2-Letter Words Starting with P

Flowery term of endearment (wordplay)

Beeline's conclusion (wordplay)

Rosy projection (wordplay)

Degas's "La Toilette," for one

Peach or lilac, say

Baby-blue, perhaps.

Medicated lozenge.

Lozenge.

Lozenge

Look for trouble (wordplay)

Walk a beat, say

Stay on the beat (wordplay)

Alkyl with five carbon atoms

Seabird (that may be stormy)

Far-flying seabird

Seabird sounds like fuel

They say the bird's a shade of blue

Prince Philip's fill-up (wordplay)

Gas over water (wordplay)

Certain cactus (LYE POT anag.)

Mescaline source

An {alcohol=n}

Flower's Saturday-night special?

Part of a flower.

This part of a flower sounds like a gun

Gun first seized by force, not half!

Six-shooter, for one

Glock, for one

""An iron supporting rod used in glassmaking, also PUNTY, PONTIE, PONTILE, PONTY, PUNTEE""

Perhaps do or start with one drink

MSN or Yahoo!

Yahoo, for one

To Alps (anagram)

Bad way to go (wordplay)

Kind of code

Batch of stew

Quantity, as of soup

Amount of soup on the stove

""A hypothetical source of the chemical elements, also PROTYLE, PROTHYL""

Like the "y" in "yellow," phonetically

Like the 'y' sound in 'yes'

Pronounced like "y" in young.

Not entirely biased (wordplay)

Not complete or total, maybe an eclipse

Only some are showing favouritism!

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTREL, POITREL""

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTRAL, POITREL""

Hair weave (wordplay)

Inkwell dipper (wordplay)

Computer problem (wordplay)

An {alcohol=n}

Duck with drink trouble (wordplay)

Duck trouble after drink!

Long-necked duck

Trap in the form of a concealed hole

Danger for the unwary.

Mantrap proves a hazard

Worse than poor

Arousing feeling of sorrow, lamentable

Sorry if tulip is misshapen

Vital op could be this (wordplay)

Of crucial importance

Key friend retaining four books

""A piece of armour for the breast of a horse, also PEYTRAL, PEYTREL""

Engage in hack writing

Write mediocre literature

{pouty=adj}

Knot for human consumption (wordplay)

Contortionist's inspiration (wordplay)

Knot in the stomach (wordplay)

Big, luxurious (accommodation)

Huge, luxurious (rooms)

Spacious and grand

Mom-and-pop (wordplay)

Having to do with mum or dad (wordplay)

Of mom and dad

Of a skull part

Of a head bone

In a region of the skull.

Like Reggie White, perhaps

Regarding river in China? It's rural

Country work that's also part recreation

Pertaining to a pasture

Pertaining to a {patagium=n}

Like old man's chum sheltering a seabird

Like Dad's mate embracing a bird

Kind of ancestor

Three men giving support (wordplay)

Supporting the arts, say

Three little boys may be Georgian

Of the chest, say muscles

Of the chest

Bench press muscle

Base of statue in Leeds apt, perhaps

Stand in the great hall (wordplay)

Stand under a statue (wordplay)

Resembling a pellet

An {alcohol=n}

Large-caliber firearm

A stony ear bone

A volatile liquid

Pertaining to {phratry=n}

Of a horny shell.

All you can eat, maybe

Quantity of food

Thanksgiving buffet quantity

Ace pilot (anagram)

Like Byron's words

Like rhyming works

Common to David Seaman and show jumping!

Bobbysoxer hairdo, perhaps

Swinger at a sock hop, say

Situated behind the anus

Situated behind the mouth

Relating to pose

Relating to bearing or attitude

Humiliating failure (US slang)

Buster Keaton specialty

Circus clown's tumble

Before coming out (wordplay)

Like neo-, but not Ne-Yo (wordplay)

Before making one's debut (wordplay)

Conference before a hearing

Like some attorneys' motions

Before the first witness

""Any of an advanced order of mammals, also PRIMATE""

White House observation (wordplay)

The right stuff (wordplay)

Formal code of primitive army officer

Of puberty

Pertaining to a {pulpit=n}

Time-sensitive (wordplay)

Arriving on the dot

Bang on time

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Like a category of mammals

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plateful

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

""Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.""

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

Adjective (-al)

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

COITAL relating to coitus

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Primatical.

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

PARENT to act as father or mother

Pathetic.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Illusory

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

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

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Heaping dish

POCKETS pocket

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

PROSTOMIA

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Constituting a pattern.

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

PANTROPIC

Like leeches

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

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Relating to descent through the male line

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

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

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

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

English word

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pertaining to a planetoid.

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

Situated behind the cranium.

""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.""

Adjective (-al)

""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.""

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

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

PUBERTAL of puberty

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

TERMINAL an end

Probationary.

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Of or pertaining to petrology.

PHENOTYPIC

English word

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Adjective (-ical)

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

Presbyterian.

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

""Capable of destroying parasites, especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.""

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Adjective (-al)

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

PERMUTATION The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

""Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina. as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.""

Relating to phytochemistry.

Era of history

Of a more recent artistic period

Later period in, eg, art