2-Letter Words Starting with P

Sweats it (wordplay)

Gives off liquid through points

Indicates deception, in a way

Induced by argument.

Twisted someone's arm, metaphorically

Twisted someone's arm

One convincing; gun

Induces, prevails upon

Convinces through reasoning

Brings around

Was applicable (to something)

Was relevant (to)

Belonged, but need a trip away ...

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Whooping cough

Pervader

Pervade

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Pervert

One who perverts (a person or thing).

Pessary

Bad ideas (wordplay)

Gloomy view of life

Tendency to take a gloomy view of things

Eeyore, for one

Gloomy sort, retired teacher is in mood

Glass-half-empty type

They're annoying

Nags

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

Pesthole

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

Resembling a leaf

Petasos

Petasus

Petechia

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

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Small items charged by requests

They need signatures

Protests on paper with signatures

Petnap

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Scares stiff

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Acts the crooked lawyer

Small-minded behaviour

State of small-mindedness or triviality

Square with Epstein's sculpture 'Insignificance'

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Feet of a pig used as food

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

Petuntse

Petuntze

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pewterer

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

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Infantry formations

Pan has leg to remodel - and parts of fingers

Toes*

Groups of similar things

Military units

Infantry formations

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Phallus

Scholarly sect of yore

Group attacked by John the Baptist

Opponents of the Sadducees.

Links to esophagi

Pharynx

A gradual reduction.

Phaseout

Gamekeeper's concern

Game birds with brightly coloured males

Long-tailed birds

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

""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.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Phenazin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenetol

PHENE an old name for benzene

Salt of carbolic acid

Phenolic

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Philabeg

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Philibeg

Philomel

Philter

Complaint when hip belt is adjusted

Inflammation of a leg vein

Inflammation of a vein

Phlegmy

Phoebus

Ones who won't look ashy for long (wordplay)

Unique birds

Ones who look ashy when they wake (wordplay)

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Phoney

PHONE to telephone

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Phosgene

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Brightness detector

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

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

English word

Photoset

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

Phratry

One who is phrenetic.

Phrensy

Phrensy

Phyllite

Phyllode

Phyllome

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Physic

Bod examples (wordplay)

They're judged at some pageants

Builds

Picador

Things of very small value

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

Picnic

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

Picoline

Picomole

To picture.

PIDGIN a mixed language

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

Piedfort

Piedmont

Pieplant

Serving with sour cream

Smetana pairing

Polish pockets

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

English word

Pigfish

Sties

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

Colorful

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Roof-truss supports.

Rectangular columns

Architectural columns

Pilewort

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Pilferer

Pilfer

Huns, for example

Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

They held people in ridicule

Exposes to public scorn

Pilotage

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Bohemian beers

Olive stuffers

Olive additions

Olive tidbits

The Scarlet - (Orczy)

Leslie Howard's was scarlet

(Scarlet) plant of the primrose family

Pimply

PINAFORE a child's apron

Little girl's wardrobe.

Savoy operas get to be so wearing

G. & S. seagoing productions.

Pinaster

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pincheck

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

They're found among needles

Some Christmas decorations

Forest-floor sights

""A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees. Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.""

Pineland

Pinewood

Pinfish

Pinfold

Somewhat thick

Stupid.

Pinken

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

In a pinnate manner.

Seals and walruses

Seals, for example

Aquatic carnivores such as seals and walruses

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Pinscher

Bowling alley machine.

Bowling alley apparatus

Bowling-alley machinery

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

Pintado

Pontiac options (wordplay)

Childhood toys rotated by the wind

Spinning toys

Blazed a trail

Religious individual before day's begun

Led the way

Piosity

Devotion to a deity? Goodness!

Abbot's attribute

Devotion, godliness

Sent from Alaska, perhaps

Transported, as gas

Channels of information

The Big Inch and others

Channels of info

Piperine

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Briar sections

Bowl attachments

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Pipet

Piquance

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

Piscary

Pishogue

Pisolite

Pistache

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

Pistol

Pitchy