2-Letter Words Starting with P

Combination locks (wordplay)

To curl (hair)

Head waves (wordplay)

Stroller on the Strand (wordplay)

Youth coach in England (wordplay)

Bairn's vehicle

Kind of rose PAth (wordplay)

Kind of rose PAth?

A proper rose (wordplay)

Limo destination, perhaps

Dance with a limo (wordplay)

Senior moment (wordplay)

Flat-bottomed Norwegian boat.

Scandinavian boat

Dutch barge.

Piece of cut crystal perhaps

Light tool (wordplay)

Piece of cut crystal, perhaps

Prelude right in ode, perhaps

Literary lead-in

Overture's key in concert

Organised persecution of an ethnic group

An organised massacre

Hans leaves monographs for mass murder

A type of mathematical proposition

Raid the arsenal early

Anticipate a battle

Give early protection

Event in preparation for another (abbr)

Not a heavyweight bout (wordplay)

Four-rounder, maybe

Aversion to slang, say

Insistence on precise usage of language

Strict adherence to rules

Similarly derived word

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like 'wisdom' from 'wise'

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like "wisdom" from "wise"

Carry out (duties)

Carry out (a task)

Do tricks, maybe

Traveller (who made Progress?)

Vanbrugh's original settler (wordplay)

Visitor to Mecca or Graceland, say

A parasitic worm

Preceding a sudden expansion of business

Give shape to in advance

Shape in advance

Make ahead of time

Cover charge (wordplay)

Payment for quality (wordplay)

Extra cost of something in short supply

Do some editing in advance

Remove fat beforehand

Heat in advance, as an oven

Something wrong (wordplay)

Gordian knot, for one

Difficulty (these days, of any kind)

Give instructions to, say

Get with it!

Something to get with (with "the")

An isotope of hydrogen

Typical example or model (of something)

Example or explanatory model

Model or example for rapid agm

A substance used as an antiseptic

The state of having male and female sexual organs near each other

Sudden outburst, of coughing say

Sudden uncontrollable fit

Sudden uncontrollable attack

Foot-shaped.

A region of plant tissue

Outer layer of a plant stem

The outer coating of the spore carrier of a fungus

The region between genitals and anus

That indentation in your upper lip

Upper-lip groove

Pertaining to an order of birds

A herbicide

One trillionth of a gram

Resembling a hair

""Pear-shaped, also PYRIFORM""

Resembling peas in size and shape.

The contour of an object as viewed from above

""A part of the shell of a turtle, also PLASTRON""

Bandstand, for one

What candidates stand on (wordplay)

Sole policy (wordplay)

Site of noisy games, perhaps

Day care center feature

Place for recreation

It's used to pluck, a guitar say

One for plucking guitar

One might help one pick out a tune

Shark's habitat (wordplay)

Bad place to scratch (wordplay)

Place to play nine-ball

To shape subsequently

A persistent erection of the penis

""Prim adherence to convention, also PRIGGERY""

Announce officially or declare publicly

Trumpet virtuoso's profession

Broadcast favouring assertion

A hard outer plate of an insect

Unpoetical idiom; or passim (anagram)

Unimaginative style

A pupal shell

Pear-shaped

Hippo, say (wordplay)

Rhino or hippo, say (wordplay)

Elephant, hippo etc

""A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.""

Penury

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Pictorial photograph

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

See babesia .

Like network; complicated.

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once

Type of course work undertaken to supplement academic studies

Ruling body in U. S. S. R.

Malenkov, Beria, et al.

Soviet high council.

Sarah Sanders spot

*White House conference site

Where the fourth estate gets briefed

Monaco, for one

Rank of Charles or Andrew

Jurisdiction of Charles or William

PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

English word

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

A growth over the cornea

Juvenility

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

""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.""

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

""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.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

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

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

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

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

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

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

A plant that produces seeds.

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

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

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

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

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

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

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

Code in advance

PRESENT to introduce

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Birth

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

The quality or state of being parallel.

PASTORALI

Having the form of a patella.

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma. Epineurium, and Neurilemma.""

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Subjectivity

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Cult of eg tribal art

Painting genre of Grandma Moses

The doctrine of the probabilists.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Projection of the jaws.

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

A song in celebration of a marriage.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Four-sided shape

Type of quadrilateral

Four-sided figure

Weak form of attraction

A minute description; a detailed statement.

Addiction of the 50-mile hikers.

Walking skill

President aims to shatter eco-friendly movement

Won't get any better with unseemly imperfections

""The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

A record or tracing produced by a plethysmograph.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Political ideology advocating reform

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

Subjective journalism that uses some of the techniques or license of fiction.

PHOTOPERIOD

""The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.""

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

Special type of reporting

Picture book theory used by the press

News in which pictures play a more important role than text

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness