2-Letter Words Starting with P

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

Pacemaking

Leaders in their fields

Cutting-edge people

Leaders of the pack

Sports See pacemaker .

Evergreen ground cover

Pacifical

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Pacificism

Pacificist

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Worshipping many gods

PANTROPIC

Like dime novels

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""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.""

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

Paramecium

Of EMS treatment

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

Paraplegic

Like leeches

""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

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

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

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

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

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)

Composition on a ground bass

Composition with a repeating ground bass

Composition over a ground bass

Pasticheur

Patchboard

Patchouly

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Patriciate

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Patronymic

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

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.""

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

Peckerwood

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

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pediculate

Insects

Insects

Pedicurist

The process of soil formation.

PEDOLOGIC

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

PEDUNCULATE

Pelycosaur

Pencilling

Penetrance

""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.""

Penicillin

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

Of or pertaining to penology.

Pentarchy

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

Peppercorn

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

Portions

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

PERCEPT something that is perceived

One's ways of conceiving things

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Acute insight

Percipient

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

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Percussion

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

Perfection

Perfective

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

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.

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Magazines laid so price may be seen

Monthly magazines, for example

Many are mailed out monthly

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

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

""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.""

PERITHECIA

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Permanence

Persecutee

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Tyrannical people

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

Stubbornness

Pertinence

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

Pestilence

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

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

Self-righteously hypocritical

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocopy

Phenocryst

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

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

""(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.""

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

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

PHOTOPHOBE

English word

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phycology

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

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

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

Physiological.

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

Picaninny

Picaresque

Picaroon

Piccalilli

Piccoloist

Pickaback

Picketboat

Divers strike supporters surrounding pit

Some thieves

Picosecond

Picrotoxin

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

PICTURIZE To picture.

Person paid per item produced

Instruments

Piggyback

Pigsticker

The act of hunting for wild boar

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.

Tailors' conveniences

Stuffed accessories

Sewers' conveniences