2-Letter Words Starting with P

English word

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

Succinctness.

In double-bottomed baked goods, dilute concentrated substance

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Adjective meaning resembling

Spots for slices

Neighborhood eateries

Pasta centers

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Appeasers.

Mediators

PLACATE to conciliate

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

Unpretentious quality

Simplicity

The headland at the end of the flat land is without much beauty

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Plaister

Planchet

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Expressiveness

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

Planish

""One who, or that which, planishes.""

Hammers metal to smoothness

Plankter

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

PLANTS plant

Plashy

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Important parts of blood.

Certain cell fragments

Coagulant bodies in the blood

Adjective meaning resembling

Plateful

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Platoon

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

English word

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Playtime

Pleach

Like some court cases

Earnest requests

Entreaties

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Pleasure

Companions of palaces

Pales with a ruse with a twist for fun

The joys of shifting super ales

PLEAT to fold in an even manner

Common people of ancient Rome.

Regular folks, to a snob

Members of lower classes as in ancient Rome

Plectron

Hand picks (wordplay)

Musical picks.

Pledgeor

Plenish

Plenish

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

In rich supply

Fruitful.

Abundant

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

Foreign imports and others

Redundancies

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

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.""

Pleuston

Like network; complicated.

Pliancy

Plighter

Prepared some pills for those training perhaps

Books may have a few of them

Novels' main stories

Threads for a screenwriter

Plottage

Plotty

Plougher

Plowhead

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

Something to do with a turkey claiming 'e's least like a chicken (wordplay)

Plumelet

Plumeria

Plumiped

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plummy

Plumpen

Fat lot of good that will do one

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

At the place under the hospital he's fond of the sack

Make sibilant, perhaps

Plushy

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Plussage

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Poachy

Subtle thieves

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Pocket

Podomere

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Poechore

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

Dickinson and Plath, for example

Millay and Dickinson

Dickinson and Millay

Banal bit of versification

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Poetiser

Poetise

Poetizer

Poetize

Keen emotion

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

English word

Pointy

It's futile being blunt (wordplay)

Blunt to no purpose (wordplay)

Serving no purpose

Blighters binding one boy in tight ropes

Some Borgias

Juicy, blackish fruit

Pokeroot

Purple-berried plants

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Polarise

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Turns a bear white (wordplay)

Sends to separate camps

More than just divides

Poleax

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Argumentative types steam into bars

Disputatious group

Polemize

Polemize

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

They have their shining hours

Rag-and-brush persons

Unaspirated rubber girls from Poland (wordplay)

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

Pollen

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

Opinion takers

Election predictors.

Trend determiners

Woodsy Owl's PSA targets

They're not green

EPA targets

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

Polygene

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Like nylon, chemically

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Polypide

Polypnea

Polypore

Polypus

Polysome

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Polytype

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

Pomander

Thumping.

Pommel

Deliberators

Meditators

In a thoughtful mood.

Weighing in thought.

Ireland with so little water? Gee, it makes you think!

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

Slow and laborious

Heavy and slow-moving

Graceless rouelaxed in pool on Sunday

Pondweed

Poniard

Poolside

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

Populace

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Populate

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Flipper's kin.

Intentions of a Bronx speaker to catch dolphins (wordplay)

You'll find them in the sea or balance them in the postscript

Gruel, etc.

Child's bowl.

Child's bowl

Small dish for Spanish campanologist

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portance

Portable.

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Porter

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

Portico

They're all for hanging in France

Doorway curtains