2-Letter Words Starting with P

Red herring, say

Some action or sport.

Principle of gamesmanship.

Lake trout

Menhaden.

Menhaden

Uncomfortably small (room)

Going slow, to say the least

Not so fast (wordplay)

Styrene starter (wordplay)

Urethane opening (wordplay)

Ester opening (wordplay)

Sum of money in Shetland, perhaps

Shetland, for one

Little horse on the prairie (wordplay)

Flower in a pocketful (wordplay)

Bunch (of flowers)

Hair arrangement, perhaps

Part of a bouquet, perhaps

Bouquet flower perhaps

Bouquet flower, perhaps

Fake (alt. spelling)

Fake (mainly US spelling)

Not genuine (colloq.)

Japanese candy sticks

Chocolate-coated snack stick

Japanese packaged sweet that comes in a 'Men's' variety

Short and fat

Short and fat.

Fat and short.

Burns books (wordplay)

Frost bit (wordplay)

Stressful work (wordplay)

Canadian welfare

Welfare

Small and uncomfortable

Small and cramped.

Small and uncomfortable.

Seed for daddy (wordplay)

It's a flower, daddy!

Georgia OKeeffe subject

Nickname for father.

Affectionate name for the June 21st hero.

Bess man (wordplay)

Gershwin fish (wordplay)

17 down's monarchs in 1952 (wordplay)

"That's all, folks!" sayer

Thththats all folks sayer

"That's all folks!" sayer

Pornographic

Hopscotch by another name

Old name for hopscotch

Another name for hopscotch

Where whiz kids make splashes (wordplay)

Cracked receptacle for liquid (wordplay)

On which an infant goes crazy

Like a models lips perhaps

Like a model's lips, perhaps

Hard to keep up (wordplay)

Matter-of-fact

Hardly leaping off the page

Tedious, as text

Agent (for eg voting)

Investor's mail-in

Power to represent another

Weird Al's "Amish Paradise," for one

Weird Al's 'Amish Paradise,' for one

Viral video, perhaps

""Containing the bivalent group of two oxygens, also PEROXO""

False, soft, sweet and dialable, perhaps

Fake ring revealed by youth leader

Not genuine, insincere

Soft rubbish - yuk!

Doggone it!

Cry of disappointment

The number of chromosomes in a cell

""A spiced hot drink [n PLOTTIES] / full of intrigue, as a novel, also PLOTTIE""

Swampy.

'Best words in best order' (Coleridge)

Writer has to test his work (wordplay)

Frost lines (wordplay)

Sharp-edged, maybe

Like Vulcan ears

Having a sharp tip

At a slow pace

At a snail's pace

At a sluggish pace

Honesty, for one

(E.g. government) line

Document stating car-insurance terms

Any organized state.

System of government

Form of government

Out of sorts

Feeling unwell - or broke (wordplay)

How the unskilled may perform

Stout that's like red wine (wordplay)

Stout haven by the Lee say

Like Nero Wolfe

Word in a five-star hotel review

In a luxurious manner

Done with class

Server in an inn

British inn server

Cup-and-ball in past helping child in tavern

Like bags under eyes

Of a pocket-like abdominal receptacle

Monk's home, maybe

It ranks below an abbey

Retreat before you start

Shoulder-length hairdo (2 words)

Hair style from the English.

Hair-do of only yesterday.

Full suit of armor

An impressive array

Full array, armour

Like a tropical or subtropical bird with brilliant plumage

Containing a radical derived from phenol

In a fake way

In a hokey way

Old punishment frame

Assail; old punishment frame

Expose to ridicule

Like gnocchi, ideally

An excessive show of piety

With dutiful reverence

In a devout way

In holy manner

One active in the wrong clubs (wordplay)

He's probably not the marrying type

Hedonist of a sort

Young team leader (wordplay)

Farm youth, disparingly

Amish lad, sometimes

In a pocky manner

In a podgy manner

A red light - just picture that!

Describe in words

Act the part of someone in a drama

A boy who carries mail

Power; pet cony (anagram)

Strength, as of a drug

It may be determined by concentration

Perhaps fiddling around on one wheel

Firing line (wordplay)

Some arts and crafts

'Chickens and ducks, say (7)'

Geese, ducks, etc.

Chickens and ducks, e.g

Mendicant's vow

Lack of money etc

Wolf at the door.

Like fresh dry snow

In fine dry particles

Like some suspicious substances

Heretofore

Mug taken in by compassion and honesty

Honesty, decency

Complete honesty

Youngster of exceptional abilities

Amazingly talented child

Mozart, as a child.

Immediate descendants of a person

Issue for year, filled with information

Sons and daughters

In a face-down manner

In a prosy manner

Study of verse

Science of versification

Subject of some literature dissertations

How a peacock struts (wordplay)

In a self-satisfied way, maybe

How queens die.

A rich strong silk fabric used for hangings, vestments, etc

The high cost of leaving (wordplay)

Splitting headache (wordplay)

Ex's reward, of sorts

Apple dish that Paddy won

Deep-dish apple dessert

Fruity dessert

Universal knowledge

Early morning biker, maybe

Kid on a bike (wordplay)

News caster (wordplay)

In the manner of a patron

{vain=adj}

Principles and methods of teaching

Educator's forte

Profession of a teacher

The scientific study of children

Study of literary tools (wordplay)

Warden wannabe's study

Warden's study.

Condition in flowers

The state of being {pilose=adj}

Sole-searching, maybe (wordplay)

Sole-searching field (wordplay)

Corn specialty (wordplay)

Quality of opposing powers

A field may have one

Trend in a specific direction

Good, in a manner of speaking

In a mannerly manner

In a refined manner

Double dutch, perhaps (wordplay)

Multiple marriage condition

The taking of multiple marriage partners

A {herb=n}

The condition of having more than one wife at the same time

The common supporting structure of a polyp colony

A {fern=n}

Linguistic term for the capacity for one word to have multiple meanings

The state of being {polytene=adj}

Fruit-growing science

Study of growing fruit

Swell to drop by on sucker in the US

Highly conceited person.

Haughty, strutting sort

Penetrable quality of skin

State of being permeable

State of permeability by fluids

In a porus manner

Hard igneous rock

So as to be capable of being carried

In a posing manner

The science of quantity

Spoils by modification, perhaps

Boy slips out, perhaps

God willing!

In a manner pertaining to the mails

Pertaining to {drinking=n}

Kitty on the bike? Yes with spare tyre!

Hardly a six-pack? (h,h)

An outstanding corporation (wordplay)

Pitch it in in poly form with strength

With great force

With a powerful influence

Job that takes precedence

Matter of greatest importance

What the head of the house takes

In all likelihood

I expect so

At a guess

In a tediously lengthy manner

Professional lady accepting kiss with a lot of tongue

With no delay or hesitation

Without delay or hesitation

With little or no delay

In a seemly way

In the right way

According to Miss Manners

Owned item(s)

Possessions (and a tax)

A characteristic of houses, say

Perhaps that's all for the telling

Divine message of what is to come

Oracle's stock-in-trade

See what's in the cards, maybe

Reveal through divine inspiration

Foretell - portend

In a provable manner

Without doubt

Singing of David's songs

Some church music

A practice of David

{punitive=adj}

The scientific examination of materials by heat

PARLOUS dangerous

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

PHENE an old name for benzene

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Study of speech sounds

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Waldo Salt supply

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

PIVOTAL critically important

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

Juicy, blackish fruit

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

Among the people

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

POURING the act of pouring

Suppliant; beseeching.

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Preying on others

Given to plundering.

Falsely portrayed as being rapacious

Like introductions

MODIFY to alter slightly

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

Serving for trial; probationary.

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Wordiness

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Biology ()

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

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

In a pastoral or rural manner.

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERILOUS dangerous

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

PLODDING the act of plodding

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

In a poetic manner.

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really