2-Letter Words Starting with P

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

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

""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.""

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

In a pinnate manner.

In a stimulating way.

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

PITYING pity

PIVOTAL critically important

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

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

Calmness

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Expressiveness

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

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

PLAYFUL full of fun

Numerousness

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

Among the people

POURING the act of pouring

With idle talk; with loquacity.

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)

In the near future

The quality or state of being primal.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Wordiness

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Biology ()

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

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

In a parental manner.

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

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

In a pastoral or rural manner.

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Oddly

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

With remorse.

PERDURE to continue to exist

PERILOUS dangerous

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

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

Querulously

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Without mercy

Cruelly

PLANGENT resounding loudly

PLANLESS without a plan

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

Property of a brain (wordplay)

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Agreeably making a request one at a time

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLODDING the act of plodding

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

In a poetic manner.

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Fit to drink.

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

PRANKISH mischievous

Behavior ()

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Rather

In a meaningful or inventive way

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Before birth

PREPARED prepare

In a premeditated manner.

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

PRIDEFUL full of pride

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

In a profound manner.

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

PUBLIC people as a whole

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PURBLIND partially blind

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

In a puzzling manner.

Pacifical

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

""The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.""

In a paramount manner.

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

""The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. as, the partibility of an inherttance.""

In a partitive manner.

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

PENTAPLOID

Penurious

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

PERCEPT something that is perceived

In a perennial manner.

Perinatal

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

PERMISSIBLE That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Perplexed

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Pertinent

Pervasive

Perverted

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

Gym rat's concern

Pictorial

Pigheaded

Piratical

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Placeless

Plaintive

Astronomy ()

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

In a plastic manner.

A. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

Plenteous

In quantity

Without point.

Poisonous

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

Polemical

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

English word

POLYDACTYL

Polygonal

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

Polytonal

In a ponderous manner.

Easily carried quality

Possessed