2-Letter Words Starting with P

Boat's bow (Spanish)

South Pacific boat

Malay outrigger canoe.

Speakers' talking points (wordplay)

Stands in an auditorium (wordplay)

Conductors' platforms (Var.)

Square dance (wordplay)

Beer Barrel for one

Who Stole the Keeshka for one

Family man (wordplay)

Father in "My Two Dads" (wordplay)

The old man

Temple - a GPO ad (anagram)

Tiered Eastern temple

Eastern temple, usually a tower

Bribery of sorts

Income of sorts Slang.

Illegal air fare (wordplay)

Another name for jai alai

Wicker basket used in Spanish game.

Cesta-slung sphere

Flying, for Erica Jong (wordplay)

Irrational fear (of something)

Fear of spiders, for one

Fonda, for one

Inn, in Seville

Ex-Yankee Jorge

S. African shrub; to pear (anagram)

Genus of plants, as the sugar-bush.

African plant for afternoon meal

A perennial herb

Lightweight heavyweight, say

Second-rate boxer

Washed-up pug

Woman with trouble opening up (wordplay)

First woman's lute (wordplay)

Ill-fated woman (wordplay)

A coarse grade of sugar made in Mexico

A Mexican coarse sugar

Mexican confection

Botanical change

Lag rope (anagram)

Botanical garden structure, perhaps

Vine shaded passageway

Character (NO PEARS anagram)

No pears (anagram)

Role adopted by actor

Pignus

Kickback for good publicity

Paid endorsement, in slang, and an apt title for this puzzle

Gout of the big toe

Swelling fruit, a grape, just over half of it

Italian governor could be a despot

Italian magistrate, once

Hacking victim of the 2016 campaign

A small {orchid=n}

What's dished out on plate (wordplay)

Cornmeal - on plate (anagram)

Mediterranean meal dished out on plate

""Open water surrounded by sea ice, also POLYNIA""

A type of {virus=n}

Pronotum

Propylon

The front region of the body of an invertebrate

Wide view (from BBC TV?)

View from a mountaintop, say

Long shot (wordplay)

Result of plotting, perhaps

Curvy figure (wordplay)

Curve - Arab opal (anagram)

""A mental disorder, also PARANOIA""

Conspiracy theory origin, perhaps

Affliction arousing suspicion (wordplay)

'They're following me!' feeling

""A fruit having a fleshy interior and a hard rind, also PEPO, PEPONIUM""

Phelonion

A vision in bright light

""The edible seed of nut pines, also PIGNOLI""

'Large, perhaps excessive, amount (8)'

(A) glut (of something)

Large, perhaps excessive, amount

Orchid grain masses

Agglutinated masses of grains of fertilising powder

A flowering plant

Rapid respiration

Excessive urination

Large vein

The vein carrying blood from the lower limbs and abdomen

Premature aging

Informal term for single-cell eukaryotes

Amoeba's family

Amoebas, for example

A plant of the bean family

A pus-causing skin disease

Pus in the sockets of the teeth

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

""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.""

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.

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

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Suff. ; see collodion .]

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Prenomen

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

English word

Temple entrances

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

""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.""

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

""A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.""

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

English word

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Excessive thirst

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

Form of long-sightedness

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Disease and Illness ()

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""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.""

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

A dread or intolerance of light.

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Literary introductions

The presence of excessive amounts of protein in the urine.

English word

""Pl. protonemata (-n m -t , -n m -) The green filamentous growth that arises from spore germination in liverworts and mosses and eventually gives rise to a mature gametophyte.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

See aplastic anemia .

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

English word

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

""A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.personification, but is more extensive in its signification.""

See distemper 1 .

A book containing an official list of medicinal drugs together with articles on their preparation and use.

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Brain

Illusory series about an atom is a graph

Fantastic dreamlike series of images

Dreamlike sequence

See phenylthiocarbamide .

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

""Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.""