2-Letter Words Starting with P

Places of amusement.

Theatres for the actors from the D?il and Seanad

Theatres where they now indulge in games of bingo

Key men, in basketball.

QB's talent

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

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

Agreeably making a request one at a time

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

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

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLODDING the act of plodding

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

English word

In a poetic manner.

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Polyamide

Polyamine

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

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

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

Multicolored

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Excessive thirst

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

Multiple-marriage customs

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Over matey (wordplay)

Having more than one wife or husband

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

Polygony

Polygonum

They reveal lies in old college charts

Polygyny

Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia.

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

One versed in various learning.

LYSINE an amino acid

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

""Any of various enzymes, such as DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, or reverse transcriptase, that catalyze the formation of polynucleotides of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of DNA or RNA as a template.""

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Polymorph

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Polypary

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

PHENOL a caustic compound

Polyphone

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Polypody

Polyptych

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Polysemy

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Polythene

Multivalent.

Polywater

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Poppycock

Poppyhead

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positiveness.

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

Postsync

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Fit to drink.

""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

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

PRANKISH mischievous

Behavior ()

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Preceptive.

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Indicative of something to follow.

Victim stabbed by the blinking thing earlier

Rather

In a meaningful or inventive way

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Before birth

PREPARED prepare

An early settlement

In a premeditated manner.

The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.

PRIMARY a preliminary election

Childhood stage

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

Presbyope

Form of long-sightedness

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Elders given squash containing some bits, right (wordplay)

For Church living

Clergy house

Try, by peers, errant body of Church elders

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

SPECIFY to state in detail

How ER doctors give orders

In persistent, demanding fashion

Players bum around, I'd say

In all probability

A plumber's at work above yard doubtless

By presumption.

SURGERY the treatment of medical problems by operation

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

PRIDEFUL full of pride

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Variant of prokaryote .

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

Proenzyme

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

Like an IOU

IOU "note"

and 13: Written undertaking to pay a sum of money

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Propylene

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Proselyte

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

Constituting a pattern.

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Active hallucinogen in funny mushrooms

Drug cultivated in cow poop

Hallucinogenic drug, obtained from the Mexican mushroom

English word

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Psychotic

Pterygium

Pterygoid

PUBLIC people as a whole

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Hound minorities (wordplay)

PURBLIND partially blind

Puromycin

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Putrefy

Puttyroot

In a puzzling manner.

One of the Pycnogonida.

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Pyelitis

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyramid

English word

Pyrethrin

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyrethrum

Pyridoxal

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

""A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes. pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.""

Pyrolize

Pyrology

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

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

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

Pyrolyzer