2-Letter Words Starting with P

Very minutely downy.

Publicist

Puckery

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Puncture

Punditry

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Adjective meaning resembling

Puppetry

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Pustulant

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Putrefy

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Putschist

Puttyroot

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Pyelitis

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyrethrin

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyrethrum

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Instruments measuring high temperatures.

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""

Leaders in their fields

Cutting-edge people

Leaders of the pack

Sports See pacemaker .

""One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.""

Pacificist

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

Packthread

Some are shaped like swans

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Painful

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Palatalize

Natives of Germany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Palimpsest

PALLETISE

Palletizer

PALLETIZE

Palliation

Palliative

Palmistry

""The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.""

Beating with excessive rapidity

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Eulogists

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Milquetoasts

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

""Pl. papillomas or papillomata (-m -t ) A small benign epithelial tumor, such as a wart, consisting of an overgrowth of cells on a core of smooth connective tissue.""

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

Paramagnet

PARAMETRIZE

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

Like leeches

PARASITISE

Parasitise

Parasitism

PARASITIZE

Parasitize

Parasitoid

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

Parenthood

""Body, Human , Perception""

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

Parotitis

Parquetry

""The quality or state of being partible; divisibility; separability; as, the partibility of an inherttance. as, the partibility of an inherttance.""

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Potentially dangling verb forms

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

In a partitive manner.

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASSIVATE

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

Passivity

Pasteboard

Pastellist

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Like much yogurt and apple juice

Dairy apparatus.

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

Pastiness

PASTORALI

PASTORALI

Pastorship

lamb's place

Patchboard

Patchouly

Having the form of a patella.

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Benevolent despot

Paternity

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Patination

Fancy bakeshop items

Mushy peas I resist in shops

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Patriciate

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Patrimony

Patriotism

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Patroness

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronymic

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Peacocky

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

Peasantry

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

Pederasty

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Pedestal

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Pediatrist

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pediculate

Pedicurist

The process of soil formation.

Pedologist

PEDUNCULATE

Psycho and others

PELLETISE

Pelletizer

PELLETIZE

Pellitory

Pendentive