2-Letter Words Starting with P

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

English word

Litters of the Orient.

To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Paleness

Palimony

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palladium

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETISE

Palletise

PALLETIZE

PALLETIZE

Palletize

Kippers on these? Mostly wan plonkers

Mattresses given by Greek character for collection of complete idiots

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Palliator

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palmation

""Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.""

PALMETTO a tropical tree

Palmitate

Green-trunked shrubs

Palpation

Trembled

Quivered

Palpitate

Palsgrave

The state or quality of being paltry.

Biology ()

Panbroil

Panelling

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Strips of land, as in West Virginia.

Long, narrow regions of Texas and Florida

PANICULATE

Pantalone

Outdated men's wear

Disguise not on, as pal in trousers

Baggy trousers gathered at the ankles

Papilloma

Papillote

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Attorney's aides

Parallax

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

Paralyse

Paralytic

Paralyzer

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

Paramylum

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

PARAPODIA

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

Partly cooking

""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.""

Parbuckle

Parcel

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Spent laser (anagram)

Parfleche

Parflesh

Pargyline

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Like a sudden outburst

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Certain artists.

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

Cantatas on rural themes.

Compositions with rural themes

History/brewed beverages

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Patchouli

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

Pathetic.

Of or relating to pathology.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Patroller

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Asian figwort trees

Pavilion

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Pearlash

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Peculator

Oddly

Peddlery

Pedestal

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

Pedology

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

Pedophile

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pelecypod

Pellagrin

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

PELLETISE

Pelletise

PELLETIZE

PELLETIZE

Pelletize

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Peneplain

Peneplane

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

Jail cells (wordplay)

A plural of penicillium .

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

With remorse.

Pennoncel

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

Penology

Prison warden

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Pentangle

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Penultima

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

Destitute of people.

Percaline

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

PERIHELIA

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

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

PERIKARYA

PERILOUS dangerous

Perilymph

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

Periplast

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Noun (-age)

Changeable

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Personnel

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Petulance

Querulously

Owners of church seats

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)