2-Letter Words Starting with P

Palpate

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Palpator

Trembling? Drink up and gasp swallowing vermouth

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Palterer

Palter

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Waiting-room reading

Small booklets

Publications that are rarely bound to sell

Long, thin cigars

Slim open-ended cigars

Long slender cigars

Pancetta

Quiz show judges

Game show group

*New Haven alums

Spanish cigars.

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Random mating within a breeding population.

Once-modish frills.

Ruffled drawers

Commedia dell'arte character

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

English word

Readiness to believe in all or many gods

Belief that God is in everyting

Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Temples dedicated to all the gods

Extraordinary classes

Pantofle

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Some office attire

Two-piece ensembles

Clothing associated with Hillary Clinton

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

Fish wrapper

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

Peak rates (anagram)

They don't build love nests

Pet shop birds

Parakite

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Parament

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Average sum or highest (wordplay)

An equal sum overall (wordplay)

Even a horse is of the utmost importance

Like castle walls

Paraquat

Paraquet

Parashah

Two locations (wordplay)

Spongers/rubber areas (wordplay)

The Sphinx and the Parthenon (wordplay)

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

""PARAE a New Zealand fish, also PORAE""

""The mere ranging of propositions one after another, without indicating their connection or interdependence; opposed to syntax. syntax.""

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

Drop-in (wordplay)

Relating to a military group

Specially trained airborne infantry.

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

Ornamental plasterwork

Parget

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Mickey-takers offering censure upset poets

Impressionists in times gone including Rodin? Not quite

Paroquet

Inflammation of the parotid glands.

Parotoid

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

(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

Parroket

Parroter

Mindlessly repeating

Golf pros (wordplay)

Those who share

Sharers

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Opera-house sections

Theaters' rear seats

Orchestra circles.

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

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

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

People who take sides.

Ones taking sides

A sin in bits in bits for the fans

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

Partizan

Teamed up (with)

Teamed up with

United in a twosome

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

PASSIVE a verb form

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

Jet-setters' papers

Canadian travel documents

Polo, archery, soccer

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Perhaps pall, or a sticky state, perhaps

Father's pallor gets Tess around in it

Pall or in the face of it

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Poems about country life

Former Ph.D. tests

Big name in 19th-century fur trading

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Pastor

Deli orders

Deli offerings

Pastromi

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Pasturer

Pasture

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Patency

What Edison and Westinghouse were.

Certain inventors

Successful inventors

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Inventors might contact them

Granters of protection

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Any infectious agents

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Patience

Patient

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Patinate

Acquires a green film

Acquires a green coating

Patinize

Patinize

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Patness

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

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

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

Heritage

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

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

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Sponsor of a social affair

She'll give you support, but not a press

Monica or Veronica

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Pattamar

Fast-talking comedians.

Sound of rain on the roof

In the style of, with "after"

Argyle, say

That's not made it plain

Squash varieties

Some squash

Paucity

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

They're all under more than one foot

They're all at the edge of the street

Get along there by the foot

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

Pebbly

In a peccant manner.

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Pectize

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Pederast

Athenian relationship custom

Cycles round established bases

Stands deep and lasts

Supporters must turn round past Leeds

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Decorative gables

Portico toppers

If I'm on top of the gables, that would be no help at all quite the contrary

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Peetweet

Granite

Pellet

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""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.""

Pelter

Spot the deciders!

They can cause a spot of bother!

Football rule-breaking punishments

Strong likings, predilections

Predilections, strong likings

Inclinations to write church music

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

Make-up artists (wordplay)

Hail Mary sayers

Hair shirt wearers

Penlight

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Ink sources

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Sluices or floodgates.

Floodgates

Tarot suit

Occult stars

Esoteric symbols

Structures like one on the Potomac.

Five-sided shapes

Okra cross sections, e.g

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Pentanol

Pentarch

Government by five persons

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

Pentosan

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

Same as Penult. Penult.

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

Peptizer

Peptize

PERBORATE

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

PERENNATE

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Perfect

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Perfecto

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing