2-Letter Words Starting with P

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Pastiness

lamb's place

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Benevolent despot

Paternity

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Patination

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Patrimony

Patroness

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronymic

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

Peasantry

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDUNCULATE

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Pencilling

Pendentive

Penetrance

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

Penicillin

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

Of or pertaining to penology.

Ones looking at sentences

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

PENSIONE a boarding house

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

Pentagonal

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Pentstemon

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Penurious

Peppercorn

""Of, containing, or resembling pepper; sharp or pungent in flavor.""

Breath-freshening candies

Oil-yielding herbs

Pungent plants.

""PEPPERMINT An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.""

Peppiness

Pepsinogen

Portions

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

One's ways of conceiving things

Acute insight

Percipient

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

Gradual filtration

Percussion

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

PERENNATE

PERENNATE

In a perennial manner.

Perfection

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Perinatal

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma. Epineurium, and Neurilemma.""

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Periphyton

Peritoneum

Plural or third person singular

Is it not ripe for treatment (wordplay)

To inspire it might result in inflammation

Complaint malevolent being has to protest about

Periwinkle

Perkiness

Permanence

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permethrin

Permission

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Subjectivity

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Monogram, maybe

Acting a part.

Act of mimicry

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personator

Personhood

Stood for

Embodied

One who personifies.

Personify

Persuasion

Stubbornness

Pertinence

Pertinent

Perversion

Pestilence

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Supplicatory; making a petition.

Redress seekers

Folk making request? No respite, it could possibly appear

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

Pettiness

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Petulancy

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

Phanerogam

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocopy

Phenocryst

Phenology

Sports prodigies

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

I insist help is required to reform such vulgar people

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Phlogiston

Adjective meaning resembling

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Phoniness

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

Phonology

One versed in phonology.

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOLYZE

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phylogeny

Cast of one's features

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Pianissimo

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaninny

Picaroon

Picosecond

Picrotoxin

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Puts into small compartments

Classifies

Compartmentalizes.

Pigeonwing