2-Letter Words Starting with P

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Periplast

Kind of peepholes

U-boat features

Viewing on all sides

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Peristome

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

PERIWIG a wig

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

PERJURE to make a perjurer of

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Noun (-age)

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Perpend

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Persister

Continuing to exist

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Perturb

Pervasion

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Pervert

Pessimism

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

""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.""

See Phallism. Phallism.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Phelonion

""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.""

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

Phenazine

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Tirades delivered after man snaps

Queen Elizabeth's social media uploads (wordplay)

Conservative in battle's making bitter speeches

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

Philter

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""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.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphide

Phosphine

Phosphite

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Sensor in a CD player

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phrensy

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

AMA members

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Physic

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Poisonous to plants.

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Picaroon

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

Mustard relish (by Marilynne Robinson)

Select a flower aloud with relish

Pickle with mustard and spices

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Pickaback

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Pickaroon

Pickeer

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Alfresco enjoyment

Gets a bite lying on the grass with a royal garden party host (wordplay)

Picofarad

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

PIDGINIZE

Pidginize

Piecework

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Pigeonite

""A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.""

Hauls truck trailers on freight cars

Treats for children.

Having color

Pigment

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Pilgarlic

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

PILLAR to supply with vertical building supports

Pillory

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Purple-tinged flowers

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

Pinchbeck

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Cake or pizza toppings

Exports from San Juan.

Hand grenades, to a G.I.

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinfold

Pingrass

Pinkness

Pinnacle

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Pinwheel

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

Pipefish

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""