2-Letter Words Starting with P

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purpurin

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

State of being pursy.

Salad plants

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions

Purvey

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Putterer

Dawdling

""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.""

Pylorus

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

Pyrolyse

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Pyrolyze

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyze

Divination by fire.

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

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

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

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Pyrostat

Pyroxene

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""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.""

Pyruvate

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Packboard

They bear heavy burdens, so include supporting frames in case (wordplay)

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Paganizer

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

English word

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETIZE

Palliator

""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.""

Green-trunked shrubs

Palsgrave

The state or quality of being paltry.

Panbroil

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pancreas

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

""Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.""

The process or craft of making paper.

Paperwork

Papeterie

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

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Paraffin

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Paragon

Two charts (wordplay)

Bar chart and scatter diagram

New ones are usually indented

Attorney's aides

Parallax

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

""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.""

Paralyse

Paralytic

Paralyzer

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Team with spare over taking runs, boundaries

A charge concealed by fiddling preset boundaries

Limits

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paramylum

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARAPH to {initial=v}

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

PARAPODIA

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

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

English word

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Like fleas and ticks

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathion

Two scout groups (wordplay)

Unit of infantry soldiers

Soldiers to be dropped by parachute

Partly cooking

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parbuckle

Parcel

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Paregoric

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Parentage

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parenting

Spent laser (anagram)

Parfleche

Parflesh

Parget

Pargyline

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

Like a sudden outburst

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Parrakeet

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Parritch

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

Fares going up on flights (wordplay)

Go by the greens (wordplay)

1 across is not expressly for them

Having to go by Ireland, 'e's perching with them

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Cantatas on rural themes.

Compositions with rural themes

History/brewed beverages

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Clergyman's terms

Late talks for groups of clergymen

Fathers' offices

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

Pasturage

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Patchwork

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)