2-Letter Words Starting with P

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Perianth

Like a green gem or olivine.

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

""A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.""

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Peripter

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

Spread into every part of

Spread through

Diffused through

Seeps through.

Diffuses

Allowed, gave consent

It's been let

Authorised instruction to Edward, the hairdresser (wordplay)

Tavern owner, for example

One who permits.

Permute

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Speaks at length.

Harangues.

Discourses

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

Refused to stop

Spider set out and kept on going

Pressed it agitatedly and wouldn't stop

PERSIST to continue resolutely

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Was applicable (to something)

Was relevant (to)

Belonged, but need a trip away ...

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Whooping cough

Pervert

One who perverts (a person or thing).

Eeyore, for one

Gloomy sort, retired teacher is in mood

Glass-half-empty type

They're annoying

Nags

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

Pesthole

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

Resembling a leaf

Petasos

Petasus

Petechia

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Small items charged by requests

They need signatures

Protests on paper with signatures

Petnap

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Scares stiff

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Acts the crooked lawyer

Small-minded behaviour

State of small-mindedness or triviality

Square with Epstein's sculpture 'Insignificance'

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Feet of a pig used as food

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

Petuntse

Petuntze

Pewterer

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Phallist

Apparition

They're in one's head

Haunted house residents

Ghostlike figures

Phantast

Phaseout

Gamekeeper's concern

Game birds with brightly coloured males

Long-tailed birds

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenetol

Salt of carbolic acid

Total physical appearance of an organism

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Land in ancient Palestine

Philter

Philtre

Complaint when hip belt is adjusted

Inflammation of a leg vein

Inflammation of a vein

Phonate

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Pictorial photograph

English word

Photomap

English word

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

Photopia

Waldo Salt supply

Photoset

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

Phratry

One who is phrenetic.

Phthalin

Phthisic

Phyllite

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

They're a striking group

Striking figures

Strikers would be the same at Lord's, taking credit for pressure

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Forming mental images of

To picture.

Fruit wrappers of sorts

They should be flaky

Empty shells in the kitchen

Piedfort

Piedmont

Pieplant

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

English word

Colorful

Pigstick

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Roof-truss supports.

Rectangular columns

Architectural columns

Pilewort

Pilotage

Piloting

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Olive stuffers

Olive additions

Olive tidbits

Pimply

Pinaster

Pinkroot

In a pinnate manner.

Adjective (-ic)

Locates with precision

Aims precisely

Locates exactly

Bowling alley machine.

Bowling alley apparatus

Bowling-alley machinery

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

Pintado

Piosity

Briar sections

Bowl attachments

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Pipet

In a stimulating way.

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Pisolite

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Pistache

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

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

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Pistol

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Pitchy

Plays to prevent steals

English word

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

Succinctness.

In double-bottomed baked goods, dilute concentrated substance

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

PITYING pity

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Plaister

Braids

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""