2-Letter Words Starting with P

Eagerly long (for)

Be in need of air, perhaps

Have dog breath (wordplay)

Confined (with up)

Repressed (with "up")

Closely confined (with "up")

A positive donation (wordplay)

Ale's well in it (wordplay)

Big hit *t * p*rty (wordplay)

Old currency gamble (wordplay)

Last resort (wordplay)

Joke time in gondola (wordplay)

Primer for one

House coat (wordplay)

Copy Monet (wordplay)

Cab alternative (wordplay)

Wine list selection, perhaps

Wine that's very good (I'm joking!)

Housewarming gift, maybe

Bush, for one

Potted one perhaps

Orient or East maybe (wordplay)

Lift a finger (wordplay)

Use one's index finger, perhaps

Ensure legibility, say

Produce (books, etc)

Fine item (wordplay)

Learned man of India

Title, in India.

Hindu scholar of philosophy and religion

Pop, for one

Say mum and dad split

But soft! A tear for one in the family

Clear case, not egocentric (wordplay)

Register (an invention)

Pending item, perhaps

Ante up (anagram)

Up ante (anagram)

Shell food (wordplay)

Know-it-all, maybe

Tyrannical teacher (wordplay)

Book-smart person

Last but one

Next to the last syllable.

The last but one

Plant zoo animal in den (wordplay)

Relative from Walnut Grove is domesticated by lunatic

Lamentation; charge (law)

Poet's lament

Dirge from one entering works

Venus, for one

Mercury, say, showing level temperature

Vulcan, for one

Flexible factory worker (wordplay)

Good for modeling

Biddable one employed by factory

Western, old style

Top Ten (anagram)

With a kick

Highly narcotic drug several get into

'Meet the Press' guest, maybe

Meet the Press guest, maybe

Expert (sometimes self-appointed)

Small basket (for strawberries)

Small light basket, for strawberries say

Little box (of strawberries?)

What a colourful leaf insect!

Summon worker, perhaps in show

Colourful leaf insect (wordplay)

Complete treatise

Walking, as a heraldic lion.

Part of a chess move

Walking with a forepaw raised Her.

Job description (wordplay)

Person in a gown, perhaps

Job-like (wordplay)

Bill's request (wordplay)

Something not to be missed (wordplay)

Money (for goods)

Worker with vegetables (wordplay)

Some agrarian produce worker, say

Yonder poor chap, who is he (wordplay)

Sinful

Piece of jewelry.

Chandelier or earring

Long to import complete ornament

Suspended writer to make an impression

Hanging gives writer depression

Hanging a writer to make an impression

Baseball league winner's prize

Collegian wall decoration

Emblem for the Yankee Stadium.

Degree of interest (wordplay)

Digits of pie (wordplay)

Word of interest (wordplay)

A large building stone

A grand player, perhaps, from his score

Andre Watts, for one

Billy Joel, for one

Cadmium red, for one

Colour of agricultural workers' shirt!

Colour or dye

Most packed with evergreens

Most like a certain evergreen

Most fragrant of Christmas trees

Most tickled (wordplay)

Tickled the most (wordplay)

Adjective for a carnation.

Pleasantly pungent, stimulating

Pleasantly sharp in taste

Very good fashion designer, sharp

An {ant=n}

Believer that all space is plenum

Vacuist's opposite.

Groundhog's shadow for one

A number in harbour? That's a bad sign!

Handwriting on the wall.

Lead a church choir

Trump losing papers here (wordplay)

Now, which gift is that (wordplay)

In attendance with award (wordplay)

Before opening make check!

Stop (an action)

Stop media manipulation happening!

Cautious and circumspect

Acting with care

Cautious pair, you said, tend to go mad

A crown worn by ancient Egyptian kings

Pulsating

Joke with a bloke - could be spicy!

Acrid; sarcastic (humour)

Sharp chap follows a play on words

Counting the least.

