2-Letter Words Starting with P

Reel for yarn

Reel, in Scotland

Bobbin for thread.

""Pornography, also PORNO""

Big shrimp (wordplay)

Cocktail crustacean (wordplay)

Shrimp, to a Brit

Tidy up? No, down!

Smarten up (wordplay)

Tidy/clean (feathers)

""A chemical compound, also PURINE""

Cyclic compound

What? An end to the sentence (wordplay)

'I'm sorry, could you say that again?'

Let go? Excuse me!

Native of Paros

Designating a fine, white marble

Of a fine white marble.

Weems, for one

Minister of religion

Standard issue for a minister

An edible crab

Dolly who sang "9 to 5"

'Two Doors Down' singer

Dolly who sang 'Here You Come Again'

No part in play for angel (wordplay)

Customer apt to dither? Right on!

Sponsor of sorts

""A crustacean's thorax, also PEREION, PERAEON""

Outdoor stairway

(11) VIP, for one

V.I.P. section (wordplay)

Robot shape, maybe

Ancestor of human race

Being preceding man.

Preman

Attica, for one

Newgate, for one

Sentence structure (wordplay)

A sex hormone

*In support of a huge weight (wordplay)

Professional weight is of little matter

It's composed of three quarks

Like geometric theorems

Shown to be a fact

Doubted no more

Substance occurring as pigment in butterfly wings

One stitch in one beam

Sounds as if an oyster has one with a beam

Puzzle theme missing?

Puzzle theme missing (wordplay)

Perfect diamond of 100 or more carats

'The knee of an horse' (Johnson)

Daddy's bird on the hoof (7).

Daddy's bird is on the hoof

Landholder in New Amsterdam

Landholder under Peter Minuet.

Colonial Dutch landowner

Is ten part of the model (wordplay)

Arrangement of decorative motifs

Design to gently stroke seabird

""A crustacean's thorax, also PERAEON, PEREON""

Angle of 360 degrees

360 degree angle

Angle of 360

Be related or applicable (to something)

Painter (anagram) - relate (to)

Be relevant (to)

East European dumplings

A part of a thoracic segment of an insect

A type of {electron=n}

Movie extra (wordplay)

Film fare (wordplay)

Viewing food (wordplay)

Left one on allotment

Serving last of lager in brew

The wine gets charged, just a bit

Advertisement on new gate

Rear door or gate.

Notice small number on the back door

3 or 4 a.m., maybe

Early time of day

Before the sun comes up

Before noon

Leave little to chance, perhaps

In advance devise homework on network

Make advance arrangements

12-year-old, say

Middle schooler, for one

Adjective for a 12-year-old

Give notice about contest in outskirts of Paignton

It could be you!

I for one am part of the speech

I, for one

Spear-carrier at the Met (wordplay)

He helps Annie get her gun

Stage manager's aide

Stage employees

Some stagehands

Plant name is inconstant

Readily assuming different shapes.

Changeable in shape

Enzyme, for one

Albumin, for one

A body chemical; pointer (anagram)

Train up (anagram)

Cromwell, for one

Increase Mather, for example

Take the wrong way (wordplay)

Make off with

Nick largely untouched cut of meat

Substance produced by heat, in chemistry.

""A hermit crab, also PAGURID""

Resembling a {papyrus=n}

Preservative coating material.

Nuisance about airmen needing fine oil

Fuel smell returns to soldier

Any of a major division of multicellular animals

Moonlighter's second job

Shared a good round of golf (wordplay)

Had a share (in)

Eaten some (of food/drink)

In Sparta (anagram)

Arts pain (anagram)

Prejudiced to one side

""An adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTISAN""

An oily liquid obtained from fish

""A shoulder plate for armour, also PULDRON""

Worcester Conference chief (wordplay)

Fruit of the sea (wordplay)

Fruit that's most important: apple

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Type of falcon variable

Type of falcon Var.

Type of spring tide

Like very close passage, as with fabled flyer going by wild cherry

Alternative to "rapscallion!"

Pirate ship

Pirate perhaps still gets broken oar working

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

A type of vacuum tube

Having cut back course, one's afraid

No, L Troop does not want such a coward

Utter coward

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Following a burn

Tidy up ahead of time

Tidy up for the maid

From a time before man evolved

Before mankind's time

Earlier than the appearance of man

The first name of an ancient Roman

Preshow

Certain newspaper employee

Urge fellow to become reporter

Correspondent put squeeze on husband

Galley slaves (wordplay)

Workers in paper hats

Urge fellows to become journalists

Number of book copies made

Circulation calculation

Discipline beforehand.

A union beforehand

""Phallic, also PRIAPIC""

Next (French)

""Nearest in time, relation or degree, also PROCHAIN""

A simple protein

Structure forming the entrance to a temple

A simple protein

In behalf of organized labor

Like a Teamster, presumably

Substance used in treating acne

A reddish dye

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

The act of perfusing.

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

A prelude or introduction.

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

An idea arrived at beforehand.

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

RETURN to go back

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

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

""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.""

""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.""

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

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

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

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

A mere point about saturation

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

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

""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.""

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

English word

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Regular change in direction of an axis

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Early ancestor (wordplay)

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Birth

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

Gradual filtration

PERENNATE

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

Act of mimicry

See stonefly .

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic