2-Letter Words Starting with P

Chefs in a bakery

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patroller

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Pauperism

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pauperize

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

They may cut the checks or call the shots

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Pearlash

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Peculator

Oddly

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Peddlery

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Step counters

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pellagrin

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

PELLETIZE

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Penetrant

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Imbues; steeps

Affects deeply

Enters.

Jail cells (wordplay)

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.penny cress.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pennywort

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

Retired employees

Retired folk.

Some retirees

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Peperomia

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Pepperoni

Spice-yielding evergreen of Peru [1]

*Ornamental evergreen

Ornamental evergreen

Perborate

Percaline

Perceiver

Perceive

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Showing acute insight

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Perdition

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Peregrine

Pereiopod

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERENNATE

Perennate

Dandelion, daisy et al.

Long-life-cycle plants

Tulips and dahlias

Providers of finishing touches

Perfect

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

They all have a part of this

Actors for each previous scene, initially

Actors in theatre promoted previous show at first

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusate

Perfusion

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

Rock containing olivine

Perigyny

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

PERIHELIA

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

PERIKARYA

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

PERILOUS dangerous

Perilymph

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

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

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Peripety

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Periplast

Kind of peepholes

U-boat features

Viewing on all sides

Destroy a rebel ship - it could go off!

Herbal pies (anagram)

(Of food) likely to rot

Peristome

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

PERIWIG a wig

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

PERJURE to make a perjurer of

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Noun (-age)

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Changeable

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Any of a group of enzymes that occur especially in plant cells and catalyze the oxidation of a substance by a peroxide.

Peroxide

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Perpend

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Persistently harassed

Tormented

""(tr) to oppress, harass, or maltreat, esp because of race, religion, etc.""

Causes to suffer

Ill-treats

Harasses intrinsically cute Swedish leader

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

Soldiers on a hard section

Persists in a pursuit

Steadfastly continues

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Persister

Continuing to exist

Newborn asleep, so appealing

Pleasant to be with

Nice short hairdo available in black

Individual dates of birth of celebrities

Illustrious people

V.I.P.'s

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Personnel

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance