2-Letter Words Starting with P

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

PARAPODIA

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

English word

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Like fleas and ticks

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathion

Partly cooking

Parcel

Paregoric

Parenting

Parget

Pargyline

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Parritch

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Having to go by Ireland, 'e's perching with them

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

PASSIVATE

Passivate

Passivism

Passivist

Certain artists.

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

Pasticcio

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

Non-uniform quality

Patchouli

Pathetic.

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Patient

Patinate

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Patinize

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Chefs in a bakery

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Asian figwort trees

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

Pauperism

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pauperize

Paupiette

Pavilion

Post-treaty periods

Peacocky

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEACOCK to strut vainly

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Peccancy

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Oddly

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Pedagogy

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Peddlery

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Pedology

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

Pedophile

""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.

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pellagrin

PELLETISE

Pelletise

PELLETIZE

PELLETIZE

Pelletize

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Peneplain

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

A plural of penicillium .

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

Penitence

With remorse.

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Penology

Prison warden

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Retired employees

Retired folk.

Some retirees

Pension

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Pentoxide

Penultima

Peperomia

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Pepperoni

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Peptidase

Percaline

Perceiver

Perceive

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Showing acute insight

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Perdition

Peregrine

Pereiopod

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusion

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

Rock containing olivine

Perigyny

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

PERIHELIA

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

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

PERIKARYA

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

PERILOUS dangerous

Perilymph

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Peripety