2-Letter Words Starting with P

Eschew wallpaper, maybe

Finish a basement, perhaps

Cel block (wordplay)

Pen-based (wordplay)

Designed to teach a hard lesson maybe

Designed to teach a hard lesson, maybe

As much as can be cooked on a hob

Cook's quantity, sometimes

Cook's quantity

Change Luxembourg flag

Narrow flag.

If Cato had one, was it blue (wordplay)

Number 2, for one

One holding lead throughout (wordplay)

Pertaining to a {penis=n}

""A small pennon, also PENSEL""

Alkyl with five carbon atoms

Organic compound; no help (anagram)

Coal-tar derivative

Hospital smell chemical

It's derived from benzene

Group derived from benzene

Derived from benzene

Pertaining to voice.

Of speech sounds

Coney, perhaps, in the ring of a bell

One of the endocrine glands

Conical, in a way

Of part of the ear

Of a feather

""An iron supporting rod used in glassmaking, also PUNTY, PONTIE, PONTILE, PONTY, PUNTEE""

Pert. to pages.

Of a book's leaves

Of leaves, in a way

Agonising facts cut into me

Hard to bear

Distressing father almost completely

A small tuft of hairs

Kind of machine

Slot-machine game

Game played on a sloping field

An {alcohol=n}

Duck with drink trouble (wordplay)

Duck trouble after drink!

Long-necked duck

A unit of force

Situated in front of the anus

Cook on an oilless skillet, say

Cook uncovered over direct heat

A way to cook fish

Mom-and-pop (wordplay)

Having to do with mum or dad (wordplay)

Of mom and dad

Like old man's chum sheltering a seabird

Like Dad's mate embracing a bird

Kind of ancestor

Three men giving support (wordplay)

Supporting the arts, say

Three little boys may be Georgian

Swan formerly on sovereign's banner

An {alcohol=n}

Ringing of bells around Ireland gets one in an erogenous zone

Pertaining to the fibula

Individual; advert (column)

Own no pearls perhaps

Item in the newspaper.

Large-caliber firearm

A volatile liquid

Windblown toy (2 words)

Decoration on a kid's bike

Toy that spins in the wind

Resembling a {piscina=n}

A type of soil

Common to David Seaman and show jumping!

Bobbysoxer hairdo, perhaps

Swinger at a sock hop, say

Situated behind the anus

Over eats (wordplay)

President managed control of dinner

Relating to a meal

Before coming out (wordplay)

Like neo-, but not Ne-Yo (wordplay)

Before making one's debut (wordplay)

Situated in front of the kidneys

A flammable gas

Pertaining to a certain chemical group

Pertaining to the pudendum

Time-sensitive (wordplay)

Arriving on the dot

Bang on time

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

A book of the saints and martyrs

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

The Scarlet - (Orczy)

Leslie Howard's was scarlet

(Scarlet) plant of the primrose family

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Like a category of mammals

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

PARENT to act as father or mother

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Illusory

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

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

PHEROMONE

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

PHENOL a caustic compound

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

PANTROPIC

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

Relating to descent through the male line

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

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Of or pertaining to penology.

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

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Situated behind the cranium.

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

TERMINAL an end

VISIONAL imaginary

Probationary.

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Adjective (-al)

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

PHENOTYPIC

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

PALYNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Adjective (-al)

PERMUTATION The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

Of or pertaining to phrenology.

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""POSTULATION The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

""INDUSTRIAL Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.""

""Inflected form of MENOPAUSAL Inflected form of MENOPAUSE The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change. Change of life, under Change.""

"", Previous to the millennium.""

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.

Out of the ordinary.

Beyond what is normal

Extraordinary and unexplainable

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

""Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.""

""Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. as, a propositional sense.""

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

PALEOBOTANIC

""Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.""

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Astronomy ()

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Of or occurring in the time following menopause.

Happening or existing after the millennium.

Of or pertaining to postposition.

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

""OPERATIONAL of or pertaining to operations; as, operational procedure.as, operational procedure.""

""PRESENTATION The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.""

Here one's suffering from a disturbance of the mind that's ominous

""Of or relating to the phase of the menstrual cycle immediately following ovulation, characterized by secretion of progesterone.""

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Of fossil lore

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

""Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.""

Adjective (-al)

PRESIDENTIAL Presiding or watching over.

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

""PRONUNCIATION The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.""