2-Letter Words Starting with P

Hacienda hand, perhaps

Low hand (wordplay)

Hacienda hand, maybe

Unit of perceived loudness

Decibel-intensity measure

Study of speech sounds Abbreviation

First meson discovered

Short-lived particle

Semistable subatomic particle

E. Indian tree yielding light hard wood

Timber tree of East Indies.

East Indian hardwood tree.

""Pornography, also PORNO""

A poetic foot

Metrical foot

Hymn

Hairless Spanish style

Hairless, Spanish style.

Hairless

Attach to a lapel, say

Attach to a lapel say

Attach, as a name tag (2 words)

In top (anagram)

Alp-climbing gear

Spike to support a climber

Don, as apparel (2 words)

Don down? On the contrary!

Claim to have a brass magnet, say

Tower in a power grid

End-zone marker

Air-race marker

What? An end to the sentence (wordplay)

'I'm sorry, could you say that again?'

Let go? Excuse me!

Weems, for one

Minister of religion

Standard issue for a minister

Dolly who sang "9 to 5"

'Two Doors Down' singer

Dolly who sang 'Here You Come Again'

No part in play for angel (wordplay)

Customer apt to dither? Right on!

Sponsor of sorts

Standard writer (not French)

The long way to write No (wordplay)

Small swallow-tailed flag.

""A crustacean's thorax, also PEREION, PERAEON""

Outdoor stairway

(11) VIP, for one

V.I.P. section (wordplay)

Robot shape, maybe

Quantum of energy

Quantum of vibrational energy

Vibrational energy unit

A little light (wordplay)

Particle that is its own antiparticle

Kind of "Star Trek" torpedo

Tribe, in biology.

A structural unit of a plant

Gull. Yes and no!

Animal that might fly - given time!

Did Homer have a sty on time (wordplay)

Restrain with bird's wing (wordplay)

Cogwheel; seize and secure (arms)

O, this may be held by the wing

Nut pine of Europe.

Jerry Stackhouse, for one

Grant Hill, for one

Found in cylinder and brake caliper

Igneous rock beneath the earth's surface

Underground mass of igneous rock

Mass of crystallized magma

Arsenic, for one

Damaging stuff - drink (wordplay)

One idea for one across

A protective piece of leather for the knee

Sneezing powder (wordplay)

Something to sneeze at (wordplay)

Sneezin' reason, perhaps

Cheerleader's accessory (var.)

High school cheerleader's gear

Woolen ball on a hat

A float: Army term.

A float Army term.

Cork's place, maybe

Toy firing a cork, say

Music piece by Cork shooter (wordplay)

Type of fabric

Strong plain-woven fabric

Finely corded shirt fabric

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSTEEN, POSHTEEN""

Illicit whiskey (Irish)

On the stove, even if it's so spirited!

Alcohol from potatoes

Drink, maybe medicinal

Drink for a spell (wordplay)

Drink, maybe philtre

A snooker player at the bar (wordplay)

Does he, perhaps, work at the wheel or at the Bar (wordplay)

'Not quite empty!': no work for them

Attica, for one

Newgate, for one

Sentence structure (wordplay)

A sex hormone

*In support of a huge weight (wordplay)

Professional weight is of little matter

It's composed of three quarks

Like geometric theorems

Shown to be a fact

Doubted no more

Big name in circuses (wordplay)

Boa, for one

Kipling's Kaa, for one

To {agree=v}

Puzzle theme missing?

Puzzle theme missing (wordplay)

Perfect diamond of 100 or more carats

Feeling strong (wordplay)

One gets the feeling there's a lot of it

That's strong, by the feel of it

Landholder in New Amsterdam

Landholder under Peter Minuet.

Colonial Dutch landowner

Retiree's income, maybe

Reward when the job is done (wordplay)

Plan for retirement (wordplay)

""A crustacean's thorax, also PERAEON, PEREON""

Angle of 360 degrees

360 degree angle

Angle of 360

Carriage churning up one path

The sound of fate on a carriage

Light four-wheeled carriage

""A chemical compound, also PICOLINE""

Where one holds the driver!

Cushion behind a saddle.

Tablet, one on seat behind driver

East European dumplings

A determinant of inheritance in cells

Best Picture of 1986 (Charlie Sheen)

Best Picture of 1986

Oscar-winner of 1986

A part of a thoracic segment of an insect

Articulation of a speech sound, k, p or t.

