2-Letter Words Starting with P

Protend

Proteose

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Proteus

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""Pl. protheses (-s z ) Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn," from Latin spina.""

A credence table; so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

""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.""

Diplomat's concerns

Correct conduct code

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Protopod

Concept in cosmology

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Protoxid

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

Puddly

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Pulsejet

Pulsojet

Pumicite

Punchy

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Punition

Pupation

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

""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.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

Gone to the bad

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Putterer

Dawdling

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

""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.""

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

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Pyrostat

Pyruvate

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Pachytene

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Paillette

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

English word

To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

PALLETISE

Palletise

PALLETIZE

PALLETIZE

Palletize

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Palliator

Palmation

PALMETTO a tropical tree

Palmitate

Palpation

Trembled

Quivered

Palpitate

The state or quality of being paltry.

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""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.""

Eulogist

Sweet loaves on Christmas tables (PA)

Fruity Italian breads

Italian sweet breads

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Panicky

PANICULATE

Pantalone

Outdated men's wear

Disguise not on, as pal in trousers

Baggy trousers gathered at the ankles

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

In some common women's office attire

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

Papeterie

Papillote

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Paralytic

""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.""

Team with spare over taking runs, boundaries

A charge concealed by fiddling preset boundaries

Limits

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

English word

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Like fleas and ticks

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathion

Two scout groups (wordplay)

Unit of infantry soldiers

Soldiers to be dropped by parachute

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Parentage

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parenting

Spent laser (anagram)

Parget

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Parrakeet

Parritch

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

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

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

PASSIVATE

Passivate

Passivist

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Pastedown

Certain artists.

Allowed fool to back up heel, an artist

Relate this artist's work is in the past

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way