2-Letter Words Starting with P

Poke one's nose (into)

Pull off (wordplay)

Ask too many questions, say

Use a rosary, perhaps

Say a Hail Mary, e.g

Put your hands together (wordplay)

Moving targets (wordplay)

Game in the woods (wordplay)

Game food (wordplay)

""Used as a mild oath, also PARDI, PARDEE, PARDIE, PERDIE, PERDY""

Deflect (a blow)

Fend off (a blow)

Try to avoid flippin' strike lines!

Say Labour do (wordplay)

Say Tories do (wordplay)

Bull Moose, for one

Describing a curious gaze.

Inquisitive

Inquisitive.

""Used as a mild oath, also PARDI, PARDEE, PARDIE, PARDY, PERDIE""

Perhaps too cheerful

Quite cheerful according to Kerry

Like the hosts of morning shows

Mason's fermented juice (wordplay)

At SW19 did Fred serve this (wordplay)

Matthew of 'Friends'

Bess man (wordplay)

Gershwin fish (wordplay)

17 down's monarchs in 1952 (wordplay)

"That's all, folks!" sayer

Thththats all folks sayer

"That's all folks!" sayer

Pornographic

College boss (Sl.)

College chief (Sl.)

College official familiarly

Bread-devouring (wordplay)

Quite expensive (Var.)

Not so cheap

A party (to)

Allowed access (to)

Admitted (to secrets)

Matter-of-fact

Hardly leaping off the page

Tedious, as text

Agent (for eg voting)

Investor's mail-in

Power to represent another

Like Donald Trump's lips, half the time

Like Trumps lips much of the time

Like Donald Trumps lips half the time

Sorry! Go on mate!

Sorry, go on mate

It's mean to be nosey about an officer

Cook in a wok, perhaps

Prepare latkes, in a way

Saute in a skillet

Room for dessert, maybe

Grocery store (wordplay)

Small room or cupboard for storing food

Thin or flimsy

Like a wasp's nest

Like wasp nest material

All things being equal (wordplay)

Having the same value, as currency

Equality in status

Double up (one's bet)

Raise in value

Type of bet.

Dialogue between enemies

Increase in value

Informal truce talk

Weird Al's "Amish Paradise," for one

Weird Al's 'Amish Paradise,' for one

Viral video, perhaps

To some degree, not wholly

In some degree

To a point

Pound producer perhaps

Napoleon, for one

Cream puff, for one

Gates, maybe, soft before time

Like heaven's gates (wordplay)

Like the gates of heaven (wordplay)

An animal skin

What a poor, scentless, sound!

Problem of have-nots.

A poor state to be in

""Containing the bivalent group of two oxygens, also PEROXO""

In a saucy way

In a jaunty way

In a smart-mouthed, saucy way

Kind of grove

Place that grows a tropical fruit.

Grove of trees.

Teach wrongdoing (wordplay)

I take in fast crime on 21 6 (wordplay)

William Kidd's crime

'Best words in best order' (Coleridge)

Writer has to test his work (wordplay)

Frost lines (wordplay)

Out of sorts

Feeling unwell - or broke (wordplay)

How the unskilled may perform

Stout that's like red wine (wordplay)

Stout haven by the Lee say

Like Nero Wolfe

Booking choice to save money, perhaps

Make an early check, say

Get a subscription, perhaps

Heavy on the popped collars, perhaps

Like an ascot, perhaps

Lacoste-wearing, maybe

Quite fair (wordplay)

Film with Julia Roberts (belle)

Way to sit (wordplay)

Expensive diamonds clutched by Jimmy

On the expensive side

Steep paddy ends containing its crop

""Having many sharp points, also PRICKLY""

Fold holding skirt very neatly

In a proper way

In a rigidly formal fashion

Monk's home, maybe

It ranks below an abbey

Retreat before you start

Maybe a little too proper

Too, too proper

Proper and then some

""A cloth band wrapped around a hat, also PUGREE, PUGAREE, PUGGAREE, PUGGREE""

Wholly or merely

One way to be coincidental

On all counts

Remove contaminants from (something)

Opposite of pollute

Rid of intrusive substances

Quality of wine improved by filtering

What white symbolizes

What karats measure

{purplish=adj}

Provide, supply (food)

Supply with provisions

Furnish, as provisions

Saddle-horse for a lady

Docile riding horse of old

Easy-gaited saddle horse

Outstanding

Praiseworthy

Landscaped urban thoroughfare

Pleasant place to drive

Treelined thoroughfare

Like a tropical or subtropical bird with brilliant plumage

Herb (flat-leafed or curly)

Potato dish garnish, perhaps

Herb with either flat or crinkly leaves

Not quite (there)

Not the whole distance

Not the complete distance

In a smart manner: Dial.

In a smart manner Dial.

Piglike animal of the Southwest.

Pig-like South American animal

Piglike South American mammal

""The trade of a peddler, also PEDDLERY, PEDLERY""

""The trade of a peddler, also PEDDLERY, PEDLARY""

Like Tabasco sauce

Hot and spicy

Hot and pungent

Breach of trust

Breach of faith

Disloyalty

Lying in a case, perhaps

Crime of lying under oath

Offence of lying under oath

With a lot of spunk

A contraceptive device worn in the vagina

Get rocky (wordplay)

Paralyze with fear

Immobilize, as with fear

A tribal unit among primitive peoples

""To make frantic, also FRENZY""

Enclosure for boars and sows

Farm producing pork

Encourage one back to look nosily around farm

Old punishment frame

Assail; old punishment frame

Expose to ridicule

A place for fishing

Type of session

With all members present

Full in all respects

A red light - just picture that!

