2-Letter Words Starting with P

Kind of nickel (wordplay)

Epitome of neatness (wordplay)

Terminal access, briefly (wordplay)

Gain prerequisite (wordplay)

Suffering partner (wordplay)

Post-marathon sensation, perhaps

""To beat with a rounded hammer head, also PEEN, PEAN, PENE""

Yaws (the disease)

Yaws (truly!)

First meson discovered

Short-lived particle

Semistable subatomic particle

Reel for yarn

Reel, in Scotland

Bobbin for thread.

A protein compound contained in pus

""A plate, also PATEN""

U.S. Open winner Corey

US Open winner with an even score

US Open champ

City south of Peoria

Duck bred for food

Duck or fabric

Attach to a lapel, say

Attach to a lapel say

Attach, as a name tag (2 words)

In top (anagram)

Alp-climbing gear

Spike to support a climber

Like a nothing bagel (wordplay)

Simple partner (wordplay)

Left in agony? That's evident!

""A chemical compound, also PURINE""

Fellow townsman: Italian.

Prize-winning Italian film.

Fellow countryperson!

Papaya enzyme

A protein-digesting enzyme obtained from unripe papaya fruit

Native of Paros

Designating a fine, white marble

Of a fine white marble.

A sheet of waterproof material

Jam-setting agent

Fruit-jelly substance

Smucker's ingredient

Chewing-gum additive.

Enzyme used by cheesemakers

Enzyme produced in the stomach

Heard bird in basic speech (wordplay)

English of sorts.

Linguistic bridge of sorts

Gull. Yes and no!

Animal that might fly - given time!

Did Homer have a sty on time (wordplay)

Animal spirit of small wooden vessel

Foul territory (wordplay)

Charlie Brown's messy friend (wordplay)

Dust cloud-encircled "Peanuts" character

Restrain with bird's wing (wordplay)

Cogwheel; seize and secure (arms)

O, this may be held by the wing

To become {pink=adj}

System of Chinese transliteration

Chinese transliteration system

Mandarin may thus appear in power, holding office around international city

Nut pine of Europe.

Small earthen pot.

Small earthen boiler

Small, earthen pot

Dickensian number from Orange (wordplay)

Hobbit, friend of 1 across

It had 1,944 Broadway performances

Jerry Stackhouse, for one

Grant Hill, for one

Found in cylinder and brake caliper

Collier's shorthand

Inventor of phonetic shorthand system.

Miner's shorthand

Members of U. M. W.

Coal extractors

Coal miners

Arsenic, for one

Damaging stuff - drink (wordplay)

One idea for one across

Type of fabric

Strong plain-woven fabric

Finely corded shirt fabric

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSTEEN, POSHTEEN""

Drink, maybe medicinal

Drink for a spell (wordplay)

Drink, maybe philtre

Attica, for one

Newgate, for one

Sentence structure (wordplay)

Substance occurring as pigment in butterfly wings

Medicinal drink; pintas (anagram)

Medicinal drink made from barley

Barley water

Little smoke maybe at home for flier

Seabird (breathin' heavily?)

Bird almost out of breath (wordplay)

A {pumpkin=n}

One stitch in one beam

Sounds as if an oyster has one with a beam

To {agree=v}

Heroic knight - aid plan (anagram)

Is the boy in pain? That's champion!

"Have Gun Will Travel" hero

A prostitute

Feeling strong (wordplay)

One gets the feeling there's a lot of it

That's strong, by the feel of it

Louisiana (with "state")

Nice pal (anagram)

Bird crossing the road (wordplay)

Indian food similar to K-rations

Write about mineral in food

Training note: 'Preserve emergency rations!'

King or emperor, perhaps

King or emperor (wordplay)

1 across? That's for the birds!

Retiree's income, maybe

Reward when the job is done (wordplay)

Plan for retirement (wordplay)

""A crustacean's thorax, also PERAEON, PEREON""

Angle of 360 degrees

360 degree angle

Angle of 360

Be related or applicable (to something)

Painter (anagram) - relate (to)

Be relevant (to)

""A chemical compound, also PICOLINE""

Dr. Moreau's football (wordplay)

Boars, hogs, etc. (wordplay)

Type of leather

Old-time soldier.

Old infantry soldier

Infantry soldier of old

Soldiers of old

Old type of soldiers.

Long ago soldiers

Where one holds the driver!

Cushion behind a saddle.

Tablet, one on seat behind driver

East European dumplings

Blood enzyme

Articulation of a speech sound, k, p or t.

Rainy.

""An upland swamp, also POCOSEN, POCOSON""

Left one on allotment

Serving last of lager in brew

The wine gets charged, just a bit

Enzyme, for one

Albumin, for one

A body chemical; pointer (anagram)

Disease (var)

Class of organic alkaloids.

Poisonous alkaloid.

Salivary enzyme

Salivary enzyme

Propulsion

Peter, Peter's diet

Large type of gourd

Large orange fruit of the squash family

Train up (anagram)

Cromwell, for one

Increase Mather, for example

Take the wrong way (wordplay)

Make off with

Nick largely untouched cut of meat

Bulletin board item, perhaps

Item akin to a thumbtack

Bulletin board sticker

""A hermit crab, also PAGURID""

A chemical compound

Scaly anteater - a long pin (anagram)

Pain long-suffering creature has

Long-tailed scaly anteater.

Small cup

Charriere's dog (wordplay)

1973 McQueen/Hoffman film

Devil's Island escapee

Resembling a {papyrus=n}

Preservative coating material.

Nuisance about airmen needing fine oil

Fuel smell returns to soldier

In Sparta (anagram)

Arts pain (anagram)

Prejudiced to one side

""An adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTISAN""

An oily liquid obtained from fish

Cricket ground clubhouse

Park picnic place

Players can pop in here for a change

The bell of a wind instrument

Worcester Conference chief (wordplay)

Fruit of the sea (wordplay)

Fruit that's most important: apple

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Jerky cousin (wordplay)

Native American dried-meat concoction

Staple of old Arctic explorers

Type of falcon variable

Type of falcon Var.

Type of spring tide

Like very close passage, as with fabled flyer going by wild cherry

Amendment impetus, maybe

Request (often by many)

Request, maybe signed by many

A chemical compound

A poisonous gas

A chemical compound

Alternative to "rapscallion!"

Pirate ship

Pirate perhaps still gets broken oar working

Certain major leaguer in ads (wordplay)

Jim Palmer in TV ads (wordplay)

Billy Mays, notably

Pitchman

Basketball center, for example

Basketball center, at times

One playing under the hoop, often

Pivotman

Pal at inn (anagram)

A hollow nut found in ordinary fruit

Firmly fix one in fruit

Non-U (wordplay)

Of the common people

Vulgar 'bleep' in a broadcast

A type of vacuum tube

Soldier at the head of a patrol

Go-to person

Forefront figure

Pointman

It for one has a place in a broken spoon

Is it one place in the spoon (wordplay)

With it I have a place in 16 across

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Bartender's product

One can swig a pint, too

Drink - a magical one ensnaring volunteers

Discipline beforehand.

A union beforehand

""Phallic, also PRIAPIC""

Next (French)

""Nearest in time, relation or degree, also PROCHAIN""

A simple protein

A simple protein

In behalf of organized labor

Like a Teamster, presumably

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

One who'd give you wallop (wordplay)

Man behind bars (wordplay)

British tavern keeper

Punishment

The act of {pupating=v}

A reddish dye

Shoulder-borne litter for one person

Box carried on poles

Scheme to kidnap adult one of five in litter

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

The act of perfusing.

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Geologic process of erosion

Fold.

Plutonic.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

A prelude or introduction.

An idea arrived at beforehand.

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

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

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

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.

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

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

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

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

A mere point about saturation

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

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced