2-Letter Words Starting with P

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Psilocin

Psoralen

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

Ptomaine

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

The quality or state of being pulpy.

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Pummel

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Punchy

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Punition

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Pupation

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Purpose

Purpurin

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

State of being pursy.

Salad plants

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

Purvey

Pushdown

Irritating quality

Gone to the bad

Dawdling

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Pungent liquids

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Pyronine

Pyroxene

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)

Some race action

Pachytene

Packness

Paddock

Padlock

Adjective (-ic)

Paganise

Paganizer

Paganize

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

Litters of the Orient.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Paleness

Palimony

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

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

Palmation

Palpation

The state or quality of being paltry.

Biology ()

Panbroil

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pancreas

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Pandanus

Some apple pies

Deep-dish apple pies.

Apple treats

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Panelling

Sweet loaves on Christmas tables (PA)

Fruity Italian breads

Italian sweet breads

PANGENES pangene

Transmission theory accounting for rotary engines keeping in step

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

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

Panicky

PANICULATE

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Pansophy

Pantalone

Outdated men's wear

Disguise not on, as pal in trousers

Baggy trousers gathered at the ankles

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

In some common women's office attire

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Not hardcover

""Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.""

Paraffin

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Paragon

Paralyse

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

Parathion

Partly cooking

Parcel

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Parentage

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parenting

Spent laser (anagram)

Parget

Pargyline

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

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

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Fares going up on flights (wordplay)

Go by the greens (wordplay)

1 across is not expressly for them

Having to go by Ireland, 'e's perching with them

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

Pastedown

Pastness

Non-uniform quality

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

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Patient

Patinate

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Patinize

Patrician

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Asian figwort trees

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off