein

Phoebus

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

Piassaba

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)

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pinchbug

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PLACE to assign to a position

Placebo

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

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

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Like some court cases

Common people of ancient Rome.

Regular folks, to a snob

Members of lower classes as in ancient Rome

Plowback

Plumbago

Soundings

Plumbism

Juicy, blackish fruit

Reform Libor? Up to executive committee

Communist decision-makers

Soviet Communist Party group

Polybrid

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Possible

Where collections are made following fights

Potboil

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

Gratuity, to Gregoire

Tip at a boite

15 per cent of the check

Racing that really makes waves!

Swell racing (wordplay)

Fast vessel for racing or leisure

Openers for documents

Preliminary or preparatory statements

New rep strolls around making introductions

Prebake

BATTLE to {fight=v}

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

Prebill

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

Like some bratwursts

Like packaged kielbasa

Prebook

Prefab

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

NUMBER to {count=v}

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

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Church elder

Church minister

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

VIABLE capable of living

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Probable

Probate

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Exploratory

Serving for trial; probationary.

Probity

Born with Scorpio's wrinkled nose

Feeding appendage of elephant, insect

One knows the sound of this

English word

Outlaws

Bans

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Proverb

Sunday text

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

PUBLIC people as a whole

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Certain cattle or canines

No Heinz 57s

Pointers, perhaps

Pushball

Capable of being appeased

Packboard

Game resembling squash

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

Panbroil

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Partly cooking

""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.""

Parbuckle

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

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

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

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

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

Perborate

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Changeable

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Perturb

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Phototube

Pickaback

English word

Hauls truck trailers on freight cars

Treats for children.

PILFER to {steal=v}

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Pinchbeck

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

Supple quality initially put at risk

Plumbery

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Try reading this!

One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

Politburo

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

POSTDEBATE

Fit to drink.

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Pourboire

Powerboat

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

Prebill

Prebind

Prebless

Prebless

Preboil

Prebook

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

EMBARGO to prohibit trade by a governmental order

Prefab

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

Prenumber

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Childhood stage

Presbyope

Form of long-sightedness

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Elders given squash containing some bits, right (wordplay)

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

One who prescribes.

Prescribe

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

Probation

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

PROCAMBIA