2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pictorial

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

PICTURIZE To picture.

Piezometer

Instruments

Pigsticker

The act of hunting for wild boar

Pilothouse

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

Plural or third person singular

""Introduction of fluids into a cell by invagination of the cell membrane, followed by formation of vesicles within the cells.""

""Introduction of fluids into a cell by invagination of the cell membrane, followed by formation of vesicles within the cells.""

Locating exactly

Pinspotter

PIQUANT having an agreeably sharp taste

Piratical

Swiveling, in ballet

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pitapat

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitcherful

Pitchfork

PITCHPOLE

A sorry state

Pithiness

Pitiful

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

Master endocrine glands

Some glands

Pixilation

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Placidity

Cheating types can crush a gal's spirit

Plainchant

Plaintive

Plaister

Planarity

Planchette

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Astronomy ()

Planimeter

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

Once-common Georgia sights

Farms with banana trees

Large farms that were often established as pioneers moved farther west

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

In a plastic manner.

Plasticene

Plasticine

PLASTICIZE

PLASTICIZE

Plasticize

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platterful

Platyfish

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

A. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

Playacting

Theater notables

Dramatists

The writing of plays.

Pleasant

Direct votes

Postwar expedients.

Perhaps primarily it is celebs changing events of political nature (wordplay)

See stonefly .

Person associated with (-ist)

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

Having full power

Plenteous

In quantity

Plentitude

Pluperfect

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Plurality

English word

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

Clutches, for example

Go klepto in the paperback aisle (wordplay)

Purses

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

Podiatrist

POETICIZE

Traditional Christmas plants

Christmas decorations.

Xmas plants

POINTED point

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

Without point.

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

*Skilled debaters

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

More of a quote by William E. Simon

People in smoke-filled rooms

Ins and outs

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

Politicise

POLITICIZE

Politicize

Politicker

Politick

POLLINATE Pollinose.

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Bees are these, for instance, when they travel from plant to plant

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

CENTRIC situated at the center

Polychaete

English word

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

POLYDACTYL

""ESTROUS pertaining to estrus, also ESTRAL, OESTRAL, OESTROUS, ESTRUAL""

Polygamist

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

Polyhistor

Polymathy

""PEPTIDE a combination of amino acids, also PEPTID""

Polyrhythm

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

Polytheism

Polytheist

Polytonal

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Pomologist

Pomposity

Pontifical

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

Population

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Easily carried quality

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Nonsharing

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

Aligning

Locating

Positivism

Positivist

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

Adjective (-ic)

English word

English word

Situated behind the cranium.

English word

Present participle or gerund

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

Posterity

Postform

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Superlative adjective

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postillion

Present participle or gerund

Adjective (-al)

Postmark

Postmaster

Spiritless examinations (wordplay)

Stiff examinations (wordplay)

Nonmusical encores

Postnatal

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

English word

English word

Addendums

Postseason

Postsync

Noun (-sion)

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Postulator

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

Present participle or gerund

The quality of being drinkable.

Mightily

Latently.

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentiate

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentilla

Pothunting

Potlatch

Potshot

Pottering

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Feasible

Realistic

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Praelect

Praetorian

""An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Pratincole