2-Letter Words Starting with P

""Having narrow arms, but expanding at the ends -- used of a heraldic cross, also PATTEE""

That's a shame!

One of the Stones joins Yes? Shame!

Source of regret in pulpit? Yes!

Hose attachment (wordplay)

Raid leader (wordplay)

Part of a lingerie set

Say Labour do (wordplay)

Say Tories do (wordplay)

Bull Moose, for one

British meat pie

Ashen, as a complexion

Very fair, but not in a good way

In an apt manner

In an apt manner

In an opportune manner

Jerry Lewis film (with "The")

"Absolutely Fabulous" character

Swindler's mark

Burger for one

Burger, for one

Round ground (wordplay)

Resembling a certain fuel

Abounding in a certain fuel.

Like marshy ground, often

Trivial; small-minded

Type of cash in a business

Kind of cash

Pasty extremely tasty? Goodness!

Devotion setting up address? Not yet!

Clerical profession (wordplay)

Short and meaningful as a saying

Short and meaningful, as a saying

Concise as a saying

Like layered soil.

Prefix with -pus

Consisting of flaky layers

Hopscotch by another name

Old name for hopscotch

Another name for hopscotch

Where whiz kids make splashes (wordplay)

Cracked receptacle for liquid (wordplay)

On which an infant goes crazy

Like a models lips perhaps

Like a model's lips, perhaps

Hard to keep up (wordplay)

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

Stop-gap solution (wordplay)

Silly stuff (wordplay)

Silly egg stuff

Covered with paint

Sorry! Go on mate!

Sorry, go on mate

It's mean to be nosey about an officer

Room for dessert, maybe

Grocery store (wordplay)

Small room or cupboard for storing food

All things being equal (wordplay)

Having the same value, as currency

Equality in status

To some degree, not wholly

In some degree

To a point

Pound producer perhaps

Napoleon, for one

Cream puff, for one

Quilt work would be so sporadic

Not of uniform consistency

Irregular in quality

An animal skin

In a saucy way

In a jaunty way

In a smart-mouthed, saucy way

Pork place (wordplay)

Hog heaven (wordplay)

Digs in the mud (wordplay)

Concise and to the point

Black and viscid.

Full of tar

Lots to go with the horn (wordplay)

Good partner (wordplay)

More than enough

""A spiced hot drink [n PLOTTIES] / full of intrigue, as a novel, also PLOTTIE""

'Best words in best order' (Coleridge)

Writer has to test his work (wordplay)

Frost lines (wordplay)

Sharp-edged, maybe

Like Vulcan ears

Having a sharp tip

Any organized state.

System of government

Form of government

Stout that's like red wine (wordplay)

Stout haven by the Lee say

Like Nero Wolfe

Server in an inn

British inn server

Cup-and-ball in past helping child in tavern

Quite fair (wordplay)

Film with Julia Roberts (belle)

Way to sit (wordplay)

Quality of wine improved by filtering

What white symbolizes

What karats measure

Like a tropical or subtropical bird with brilliant plumage

Not quite (there)

Not the whole distance

Not the complete distance

Quality of being obvious

State of openness

Condition of being obvious

Course or route

Well-worn trail

A trodden track

Insufficiency, dearth

Poverty means one is involved in a new pay-cut

Scantiness.

{arrogant=adj}

In a smart manner: Dial.

In a smart manner Dial.

Fine, for one

Fine, for one.

A fine feature in football (wordplay)

Get rocky (wordplay)

Paralyze with fear

Immobilize, as with fear

In an inconsequential way

In a picayune way

In a small-minded way

A tribal unit among primitive peoples

An excessive show of piety

(Expressed) tersely and vigorously

Using few words

Without wasting words, show sympathy, capturing child's heart

A red light - just picture that!

Describe in words

Act the part of someone in a drama

A boy who carries mail

Power; pet cony (anagram)

Strength, as of a drug

It may be determined by concentration

Perhaps fiddling around on one wheel

Firing line (wordplay)

Some arts and crafts

'Chickens and ducks, say (7)'

Geese, ducks, etc.

Chickens and ducks, e.g

Mendicant's vow

Lack of money etc

Wolf at the door.

Private knowledge

Mug taken in by compassion and honesty

Honesty, decency

Complete honesty

""An ancient stringed musical instrument, also PSALTERY""

The bloom of life (wordplay)

Changing time (wordplay)

"Raging hormones" period

Present judge and jury finally go off

Go off to serve tea without a fry-up

Go off and set about heartless fairy

In a trifling way

Itchy pal coming out in spots

Unevenly

How obvious? Very much so!

Without a doubt

In an obvious way

In the manner of a patron

Den party (anagram)

Excessive concern with detail

Display of learning

In a pedate manner

Liability to punishment

Alternative word for a sudden change of fortune, especially in drama

Condition in flowers

Peevishly

An imaginative poem, play, etc

Product of imagination.

Power of creative imagination.

The state of being {pilose=adj}

In a very dark manner

In an unfortunate way

Resembling plaster

Displaying flexibility

With flexibility.

Flexibly.

Sole-searching, maybe (wordplay)

Sole-searching field (wordplay)

Corn specialty (wordplay)

Quality of opposing powers

A field may have one

Trend in a specific direction

Good, in a manner of speaking

In a mannerly manner

In a refined manner

The state of being {polytene=adj}

Penetrable quality of skin

State of being permeable

State of permeability by fluids

So as to be capable of being carried

In a manner pertaining to the mails

Pertaining to {drinking=n}

Kitty on the bike? Yes with spare tyre!

Hardly a six-pack? (h,h)

An outstanding corporation (wordplay)

Pitch it in in poly form with strength

With great force

With a powerful influence

Gild the lily, maybe

Make superficially attractive

Make dainty in a finical way.

One way to smile

In a pleasing way

With grace

Clerical writer (not English)

Like some vestments

Like a churchman, as author said

Publishing shop

Job that takes precedence

Matter of greatest importance

What the head of the house takes

With no delay or hesitation

Without delay or hesitation

With little or no delay

Owned item(s)

Possessions (and a tax)

A characteristic of houses, say

Plucked instrument; play rest (anagram)

Dulcimer's kin

Dulcimer's cousin

Talking heads' opinions

The giving of expert opinions

What talking heads are paid for

{punitive=adj}

Art of manipulation (wordplay)

Handy work in a theater (wordplay)

Show of hands (wordplay)

In a putrid manner

The larder contains mature display

Show time in the butler's room

Spectacle taking long time in food store

Isn't commonly included in unusual reply that's artistic, in a way

In a palatable manner.

PALATAL the bone of the palate

In a palmate manner.

Reading between the lines!

Handyman's work (wordplay)

Method of fortune-telling

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

In a peccant manner.

Athenian relationship custom

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Government by five persons

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Peevish state

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Waldo Salt supply

In a pinnate manner.

In a stimulating way.

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

PITYING pity

PIVOTAL critically important

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Numerousness

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Suppliant; beseeching.

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Preying on others

Given to plundering.

Falsely portrayed as being rapacious

Like introductions

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)

In the near future

The quality or state of being primal.

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Serving for trial; probationary.

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

Wordiness

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

In a parental manner.

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

In a pastoral or rural manner.

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

With remorse.

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

The state of being a person; personality.

Relevance

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Querulously

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Employ both midwives taking blood

PHOTIC pertaining to light

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Having color

Without mercy

Cruelly

PLANGENT resounding loudly

Property of a brain (wordplay)

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

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

Supple quality initially put at risk

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

In a poetic manner.

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret