2-Letter Words Starting with P

Famous British essayist.

th century essayist

Walter -, English essayist; father

Boy's name (maybe blue)

Lord - Wimsey (Sayers)

Guard at a gated community (wordplay)

Speak with intent to deceive

Play false

Act insincerely

Type of label

Slip of gummed paper.

Collagist, perhaps

Previous or current father (wordplay)

One with a flock (of people)

A sport (anagram)

Largely model sales talk (wordplay)

Drum's pitch (wordplay)

Rapid glib speech, perhaps from salesman

Chess klutz

Hailstorm, for example

Snowball fight participant

Throw things at

More high-spirited

Having more sauce

More saucy

Annoy by upsetting Streep (wordplay)

Annoy with frequent requests

Be a nuisance to

One who caresses

Children's zoo patron

Person stroking a cat, for example

Stein composition, perhaps

Tin/copper (utensils)

Alloy of tin

Sorry sort (wordplay)

One who feels compassion

One feeling sorry for another

Inferior race horse

Inferior race horse.

Second-rate horse

Aircraft carrier (wordplay)

That's for one who can carry his drink

Bag man (wordplay)

Notice blogger (wordplay)

Bill for advertising (wordplay)

Bill the blogger (wordplay)

State of agitation

Being quietly different creates a fuss

Much ado about not very much

Might Harry work with clay (wordplay)

Crafty person at a wheel (wordplay)

Harry, Dennis or Beatrix (wordplay)

Sulking pigeon (wordplay)

Obviously unhappy person

Type of pigeon

"Bad Day" Daniel

Bad Day singer Daniel

Bad Day Daniel

Indulger in foolish talk

Famous park in Vienna.

Park in Vienna.

Ancient Roman magistrate (Var.)

Roman magistrate below a consul (Var.)

Ancient Roman magistrate

Professional gambler; client (inf.)

Customer for boatman (wordplay)

Boatman could be one better (wordplay)

Golf club with parking, say

But soft! Say, that's one club

No driver to do the placing, perhaps

Artist's bow tie (wordplay)

Goya, for one

One putting on coats (wordplay)

Peter, the King Cat!

Gasp - the woman's a wild beast!

American feline, for one

Celeb in tabloids, often

Spouse, for one

Silent one, maybe

Fellow tripper, perhaps

Toga-clad frat man, maybe

One who revels

12/31 celebrant

More doughy-looking.

Looking less healthy

More like glue.

Coastal ship of Bombay

Vessel of Bombay and Ceylon.

Ceylon coastal vessel.

One who gives a darn (wordplay)

Peart

Richer, as soil

More smoky, as Scotch

More organically fertilized

A {writer=n}

More Mickey Mouse

More small-minded

Of more interest to a nitpicker

Love potion on cigarette tip, say

Magic potion for Tristan and Isolde.

Love potion

Egyptian bread (wordplay)

Part of an Egyptian pound (Var.)

The kurus of Turkey

Koufax, for one.

Jug from salesperson (wordplay)

Vessel without stabilisers (wordplay)

More sententious

More meaty

Less wordy

Certain hair stylist

Artful lock linker

Cornrow maker

Relating to the sole

Pertaining to the sole of the foot

Podiatrist's adjective

Fern's home (wordplay)

Box for phlox

Pot factory on the outskirts of Exeter

Smear something on a wound (wordplay)

Substance for coating walls

Wall finish - protection for cut

Platy

Dish for fish, perhaps

Dish from Portugal (second of two)

Not the former piano, and that's flat!

Sewing machine attachment.

Sewing machine part.

Sewing-machine attachment

Guy Fawkes, for one

Person making a graph, say

One who schemes

Indicator prepared for one trip

Guide dog (wordplay)

Dog lead (wordplay)

More well-bred

Comparatively civilized

Better mannered

After 1918 or 1945 (wordplay)

Like the late '40s, say

Terrible row past!

Dafter chief about to start row

More eccentric, British style.

Worker in ceramics nailing one more up the wall (wordplay)

Old dealer in game, maybe Texas hold'em, blowing a thousand in the last cut

Less of a good sport

More sullen

Sulking more

The senior magistrate preparing a report

Ancient Roman magistrate

A report shocking magistrate once

Elusive royal minister, followed by John (John Buchan) . . .