Describe in words

Act the part of someone in a drama

Perhaps fiddling around on one wheel

Firing line (wordplay)

Some arts and crafts

'Chickens and ducks, say (7)'

Geese, ducks, etc.

Chickens and ducks, e.g

Mendicant's vow

Lack of money etc

Wolf at the door.

Like fresh dry snow

In fine dry particles

Like some suspicious substances

Annoyingly self-righteous

Given to tedious moralising

Prone to sermonize

Bishops yet to be upbraided (wordplay)

See, perhaps

Church office.

Are such pears thin-skinned (wordplay)

Like a hedgehog - easily offended

Difficult taking wrench into work

First state (wordplay)

Church office quick to seal off border

Authority moving quickly to seal border

Early part of a big race (wordplay)

Early part of a race (wordplay)

Of chief importance

In excellent style. Colloq.

In excellent style.: Colloq.

In an A-1 way

Heretofore

Victim of an invasion (wordplay)

Freedom from public attention

Freedom from intrusion

In a privy manner

Private knowledge

Mug taken in by compassion and honesty

Honesty, decency

Complete honesty

Youngster of exceptional abilities

Amazingly talented child

Mozart, as a child.

Immediate descendants of a person

Issue for year, filled with information

Sons and daughters

In a face-down manner

In a prosy manner

Study of verse

Science of versification

Subject of some literature dissertations

How a peacock struts (wordplay)

In a self-satisfied way, maybe

How queens die.

Snoop's full of insulting primness

Prig's affected modesty

Extreme modesty.

""An ancient stringed musical instrument, also PSALTERY""

The bloom of life (wordplay)

Changing time (wordplay)

"Raging hormones" period

Having the tendency to pucker

Hyperbolic advertising

Hype

In a pursy manner

Present judge and jury finally go off

Go off to serve tea without a fry-up

Go off and set about heartless fairy

In a trifling way

Early morning biker, maybe

Kid on a bike (wordplay)

News caster (wordplay)

Spectator not stopping (wordplay)

Man in the street

Non-stop walker

In the manner of a patron

Den party (anagram)

Excessive concern with detail

Display of learning

Hawking.

A receptacle developed as an open cup

Alternative word for a sudden change of fortune, especially in drama

{sweaty=adj}

Drug dealer's science (wordplay)

Where chemist works fast to dress wound

Hurt when in lively shop

A bract of certain plants

Another's work presented as one's own

Artist in current denunciation

Literary theft

Resembling plaster

Complaint is purely fabricated

Inflammation of the chest cavity

Disease of the lungs

The work of a plumber

In a multiple sense

Not a singular sort of friend in the end

In multiple style

Sole-searching, maybe (wordplay)

Sole-searching field (wordplay)

Corn specialty (wordplay)

Quality of opposing powers

A field may have one

Trend in a specific direction

The common supporting structure of a polyp colony

Penetrable quality of skin

State of being permeable

State of permeability by fluids

In a porus manner

Hard igneous rock

So as to be capable of being carried

Pertaining to {drinking=n}

In a preppy manner

Gild the lily, maybe

Make superficially attractive

Make dainty in a finical way.

One way to smile

In a pleasing way

With grace

Clerical writer (not English)

Like some vestments

Like a churchman, as author said

Smug self-righteousness

Behavior a la Elsie Dinsmore.

Disproportionate moralism: one's fitted up in perjury, beginning and end of it

Lavish (like Charles?)

Magnificent or munificent

Like some sums

Publishing shop

Job that takes precedence

Matter of greatest importance

What the head of the house takes

In a prissy manner

In all likelihood

I expect so

At a guess

In a tediously lengthy manner

Professional lady accepting kiss with a lot of tongue

With no delay or hesitation

Without delay or hesitation

With little or no delay

In a seemly way

In the right way

According to Miss Manners

Owned item(s)

Possessions (and a tax)

A characteristic of houses, say

Perhaps that's all for the telling

Divine message of what is to come

Oracle's stock-in-trade

See what's in the cards, maybe

Reveal through divine inspiration

Foretell - portend

In a provable manner

Without doubt

In a prying manner

Plucked instrument; play rest (anagram)

Dulcimer's kin

Dulcimer's cousin

Talking heads' opinions

The giving of expert opinions

What talking heads are paid for

{punitive=adj}

{pupilar=adj}

Art of manipulation (wordplay)

Handy work in a theater (wordplay)

Show of hands (wordplay)

In a putrid manner

The scientific examination of materials by heat

The larder contains mature display

Show time in the butler's room

Spectacle taking long time in food store

Isn't commonly included in unusual reply that's artistic, in a way

Reading between the lines!

Handyman's work (wordplay)

Method of fortune-telling

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

PARLOUS dangerous

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Athenian relationship custom

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Government by five persons

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Obsession source (wordplay)

Art of scent-making

Be livid when probing drink's source of aroma

Line acting as a boundary

Surrounding region

Outer limits

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Numerousness

Juicy, blackish fruit

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

Among the people

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

POURING the act of pouring

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Suppliant; beseeching.

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Preying on others

Given to plundering.

Falsely portrayed as being rapacious

Like introductions

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

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