2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pauperism

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pauperize

Paupiette

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Peculator

Oddly

They have pupils

Teachers striving ultimately to cut rampant dope usage

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

Places to live the high life (wordplay)

Many of Trump's tops (wordplay)

Confined quarters (wordplay)

Penultima

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Eternal, lasting

PERDURE to continue to exist

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Perfusate

Perfusion

""Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach.""

PERILOUS dangerous

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

""Pl. perineuria (-n r - , -ny r -) The sheath of connective tissue enclosing a bundle of nerve fibers.""

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

PERJURE to make a perjurer of

Changeable

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Persistently harassed

Tormented

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

Causes to suffer

Ill-treats

Harasses intrinsically cute Swedish leader

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Perturb

Pesthouse

Petiolule

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

Petulance

Querulously

Matchmaker's supply

Number 15, Venus anadyomene

Element used in making matches

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

Phototube

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

Navigator's place

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

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Piquancy

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Pitiful

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

Plateau

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Heaping dish

Mammals stay supple after exercising

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Places of amusement.

Theatres for the actors from the D?il and Seanad

Theatres where they now indulge in games of bingo

Pleasure

Plenitude

English word

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Pleurisy

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

A little money plus good fortune goes to one's head but gives one courage

Spunk

Tough customers

Plumbery

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Plunderer

Spoliative.

Pillaging

PLUNDER to rob by force

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Pluralism

For them living is not enough

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Pluralize

""Plushier , plushiest Resembling plush in texture.""

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Plutonium

Pneumonia

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

Smoke, waste chemicals, etc.

Pollution

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

Over matey (wordplay)

Having more than one wife or husband

(adj.) able to play multiple opponents at the same time (said of chess)

Polygonum

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Industrial-revolution creations

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

The quality of being porous.

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Portulaca

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Like new work from writer, now late

English word

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""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.""

Potassium

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Poultice

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Pourboire

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Pourpoint

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

Poussette

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Poxvirus

Practicum

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

CALCULI calculus

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precious

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Counteracting in advance

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

COMPUTE to calculate

Forerunners

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Precut

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

Prefocus

Prefocus

Prejudger

Prejudge

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelature

Prelusion

Shells that explode too soon

MEASURE to compare with a standard

Prenumber

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Childhood stage

Prepunch

Prepunch

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

To require beforehand.

Full of presages; ominous.

Presidium

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Attempt to coerce (into doing something)

Coerce journalists to rebel, supporting United

Prepare, as an aircraft cabin

Prepare, as a bottle launcher

Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true; that seems entitled to belief without direct evidence.