2-Letter Words Starting with P

Excessive butt on one lass!

Grip load (anagram)

Wasteful - gold pair (anagram)

Relating to a proem

A flammable gas

Pertaining to a certain chemical group

Engaging plan (wordplay)

Offer (of marriage)

Suggestion (of marriage?)

Relating to a prosoma

White House observation (wordplay)

The right stuff (wordplay)

Formal code of primitive army officer

Full of pride

Relating to a provirus

Situated close (to)

Nearest or next

At the near end

Of puberty

Pertaining to the pudendum

Blow round the fungus, White

Swell dance skirt

It gets a big head

Pertaining to a {pulpit=n}

Time-sensitive (wordplay)

Arriving on the dot

Bang on time

Pertaining to a {puparium=n}

A type of ball-game

Pertaining to {pygidium=n}

Pertaining to {pyrexia=n}

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

Resembling a famous garden.

Like heaven or Eden

Edenic

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

A book of the saints and martyrs

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

The Scarlet - (Orczy)

Leslie Howard's was scarlet

(Scarlet) plant of the primrose family

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Like a category of mammals

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plateful

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

""Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.""

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

Adjective (-al)

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

Speaking up (wordplay)

Very devout

Devout

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

COITAL relating to coitus

FEUDAL pertaining to an ancient political and economic system

Of or pertaining to the prepuce.

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

Having a garrison

Of Truman's office.

TRAVEL to go from one place to another

Pleb raver wildly preceding action

Primatical.

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Having a sixth sense

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

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

Game resembling squash

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

PARAPODIA

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

PARENT to act as father or mother

Like a sudden outburst

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Pathetic.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

PERIHELIA

PERIKARYA

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Illusory

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

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

PHEROMONE

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

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

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Heaping dish

POCKETS pocket

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Having many faces

With many plane faces

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

PHENOL a caustic compound

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Full of presages; ominous.

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

PROCAMBIA

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

PROSTOMIA

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Constituting a pattern.

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

""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.""

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

PANTROPIC

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Of EMS treatment

Like leeches

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

PEDOLOGIC

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Of or pertaining to penology.

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

PEROXISOME

Self-righteously hypocritical

English word

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pertaining to a planetoid.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Situated behind the cranium.

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Adjective (-al)

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

PUBERTAL of puberty

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

TERMINAL an end

VISIONAL imaginary

Probationary.

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""