2-Letter Words Starting with P

Spot-stained, as wood.

Spotstained as wood

A bit fussy to say Kerry's on the slide

*Hard to please (MS + KY)

Eating only certain things

Japanese candy sticks

Chocolate-coated snack stick

Japanese packaged sweet that comes in a 'Men's' variety

Bread-devouring (wordplay)

Quite expensive (Var.)

Not so cheap

Bring peace to (a place)

Short? Not in factory ship - relax!

Give a teething ring to, perhaps

Intimately

Pope's office

Tenure of John Paul II

Benedict's office

Quilt work would be so sporadic

Not of uniform consistency

Irregular in quality

Lovely and fruity

Kind of complexion

Fine and dandy

Teach wrongdoing (wordplay)

I take in fast crime on 21 6 (wordplay)

William Kidd's crime

Concise and to the point

Black and viscid.

Full of tar

Brave as a rose picker (wordplay)

Brave, attempting the banjo (wordplay)

Brave pull by youth leader

Swampy.

Honesty, for one

(E.g. government) line

Document stating car-insurance terms

Like bags under eyes

Of a pocket-like abdominal receptacle

Expensive diamonds clutched by Jimmy

On the expensive side

Steep paddy ends containing its crop

""Having many sharp points, also PRICKLY""

Vigorous (in speech)

Loopy from lack of sleep, say

Vigorous blow given, and said why

Far from composed

Out of control

Screw going round prison in fear

Quality of being obvious

State of openness

Condition of being obvious

Insufficiency, dearth

Poverty means one is involved in a new pay-cut

Scantiness.

Like many gourmands

Fat adult, forceful going round

Like one with a spare tire

Piglike animal of the Southwest.

Pig-like South American animal

Piglike South American mammal

A place for fishing

Adaptable state

Bendy nature

Flexible quality

In a pocky manner

Power; pet cony (anagram)

Strength, as of a drug

It may be determined by concentration

Annoyingly self-righteous

Given to tedious moralising

Prone to sermonize

Bishops yet to be upbraided (wordplay)

See, perhaps

Church office.

Are such pears thin-skinned (wordplay)

Like a hedgehog - easily offended

Difficult taking wrench into work

First state (wordplay)

Church office quick to seal off border

Authority moving quickly to seal border

Victim of an invasion (wordplay)

Freedom from public attention

Freedom from intrusion

Having the tendency to pucker

{modesty=n}

Itchy pal coming out in spots

Unevenly

{vain=adj}

The state of being {peccant=adj}

Undecided state

Drug dealer's science (wordplay)

Where chemist works fast to dress wound

Hurt when in lively shop

Pertaining to a picnic

Tart spicy quality

Appetising flavour

Tart spiciness

In a very dark manner

In a tolerant manner

In a calm fashion

In a plucky manner

Lavish (like Charles?)

Magnificent or munificent

Like some sums

Perhaps that's all for the telling

Divine message of what is to come

Oracle's stock-in-trade

Pic bully smashed in full view

Out in the open

For all to see

In a punchy manner

Limburger cheese quality

Sharp strong taste

Sharp and strong taste or smell

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

""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.""

PEACE to be or become silent

In a peccant manner.

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Government by five persons

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Peevish state

PHENE an old name for benzene

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

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

English word

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

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

Calmness

Expressiveness

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

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Suppliant; beseeching.

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

The quality or state of being prurient.

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Oddly

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Relevance

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Property of a brain (wordplay)

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

In a poetic manner.

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

SPECIFY to state in detail

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Reckless extravagance

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

PUBLIC people as a whole

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Pacifical

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

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

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

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

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

PERCEPT something that is perceived

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

""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.""

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

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

Antonym for "unconcerned"

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Stubbornness

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Gym rat's concern

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Piratical

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

Placating

Placeless

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

In a plastic manner.

Polemical

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

English word

POLYDACTYL

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Preaching

Affirmative; positive.

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

With presciense or foresight.

Priceless

In the main.

Competence, skill

Competence

Prolificness.

PROLIFIC {abundant=adj}

Promiscuousness; confusion.

Prosaical

Psychical

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

Exact time keeping

Good time-keeping

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Pathetical

In a pedantic manner.

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Percipient

Percussive

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

From time to time.

Pernicious

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

In a pontifical manner.

English word

A realistic matter

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Predominance.

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany