2-Letter Words Starting with P

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

Psilocin

Plural or third person singular

Cause of scaling

Target of some shampoos

Dermarest target

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Having a sixth sense

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Psyllium

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Puberty

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

PUBLIC people as a whole

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

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

In a mischievous manner

Puddly

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Birth

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Pulicide

The quality or state of being pulpy.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

A little cushion or pad

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Pummel

Punchy

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

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

Punition

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Pupation

Pupfish

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Adjective meaning resembling

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Purifier

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purpurin

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

State of being pursy.

Purvey

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Irritating quality

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Dawdling

Adjective meaning resembling

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pygmyism

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyrenoid

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

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Some race action

Capable of being appeased

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

""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.""

Paddock

Padlock

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Paganise

Paganizer

Paganize

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Paillette

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

Litters of the Orient.

To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Palimony

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palladium

PALLETISE

Palletise

PALLETIZE

PALLETIZE

Palletize

Kippers on these? Mostly wan plonkers

Mattresses given by Greek character for collection of complete idiots

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Palliator

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palmation

Palmitate

Palpation

Trembled

Quivered

Palpitate

The state or quality of being paltry.

Panbroil

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Some apple pies

Deep-dish apple pies.

Apple treats

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Panelling

Transmission theory accounting for rotary engines keeping in step

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Panicky

PANICULATE

Pansophy

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

In some common women's office attire

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

""Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.""

Papeterie

Papilloma

Papillote

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

""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.""

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Paraffin

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Paragon

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

Paralyse

Paralytic