2-Letter Words Starting with P

Cash on hand (wordplay)

What a big hand often grabs (wordplay)

Bet destination perhaps

Feel-good political moments

C.G.S. unit of illumination.

Cameraman's occ.

Thickening thing (wordplay)

Novel creation (wordplay)

Novel requirement (wordplay)

Linesman, maybe (wordplay)

Juan Felipe Herrera, for one

Marlowe, for one

What's left (wordplay)

Detroit, for one

What's left on a ship (wordplay)

Writing on the wall, perhaps (wordplay)

Perhaps where to stick the 20 down

Stake in the mail (wordplay)

Lip out (wordplay)

Keep a stiff lower lip (wordplay)

Throw a pity party, perhaps

Embroidery stitch - topic (anagram)

Good place for baby with loop

Small loop on lace.

Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, for one

Guide one into bed!

Mark Twain, for one.

Cab alternative (wordplay)

Wine list selection, perhaps

Wine that's very good (I'm joking!)

Turning point (wordplay)

Revolution in basketball (wordplay)

Turning-point (wordplay)

Orient or East maybe (wordplay)

Lift a finger (wordplay)

Use one's index finger, perhaps

Say is true

Put forward (argument)

Put forward (for argument)

Turkey tot (wordplay)

Chicken little (wordplay)

Young domestic fowl

To your health!

A Grand Prix winner

Apt rhyme for "toast"

Avian raptor, perhaps (wordplay)

Bird? You can say that again!

Captain Flint, for one

Shareholder's bonus

Dividend, e.g

Patrick admits one of us gets dividend

Go for thirds, maybe

Eat an entire pizza, say

Eat an entire cake, say

Alpinist's ice ax

Ice ax

Pen holder, perhaps

Take for oneself

Keep for oneself

Western, old style

Dad's favourite child (wordplay)

Place for cat belongs to old witch

Father has favourite term of endearment

Hot milk-and-wine drink

Sheriff's men on time for hot milk drink

Spiced hot milk and wine

Top Ten (anagram)

With a kick

Highly narcotic drug several get into

A unit of statistical probability

Make money (from)

Advantage for female with you know what!

Target goal (wordplay)

Draft proposal for a treaty

Treaty draft

Ready assistance on boards (wordplay)

On time to help erring actor (wordplay)

Quick pint after the concert (wordplay)

Bottoms up (in Germany)

Good health!; tripos (anagram)

To your health!

Pruta

Annoyed at being ejected (wordplay)

Offended; like cat at night (wordplay)

Extinguish, as a fire (2 words)

Wan child in loose overcoat

An overcoat

Loose jacket.

Mel Gibson film (with "The")

Irish nationalist unrest (wordplay)

A trip to (anagram)

Hand warmer (wordplay)

Seafarer's jacket

Fisherman's garment

Gemstone - pre-do it (anagram)

A semi-precious variety of olivine

Yellowish-green gem

""An unusually thick coin, also PIEDFORT""

Pining pantomime persona

Co1umbine's admirer.

I report on French pantomime clown

US naval slang word for a submarine

Most inclined to dawdle

Most cramped toe - skip with difficulty

Least speedy

Skunk or European lynx (wordplay)

It's skunky (wordplay)

Stick and whip needed for wild animal

""One that polls, also POLLER, POLLSTER""

One of the horsey set

Player of a game on horseback

Mallet holder

A type of plant

Fish cake (wordplay)

Small black rounded liquorice confection

A fish-cake

The most unsigned band (wordplay)

Least adequate, as an excuse

Having least money

To stretch forth

Groundhog's shadow for one

A number in harbour? That's a bad sign!

Handwriting on the wall.

Most like a five-star hotel, presumably

Fashionable to the max

... most classy model - way over height

Unprompted criticism (informal)

Sniping remark (wordplay)

Bit of sparring (3,4)

Preceding a moult

Preceding a riot

Put in multiple hampers, maybe

Do a laundry chore

Bulk-mailing activity

Drop cut (anagram)

Expert appearing on channel, as result

Result of multiplying

Scheme - stick out!

Stick up job (wordplay)

Reach the back of the class, say

Soothsayer gains we hear

Forecaster (sounding like 4)

Hosea, for one

Type of plane

Many a corporate plane

Turbine engine plane

To {dissect=v}

Keep it in the safe, perhaps

Wrap in bubble wrap, maybe

Screen or shield

Demo at expert game in 9, say

Sit-in or strike, perhaps

P.G.A. qualifying round (wordplay)

Group for most algae

Unicellular organism such as a slime mould

IRA member on street becomes a dignitary

College or cathedral head

College head; minister

Prow

Retire with the magazine section

Withdraw with the supplement

Leave the drawers to open them

Seem or claim (to be)

Significance of claim

Spirit's almost undiluted drink

Howard Stern, at times

Mark Russell, for example

Weird Al Yankovic, e.g

""A small parrot, also PARAKEET, PARAQUET, PARROKET""

""A small parrot, also PARAKEET, PARAQUET, PAROQUET""

Stamp collector (wordplay)

What one needs to go beyond Dover say

International stamp collector (wordplay)

Bic's writing end

Ink flow site

Ink spot

Bring to an end gradually (2 words)

Diminish and cease use gradually

Bring gradually to an end, discontinue

Most bogus or fake

Most two-faced

Least genuine

To prepare for printing by photographic means

""An unusually thick coin, also PIEFORT""

Department of Italy where Turin is

At the base of mountains.

Region of northern Italy

Ranunculus ficaria, lesser celandine

""A medicinal plant root, also WORMROOT""

Locate or identify with precision

Define a specific target.

Find the position of

Strategy with a man on base

Football-baseball crossover

Baseball ploy

Pocky

Podgy

Deeply moving - no taping (anagram)

Moving out of Paignton (wordplay)

Touching - gin on tap (anagram)

Coarse herb

One versed in disputation

Controversial writer exposes European dimness

Least likely to make a faux pas

Most civil pilot set adrift

Exhibiting the most civility

Versatile languages master (wordplay)

Speaking many languages

United Nations translator, for example

Trump, perhaps, to slip up badly

Appealing to the masses

Anti-elitist adherent

Least slender

Face painting (wordplay)

'Whistler's Mother,' for one

Mona Lisa, for one

Heat applied to a metal after welding

Following a riot

A test given after an instructional programme

Start off initially in drug trial with least sense

Pouty

To adopt beforehand

To allot beforehand

Put on paper, perhaps

Part of some paper trails

Page(s) produced from a computer

Ban from bar (wordplay)

Say nay to

Verb from the Latin for "hold back"

Certain kind of writer

Dull writer

Prosy

Go for the gold (wordplay)

Youngster who could find gold (wordplay)

A golden one, perhaps

Drag out at length

Lengthen in time

Drag it out in favour of region

Most delighted (with an achievement)

Most self-satisfied

Most self-respecting

{pulsejet=n}

Fire-detecting device

Thermostat used at high temperatures

Average sum or highest (wordplay)

An equal sum overall (wordplay)

Even a horse is of the utmost importance

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

Plotty

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Poachy

POGROM to massacre systematically

Pointy

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

English word

Candidate for admission put on last in error

Send poor aunt to accommodate Liberal candidate

One seeking admission into a religious order

Pouchy

""A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.""

Racing that really makes waves!

Swell racing (wordplay)

Fast vessel for racing or leisure

FORMAT to follow the style or manner of procedure

Very powerful

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

""Flowing forward,""

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Prompt

Proper

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Prison warden

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

One drawn to controversy

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Multivalent.

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Positive

Logical philosopher

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Superlative adjective

English word

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

CONTACT to communicate with

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PASTORALI

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Peacocky

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

One versed in the study of rocks.

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonology.

Person associated with (-ist)

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Having full power

English word

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

English word

Superlative adjective

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

""One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.""

Purchasing agent's job

Buying of materials and equipment

Acquisition process

Profound

Marx brothers (wordplay)

The people; workers

Real patriot agitated working classes

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

Star in spot orating terribly

Chief character in a story

Star part, so got in cast

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

A writer of palindromes.

Biology ()

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

An advocate of partitioning a country.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Specialized tooth care pro

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Person associated with (-ist)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

The product of a photochemical reaction.