2-Letter Words Starting with P

Something for purse or pocket.

Writes to Bowie for the scout

Small folding pocket blade

A boarding house

The sound of the sea (wordplay)

Make out, discern

Catch sight of.

Extract from a book

The point at which a celestial body is nearest to the moon

Bleach (for hair)

Blonde aid (wordplay)

Blonde maker, maybe

Feel the heat, perhaps

Sweat (as a lady does?)

Get worked up (wordplay)

Leafy, as certain flowers.

Pfennig

Air sheep (anagram)

Strict follower of Jewish law

Hypocritical Biblical official

A foliated rock

Shape and size of a person's body

Pride of Mr. Universe

Gym rat's pride

Too small for notice.

Of little account

Insignificant or petty

""A chemical compound, also PICOLIN""

One trillionth of a mole

Fee for work that's sky-high!

Guide's fee

(Fee for) bringing a ship into harbour

Name of stage fame

Sort of apron

This bit of the stage Navy is so wearing

Fir coat feature (wordplay)

Fruit of a tree.

Souvenir of Maine woods.

Resembling pine

The top pub in the place, perhaps

The highest point, say of fame

Highest point (of fame or building)

Pinnula

Double-decker (wordplay)

Game akin to bezique.

Game with only nines through aces

Little draughts - that's about the end!

Very small, but not small beer

Small matter of great concern to CAMRA

Like a pipe

Channel of conveyance

Channel whereby information is conveyed.

Alaska tour sight

A chemical compound

Piscina

""An evil spell, also PISHOGE""

""A limestone with pea sized formations in circles, also PISOLITH""

A shade of green

Pathetic theatrical part I fit

Bite a lip nervously, arousing sympathy

Poor and holy, albeit dancing around

A cent tip, perhaps!

Perhaps holiness is not worth much

Inadequate amount (of money)

Expressing praise

Resembling a theatrical performance

When the show must go on - what fun!

Recess, for one

Part of a child's day.

""A rubber-soled cloth shoe, also PLIMSOLL, PLIMSOL""

Purplish

""Pertaining to rain, also PLUVIOUS""

Resembling a {poet=n}

Set at opposite extremes of opinion

Separate group wanting nothing before a hike

Missile with onset of explosion split in two

Divide into two camps

Divide sharply

Cause dissension

Dispute aggressively

""An animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPE""

Relaxing in a cabana chair, maybe

Lifeguard's hangout, perhaps

On a lounge chair, maybe

Like a pope

Sea-creature I propose doctoring!

Victim of a drift net

Playful sea creature

Something for breakfast time (wordplay)

Cereal offender often does it!

For breakfast in prison (wordplay)

Curtain in a doorway

Old-fashioned substitute for a door.

Curtain has small hole - outside layer

Sure is optimistic!

Definite sign of an increase

Certain, confident in opinion

Part of A.S.A.P

Not beyond belief

In the running

Following a dive

False hair

""An imitation, also POSTICHE""

Dressing to reduce inflammation

Hot medical dressing

Application to reduce inflammation

It makes perfect, they say

Perfect maker (wordplay)

Become perfect, perhaps.

Be engaged in (profession)

Rehearse scene in lift

Rehearse Eric and Pat's arrangement

""A legal writ, also PRECIPE""

Postquarantine permission to use a port

Sailor returns in a huff, needing permission to enter port

Mere pier (anagram)

First showing of a film

First ever public performance

Noted name in book publishing

It would cost about ten to have one indentured of old like this

To price beforehand

Wet before washing, maybe

Prepare for the dishwasher, perhaps

Wash lightly in advance

To slice beforehand

Collapsed spire - get standing!

Standing the pig with the steer

Succes d'estime

To unite beforehand

Strait-laced girl's flower (wordplay)

Flower that makes proper wine (wordplay)

Flower on a pleasant path (wordplay)

Brother of an Infanta.

Abbot's assistant's office

Office of a certain religious leader

Office of the head of an abbey

A chemical compound

Pure - tire spin (anagram)

Is Pinter play unused (wordplay)

Fresh and clean as if new

Old-time dental anesthetic

Dentist's anesthetic

Dental anesthetic

Beneficiary, of sorts

Contract law figure

Party to a promissory note.

""A nitrogenous organic compound, also PROTEIN, PROTEID""

Ontario, for one

Backing Cable's department (wordplay)

Munster or Leinster, say

Covered with whitish dust, as a plant

Pam times processing of sandstone

A general term for sandstone

Rock composed of pebbles (geol.)

Pain to me (anagram)

Food poisoning from a pimento (wordplay)

Food poisoning cause

Pertaining to {fleas=n}

An agent used for destroying fleas

A porous volcanic rock

Like a pump

Kind of damages, in law

Intended to inflict punishment

Inflicting penalty for an offence

Learning so to get one in the eye at a time

{catlike=adj}

Supposed - tie up vat (anagram)

Commonly accepted as such

Supposed or reputed to be

A flammable liquid

A dye

Spangle or sequin

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

A salt of palmitic acid.

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

English word

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

A person who has pedophilia.

Granite

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Tavern owner, for example

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Resembling a leaf

Petechia

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

See phenolate .

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

To picture.

PIDGIN a mixed language

Type of mathematical function

English word

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

English word

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Adjective meaning resembling

PLACATE to conciliate

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

Make sibilant, perhaps

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Keen emotion

English word

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Portable.

Gratuity, to Gregoire

Tip at a boite

15 per cent of the check

Word with prefix pre-

(Overhang of) steep cliff

Overhanging cliff or rock face

High vertical cliff

To define beforehand.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

STRIKE to {hit=v}

In grammar, the past tense

Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3

Expressing past time.

VIABLE capable of living

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

To deliver a Prologue.

Tending to advance

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!