2-Letter Words Starting with P

Beta carotene, since it can become A

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Psalmody

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

English word

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Psychotic

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Pteridine

Pterygium

Pterygoid

PUBLIC people as a whole

PUBLICISE

Publicise

Publicist

PUBLICIZE

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Puckery

Puerilism

Birth

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Aggressive US cop with a gun, I suspect

*Looking for a fight

Hostile coup is unlikely without a gun being fired

Puissance

Heartbeats

Beats.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

Pulverize

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

Puncture

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Pupillage

Adjective meaning resembling

Puppetry

PURBLIND partially blind

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Purloiner

Purloin

Puromycin

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Putrefy

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Putschist

In a puzzling manner.

One of the Pycnogonida.

Pyelitis

Pyramid

English word

Pyrethrin

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyridoxal

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

Pyrolize

Pyrology

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

Pyrolyze

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Pyromania

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

Pyroxylin

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

Pacemaking

Sports See pacemaker .

Pacifical

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Pacificism

Pacificist

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Palatalize

Natives of Germany.

Palimpsest

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

PALLETISE

Palletizer

PALLETIZE

Palliation

Palliative

Palmistry

""The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.""

Beating with excessive rapidity

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Biology ()

One way to cook meat

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Worshipping many gods

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

The process or craft of making paper.

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Paraboloid

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Drumming staples

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Paraffin

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

The quality or state of being parallel.

Paralogism

Paramecium

Of EMS treatment

PARAMETRIZE

Paramnesia

Paraplegia

Paraplegic

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

Like leeches

PARASITISE

Parasitise

Parasitism

PARASITIZE

Parasitize

Parasitoid

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parcenary

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

""Body, Human , Perception""

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Parotitis

Parquetry

Parsimony

""The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. as, the partibility of an inherttance.""

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Potentially dangling verb forms

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

In a partitive manner.

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.