2-Letter Words Starting with P

Star attraction (wordplay)

Play thing (wordplay)

Head line (wordplay)

Sassy, like a shampoo brand (wordplay)

Saucy, maybe brash

Lively, like a shampoo (wordplay)

What's left (wordplay)

Detroit, for one

What's left on a ship (wordplay)

Fall front (wordplay)

It comes before a fall (wordplay)

Kind of fall (wordplay)

Lively or brisk (var.)

Rush drummer Neil (1952-2020)

Spry in Dixie

Levis Sta pants

Ready, old style

Money advance, old style

Ensure legibility, say

Produce (books, etc)

Fine item (wordplay)

To your health!

A Grand Prix winner

Apt rhyme for "toast"

Pop, for one

Say mum and dad split

But soft! A tear for one in the family

Ornamental wall coating

Plasterwork

Plaster

Avian raptor, perhaps (wordplay)

Bird? You can say that again!

Captain Flint, for one

Fishing license, for one

Say it's OK

Let my hair have waves!

To act beforehand

Like some quilt kits

Lumber yard option

Like most store-bought bread

Like a car radio, maybe

Like some limits

Like some spending limits

The rite person (wordplay)

Tripe's wholly sound for one

White collar worker (wordplay)

Bush is party leader boss (wordplay)

Bush, party leader preceding boss

Type of hedge

A unit of statistical probability

Make money (from)

Advantage for female with you know what!

Target goal (wordplay)

Draft proposal for a treaty

Treaty draft

Ready assistance on boards (wordplay)

On time to help erring actor (wordplay)

Quick pint after the concert (wordplay)

Bottoms up (in Germany)

Good health!; tripos (anagram)

To your health!

Pruta

Most like the driven snow

Back up all the others

With the fewest flaws

Stickler for correctness in language

Over-fastidious person

Strict observer of precise usage.

Low wall (on bridge, roof, etc)

Jumping off spot (wordplay)

Fortification consisting of a low wall

Ice cream dessert served in a tall glass

Standard size, consuming a dessert

A dessert in a glass...

Flooring with inlaid wood patterns

Hardwood floor covering

Boston basketball surface

Ruffled garment of 16th century.

Mel Gibson film (with "The")

Irish nationalist unrest (wordplay)

A trip to (anagram)

Degree of interest (wordplay)

Digits of pie (wordplay)

Word of interest (wordplay)

Impression obtained by the senses

Mental image.

Something seen

Couldn't be better!

Just the thing!

It's just what I wanted!

A tipper distributed the old charm

A charm worn against disease or mischief

Amulet.

Gemstone - pre-do it (anagram)

A semi-precious variety of olivine

Yellowish-green gem

A large building stone

A chemical salt

Continue (in spite of difficulties)

Press it, rudely (wordplay)

One word for dragon, in two words!

Most deserving of a smack, perhaps

Showing the most vivacity

Most cheeky or forward

Give an inaccurate view

Lead astray - deviant

Turn from the true meaning

""An unusually thick coin, also PIEDFORT""

Pining pantomime persona

Co1umbine's admirer.

I report on French pantomime clown

Fish cake (wordplay)

Small black rounded liquorice confection

A fish-cake

The most unsigned band (wordplay)

Least adequate, as an excuse

Having least money

To stretch forth

Groundhog's shadow for one

A number in harbour? That's a bad sign!

Handwriting on the wall.

Dire rep players 'like concrete blocks'

Pour into molds before placing.

Molded, as slabs of concrete.

Lead a church choir

Motto's inspiration, maybe

The maxim is: before church, go to gym!

Rule of conduct - maxim

Say how things are going to be

Do a meteorologist's job, say

Deal in futures (wordplay)

Do preliminary work on mss.

Make early emendations

Do the first round of revisions

Take for oneself

Bump from the schedule

Bump from the TV schedule

Roman magistrate; school pupil

Schoolchild given authority over others

Chief officer flawless? Twisted inside

Warm up, as an oven

Get the oven up to temperature

Warm up an oven

Give lectures.

Discourse publicly

Before the races

Preceding a moult

Preceding a riot

Trump losing papers here (wordplay)

Now, which gift is that (wordplay)

In attendance with award (wordplay)

To sift beforehand

Put in multiple hampers, maybe

Do a laundry chore

Bulk-mailing activity

Course admission requirement, perhaps

Give a dry run

Class warmup before a big exam

Excuse for writing a foreword perhaps

I'm staying in to wash my hair, perhaps

Cover coming before book (wordplay)

Before opening make check!

Stop (an action)

Stop media manipulation happening!

Small spike on which to stick a candle

A male fallow deer in its second year

Small patrol bringing in first roe-deer

Drop cut (anagram)

Expert appearing on channel, as result

Result of multiplying

Scheme - stick out!

Stick up job (wordplay)

Reach the back of the class, say

Soothsayer gains we hear

Forecaster (sounding like 4)

Hosea, for one

Type of plane

Many a corporate plane

Turbine engine plane

To {dissect=v}

Keep it in the safe, perhaps

Wrap in bubble wrap, maybe

Screen or shield

Demo at expert game in 9, say

Sit-in or strike, perhaps

P.G.A. qualifying round (wordplay)

Group for most algae

Unicellular organism such as a slime mould

IRA member on street becomes a dignitary

College or cathedral head

College head; minister

Prow

Cautious and circumspect

Acting with care

Cautious pair, you said, tend to go mad

Seem or claim (to be)

Significance of claim

Spirit's almost undiluted drink

Following a line

The chase or the occupation

Being after a job

One known for talking back (wordplay)

Take pear (anagram)

Budgerigar, for one

An ornamental vestment

Toxic fast-acting herbicide

Toxic, fast-acting herbicide

Water found in some pesticide

""A small parrot, also PARAKEET, PAROQUET, PARROKET""

Howard Stern, at times

Mark Russell, for example

Weird Al Yankovic, e.g

""A small parrot, also PARAKEET, PARAQUET, PARROKET""

""A small parrot, also PARAKEET, PARAQUET, PAROQUET""

Stamp collector (wordplay)

What one needs to go beyond Dover say

International stamp collector (wordplay)

Peart

A man who engages in sexual activity with boys

Most animated

Most lively

Most chipper

Saturating.

Cobbler's bottom (wordplay)

Rolled out item

Item for a rolling pin

""An unusually thick coin, also PIEFORT""

Ranunculus ficaria, lesser celandine

""A medicinal plant root, also WORMROOT""

Coarse herb

Least slender

Face painting (wordplay)

'Whistler's Mother,' for one

Mona Lisa, for one

Following a riot

""An ancient Roman official, also PREFECT""

""To lecture, also PRELECT""

Adjust to biological change

Cut down the wait at a hospital, perhaps

Save time at the hospital, maybe

Do advance work at a hospital

To adopt beforehand

Preceding adulthood [adj] / a person of preadult age

To allot beforehand

Accountant's task

(E.g. pedestrian) zone

An enclosed area, say around cathedral

Pert C-in-C (anagram)

Install before November, say

Opt in advance

Choose in advance, as an unopposed candidate

To enact beforehand

Put up beforehand

Build beforehand

Sex tripe (anagram)

Have a former life

Be there already

Like a boxer's weigh-in

Like some extremely heated interviews

Overseeing a child's development, say

Full of life (wordplay)

Ready to drop!

To limit beforehand

Occurring before planting

Advance portion of a book or magazine

Article issued in advance of publication

Early publication becomes late one

Like some English muffins

Signifying past time Gram.

Past tense in grammar

What's past could be prettier

Use Shout on, say

Put a stain remover on a garment before putting it in the wash, for example

Like top-shelf liquor

Hardest on the wallet

Setting one back the most

Most like a schoolmarm

Most stiffly proper

Most mannerly

Put on paper, perhaps

Part of some paper trails

Page(s) produced from a computer

Privy

Ban from bar (wordplay)

Say nay to

Verb from the Latin for "hold back"

Certain kind of writer

Dull writer

Prosy

Go for the gold (wordplay)

Youngster who could find gold (wordplay)

A golden one, perhaps

Drag out at length

Lengthen in time

Drag it out in favour of region

Most delighted (with an achievement)

Most self-satisfied

Most self-respecting

Obscene play - interrupt endlessly

Given to lewd thoughts

Pruner, it aggravated itching

Purple

Pursy

Chasing; put as run (anagram)

Following (with 'to')

According (to)

Weeping priest to turn to line (part of Bible)

Let run up rubbish? That's bound to mean infection!

Outdoor vendor's wagon

Vendor's wagon

Street vendor's vehicle

Fire-detecting device

Thermostat used at high temperatures

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Average sum or highest (wordplay)

An equal sum overall (wordplay)

Even a horse is of the utmost importance

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Most nacreous

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

Cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time - April lust (anagram)

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

POGROM to massacre systematically

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

""A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.""

Racing that really makes waves!

Swell racing (wordplay)

Fast vessel for racing or leisure

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Precise

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Before take-off

Before boarding, as an inspection

Kind of inspection

FORMAT to follow the style or manner of procedure

MARKET to offer for sale

Very powerful

Preppy

The awful creep isn't far-seeing

Prophetic spectre in play

Knowing of future events

Ordained by authority.

C.P.R. priest clumsily performed by decree

Old-style rule, prior to anything being written down (wordplay)

Choose in advance, as an in-flight meal

Pick beforehand

A soft living for one at the top

Magsaysay, for instance.

Head, of a republic say

SUMMIT to take part in a summit conference

Leave undone

Causing the most wolf whistles, perhaps

Nothing better in sight

Setter tip-off for the best looking

Frequent bar imbibing endless beer

Common pal never dances tango

Having a litre in bar is common

Pricky

A little royalty types the hindrance, by the sound of it

Most fussy.

Most fussy

Most prudish minister accepts one's heartless sins

Private

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

""Flowing forward,""

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Prompt

Proper

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

Eulogist

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

Variant of pediatrician .

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Showing acute insight

Perfect

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

Superlative adjective

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter