2-Letter Words Starting with P

Sheet of buttons, say (wordplay)

Bit of bookkeeping (wordplay)

Leaf (of a book)

Seal with plaster

Coat with plaster

Apply plaster

""A form of currency once used by North American Indians, also PEAG, WAMPUM""

One that eats Comb form

One that eats Comb. form

Eater Comb form

French beach (see page 50)

Bright region on the sun; beach (French)

A beach, on the French Riviera.

Rid (of something unwanted)

Fire an entire department maybe

Remove (by cleansing)

Coati's coat

Mammal's fur, wool or hair

Wool, fur, hair, etc.

Toe, in a rhyme

Oinker, to a younker

Elephant's kiddie lit partner

Water delivery system

Conveyance of water, gas or oil

Conveyance system, as for water or oil

Epidemic (the 'Great' one being in 1665)

Case of painful fever (wordplay)

Swarm of insects

A promise to pawn (wordplay)

Promise to uncle, perhaps

Promise (to abstain?)

Big drop in the market, say

Will this lift up Glen? No!

Thrust or dive into

Thin, light brown fabric

Soft silk fabric

Kind of silk.

Broth, say, over? Over

The mess Esau got into (wordplay)

Soup tureen (period)

""A cloth band wrapped around a hat, also PUGAREE, PUGGAREE, PUGGREE, PUGGRY""

To contribute

This deal's wrapped up!

Deal that's been wrapped up (wordplay)

Gene Hackman 1989 thriller (with "The")

Bearer of hereditary qualities

Northwest, for one

Dad's smart!

Selection for a reading

Act of hocking

Listing of the nobility (eg, Burke's)

Dukes, earls, etc.

All the nobles.

Similar to a wooden pin

Next thing to slavery.

Condition of certain laborers.

Form of servitude

Space station stat

Nearest point in orbit

Point in moon's orbit nearest to earth.

Period of fuzzy sweaters (wordplay)

Attendant coming over poorly gets sack

Old sweater feature

""A system of pipes, also PIPAGE""

Groupie capsizing canoe

Lightweight bayou vessel

West Indian canoe.

""An evil spell, also PISHOGUE""

One who holds property for collateral.

One given a promise

Person to whom a promise is made

Cat say returning to house left feathers

Bird's feathers

Detail in an Audubon print

Cost of carrying.

Canoer's chore

Overland transportation cost

Corresponding expense (wordplay)

Cost of sending letter

Delivery charge fixed after many years

A thick soup of vegetables and meat

Currency for a birthright.

Kind of stew.

Fore-play (wordplay)

Kind of show or warm-up

Like tailgate parties

Be a sign or warning of (an event)

Be a sign of (something)

Before wise man reveals foreboding

Freight fee to ship's owner.

Junior partner, maybe

Charge for rope trick, get back inside!

Peer got embarrassed in ward

""A cloth band wrapped around a hat, also PUGREE, PUGGAREE, PUGGREE, PUGGRY""

""A cloth band wrapped around a hat, also PUGREE, PUGAREE, PUGGAREE, PUGGRY""

""To make irreligious, also PAGANIZE""

Become heathenish

Number pages (in book)

Add numbers to, say

Put numbers in a songbook, say

The addition of a sound or sounds at the end of a word

""A soft meal of oatmeal, also PORRIDGE, PARRITCH""

Military monetary scale

Union-contract stat

Military salary determiner

Perhaps that's just for bears

Line of cats or dogs (wordplay)

A good line in stock (wordplay)

Pfennig

A bone of the finger or toe.

Bone of a finger.

Bone of the hand or foot

World War I chemical weapon

Gas used in making glass and plastics

Gas used in W. W. I

Fee for work that's sky-high!

Guide's fee

(Fee for) bringing a ship into harbour

""An evil spell, also PISHOGE""

An area of land

""An extra amount, also PLUSAGE""

A type of {gene=n}

Something for breakfast time (wordplay)

Cereal offender often does it!

For breakfast in prison (wordplay)

When scores are settled (wordplay)

Like locker-room interviews

Time for a locker room interview

The weight of sterling silver (eastern)

Body weight up and ego shattered!

Tax by weight - due on gap (anagram)

Go by appearances, perhaps

Jump to conclusions

Pass an opinion beforehand.

Collapsed spire - get standing!

Standing the pig with the steer

Succes d'estime

Forecast, medically

To accumulate sediment and hence advance seaward

Poor glue (anagram)

A novel start (wordplay)

Introductory section (of, eg, a play)

A rope used for pulling a gun carriage

To {proclaim=v}

A form of virus

Put off supporting scoundrel

Suspend professional prankster

End a parliamentary session.

Special female ward (wordplay)

Ms Ward (wordplay)

Girl given patronage

Up, up with a horse over a lough to go on ahead

Learning so to get one in the eye at a time

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

English word

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Granite

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

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

PIDGIN a mixed language

English word

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Keen emotion

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

To deliver a Prologue.

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

To prorogue.

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

Noun (-age)

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Plan in advance

Determine in advance.

Agree upon something in advance

COLLEGE a school of higher learning

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

STORAGE a place for storing

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

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

English word

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

English word

MARRIAGE the legal union of a man and woman

Give a porter tips? Right!

Exclusive right/privilege

Right, privilege

Insurance seller (Cleveland Indians)

Teddy Roosevelt's party in 1912

Forward-looking or -moving

""Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.""

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

A salt of permanganic acid.

One way to reproduce a picture

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Composite picture

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Specify in advance

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

Word with prefix pre-

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 2 , secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, that acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized ovum, to maintain pregnancy, and to promote development of the mammary glands.""

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

PROPAGANDIZE

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Biology Repelled by light; exhibiting a negative phototactic or phototropic response.

""An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical. Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.""

Noun (-ence)

""COLLEGIATE Of or pertaining to a college; as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society. as, collegiate studies; a collegiate society.""

Showing by prefiguration.

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Ursprache .

POSTCOLLEGE

Capable of being chemically broken down by light: photodegradable plastic.

PHYTOFLAGELLATE

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style