2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pasticcio

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Pastness

Cantatas on rural themes.

Compositions with rural themes

History/brewed beverages

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Clergyman's terms

Late talks for groups of clergymen

Fathers' offices

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

Pasturage

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Non-uniform quality

Patchouli

Patchwork

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

Pathetic.

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Patient

Patinate

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Patinize

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Chefs in a bakery

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patroller

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

Paupiette

They may cut the checks or call the shots

Post-treaty periods

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Peculator

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Pedestal

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Lousy, literally

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Step counters

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

PELLETISE

Pelletise

PELLETIZE

PELLETIZE

Pelletize

Penality

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Penetrant

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Imbues; steeps

Affects deeply

Enters.

Penitence

With remorse.

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pennywort

Prison warden

Penstemon

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Pentangle

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Places to live the high life (wordplay)

Many of Trump's tops (wordplay)

Confined quarters (wordplay)

Pentoxide

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Penultima

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Spice-yielding evergreen of Peru [1]

*Ornamental evergreen

Ornamental evergreen

Peptidase

Perborate

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Showing acute insight

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Perdition

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERENNATE

Perennate

Providers of finishing touches

Perfect

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Perfusate

Rock containing olivine

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Peripety

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Periplast

Peristome

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Changeable

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Persistently harassed

Tormented

""(tr) to oppress, harass, or maltreat, esp because of race, religion, etc.""

Causes to suffer

Ill-treats

Harasses intrinsically cute Swedish leader

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Persister

Continuing to exist

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Pertness

Perturb

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Perverter

Pervert

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Pesthouse

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Petulance

Querulously

Phagocyte

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

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas