2-Letter Words Starting with P

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.""

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

Physic

Bod examples (wordplay)

They're judged at some pageants

Builds

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Pigfish

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

Fish and chips cooked with lard

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pinchbug

Pincheck

Pinfish

Somewhat thick

Stupid.

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Pinscher

Pontiac options (wordplay)

Childhood toys rotated by the wind

Spinning toys

Pishogue

Pistache

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Pitchy

Plays to prevent steals

English word

Succinctness.

In double-bottomed baked goods, dilute concentrated substance

Planchet

Planish

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

Hammers metal to smoothness

Plashy

PLATY a small tropical fish

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Pleach

Plenish

Plenish

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

Excessively abundant

Plighter

Plight

Plougher

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Plowhead

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Plushy

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Poachy

Poechore

They have their shining hours

Rag-and-brush persons

Unaspirated rubber girls from Poland (wordplay)

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

English word

English word

Station administration (wordplay)

Detective's device

Storyteller (wordplay)

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

All-round experts brewing malty hops

'Likewise, they have everything (9)'

These know-alls seem to get their sums like parrots

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

""A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph. Allomorph.""

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

""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.""

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

A work consisting of four or more painted or carved panels that are hinged together.

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Hangouts for sharks (and marks)

Where shooting's done

Hangouts for hustlers

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Poortith

""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.""

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

English word

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Postheat

Items for some fences

Preparation for some fences

Postiche

Pother

Pothouse

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

Potlach

Potshard

Pieces discovered on digs

Pouchy

People whose word is gospel (wordplay)

They serve up sermons

They deliver on Sunday

More tediously moralising

More self-righteous support stifles influence

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Bible-thumping, perhaps

Get to pulp it for to be doing this

Power coming to pulpit activity

Precheck

Prechill

Before take-off

Before boarding, as an inspection

Kind of inspection

Warmed beforehand.

Coming from Peterhead warmed up beforehand

HEATER an apparatus for heating

Staffing up early

Prehuman

LAUNCH to set in motion

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

Preshape

Preshape

Preshow

SHRANK shrink

Treat (a garment) before use so it keeps its size

Like treated jeans

Sanforized

Fairly goodlooking.

Like some new jeans

Prewash

I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial

Religious post for naval leader (wordplay)

Outlaws

Bans

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""Pl. protheses (-s z ) Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn," from Latin spina.""

A credence table; so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Psephite

Having a sixth sense

PSYCHOS psycho

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

In a mischievous manner

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Punchy

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Pupfish

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

Legally acquired

Bought

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Shopping, including tea bags

Buys tea in bags

Acquires and takes round the tea bags

Pushball

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Pushdown

Irritating quality

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Pyorrhea

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)

Elephants and rhinos

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

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Pachytene

They bear heavy burdens, so include supporting frames in case (wordplay)

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

""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.""

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

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

Pansophy

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

""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.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""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.""

Two charts (wordplay)

Bar chart and scatter diagram

New ones are usually indented

Paranymph

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARAPH to {initial=v}

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

English word

Parathion

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parfleche

Parflesh

Parritch

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

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

Non-uniform quality

Patchouli

Patchwork

Pathetic.

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

PEACOCK to strut vainly

Pearlash

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Pedophile