2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pigeonite

""A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.""

Having color

Pigment

Pillory

Purple-tinged flowers

Adjective meaning resembling

Pinchbeck

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Cake or pizza toppings

Exports from San Juan.

Hand grenades, to a G.I.

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinfold

Pingrass

Pinkness

Pinnacle

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Pinwheel

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

Pinkish rocks

Pipiness

Piquancy

Pistareen

Pistol

English word

English word

Technique for making people appear as animations

Pixiness

Placard

Placation

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Placental

The quality or state of being placid.

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Simple ditties (wordplay)

Simple ditties?

Ambrosian chants.

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Planarian

Planation

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Planeload

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

PLANGENT resounding loudly

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Planisher

Planish

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

PLANLESS without a plan

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

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

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Plateau

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Platoon

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

QB's talent

Toys.

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Pleasance

Pleasant

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

Pleasure

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

Plenish

Plenitude

English word

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

PLIANT easily bent

Plication

PLODDING the act of plodding

A little money plus good fortune goes to one's head but gives one courage

Spunk

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Plunderer

Spoliative.

Pillaging

PLUNDER to rob by force

""Plushier , plushiest Resembling plush in texture.""

Plutonium

Pneumonia

Poignance

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Poinciana

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Pointelle

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Pokiness

Polarise

Polarize

Polemize

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Plural or third person singular

See hay fever .

Smoke, waste chemicals, etc.

Pollution

Dances seen at carnivals

Noted Chopin compositions

Slow-tempo dances.

Polyamine

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

Polygony

Polygonum

Polygyny

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

LYSINE an amino acid

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

PHENOL a caustic compound

Polyphone

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyteny

Polythene

Multivalent.

Beating

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Ponderosa

Poniard

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Poorness

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

The quality of being porous.

Porphyrin

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Portion

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Poshness

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Having groups of friends, sign off

Having power over gangs, turn informer

Having power over Eoin speaking in Gulf

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

Postfix

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

Present participle or gerund

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Those who prefer suspense (wordplay)

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

English word

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

Postsync

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Pourpoint

Pozzolana

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)