2-Letter Words Starting with P

One that eats Comb form

One that eats Comb. form

Eater Comb form

Terrible Twos, for one

Crescent moon for one

Moon unit (wordplay)

Cell for one

Cell, for one

Cellular item (wordplay)

Athenian political subdivision

Outer moon of Saturn

Fleabag star Waller-Bridge

Personification of the moon as satellite

Saying Rex is in bad shape

Word (in a particular way)

"No pain, no gain," for one

Phyle

Ha! Fooled you!

Is your soul with Cupid (wordplay)

Somewhat tipsy (cheeky, mind)

Style of pain, but not one, another!

Harshly criticise long dash

Goat god longing for real style

""A coarse Mexican sugar, also PANOCHA""

""A fudge-like candy, also PENUCHE, PENUCHI""

Kind of fudge

Fudgelike candy

Candy.

A salt of carbolic acid

Brit's love potion

A potion for Tristram.

Soft grip has to do with love potion

Pertaining to seals

Utter vocal sounds; one path (anagram)

Use the voice

Vocalize

Part of speech (wordplay)

Figure of speech (wordplay)

Basic linguistic unit

An insecticide

A chemical compound

Source of a slow leak, perhaps

Homemade camera feature

Kind of camera.

""An evil spell, also PISHOGUE""

A plank

Rocky road component (wordplay)

Kink of the road (wordplay)

Producer of a blowout, maybe

Large vase Fr.

Covered vase

Please - tip here (anagram)

Please! (Old English)

Medieval "I pray thee."

""Used to express a request, also PRITHEE""

Basaltic lava that's smoother than aa

Aa's lava counterpart *

Hardened lava with a smooth undulating shiny surface

Chap's tie (anagram)

It's cheap (anagram)

Artistic work in someone else's style

Lookout point (wordplay)

Tom's aperture (wordplay)

Aperture of a sort.

""A card game, also PINOCHLE, PENUCKLE, PINOCLE""

A place liable to epidemic disease

A bone of the finger or toe.

Bone of a finger.

Bone of the hand or foot

Air sheep (anagram)

Strict follower of Jewish law

Hypocritical Biblical official

World War I chemical weapon

Gas used in making glass and plastics

Gas used in W. W. I

A foliated rock

A flattened petiole that serves as a leaf

A leaf of a plant

Shape and size of a person's body

Pride of Mr. Universe

Gym rat's pride

Double-decker (wordplay)

Game akin to bezique.

Game with only nines through aces

""An evil spell, also PISHOGE""

A shade of green

A semi-arid region

Circular window in ship

Window on board

Ship's window

Fence builder's starting point

Excavation.

False hair

Is it you that is in a position to make a pub (wordplay)

""An Indian winter festival, also POTLACH""

To shape beforehand

A form of virus

The first stage in mitosis

Rock composed of pebbles (geol.)

Acquire grip (wordplay)

Buy tea in container for cash

How Alaska was acquired from Russia.

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

""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.""

A person who has pedophilia.

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

Petechia

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

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

English word

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

English word

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

""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.""

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

""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.""

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

""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.""

Sensor in a CD player

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

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

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

""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

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Able to grasp - her in sleep (anagram)

Adjective for a kinkajou's tail.

Adapted for grasping

English word

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

""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.""

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

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

""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

Adjective meaning resembling

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

Adjective meaning resembling

""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.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

PHOTOIONIZE

English word

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

(Of a price) excessively high

(Of price) excessively high

I have bar first excessively high

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

On the market

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

PANTOTHENATE

English word

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

One way to reproduce a picture

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

PHOTOLYZE

Composite picture

PHOTOOXIDIZE

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

See plant hormone .

Video communication device

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

""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.""

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

""A drug, C 17 H 25 N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP.""

English word

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

""An essential amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 2 , that occurs as a constituent of many proteins and is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body. It is necessary for growth in infants and for nitrogen equilibrium in adults.""

""An adrenergic drug, C 9 H 13 NO 2 , that is a powerful vasoconstrictor and is used to relieve nasal congestion, dilate the pupils, and maintain blood pressure during anesthesia.""

English word

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.

An enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate.

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

Adjective (-ive)

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

Biology Drawn to light; exhibiting a positive phototactic or phototropic response.

PHOTOSYNTHATE

""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.""

One of the Pneumonophora.

Emulate Freud

""A drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

PHOTODUPLICATE

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""