2-Letter Words Starting with P

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Patency

Patience

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Paucity

Paunchy

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

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

PEACE to be or become silent

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Peacock

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Peasecod

In a peccant manner.

Peccary

Cheeses made from ewes' milk

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

Comblike

Pectize

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedicure

Jobs in a digital workplace (wordplay)

Treatments for some nails

Foot treatments

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Peduncle

A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.

Pellicle

Pemmican

Penance

Strong likings, predilections

Predilections, strong likings

Inclinations to write church music

Penciler

""The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. as, delicate penciling in a picture.""

Drew with graphite

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

Penoncel

Sluices or floodgates.

Floodgates

Tarot suit

Occult stars

Esoteric symbols

Pentarch

Government by five persons

Penuchle

Penuckle

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Got it

Sensed

Seer, of a sort

Becomes aware of

Reads epic verse out

Reads

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

Percuss

Percuss

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Perfect

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Perfecto

Pericarp

Pericope

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Like a green gem or olivine.

Perisarc

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Petechia

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

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

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

""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.""

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

PHENE an old name for benzene

Phenolic

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

One who is phrenetic.

Phthisic

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

Physic

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

Picador

English word

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

Things of very small value

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)

Pickadil

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Pickax

Pickeer

Fresh-water fish

They're a striking group

Striking figures

Strikers would be the same at Lord's, taking credit for pressure

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Pickwick

Picloram

Picnic

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Picoline

Picomole

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Forming mental images of

To picture.

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Type of mathematical function

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Fruit wrappers of sorts

They should be flaky

Empty shells in the kitchen

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Pigstick

Fish and chips cooked with lard

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pinchbug

Pincheck

They're found among needles

Some Christmas decorations

Forest-floor sights

Having spires

They're tops

Clan possibly hidden among trees and peaks

In places the pub in there is in places right at the top

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Adjective (-ic)

Petty annoyances

Small irritations

Tiny irritations

Pinscher

Piquance

Pirarucu

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Piscary

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Pistache

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Pitchy

Plays to prevent steals

English word

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

PLACE to assign to a position

Placebo

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

Having no place or office.

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""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.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

Planchet

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Pleach

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Plectron

Hand picks (wordplay)

Musical picks.

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Pliancy