Easiest to beat up

Most like a runt

Punk

Shaman worshiper, for example

Wiccan, for example

Solstice celebrator

Quiz game participant (US spelling)

Discussion-group member

Member of a discussion

Woman's two-piece (wordplay)

A Hillary Clinton signature

Two-piece businesswear

An ornamental vestment

""Spreading, open, also PATULOUS""

Job seekers may pound it

Walkway by road

What Americans call sidewalk

Structure atop a portico

Triangular space over porch etc

Classical triangular gable

Fondness (for) - bias (towards)

Fondness for 5 (wordplay)

Strong liking (for)

Teen pint (anagram)

Expressing sorrow for one's sins

Ready to atone.

Assistance in finding a keyhole, maybe

Illuminator in a shirt pocket, perhaps

After-dark convenience

Bic's writing end

Ink flow site

Ink spot

Saturating.

Peevish, inclined to complain

Prone to pique

Favourite aunt left in tizzy, irritable

""An impractical person, also FANTAST""

Ring-necked game bird, for one

Ant heaps (anagram)

It's often served under glass

Most bogus or fake

Most two-faced

Least genuine

Department of Italy where Turin is

At the base of mountains.

Region of northern Italy

Rhubarb, country style

Rhubarb

Rhubarb.

""A medicinal plant root, also WORMROOT""

Locate or identify with precision

Define a specific target.

Find the position of

Most like Jane

Most unembellished

Most ordinary

Metal disk to be made into a coin

Design revolutionary - given time this may make money

Ringing the draughtsman (wordplay)

Noisy draughtsman (wordplay)

Mournful map chap

Small growth

Excuses worker, that's nice!

Sunny and 75, say

Nice tree, perhaps, holding sea off

Deeply moving - no taping (anagram)

Moving out of Paignton (wordplay)

Touching - gin on tap (anagram)

(E.g. pedestrian) zone

An enclosed area, say around cathedral

Pert C-in-C (anagram)

To enact beforehand

Overseeing a child's development, say

Full of life (wordplay)

Ready to drop!

Occurring before planting

Advance portion of a book or magazine

Article issued in advance of publication

Early publication becomes late one

Put on paper, perhaps

Part of some paper trails

Page(s) produced from a computer

Obscene play - interrupt endlessly

Given to lewd thoughts

Pruner, it aggravated itching

Powerful cat nipping one soldier

Powerful, poetically

Powerful: Arch.

Punky

Punny

Chasing; put as run (anagram)

Following (with 'to')

According (to)

Weeping priest to turn to line (part of Bible)

Let run up rubbish? That's bound to mean infection!

Painty

Trembling? Drink up and gasp swallowing vermouth

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Average sum or highest (wordplay)

An equal sum overall (wordplay)

Even a horse is of the utmost importance

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Pointy

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Candidate for admission put on last in error

Send poor aunt to accommodate Liberal candidate

One seeking admission into a religious order

""A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.""

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Very powerful

The awful creep isn't far-seeing

Prophetic spectre in play

Knowing of future events

A soft living for one at the top

Magsaysay, for instance.

Head, of a republic say

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

A little royalty types the hindrance, by the sound of it

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

""Flowing forward,""

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

Punchy

Gone to the bad

Eulogist

Panicky

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

""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.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

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

Patient

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

Prison warden

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Showing acute insight

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Multivalent.

Chapter men adapted for sermon

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

Surpassing all others

Outstanding intern MEP trained while touring Spain

Peter with men in resort, having no match

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

An early settlement

PRESENT to introduce

Anticipatory.

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

Very minutely downy.

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

Painful

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Benevolent despot

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

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

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

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

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonology.

Pleasant

Person associated with (-ist)

Having full power

English word

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

English word

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

Prior

Decision made before hearing evidence

Having a feeling of foreboding now one starts to experience nasty tremors

Foreboding I ignored for theatrical performance (wordplay)

Princely

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Profound

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

A writer of palindromes.

Biology ()

An advocate of partitioning a country.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Person associated with (-ist)

English word

Superlative adjective

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

English word