2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pavilion

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEAKED peak

Peccancy

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Pedicure

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pellagrin

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Peneplain

Peneplane

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

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

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Penetrant

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Imbues; steeps

Affects deeply

Enters.

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

Penitence

With remorse.

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Pennoncel

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.penny cress.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pennywort

Penology

Prison warden

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Retired employees

Retired folk.

Some retirees

Pension

Penstemon

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Pentangle

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Places to live the high life (wordplay)

Many of Trump's tops (wordplay)

Confined quarters (wordplay)

Pentoxide

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Penultima

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Pepperoni

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Percaline

Perceive

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

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

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Showing acute insight

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Perdition

Peregrine

PERENNATE

Perennate

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusion

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

Perigyny

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

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

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Permit

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

Peroxide

Perpend

Very strange

Discombobulating

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

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Continuing to exist

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Individual dates of birth of celebrities

Illustrious people

V.I.P.'s

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Personnel

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Pertness

Perturb

Pervasion

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Pervert

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Petulance

Querulously

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

A plant that produces seeds.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Phasedown

Phellogen

Phelonion

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

Phenazine

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

Philter

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonogram

Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea

Edison's child

CD player's predecessor

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

Phosphene

Phosphine

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

AMA members

Physic

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Picaroon

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Pickaroon

Pickeer

Pickthank

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Alfresco enjoyment

Gets a bite lying on the grass with a royal garden party host (wordplay)

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

PIDGINIZE

Pidginize

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

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.