Farmer, at times

Farmer with oxen

Agricultural figure in "The Canterbury Tales"

Fellows tilling soil

Oxen followers

Field laborers

""An upland swamp, also POCOSEN, POCOSON""

A type of {electron=n}

Rhombus, for one

Closed plane figure

Many-sided plane figure

21 across over this, perhaps

A game of bridge (wordplay)

Card game - bridge!

Movie extra (wordplay)

Film fare (wordplay)

Viewing food (wordplay)

Left one on allotment

Serving last of lager in brew

The wine gets charged, just a bit

""An Afghan sheepskin coat, also POSHTEEN, POSTIN""

Advertisement on new gate

Rear door or gate.

Notice small number on the back door

No stamp irritated this worker!

One pushing the envelope (wordplay)

U.S. male (wordplay)

Ones who are lettered (wordplay)

G. P. O. carriers

Important civil service employes.

""Irish whiskey distilled unlawfully, also POTEEN, POTTEEN, POITIN""

""Irish whiskey distilled unlawfully, also POTEEN, POTHEEN, POITIN""

Before noon

It could be you!

I for one am part of the speech

I, for one

Spear-carrier at the Met (wordplay)

He helps Annie get her gun

Stage manager's aide

Stage employees

Some stagehands

Plant name is inconstant

Readily assuming different shapes.

Changeable in shape

Enzyme, for one

Albumin, for one

A body chemical; pointer (anagram)

A group of micro-organisms living in waterlogged sands

Disease (var)

Class of organic alkaloids.

Poisonous alkaloid.

Another name for bloodroot - it's a pun about coco-nuts

Propulsion

Take the wrong way (wordplay)

Make off with

Nick largely untouched cut of meat

Substance produced by heat, in chemistry.

Scaly anteater - a long pin (anagram)

Pain long-suffering creature has

Long-tailed scaly anteater.

Special Olympians (wordplay)

Hall of fame

The gods of a people

Charriere's dog (wordplay)

1973 McQueen/Hoffman film

Devil's Island escapee

Any of a major division of multicellular animals

Moonlighter's second job

An oily liquid obtained from fish

Heptagon (anagram)

Disease-causing agent

Disease-causing micro-organism

""A shoulder plate for armour, also PULDRON""

Cricket ground clubhouse

Park picnic place

Players can pop in here for a change

The bell of a wind instrument

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Brass container (wordplay)

It holds a lot of brass (wordplay)

Brass building (wordplay)

Plant substance

Amendment impetus, maybe

Request (often by many)

Request, maybe signed by many

A poisonous gas

Alternative to "rapscallion!"

Pirate ship

Pirate perhaps still gets broken oar working

Basketball center, for example

Basketball center, at times

One playing under the hoop, often

Pivotman

Food for whales (wordplay)

Board not up for school food (wordplay)

Board weight (wordplay)

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

Minimise the importance of (something)

Make light of drama not working

Make light of

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

Aquatic vegetation

A type of vacuum tube

Soldier at the head of a patrol

Go-to person

Forefront figure

Pointman

Having cut back course, one's afraid

No, L Troop does not want such a coward

Utter coward

Old place to learn, with Australian, about an aquatic invertebrate

It for one has a place in a broken spoon

Is it one place in the spoon (wordplay)

With it I have a place in 16 across

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Following a burn

Occurring after one's teenage years [adj] / a young adult

Bartender's product

One can swig a pint, too

Drink - a magical one ensnaring volunteers

A finely divided material used to make cement

The first name of an ancient Roman

Preshow

A union beforehand

Next (French)

""Nearest in time, relation or degree, also PROCHAIN""

A simple protein

Structure forming the entrance to a temple

A simple protein

In behalf of organized labor

Like a Teamster, presumably

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

Substance used in treating acne

Drink a very long time - one has several gallons

Might C. ask for boxing, by the sound of it (wordplay)

Change starter in midday meal for quite a few gallons

Punishment

The act of {pupating=v}

Depress

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

The act of perfusing.

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

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

A gradual reduction.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

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

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

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

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Geologic process of erosion

Fold.

Plutonic.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

A prelude or introduction.

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

An idea arrived at beforehand.

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""