2-Letter Words Starting with P

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

Pinkish rocks

Pipiness

Evergreen herb

North American plant of the wintergreen family

Piquancy

English word

Piroplasm

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

Pistareen

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Pistoleer

Pistol

Pitapat

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Technique for making people appear as animations

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Pixiness

Placard

Placation

Makes the extra point in football

Gridiron events.

The quality or state of being placid.

Plagiary

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Simple ditties (wordplay)

Simple ditties?

Ambrosian chants.

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Plaister

Planarian

Planation

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Planisher

Planish

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Property of a brain (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Plastisol

Plateau

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Platoon

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Playfield

QB's talent

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Agreeably making a request one at a time

Pleasure

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Plenish

Plenitude

English word

Having the property of pleochroism.

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Pleurisy

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLIANT easily bent

Plication

PLODDING the act of plodding

A little money plus good fortune goes to one's head but gives one courage

Spunk

Tough customers

Plumbery

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Spoliative.

Pillaging

Pluralism

For them living is not enough

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Pluralize

""Plushier , plushiest Resembling plush in texture.""

Plutonium

Pneumonia

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

English word

PODZOLIZE

Podzolize

In a poetic manner.

Poeticism

POETICIZE

Poeticize

Pogromist

Poignance

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Poinciana

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Pointelle

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Pokiness

Polarise

Opposite conditions

Polarize

One drawn to controversy

Engage in controversy

Polemize

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Politesse

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Politico

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Plural or third person singular

See hay fever .

Pollution

Dances seen at carnivals

Noted Chopin compositions

Slow-tempo dances.

Polyamide

Polyamine

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive thirst

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Multiple-marriage customs

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygony

Polygyny

One versed in various learning.

LYSINE an amino acid

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Polypary

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Polypody

Polysemy

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Beating

Pomology

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Poniard

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

PONYTAIL a hair-style

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

Hollowness ratios

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin