2-Letter Words Starting with P

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Individual dates of birth of celebrities

Illustrious people

V.I.P.'s

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Personnel

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Pervasion

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Pesthouse

Petalody

Petiolule

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Owners of church seats

Phagocyte

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

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

A plant that produces seeds.

Phasedown

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

Phellogen

Phelonion

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonogram

Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea

Edison's child

CD player's predecessor

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

Certain compounds in DNA

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphene

Phosphide

Phosphine

Phosphite

Phosphore

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Matchmaker's supply

Number 15, Venus anadyomene

Element used in making matches

""The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Photoplay

Copies of a sort.

Certain duplicating machines

Pre-laser print copies

Motion ()

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phototube

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Poisonous to plants.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Picaroon

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Pickaroon

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Picofarad

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

Piecework

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Pigeonite

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

Pillory

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Pinfold

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

Piperonal

Pinkish rocks

English word

Piroplasm

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

Pistoleer

Pistol

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Technique for making people appear as animations

Placation

Simple ditties (wordplay)

Simple ditties?

Ambrosian chants.

Planation

Planeload

Kuiper belt objects, for example

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

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Plasmasol

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

English word

Plastisol

Platoon

Companion in children's games

Companion in childhood

Friend in frolics

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Places of amusement.

Theatres for the actors from the D?il and Seanad

Theatres where they now indulge in games of bingo

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Having the property of pleochroism.

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Plication

PLODDING the act of plodding

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

PLUNDER to rob by force

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Plutonium

Pneumonia

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Try reading this!

One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

Like the surface of the moon

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

English word

PODZOLIZE

Podzolize

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

In a poetic manner.

Poeticism

POETICIZE

Poeticize

Pogromist

Poignance

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Poinciana