2-Letter Words Starting with P

Supposed - tie up vat (anagram)

Commonly accepted as such

Supposed or reputed to be

A chemical salt

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Spangle or sequin

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

A salt of palmitic acid.

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Commedia dell'arte character

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

Fish wrapper

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Granite

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

PERBORATE

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

PERENNATE

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Tavern owner, for example

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Resembling a leaf

Petechia

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

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

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Total physical appearance of an organism

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

A salt of phosphorous acid.

English word

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

To picture.

English word

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

English word

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PLACATE to conciliate

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

English word

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

BATTLE to {fight=v}

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Group of clergymen

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

STRIKE to {hit=v}

In grammar, the past tense

Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3

Expressing past time.

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Tending to advance

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

To prorogue.

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

English word

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

To palatize.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

PANICULATE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

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

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Lousy, literally

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

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

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

Spice-yielding evergreen of Peru [1]

*Ornamental evergreen

Ornamental evergreen

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

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

""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.

Rock containing olivine

PERMEATE to spread through

Changeable

""(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

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

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

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

""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.""

Sensor in a CD player

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Navigator's place

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

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

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

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Adjective meaning resembling

All around the world

All over the world

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

English word

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

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

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

""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.""

POSTDEBATE

English word

English word

Make powerful

Bird painter circling round pass

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

COMPUTE to calculate

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

STORAGE a place for storing

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

PRIORITIZE

Variant of prokaryote .

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient