2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pertness

Perturb

Pervasion

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Perverter

Pervert

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Owners of church seats

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

A plant that produces seeds.

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Philter

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

Phonogram

Thomas Edison's 1877 good idea

Edison's child

CD player's predecessor

Phosphore

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Matchmaker's supply

Number 15, Venus anadyomene

Element used in making matches

""The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

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

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phyllary

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Picaroon

Pickaroon

Pickeer

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Picofarad

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

Piecework

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Having color

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Pilgarlic

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

PILLAR to supply with vertical building supports

Pillory

Purple-tinged flowers

Adjective meaning resembling

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pingrass

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

English word

Piroplasm

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

Pistareen

Pistoleer

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

Pitiful

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Placard

Plagiary

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Plaister

Planarian

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Planisher

Members of a construction team.

They leave their coats on the wall

Workers on the surface

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

Print-shop employee

Heaping dish

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Key men, in basketball.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Pleasant

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Pleasure

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

Having the property of pleochroism.

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Pleurisy

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

Plumbery

Plunderer

Spoliative.

Pillaging

PLUNDER to rob by force

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Pluralism

For them living is not enough

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Pluralize

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Like the surface of the moon

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

Pogromist

Polarise

Opposite conditions

Polarize

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Multicolored

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

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

They reveal lies in old college charts

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

One versed in various learning.

""Any of various enzymes, such as DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, or reverse transcriptase, that catalyze the formation of polynucleotides of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of DNA or RNA as a template.""

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Polymorph

Polypary

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Polywater

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Ponderosa

Poniard

Industrial-revolution creations

Poorness

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

Hollowness ratios

The quality of being porous.

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

Portapack

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Service charges

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Portion

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Portress

Portulaca

Owners

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

Superlative adjective

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

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