2-Letter Words Starting with P

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenytoin

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

Philter

Employ both midwives taking blood

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Phonolite

Certain compounds in DNA

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphite

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Photoplay

Copies of a sort.

Certain duplicating machines

Pre-laser print copies

Motion ()

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phototube

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Poisonous to plants.

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Pigeonite

Having color

Pigment

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Immature component of wing

Young plume

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Pinkish rocks

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

Pistareen

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Pistoleer

Pistol

Pitapat

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Technique for making people appear as animations

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Placation

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Placental

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Plaister

Planation

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

PLANGENT resounding loudly

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Members of a construction team.

They leave their coats on the wall

Workers on the surface

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Property of a brain (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Plastisol

Plateau

Sheet perhaps squeegeed

Eating-drinking utensil (wordplay)

Material for eg shop windows

Print-shop employee

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Platoon

Heaping dish

Mammals stay supple after exercising

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Pleasant

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Plenitude

English word

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLIANT easily bent

Plication

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

For them living is not enough

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Plutonium

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Try reading this!

One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

In a poetic manner.

Poeticism

POETICIZE

Poeticize

Pogromist

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Pointelle

Opposite conditions

One drawn to controversy

Politburo

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Politesse

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Politico

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

Smoke, waste chemicals, etc.

Pollution

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

One versed in various learning.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Polyptych