2-Letter Words Starting with P

Premeditated.

Writer among peers with diversion that's intentional

To place beforehand

To price beforehand

Wet before washing, maybe

Prepare for the dishwasher, perhaps

Wash lightly in advance

To record the sound before filming

Impressive manner (of a person)

Being there (with an impressive manner?)

Bearing gifts for the listener

Quietly order kipper (wordplay)

Jam in pupil's first book!

Conservationist's field (wordplay)

To shape beforehand

To slice beforehand

Harry from Persuasion (wordplay)

Kind of cooker

Tire gauge readout

Collapsed spire - get standing!

Standing the pig with the steer

Succes d'estime

Sample of what's to come

Early sample

Ten creep (anagram)

Mere ostentation variable

False show hiding reality

Something done for show.

It's only make-believe

False show of something.

To unite beforehand

Strait-laced girl's flower (wordplay)

Flower that makes proper wine (wordplay)

Flower on a pleasant path (wordplay)

Brother of an Infanta.

Abbot's assistant's office

Office of a certain religious leader

Office of the head of an abbey

A chemical compound

Pure - tire spin (anagram)

Is Pinter play unused (wordplay)

Fresh and clean as if new

Likely but not certain

Likely to be the case

Likely to happen but not certain

Old-time dental anesthetic

Dentist's anesthetic

Dental anesthetic

""A foreboding sign of disease, also PRODROMUS""

Forecast, medically

To accumulate sediment and hence advance seaward

Slip out of place (medical)

Slide out of place

Slip out of place Med.

Poor glue (anagram)

A novel start (wordplay)

Introductory section (of, eg, a play)

A rope used for pulling a gun carriage

Beneficiary, of sorts

Contract law figure

Party to a promissory note.

To {proclaim=v}

Tending toward

A form of virus

The first stage in mitosis

Put off supporting scoundrel

Suspend professional prankster

End a parliamentary session.

Gland inclined to Erastianism (wordplay)

Gland about the size of a walnut

Organ in favour of the government

Portico; lost pyre (anagram)

Greek portico not in amateur fashion

In favour of chic for Greek portico

Plants start to excrete enzyme

Substance in body supporting rib

Digestive enzyme

Special female ward (wordplay)

Ms Ward (wordplay)

Girl given patronage

""A nitrogenous organic compound, also PROTEIN, PROTEID""

A water-soluble protein

Stick out, project from surface

Old maid carrying rhubarb stick out

Stick out, project from a surface

Able to be demonstrated

Meriting a "Q.E.D."

Capable of being established

Ontario, for one

Backing Cable's department (wordplay)

Munster or Leinster, say

Brown property of redness in copper

Shrewdness in planning ahead

Care and thought for the future

Covered with whitish dust, as a plant

Like a rose bush

Prune packed without the skin

Pam times processing of sandstone

A general term for sandstone

Rock composed of pebbles (geol.)

Pteryla

Pain to me (anagram)

Food poisoning from a pimento (wordplay)

Food poisoning cause

Up, up with a horse over a lough to go on ahead

Pertaining to {fleas=n}

An agent used for destroying fleas

A porous volcanic rock

Like a pump

Pointlike.

Flat cause, perhaps

Cause of flat needing repair (wordplay)

Hole (in a tyre)

Kind of damages, in law

Intended to inflict punishment

Inflicting penalty for an offence

Learning so to get one in the eye at a time

Acquire grip (wordplay)

Buy tea in container for cash

How Alaska was acquired from Russia.

Weed with pink, fleshy stems.

Weed with pink fleshy stems.

Portulaca plant in salads

{catlike=adj}

Supposed - tie up vat (anagram)

Commonly accepted as such

Supposed or reputed to be

A simple sugar

A flammable liquid

""To decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

A dye

Mineral found in igneous rocks

A chemical salt

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Spangle or sequin

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

A salt of palmitic acid.

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Commedia dell'arte character

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

English word

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy...

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

A person who has pedophilia.

Granite

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

A nearly flat land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion.

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

""An oxide containing five atoms of oxygen in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. as, phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5.""

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

PERBORATE

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

PERENNATE

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Tavern owner, for example

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

Keep at it, like Percy Holmes (wordplay)

Continue (against odds)

Serve peer (anagram)

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Resembling a leaf

Petechia

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

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

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

English word

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

To picture.

PIDGIN a mixed language

Type of mathematical function

English word

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

English word

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Adjective meaning resembling

PLACATE to conciliate

PLACE to assign to a position

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Like some court cases

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Make sibilant, perhaps