2-Letter Words Starting with P

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Propend

Properdin

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Bards

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protend

Protocol

Protoderm

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

Provides cattle with food

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Psalmody

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Pterygoid

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punditry

Hound minorities (wordplay)

PURBLIND partially blind

Arabian horses, for example

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

One of the Pycnogonida.

Pyramid

English word

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyridoxal

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

Evergreen ground cover

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Paddleball

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Some are shaped like swans

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Panjandrum

Pantdress

Like dime novels

Paperboard

Paperbound

Paraboloid

Drumming staples

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Paradrop

Paragraph

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Parallel

Of EMS treatment

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

Parasitoid

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Parenthood

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Pasteboard

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Like much yogurt and apple juice

lamb's place

Patchboard

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

Peckerwood

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

Pederasty

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Pedestal

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Pediatrist

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pediculate

Insects

Insects

Pedicurist

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDOLOGIC

Pedologist

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

PEDUNCULATE

Pendentive

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Peoplehood

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

Groups of igneous rocks

""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.""

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Peroxidase

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Caused to continue

Perplexed

Personhood

Stood for

Embodied

That may be persuaded.

Perverted

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

Phelloderm

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Plural or third person singular

See phospholipid .

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Photodiode

Photoflood

Photomap

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

English word

Photostat

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

Pickaback

Picosecond

PIDGINIZE

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

Piggyback

Pigheaded

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Piperidine

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitchfork

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Placekick

Placidity

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

Playground

Plentitude

Podiatrist

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

PODZOLIZE

POINTED point

Poisonwood

Delivered strong opinions

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLITICIZE

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

CHROMED chrome

POLYDACTYL

Polydipsia

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.