2-Letter Words Starting with P

People funding a play

Shumlin, Abbott, Gordon, etc.

Con artists in a 1967 Mel Brooks film

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

Avowed

Proffer

Profound

Prognose

Robotic variable

Scheme news boss threw out

Plan newsman threw out

Jutted out.

Prolapse

Prologue

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Promulge

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Propend

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

Prorogue

Prosect

Prosody

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Proteide

Protend

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

Protopod

Protoxid

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Provide

Prudence

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Bluenose specialties.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

English word

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Puddly

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

Pulicide

Pulpwood

Pummel

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Puppydom

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Legally acquired

Bought

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Certain cattle or canines

No Heinz 57s

Pointers, perhaps

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Pushdown

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pyoderma

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyrenoid

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Packboard

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

Game resembling squash

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

""A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.""

Paddock

Padlock

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palladium

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Green-trunked shrubs

Trembled

Quivered

Panbroil

Pandanus

Some apple pies

Deep-dish apple pies.

Apple treats

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Strips of land, as in West Virginia.

Long, narrow regions of Texas and Florida

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

In some common women's office attire

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

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.

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Suffering mental delusions

PARAPODIA

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

Like fleas and ticks

""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.""

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Pastedown

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

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

PEAKED peak

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Pedagogy

They have pupils

Teachers striving ultimately to cut rampant dope usage

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Peddlery

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Pedestal

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Pedology

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

Step counters

Pedophile

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pelecypod

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Jail cells (wordplay)

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Pentoxide

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

Peptidase

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Perdition

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Pereiopod

PERENNATE

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Rock containing olivine

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

PERIWIG a wig

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

Perpend

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

Pesticide

Petalody