2-Letter Words Starting with P

Cream-colored horses

California's "golden" horses.

Mr. Ed and family

Palpate

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Trembling? Drink up and gasp swallowing vermouth

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Palter

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Paludism

Mollycoddling sick man with grippe

Panbroil

Landing a plane trickily

Very widespread diseases

Playing to the base

Catering (to)

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Paneling

Quiz show judges

Game show group

*New Haven alums

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

Heather below window beginning to level part of wall (wordplay)

Panfish

Action prone to causing oil spills (wordplay)

World's most trafficked mammals

Scaly anteaters

Certain anteaters

Panicky

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

Random mating within a breeding population.

Panmixia

Pannikin

Equipped as a knight of yore.

Equipped for a raid, by the sound of it

Metal suits vessel, then nothing works

Suits of armor

Splendid arrays

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Readiness to believe in all or many gods

Belief that God is in everyting

Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Some office attire

Two-piece ensembles

Clothing associated with Hillary Clinton

Flash mob (wordplay)

Some shooting stars (wordplay)

Photographers who pursue celebrities

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Papillon

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

20 cents (wordplay)

Measures equivalent to 20 cents (wordplay)

Shining examples

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Places with no problems

Shangri-La and Eden

Eden and others.

Sibelius and Saarinen (wordplay)

Sibelius and Saarinen?

$10 (wordplay)

Parakite

Loss of the ability to move

That will keep the lays still in Paris

Inability to act/function

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Paranoia

Paranoic

Wimpy duo (wordplay)

People with delusions

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Two locations (wordplay)

Spongers/rubber areas (wordplay)

The Sphinx and the Parthenon (wordplay)

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

""The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; opposed to syntax. syntax.""

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

Parawing

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Parchesi

Parchisi

Excusing fellow getting hooked by edge of nail

Excusing

Parecism

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

Ornamental plasterwork

English word

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Letting ride, as at the track

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

Mickey-takers offering censure upset poets

Impressionists in times gone including Rodin? Not quite

Sending up

Sending up staff involved in handing over wages

Burlesquing

Inflammation of the parotid glands.

Parotoid

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Parridge

Mindlessly repeating

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

People who take sides.

Ones taking sides

A sin in bits in bits for the fans

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

Partizan

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Parvolin

Pashalic

Pashalik

Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

A book of the saints and martyrs

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

""The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.""

PASSIVE a verb form

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Perhaps pall, or a sticky state, perhaps

Father's pallor gets Tess around in it

Pall or in the face of it

Pastor

Deli orders

Deli offerings

Pastromi

Pasture

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

Patency

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Patience

Patient

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Patinate

Acquires a green film

Acquires a green coating

Patinize

Patinize

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Sound of rain on the roof

Paucity

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

Paunchy

Pauper

Penury

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

State fair structures

Park shelters

Summerhouses

Pavillon

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pearmain

Pebbly

Peccary

Cheeses made from ewes' milk

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Pectize

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Foot keyboards

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedicure

Jobs in a digital workplace (wordplay)

Treatments for some nails

Foot treatments

PEDIGREE a line of ancestors

Purebred dogs' ancestries

Family trees

AKC concerns

Decorative gables

Portico toppers

If I'm on top of the gables, that would be no help at all quite the contrary

Pedipalp

Pedlary

Pedlery

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

A person who has pedophilia.

Model veils hype in a petulant way

With ill temper

Around six, he yelps about in a petulant way

Granite

Loose dressing gowns

Apres-bain gowns

Gowns that are rarely worn out

Pelerine

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Pellet

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

Pellicle

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Pelter

Pemmican

Pemoline

""A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.""

Pemphix

Subjected to punishment

Put at a disadvantage

Peru deals in Scotch - is made to pay for it

Fines little boy interfering with organs

Docked

Puts in a box, maybe

Puts in a box, perhaps

Subjects to punishment

Spot the deciders!

They can cause a spot of bother!

Football rule-breaking punishments

Penance

Penciler

""The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. as, delicate penciling in a picture.""

Drew with graphite

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.