2-Letter Words Starting with P

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

The quality or state of being prurient.

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Having a sixth sense

PSYCHOS psycho

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Psyllium

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptyalism

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Puppydom

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Adjective meaning resembling

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

Purvey

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pygmyism

Pylorus

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

Pyrolyse

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Pyrolyze

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyze

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

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

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

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Pyrostat

Pyroxene

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Pyruvate

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Pachytene

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Biology ()

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

Paralyse

Paralytic

Paralyzer

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

Paramylum

Paranymph

PARAPH to {initial=v}

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

In a parental manner.

Pargyline

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

Like a sudden outburst

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

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

Duct, for instance

Die when embracing Georgia in corridor

Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley

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

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

They may cut the checks or call the shots

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Oddly

Pelecypod

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.

With remorse.

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.penny cress.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pennywort

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

PERDURE to continue to exist

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

Perigyny

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

PERIKARYA

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

PERILOUS dangerous

Perilymph

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

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Relevance

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

Querulously

Phagocyte

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

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenytoin

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

""The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

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

Photoplay

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

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

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

AMA members

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Physic

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Poisonous to plants.

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

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Hauls truck trailers on freight cars

Treats for children.

Having color

Pillory

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Without mercy

Cruelly

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

PLANGENT resounding loudly

PLANLESS without a plan

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

English word

Property of a brain (wordplay)

Mammals stay supple after exercising

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Companion in children's games

Companion in childhood

Friend in frolics

Playfield

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)