2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Jail cells (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Places to live the high life (wordplay)

Many of Trump's tops (wordplay)

Confined quarters (wordplay)

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

PERIHELIA

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

Perilymph

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Pesthouse

Ancient rock engraving

Owners of church seats

Phagocyte

""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.""

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

See Phallism. Phallism.

A plant that produces seeds.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Phasedown

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

Phellogen

Phelonion

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

Phenazine

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Tirades delivered after man snaps

Queen Elizabeth's social media uploads (wordplay)

Conservative in battle's making bitter speeches

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

Philter

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""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.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonogram

Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea

Edison's child

CD player's predecessor

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

Certain compounds in DNA

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphene

Phosphide

Phosphine

Phosphite

Phosphore

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Matchmaker's supply

Number 15, Venus anadyomene

Element used in making matches

""The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Photoplay

Copies of a sort.

Certain duplicating machines

Pre-laser print copies

Motion ()

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phototube

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

AMA members

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Physic

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Poisonous to plants.

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

Pickthank

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Pinchbeck

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinwheel

Pipefish

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Planisher

Planish

Places of amusement.

Theatres for the actors from the D?il and Seanad

Theatres where they now indulge in games of bingo

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Plenish

Having the property of pleochroism.

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

""Plushier , plushiest Resembling plush in texture.""

English word

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

They reveal lies in old college charts

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

One versed in various learning.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Polymorph

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

PHENOL a caustic compound

Polyphone

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyptych

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Polythene

Industrial-revolution creations

Poppyhead

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin

Poshness

English word

Posthaste

Like new work from writer, now late

English word

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

PRANKISH mischievous