Zenger, for one

Epson product, perhaps

Caxton or Zenger

Supervise, as an exam

Pencils down speaker

Testing center employee

Empty pews? Revise hymn book!

Hymnbook of sorts

Part of a prayer book

Edgar Nye for one

Bennett Cerf, for one

Whirred play lover (wordplay)

One who {putties=v}

Painty

One that {palpates=v}

Trifling haggler.

Equivocator gets change through being put out

Equivocator

More miserable friend, one having a go

Smaller, as a sum

More trifling

Mimicker.

Imitator

One eating or drinking

Person who joins in

One has some of a bit of a broken rake

One who pastures livestock

Less consistent in quality.

More uneven, as a lawn

Less regular one going to church embraced by Father

Of the knee

Involving the kneecap

Another name for a knee jerk

Certain D.C. official

Inventor's ally

""A sailing vessel, also PATAMAR""

Fast-talking comedian

""One that peptizes, also PEPTISER""

A structure with a row of columns around all sides

Persistently bothersome person

Nuisance.

Nudnik

Attached to a stalk, in botany.

Of a leaf stem.

Worker with a certain alloy

Certain metal craftsman

He makes metal tableware

A striking figure (wordplay)

Walking man carrying a sign

Striker with a sign

Type of column.

Columnlike architectural piece

Screed about Italy's leader in column

Mediterranean evergreen.

Pyramidal tree

An angler

Fisherman

Pitchy

One who pacifies

Conciliator

To {plaster=v}

An organism that is an element of plankton

One who {plights=v}

Plotty

Magician, at times

""One who poetises, also POETIZER""

Verse writer

More tapered at the tip

Lech Walesa, for one (wordplay)

The heavenly 25 down (wordplay)

Top Warsaw athlete (wordplay)

Scott Rasmussen's occupation

Two pounds included in bill for sampler

Harris, for example

One who doesn't give a hoot

E.P.A. target

Ecologically, the one who should pay

Less slender

More corpulent and porky right after drink

Stouter.

Attitudinizer

Poser

One who moves in an unhurried way

What a talkative, soft, snake!

Person who talks idly or volubly

One talking nonsense

Pop, Billy or Fallen (wordplay)

Wild animal read about in port, perhaps

Quarry prospector (wordplay)

Easier on the eyes

That's better, by the look of it

King in huff; note Queen is more lovely

Private

He gains

Tex Rickard, for one

Don King, for one

One staging a fight (wordplay)

Quicker to give a reminder (wordplay)

Provider of cues

Offstage V.I.P.

A forearm or forelimb muscle

Lifesaving apparatus

It beats pal's tour round

Vibrating piece of machinery

This beats Paul's cryptic rubbish standing on its head!

Covered with pimples

Of skin eruptions

A golfer at home (wordplay)

A golfer at home?

Casual workman

PALLIATE to cloak or disguise

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Patient

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Perfect

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

One who permits.

PERSIST to continue resolutely

One who perverts (a person or thing).

Bowling alley machine.

Bowling alley apparatus

Bowling-alley machinery

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

Positive

Toward the back

Silly tries let in by inadequate back

Later in time.

One who postpones.

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an apparatus that measures the rate of water uptake by a plant or plant part [from Latin pōtāre to drink + -meter ]

He's game to supply you

Dealer in fowl

Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game

""One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.""

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

Choir leader

Queen Anne died despite Johnson's 'most universal genius'

Teacher or principal

Teacher, of old

Teacher

Jeane Dixon, for one

Weather man's role.

Someone who foretells events

PREEMPT to acquire by prior right

HEATER an apparatus for heating

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Church elder

Church minister

Awards show host, perhaps

Here she rules over us, the shower!

Perhaps do nor as one for the show

James Stuart, for one

Not a genuine claimant (wordplay)

Claimant (to a throne)

What Smokey wants you to be, re forest fires

Obviator

Ship quietly corroded in stream

Vessel's solitary lug pronounced

Type of armed ship.

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

Plan alternative cinema equipment

Slide-showing device

Film-showing machine

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

English word

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Concept in cosmology

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

PALLETIZE

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

PELLETIZE

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

One who personates.

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pitiful

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Print-shop employee

Pleasant

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Bee, at times

One versed in various learning.

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

""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.""

""One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc.""

""THEATER a building for dramatic presentations, also THEATRE""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Priestly

Currier or Ives

One producing young

Progenitor

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

One who speaks for another.

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often