2-Letter Words Starting with P

Purplish

""An extra amount, also PLUSAGE""

""Pertaining to rain, also PLUVIOUS""

Resembling a {poet=n}

Set at opposite extremes of opinion

Separate group wanting nothing before a hike

Missile with onset of explosion split in two

Divide into two camps

Divide sharply

Cause dissension

Dispute aggressively

A type of {gene=n}

""An animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPE""

A type of {fungus=n}

A cluster of protein particles

Having chromosomes of a certain type

One form of a multiform organism

Relaxing in a cabana chair, maybe

Lifeguard's hangout, perhaps

On a lounge chair, maybe

Like a pope

People as a mass

The inhabitants of an area

Mob's coup plea concocted

Work, you say, in helping people

Fill, as with data

Supply with inhabitants

Laptop perhaps left with expert

Wine expert? Lightweight!

Easy to carry

Circular window in ship

Window on board

Ship's window

Part of A.S.A.P

Not beyond belief

In the running

Fence builder's starting point

Excavation.

Closing musical selection

Closing piece of music

Closing organ music.

""An Indian winter festival, also POTLACH""

""A spayed hen, also POULARD""

Dressing to reduce inflammation

Hot medical dressing

Application to reduce inflammation

Like wet cement

Fit to decant

Like wet concrete

Opening remarks before walk (wordplay)

Introduction before a stroll (wordplay)

A more perfect Union source

In the overture, a note and bar

Rule out in advance

Rule out C found in musical work

Preceding a flame

To place beforehand

To slice beforehand

Likely but not certain

Likely to be the case

Likely to happen but not certain

Slip out of place (medical)

Slide out of place

Slip out of place Med.

Poor glue (anagram)

A novel start (wordplay)

Introductory section (of, eg, a play)

A rope used for pulling a gun carriage

To {proclaim=v}

Portico; lost pyre (anagram)

Greek portico not in amateur fashion

In favour of chic for Greek portico

Able to be demonstrated

Meriting a "Q.E.D."

Capable of being established

Like a rose bush

Prune packed without the skin

Pteryla

Pertaining to {fleas=n}

An agent used for destroying fleas

Like a pump

Learning so to get one in the eye at a time

Weed with pink, fleshy stems.

Weed with pink fleshy stems.

Portulaca plant in salads

{catlike=adj}

""To decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Spangle or sequin

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

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

A salt of palmitic acid.

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

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

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Commedia dell'arte character

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

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

Fish wrapper

""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.""

""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

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

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

A person who has pedophilia.

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

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

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

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

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

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Thin layer of plant tissue

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

Resembling a leaf

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

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

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Salt of carbolic acid

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

English word

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

English word

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Adjective meaning resembling

PLACATE to conciliate

PLACE to assign to a position

""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.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Like some court cases

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Make sibilant, perhaps

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

English word

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

BATTLE to {fight=v}

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Group of clergymen

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

VIABLE capable of living

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

To deliver a Prologue.

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

PUBLIC people as a whole

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Adjective meaning resembling

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

Bodily Functions

Adjective meaning resembling

Capable of being appeased

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

English word

To palatize.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

PANICULATE

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

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

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

Lousy, literally

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

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

99th, for example

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

Eternal, lasting

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

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Noun (-age)

Changeable

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

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

PILFER to {steal=v}

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

English word

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

English word

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Engage in controversy

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored