2-Letter Words Starting with P

"Help me!" for one

Guilty for one

Not guilty, for one

Botswana monetary unit

Grass flower bract

Bract enclosing the flower, in grasses.

Chaffy bract of a floret.

Skirts attached to coats

Flounces on blouses

Waistline attachments

Biology sections (wordplay)

Animal king-dom divisions

Kingdom divisions, in biology

Tops of birds' heads

Tops of birds' heads.

Locales for crests

Del Rey Calif

Zancudo Coast Rica

Beach, on Ibiza

Fountain setting perhaps

Tollbooth area, perhaps

Where Eloise lived (with "The")

Ave Maria gratia

Full, in Spanish

Opposite of vacuums

Groove or fold

Fold of skin

Fold of skin.

Square dance (wordplay)

Beer Barrel for one

Who Stole the Keeshka for one

Turn pale at the Spanish food!

Dish akin to jambalaya

Dish made with saffron

Pallium

""A pimple, also PAPULE""

Bribery of sorts

Income of sorts Slang.

Illegal air fare (wordplay)

Another name for jai alai

Wicker basket used in Spanish game.

Cesta-slung sphere

Bank holding (wordplay)

A psalm (anagram)

Screen type for blood (wordplay)

Chest cavity membrane

Membrane around the lungs

Lung-covering membrane

""Any of various plant lice, also PSYLLID""

A perennial herb

Spanish talk may give friend a support

Friend meeting girl behind tree

City reputedly built by Solomon

Ancient city of 5 dn

Lightweight heavyweight, say

Second-rate boxer

Washed-up pug

Pope hosts hostile minor eminence

Tongue protuberance

Old man dressing badly shows fleshy bulge

A pallet (anagram)

See kneecap in spa, tell Alice!

Bone, steak bone perhaps, found in stew

Peculium

Botanical change

Lag rope (anagram)

Botanical garden structure, perhaps

Vine shaded passageway

An Asian herb

Philtrum

""A pinnate part or organ, also PINNULE""

Hydra to be left with article held by poor Paul

Adjective for pale bluish-gray furs

Grayish-white element: Chem.

Old name for a precious metal.

Stringed instrument pluckers (Var.)

Guitar pickers - carp let (anagram)

Guitar plucking aids

Kickback for good publicity

Paid endorsement, in slang, and an apt title for this puzzle

What's dished out on plate (wordplay)

Cornmeal - on plate (anagram)

Mediterranean meal dished out on plate

""Open water surrounded by sea ice, also POLYNIA""

A type of {virus=n}

Cheese plant (wordplay)

Mixed up marl I needed for plant

Cowslip, perhaps

Propylon

The feathered area on the skin of a bird

Old Greek gymnasium (var.)

Gymnasium or stadium

Gymnasium for Spartan wrestlers

Safeguards

An {eyelid=n}

Smoke that's not thick

Smoke shop choice

Long, slender cigar

Long, thin cigar

Long slender cigar variable

Long slender cigar Var.

Result of plotting, perhaps

Curvy figure (wordplay)

Curve - Arab opal (anagram)

Bright circular spots appearing on a solar halo

All grapeshot causes disease

Niacin-deficiency disease

Gall in pear causes disease on the skin

Phelonion

""The edible seed of nut pines, also PIGNOLI""

Hospital discharge (wordplay)

Starter home (wordplay)

First warm blanket (wordplay)

Freshwater flatworms

Flatworm genus

Flatworm.

'Large, perhaps excessive, amount (8)'

(A) glut (of something)

Large, perhaps excessive, amount

Orchid grain masses

Agglutinated masses of grains of fertilising powder

A flowering plant

Rapid respiration

Excessive urination

Scales of 'Fawlty Towers'

She's breaking rule with dodgy plan

Worsted twill, used for academic gowns.

A plant of the bean family

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

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

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

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

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

Land in ancient Palestine

Suff. ; see collodion .]

""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.""

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Temple entrances

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

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

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

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

A plural of penicillium .

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

English word

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Excessive thirst

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

""A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxill\'91 become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.""

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

Composition on a ground bass

Composition with a repeating ground bass

Composition over a ground bass

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

See cell membrane .

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Literary introductions

English word

Pervasive in the '60s

English word

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

See distemper 1 .

""Of, relating to, or designating any of a group of paramyxoviruses that are similar to the viruses that cause influenza and are associated with various respiratory infections, especially in children.""

Various bits of equipment

Various gear for a certain job

Objects and accessories

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Brain

See phenylthiocarbamide .

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

""Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.""