2-Letter Words Starting with P

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

Precheck

Prechill

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Preheater

Oven-ready act

Warming up

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Early primate

Prepunch

Prepunch

Preschool

Preshape

Preshow

Preshrink

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

Prewash

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

""A male member of a royal family other than the monarch, especially a son of the monarch.""

Printhead

Priorship

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Prophecy

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A prophet.

Forecasts

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

""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.""

""The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Early ancestor (wordplay)

Having the same metabolic capabilities and nutritional requirements as the wild type parent strain: prototrophic bacteria.

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

English word

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Psychotic

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Punchball

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

Hound minorities (wordplay)

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

Putschist

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyrethrin

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyrethrum

PYROPE a variety of garnet

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

Evergreen ground cover

Packthread

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Paragraph

Writer of news items for newspapers

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

One who paraphrases.

Shortens a sentence, say

Waste not and want not

Expresses in different words.

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

Parenthood

""Body, Human , Perception""

""Body, Human , Perception""

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Pasticheur

Pastorship

Patchboard

Patchouly

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Pemphigus

Penmanship

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Peoplehood

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Keyboard, monitor, mouse and other devices

Surrounding spaces

Periphrase

Use of circumlocution

Circumlocutory speech

Roundabout expression

Periphyton

Some refrigerator contents

They won't keep his beer pals in order

Grocery items

PERITHECIA

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Permethrin

Personhood

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

""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

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

Phanerogam

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

Self-righteously hypocritical

Pharisaism

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phelloderm

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocopy

Phenocryst

Phenology

Sports prodigies

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

Philately

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

I insist help is required to reform such vulgar people

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Philology

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Philosophe

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

Plural or third person singular

Phlebogram

Phlogiston

Phlogopite

Adjective meaning resembling

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Phoniness

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

Phonology

One versed in phonology.

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Relating to one element

Phosphoryl

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

Photoflood

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

PHOTOIONIZE