2-Letter Words Starting with P

Suspended writer, awfully loud American

Swinging freely

Hanging loosely

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

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

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Penoncel

Ink sources

Paid a retiree

Perhaps one ripens as retiree (wordplay)

Late worker (wordplay)

Old Chelsea player, perhaps

Pensione

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Sluices or floodgates.

Floodgates

Structures like one on the Potomac.

Five-sided shapes

Okra cross sections, e.g

Pentanol

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

Pentosan

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

Poor writer on novel losing head

Extremely poor

Rising charge with record debts getting close

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

Peperoni

Peponida

Peponium

Spice holder

Turret or another object with a similar shape

Hard, spicy beef and pork sausage

Spicy sausage: condiment on top of it

Sausage Evita got in burst pipe

PERBORATE

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

English word

Pereopod

Perfecto

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

Did mod prefer rocker (wordplay)

Put on knitted jumper for media

Danced on TikTok, for example

A retired actor (wordplay)

Salesman turns up with past actor

One putting on an act

The act of perfusing.

Pericope

Pericope

Like a green gem or olivine.

Periodid

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Speaks at length.

Harangues.

Discourses

Peroxide

Peroxide

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Back-of-magazine feature

Certain classifieds

Newspaper items

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Pesthole

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

Petasos

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Small items charged by requests

They need signatures

Protests on paper with signatures

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Acts the crooked lawyer

Feet of a pig used as food

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

A gradual reduction.

Phaseout

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

Phenetol

PHENE an old name for benzene

Salt of carbolic acid

Phenolic

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Philomel

Phoebus

Ones who won't look ashy for long (wordplay)

Unique birds

Ones who look ashy when they wake (wordplay)

Phonate

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Phoney

PHONE to telephone

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Study of speech sounds

Phoronid

Phosgene

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

Phosphid

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

Phosphin

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Phosphor

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Pictorial photograph

English word

Photomap

English word

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

Photopia

Waldo Salt supply

Photoset

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Phyllode

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Phylloid

Phyllome

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Picador

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

Picloram

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Picoline

Picomole

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Piedfort

Piedmont

Serving with sour cream

Smetana pairing

Polish pockets

English word

Pignolia

Pilewort

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

They held people in ridicule

Exposes to public scorn

Pillow

Pilotage

Piloting

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Olive stuffers

Olive additions

Olive tidbits

PINAFORE a child's apron

Little girl's wardrobe.

Savoy operas get to be so wearing

G. & S. seagoing productions.

They're found among needles

Some Christmas decorations

Forest-floor sights

""A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees. Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.""

Pinewood

Pinfold

Pinion

Pinkroot

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Adjective (-ic)

Locates with precision

Aims precisely

Locates exactly

Pintado

Blazed a trail

Religious individual before day's begun

Led the way

Piosity

Devotion to a deity? Goodness!

Abbot's attribute

Devotion, godliness

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

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

See babesia .

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Pishogue

Pisiform

Pisolite

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Pistol

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Plays to prevent steals

English word

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

Placebo

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

Geologic process of erosion

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Planosol

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.