2-Letter Words Starting with P

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Infantry formations

Pan has leg to remodel - and parts of fingers

Toes*

Groups of similar things

Military units

Infantry formations

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Phallism

Phallist

Phallus

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

Phenetol

Salt of carbolic acid

Phenolic

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Philabeg

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Philibeg

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

Land in ancient Palestine

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Philomel

Philter

Philtre

Complaint when hip belt is adjusted

Inflammation of a leg vein

Inflammation of a vein

Phlegmy

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

Study of speech sounds

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

English word

Waldo Salt supply

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

Phthalin

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Phyllite

Phyllode

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Phylloid

Phyllome

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Physical

Pickadil

Fresh-water fish

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Picloram

Picoline

Picomole

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Pieplant

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Pignolia

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Roof-truss supports.

Rectangular columns

Architectural columns

Fish and chips cooked with lard

Pilewort

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Pilferer

Pilfer

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Huns, for example

Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer

The medicine is gettint too old, so it's robbery

It's robbery when the medicine is getting too old

Pillar

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

They held people in ridicule

Exposes to public scorn

Pillow

Pilotage

Piloting

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Bohemian beers

The Scarlet - (Orczy)

Leslie Howard's was scarlet

(Scarlet) plant of the primrose family

Pimply

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

Pineland

Pinfold

Having spires

They're tops

Clan possibly hidden among trees and peaks

In places the pub in there is in places right at the top

In a pinnate manner.

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Pontiac options (wordplay)

Childhood toys rotated by the wind

Spinning toys

Sent from Alaska, perhaps

Transported, as gas

Channels of information

The Big Inch and others

Channels of info

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

In a stimulating way.

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

See babesia .

Pisolite

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Pistol

English word

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

PITYING pity

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Adjective meaning resembling

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

PLACE to assign to a position

Placebo

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

Having no place or office.

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

Unpretentious quality

Simplicity

The headland at the end of the flat land is without much beauty

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

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Plaister

Braids

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Planaria

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

Planish

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

Hammers metal to smoothness

Planking

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Exercises in logistics.

Planosol

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

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

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Plashy

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

Plasmoid

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plastron

Plastrum

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Important parts of blood.

Certain cell fragments

Coagulant bodies in the blood

Adjective meaning resembling

Plateful

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Platinum

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Platoon

PLATY a small tropical fish

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Playdown

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Playland

Queued-up songs

Deejays consult them

Custom-made iPod compilations

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Recreation places

Nursery areas

Toddler's wardrobe

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Playtime

Pleach