2-Letter Words Starting with P

Reversal of sorts

We say this is a gem of a stitch

Invert (stitches) in knitting

Not written, in law

The Evidence Rule

Done by word of mouth

Necklace item, perhaps

Unit of wisdom (wordplay)

Oyster surprise (wordplay)

Wind or fire, maybe, but not earth

Jeopardy category (wordplay)

Trouble for Pauline (wordplay)

Rich copper ore

Dry residue from molten liquid

Rich copper ore.

Stem left as stalk (wordplay)

Walk with pride (wordplay)

Move stealthily (as tiger)

Package of land (wordplay)

Distribute (with "out")

Distribute, with "out"

Rope loop for raising or lowering sail

Nautical loop

Look for trouble (wordplay)

Walk a beat, say

Stay on the beat (wordplay)

Seabird (that may be stormy)

Far-flying seabird

Seabird sounds like fuel

They say the bird's a shade of blue

Prince Philip's fill-up (wordplay)

Gas over water (wordplay)

Like ghosts and goblins (wordplay)

Fish for fish (wordplay)

S word (wordplay)

Perhaps do or start with one drink

MSN or Yahoo!

Yahoo, for one

Drink up, holding lip? That's original!

Most important (scream therapy?)

Like some instincts

Fasten in place and push!

Impart motion to

Give impetus to

Word before alcohol or aldehyde

Type of alcohol

C3H7 compound

""A hypothetical source of the chemical elements, also PROTYLE, PROTHYL""

""A chemical compound, also PYRROLE""

Of ancient Egyptian documents

Sun block (wordplay)

Sun umbrella (wordplay)

Frilly shade of Scarlett (wordplay)

Soften before cooking further

Cook, in a way

Cook a bit, as before roasting

Not entirely biased (wordplay)

Not complete or total, maybe an eclipse

Only some are showing favouritism!

Plant expense (and a tax)

Ready source for workers (wordplay)

Bookkeeper's concern

Like some drug administrations

Via the mouth

South American girl's study (wordplay)

A careful reading

South American woman studying

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTREL, POITREL""

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTRAL, POITREL""

Forming a part of a sentence

Consisting of expressions.

Consisting of multiple words

Of lungs - all pure (anagram)

Pertaining to a lung membrane

Kind of chest cavity

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTRAL, PEYTREL""

Situated in front of the anus

Take a reservation, perhaps

Get the water ready for pasta, say

Cook, as pasta for lasagna

Heat to 212 degrees in advance

Remove field heat from before storage, as crops

Concerning landed property.

Quietly try again to call up rural slave

Landed

Within the grace period (wordplay)

Independent Lens network

Preceding the development of a contraceptive pill

Market in advance

Vend in advance

Find a buyer beforehand

Knot for human consumption (wordplay)

Contortionist's inspiration (wordplay)

Knot in the stomach (wordplay)

Be victorious (over)

Win pawn and bishop perhaps with trouble

End up as the winner

Pertaining to {puberty=n}

Cook on an oilless skillet, say

Cook uncovered over direct heat

A way to cook fish

The 38th, for one

Tropic of Capricorn, for one

Fated never to meet (wordplay)

Mom-and-pop (wordplay)

Having to do with mum or dad (wordplay)

Of mom and dad

Having lenses that correspond

Of a skull part

Of a head bone

In a region of the skull.

Like Reggie White, perhaps

Regarding river in China? It's rural

Country work that's also part recreation

Pertaining to a pasture

Like old man's chum sheltering a seabird

Like Dad's mate embracing a bird

Kind of ancestor

Three men giving support (wordplay)

Supporting the arts, say

Three little boys may be Georgian

Of the chest, say muscles

Of the chest

Bench press muscle

Pertaining to a {peridium=n}

Of an orbital point

Ringing of bells around Ireland gets one in an erogenous zone

Pertaining to the fibula

Individual; advert (column)

Own no pearls perhaps

Item in the newspaper.

Large-caliber firearm

A stony ear bone

Pertaining to {phratry=n}

Young or small pike; prick eel (anagram)

Fresh-water fish.

Combination of kelp, rice and fish

Of a horny shell.

Magazine with a centerfold

Beefcake source

Afflicted with gout

Situated behind the mouth

Relating to pose

Relating to bearing or attitude

Pure wolf (anagram)

Really poignant, say

Trained flower up thats mighty!

""A rural slave, also PREDIAL""

Over eats (wordplay)

President managed control of dinner

Relating to a meal

Humiliating failure (US slang)

Buster Keaton specialty

Circus clown's tumble

Situated in front of an axis

Situated in front of a base

Pertaining to a {precava=n}

Prepare a new wine for drinking

To drill beforehand

Pertaining to a prefix

Occurring before the commencement of studies in law

Preceding the development of a moral code

Before coming out (wordplay)

Like neo-, but not Ne-Yo (wordplay)

Before making one's debut (wordplay)

Preceding the pupal stage

Situated in front of the kidneys

Conference before a hearing

Like some attorneys' motions

Before the first witness

Like the habitats of lions (wordplay)

Awfully riled up about fellow being arrogant

Haughty

""Any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATE""

Original sin (wordplay)

Widely-panned 2007 thriller

Belonging to the Earth's beginnings

Pertaining to obtaining

Excessive butt on one lass!

Grip load (anagram)

Wasteful - gold pair (anagram)

Relating to a proem

A flammable gas

Pertaining to a certain chemical group

Engaging plan (wordplay)

Offer (of marriage)

Suggestion (of marriage?)

Relating to a prosoma

White House observation (wordplay)

The right stuff (wordplay)

Formal code of primitive army officer

Full of pride

Relating to a provirus

Situated close (to)

Nearest or next

At the near end

Of puberty

Pertaining to a {puparium=n}

Pertaining to {pyrexia=n}

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

The Scarlet - (Orczy)

Leslie Howard's was scarlet

(Scarlet) plant of the primrose family

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

Adjective (-al)

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

Speaking up (wordplay)

Very devout

Devout

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

COITAL relating to coitus

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

Having a garrison

Of Truman's office.

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

Primatical.

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

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

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

PARAPODIA

""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.""

PARENT to act as father or mother

Like a sudden outburst

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

PERIHELIA

PERIKARYA

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

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

PHEROMONE

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

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

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Heaping dish

Having many faces

With many plane faces

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Full of presages; ominous.

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

PROCAMBIA

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

PROSTOMIA

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Constituting a pattern.

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

""A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes. pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.""

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

PANTROPIC

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Of EMS treatment

Like leeches

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Of or pertaining to a peristome.