2-Letter Words Starting with P

Treats irreverently.

Desecrates

Violates

Suggests

Wrote one's life history

Wrote a bio of, for example

Sketched a side view.

Serial crime investigator

TV crime drama

Criminal Minds investigator

Pictures for official records

Short, vivid biographies.

Some magazine articles

Gained pecuniarily.

Gained

He gains

Supporting, having discovered it's great

Is for turning in the money, being wise

Far-reaching, professional discovered

Churning out book after book, say

Producing in great abundance

Producing in abundance

Clue crew

Checking text for errors

Making impermeable to water

Making watertight tiles, say, under pressure

Full of pride

Blow round the fungus, White

Swell dance skirt

It gets a big head

Most bloated, irritating one swallowing muffin's filling

Ornamentation on the edges of a violin

Cleansed from foreign matter

Cleansed

Device for cleansing thoroughly

Cleanser

Purify

Pear-shaped

Kid quieters

Pacifism

They don't like to strike

They don't believe in fighting

People refusing to fight

Purpose of a conciliatory gesture

Calming (baby)

Appeasing

It's hurtful in a way to give father it in full

When Father is home entirely it's in a 23 across way

How the Sioux see us (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you all (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you (wordplay)

Panfish

Action prone to causing oil spills (wordplay)

Pantofle

Sibelius and Saarinen (wordplay)

Sibelius and Saarinen?

$10 (wordplay)

Paraform

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

Pedalfer

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Perfect

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Perfecto

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

Perfidy

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

Did mod prefer rocker (wordplay)

Put on knitted jumper for media

Danced on TikTok, for example

A retired actor (wordplay)

Salesman turns up with past actor

One putting on an act

Some Chanel employees

They make scents

Obsession source (wordplay)

Art of scent-making

Be livid when probing drink's source of aroma

Perfume

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Perfuse

The act of perfusing.

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Scares stiff

Acts the crooked lawyer

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Piedfort

Pigfish

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Pilferer

Pilfer

PINAFORE a child's apron

Little girl's wardrobe.

Savoy operas get to be so wearing

G. & S. seagoing productions.

Pinfish

Pinfold

Pisiform

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

Planform

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Plateful

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

PLATY a small tropical fish

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

Like network; complicated.

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Stock pile (wordplay)

Case of drink (oil of rum)

Financial holdings (see first letters)

Job confronts afterwords about set of caps

English word

Appended

Postfix

Postform

Praefect

Chevy Chase flops (wordplay)

Clown's repertory

Slapstick stunts

Speaking up (wordplay)

Very devout

Devout

Go on at length and pacify her rages

To define beforehand.

Prefab

Prefacer

Preceding

Prefade

Like introductions

Kind of stock

Kind of stocks

Penny made mention of choice

One who prefers.

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

Prefile

FILLED fill

Prefire

Prefix

Before take-off

Before boarding, as an inspection

Kind of inspection

FORMAT to follow the style or manner of procedure

Did hesitation set back, if made earlier (wordplay)

Prefrank

""To freeze beforehand, pa t PREFROZE, pa p PREFROZEN""

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

MODIFY to alter slightly

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

Presift

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Sacrilegious types

Profane

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

Avowed

Avows.

Four-time role for Patrick Stewart

Member of an academic faculty

University department head

Proffer

CPAs (wordplay)

Relatives of police sketch artists

Manicurists and tax preparers, by trade (wordplay)

Profile

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

Profiter

Profit

""Flowing forward,""

Profound

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

English word

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Pupfish

Purfling

Purifier

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

Capable of being appeased

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

""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.""

Painful

Paraffin

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Parfleche

Parflesh

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Providers of finishing touches

Perfect

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

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

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

They all have a part of this

Actors for each previous scene, initially

Actors in theatre promoted previous show at first

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusate

Perfusion

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Converting organic material into fossilised form

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Picofarad

Pikestaff

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinfold

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Pipefish

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

Pitiful

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Heaping dish

Companion in children's games

Companion in childhood

Friend in frolics

Playfield

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Postfix

English word

Postform

English word

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...