2-Letter Words Starting with P

Penetrance

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

Ones looking at sentences

Pentagonal

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

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

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Pentstemon

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Breath-freshening candies

Oil-yielding herbs

Pungent plants.

""PEPPERMINT An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.""

Peppertree

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Portions

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

PERCEPT something that is perceived

One's ways of conceiving things

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Percipient

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

PERENNATE

PERENNATE

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

Perfection

Perfective

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Perforator

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Groups of igneous rocks

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Perinatal

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the periosteum.

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

Peripatus

Plot reversals in novel

Periphyton

Bodily Functions

Process accompanying digestion

Alimentary motion

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Peritoneum

Plural or third person singular

Is it not ripe for treatment (wordplay)

To inspire it might result in inflammation

Complaint malevolent being has to protest about

Permafrost

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permethrin

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

Perovskite

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Carries out, as an immoral action

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Caused to continue

Perpetuate

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Special privileges.

Fringe benefits

Tips

Persecutee

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Tyrannical people

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Acting a part.

Act of mimicry

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personator

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Stubbornness

Pertinence

Pertinent

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Pertussis

Perverted

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

""Pestbearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. as, pestiferous bodies.""

Pestilence

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Supplicatory; making a petition.

Redress seekers

Folk making request? No respite, it could possibly appear

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

Petrolatum

Petrology

One versed in the study of rocks.

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

Pettiness

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Petulancy

""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.""

English word

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocryst

Philately

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

I insist help is required to reform such vulgar people

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

Plural or third person singular

Phlogiston

Phlogopite

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

One versed in phonology.

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

Photoflood

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Photometer

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

Photomural

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

Photophase

A dread or intolerance of light.

PHOTOPHOBE

Photophore

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

Pl. phyllotaxies also phyllotaxes The arrangement of leaves on a stem.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

English word

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Piccoloist

Picketboat

Divers strike supporters surrounding pit

Some thieves

Picrotoxin

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.