2-Letter Words Starting with P

Fenced in

Raised stakes (wordplay)

Fences of stakes

Strong fences for defence

Theatrical element (wordplay)

London theatre element

Element; London theatre

PALLAE palla

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

Round armor plate.

Round armor plates.

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

Palliate

With pressure everything I chewed in the end disintegrates and softens

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

In a palmate manner.

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

Leaf shapes used decoratively

Tropical trees

Reading between the lines!

Handyman's work (wordplay)

Method of fortune-telling

A salt of palmitic acid.

Palmitin

Cream-colored horses

California's "golden" horses.

Mr. Ed and family

State tree of Ariz.

Palpate

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Palpator

Palpebra

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Trembling? Drink up and gasp swallowing vermouth

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Palterer

Palter

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Paludism

Waiting-room reading

Small booklets

Publications that are rarely bound to sell

Long, thin cigars

Slim open-ended cigars

Long slender cigars

Panbroil

Paneling

Quiz show judges

Game show group

*New Haven alums

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

Heather below window beginning to level part of wall (wordplay)

Spanish cigars.

World's most trafficked mammals

Scaly anteaters

Certain anteaters

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Equipped as a knight of yore.

Equipped for a raid, by the sound of it

Metal suits vessel, then nothing works

Suits of armor

Splendid arrays

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

Once-modish frills.

Ruffled drawers

Commedia dell'arte character

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

Pantofle

Lacking printed news

Like the modern computerised office with bare walls (wordplay)

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""

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

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Papillon

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

Fish wrapper

Bowl-shaped antennas

Certain conic sections

Graded curves in math class

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Their line is never to go to the meeting

They'll never meet real palls like these

Lines of latitude

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Paralyse

Loss of the ability to move

That will keep the lays still in Paris

Inability to act/function

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Immobilized

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Paralyze

""A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.""

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

""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.""

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Allotted, British style

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

English word

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Recreational spaces

Idioms

Letting ride, as at the track

Conferee, as at San Francisco and Ottawa

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

PARLOUS dangerous

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

Containing parsley

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

Parvolin

Pashalic

Pashalik

A book of the saints and martyrs

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Poems about country life

Former Ph.D. tests

Big name in 19th-century fur trading

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Pauldron

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

State fair structures

Park shelters

Summerhouses

Pavillon

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy...

PEACE to be or become silent

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pebbly

In a peccant manner.

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Pedalfer

Foot keyboards

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

Cycles round established bases

Stands deep and lasts

Supporters must turn round past Leeds

Pedipalp

Pedlary

Pedlery

PEDOCAL a type of soil

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

A person who has pedophilia.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Peduncle

Spy circles (wordplay)

Spy rings (wordplay)

Lookout spots (wordplay)

Model veils hype in a petulant way

With ill temper

Around six, he yelps about in a petulant way

A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.

Pelerine

Pellagra

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Pellet

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

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

Pellicle

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Pellmell

Pelorus

Pelter

Pemoline

Subjected to punishment

Put at a disadvantage

Peru deals in Scotch - is made to pay for it

Fines little boy interfering with organs

Docked

Puts in a box, maybe

Puts in a box, perhaps

Subjects to punishment

Spot the deciders!

They can cause a spot of bother!

Football rule-breaking punishments

Penciler

""The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. as, delicate penciling in a picture.""

Drew with graphite

Suspended writer, awfully loud American

Swinging freely

Hanging loosely

Parts of metronomes.

Parts of grandfather clocks.

Moving clock parts

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

A nearly flat land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion.

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Penlight

Simple Simon's status

Skint, without a cent

Write to Ulster, minus broke

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

Penoncel

In a pensive manner.

Tarot suit

Occult stars

Esoteric symbols

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Pentanol

Penuchle

Penuckle

Same as Penult. Penult.

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

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

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Periblem

Thin layer of plant tissue

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

Peril

Perilune

""The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.""

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

In a quandary

Mystify writer at sea

In puzzlement

Exercises, then watches different second throws

Puzzles.

Baffles

Back-of-magazine feature

Certain classifieds

Newspaper items

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

Pesthole

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

Resembling a leaf

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

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

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple