2-Letter Words Starting with P

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyzer

Pyrolyze

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Pyromania

Instruments measuring high temperatures.

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

Pyroxylin

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Some are shaped like swans

Pagination

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Palliation

Palmerworm

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Biology ()

One way to cook meat

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Paperboard

Paperbound

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Paraboloid

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Paradrop

Paralogism

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

Paranormal

Parasitoid

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

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

Parenthood

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Parotitis

Parsimony

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

Birth

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

Showing no emotion

Frigid

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

Pasteboard

PASTORALI

PASTORALI

Pastorship

Patchboard

Patchouly

Having the form of a patella.

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Patination

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

Patrimony

Patriotism

Patroness

PATRONISE

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

Patronymic

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

Peacocky

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

Peckerwood

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

Insects

Insects

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDOLOGIC

Pedologist

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

Psycho and others

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

Pellitory

Pelycosaur

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

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

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

Pentagonal

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.""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentathlon

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

Pentstemon

Penurious

Peoplehood

Pepperbox

Peppercorn

Pepsinogen

One's ways of conceiving things

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

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

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Percussion

PERENNATE

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

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

Perforator

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

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

Groups of igneous rocks

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Magazines laid so price may be seen

Monthly magazines, for example

Many are mailed out monthly

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

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.

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the periosteum.

Periphyton

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

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

Permafrost

Aromatherapy units

Permission

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

Perovskite

Peroxidase

PEROXISOME

Peroxisome

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Tyrannical people

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

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

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

Persuasion

Perversion

""Pestbearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. as, pestiferous bodies.""

Supplicatory; making a petition.

Redress seekers

Folk making request? No respite, it could possibly appear

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

Petrolatum

Petrology

One versed in the study of rocks.

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

""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.""

English word

Phanerogam

Adjective meaning resembling

Phelloderm

Phenocopy