2-Letter Words Starting with P

Frost lines (wordplay)

"The Gift Outright," for one.

"To Autumn," for one

Limo destination, perhaps

Dance with a limo (wordplay)

Senior moment (wordplay)

Prelude right in ode, perhaps

Literary lead-in

Overture's key in concert

Sergio Garcia, for one

Sports prodigy, in slang

Amazing newcomer, informally

Plant's food-conducting tissue

Food-conducting plant tissue

Innermost layer of tree bark

Where to stand and deliver (wordplay)

Mike's place

Stage in river's one in rising mud

Organised persecution of an ethnic group

An organised massacre

Hans leaves monographs for mass murder

Ball of tufted wool, on a hat perhaps

Cannon ball (wordplay)

Cannon for Englishmen abroad (wordplay)

A type of mathematical proposition

Pretend to be asleep (with "play")

Pogo, for one

American marsupial (that plays dead?)

Series of quatrains.

Similarly derived word

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like 'wisdom' from 'wise'

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like "wisdom" from "wise"

A system of forcing service.

Carry out (duties)

Carry out (a task)

Do tricks, maybe

Invisible man (wordplay)

That's the spirit!

Illusion (at the opera?)

A parasitic worm

Hair goo for men

Latinised word for hair-ointment

Fragrant hair dressing

The life of Leo (wordplay)

John Paul II's tenure

John Paul II's reign

Preceding a sudden expansion of business

Give shape to in advance

Shape in advance

Make ahead of time

Something wrong (wordplay)

Gordian knot, for one

Difficulty (these days, of any kind)

Give instructions to, say

Get with it!

Something to get with (with "the")

An isotope of hydrogen

""The rank of a pasha, also PASHADOM""

Go mad dancing with Pan - a sure sign of this (wordplay)

A substance used as an antiseptic

Sudden outburst, of coughing say

Sudden uncontrollable fit

Sudden uncontrollable attack

""The rank of a pasha, also PACHADOM""

Foot-shaped.

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

Pertaining to an order of birds

A herbicide

One trillionth of a gram

Resembling a hair

""Pear-shaped, also PYRIFORM""

Resembling peas in size and shape.

The contour of an object as viewed from above

Bandstand, for one

What candidates stand on (wordplay)

Sole policy (wordplay)

Site of noisy games, perhaps

Day care center feature

Place for recreation

"The very identical thing itself."

Redundancy plan some found upsetting

Use of more words than necessary

Element named for Marie Curie's homeland

Radioactive element in pitchblende.

Curie named it for her native land

Shark's habitat (wordplay)

Bad place to scratch (wordplay)

Place to play nine-ball

Bane of elitists

U.S. political movement: 1891-1904

Appealing to the masses

To shape subsequently

Announce officially or declare publicly

Trumpet virtuoso's profession

Broadcast favouring assertion

A hard outer plate of an insect

Unpoetical idiom; or passim (anagram)

Unimaginative style

Doggies, collectively

Doggies, collectively.

Pear-shaped

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Pictorial photograph

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

See babesia .

Like network; complicated.

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

Banal bit of versification

""A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.""

""A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.""

Silvery-white metallic element

Its symbol is K

Mineral in bananas

Sarah Sanders spot

*White House conference site

Where the fourth estate gets briefed

Monaco, for one

Rank of Charles or Andrew

Jurisdiction of Charles or William

English word

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

""Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.""

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

A plant that produces seeds.

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

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

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

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.""

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

Code in advance

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

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

PASTORALI

Having the form of a patella.

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

Subjectivity

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

The doctrine of the probabilists.

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.

Projection of the jaws.

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

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

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

POLYGLOTT

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Four-sided shape

Type of quadrilateral

Four-sided figure

Won't get any better with unseemly imperfections

""The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.""

""That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

A record or tracing produced by a plethysmograph.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Political ideology advocating reform

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

The study of the remanent magnetization in rocks.

Subjective journalism that uses some of the techniques or license of fiction.

PHOTOPERIOD

""The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.""

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

Special type of reporting

Picture book theory used by the press

News in which pictures play a more important role than text

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness