2-Letter Words Starting with P

Name that doesn't stick (wordplay)

Brand name that doesn't stick (wordplay)

Beatles' "Polythene" girl

Where to get a date (wordplay)

Pilot's place (wordplay)

Grease recipient (wordplay)

Combination locks (wordplay)

To curl (hair)

Head waves (wordplay)

Juicy reward (wordplay)

The best job in orchard (wordplay)

Proof of the pudding (wordplay)

Frost lines (wordplay)

"The Gift Outright," for one.

"To Autumn," for one

Stroller on the Strand (wordplay)

Youth coach in England (wordplay)

Bairn's vehicle

Kind of rose PAth (wordplay)

Kind of rose PAth?

A proper rose (wordplay)

Limo destination, perhaps

Dance with a limo (wordplay)

Senior moment (wordplay)

Proto finish (wordplay)

Liquid part of blood (var.)

Follower of ecto or cyto

Flat-bottomed Norwegian boat.

Scandinavian boat

Dutch barge.

Piece of cut crystal perhaps

Light tool (wordplay)

Piece of cut crystal, perhaps

Prelude right in ode, perhaps

Literary lead-in

Overture's key in concert

The 23rd, for one

De profundis for one

Sunday service reading, perhaps

Here and there (Latin)

Here and there, as in a book

Found throughout the text

Heathen, old style.

Old word for a heathen.

Heathen, once

Skirtlike dress addition

Sport, by choice, ancient Greek attire

Flounce on a garment

Sergio Garcia, for one

Sports prodigy, in slang

Amazing newcomer, informally

Cold liquid (wordplay)

Lump in one's throat (wordplay)

Spit it out!

Plant's food-conducting tissue

Food-conducting plant tissue

Innermost layer of tree bark

Kingdom division (biology)

Basic branch of the animal kingdom.

Chordata, for humans

Top of bird's head: Zool

Vacuum's opposite (anagram of LUMPEN)

General assembly of legislators

Assembly with all members present

Where to stand and deliver (wordplay)

Mike's place

Stage in river's one in rising mud

Organised persecution of an ethnic group

An organised massacre

Hans leaves monographs for mass murder

Ball of tufted wool, on a hat perhaps

Cannon ball (wordplay)

Cannon for Englishmen abroad (wordplay)

A type of mathematical proposition

Pretend to be asleep (with "play")

Pogo, for one

American marsupial (that plays dead?)

Raid the arsenal early

Anticipate a battle

Give early protection

Event in preparation for another (abbr)

Not a heavyweight bout (wordplay)

Four-rounder, maybe

Aversion to slang, say

Insistence on precise usage of language

Strict adherence to rules

Food, especially soft

Uninspiring food for thought

Insipid (mental) fare

A cloak worn in ancient Rome

Large genus of grasses

Series of quatrains.

Similarly derived word

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like 'wisdom' from 'wise'

Word derived from another that has a related meaning, like "wisdom" from "wise"

A system of forcing service.

Carry out (duties)

Carry out (a task)

Do tricks, maybe

Invisible man (wordplay)

That's the spirit!

Illusion (at the opera?)

The technical name for cork

Good article is beginning to monitor key activity

Old Lutheran movement

Old doctrinal Lutheran movement

Hypocrisy and spite I'm battling

Traveller (who made Progress?)

Vanbrugh's original settler (wordplay)

Visitor to Mecca or Graceland, say

Conifer plantation upsetting mum and pop

Area of land where conifers are grown

Conifer plantation

A parasitic worm

The doctrine that space is fully occupied by matter

Old-fashioned word for lead

Obsolete word for lead

Hair goo for men

Latinised word for hair-ointment

Fragrant hair dressing

The life of Leo (wordplay)

John Paul II's tenure

John Paul II's reign

Preceding a sudden expansion of business

Give shape to in advance

Shape in advance

Make ahead of time

Cover charge (wordplay)

Payment for quality (wordplay)

Extra cost of something in short supply

Do some editing in advance

Remove fat beforehand

Heat in advance, as an oven

Something wrong (wordplay)

Gordian knot, for one

Difficulty (these days, of any kind)

Give instructions to, say

Get with it!

Something to get with (with "the")

An isotope of hydrogen

""The rank of a pasha, also PASHADOM""

Principle of not striking (wordplay)

A rejection of war

Dove's movement

The chanting of a paean

Go mad dancing with Pan - a sure sign of this (wordplay)

Belief; man as pig (anagram)

State religion under Emperor Julian

To heat hens this is enough

{malaria=n}

Typical example or model (of something)

Example or explanatory model

Model or example for rapid agm

A substance used as an antiseptic

The state of having male and female sexual organs near each other

Sudden outburst, of coughing say

Sudden uncontrollable fit

Sudden uncontrollable attack

""The rank of a pasha, also PACHADOM""

A wing membrane of a bat

Private property

Foot-shaped.

A swinger making time (wordplay)

An old time swinger!

Old time swinger (wordplay)

""A fruit having a fleshy interior and a hard rind, also PEPO, PEPONIDA""

A region of plant tissue

Outer layer of a plant stem

The outer coating of the spore carrier of a fungus

The region between genitals and anus

Worship of the phallus as symbolic of nature's creative power

Ghostly figure - man's path (anagram)

Worker taken in by PM has silly illusion

Vision of man's path being troubled

That indentation in your upper lip

Upper-lip groove

Pertaining to an order of birds

A herbicide

One trillionth of a gram

Resembling a hair

Puff piece (wordplay)

It comes out of a bowl

Very thin arm or leg

""Pear-shaped, also PYRIFORM""

Resembling peas in size and shape.

The contour of an object as viewed from above

""A part of the shell of a turtle, also PLASTRON""

Bandstand, for one

What candidates stand on (wordplay)

Sole policy (wordplay)

Type of blonde; best-selling (record)

A metal found in choice precious metal

Chart-topper's prize

Site of noisy games, perhaps

Day care center feature

Place for recreation

It's used to pluck, a guitar say

One for plucking guitar

One might help one pick out a tune

"The very identical thing itself."

Redundancy plan some found upsetting

Use of more words than necessary

Lead poisoning

Element named for Marie Curie's homeland

Radioactive element in pitchblende.

Curie named it for her native land

Shark's habitat (wordplay)

Bad place to scratch (wordplay)

Place to play nine-ball

Bane of elitists

U.S. political movement: 1891-1904

Appealing to the masses

To shape subsequently

A persistent erection of the penis

""Prim adherence to convention, also PRIGGERY""

Announce officially or declare publicly

Trumpet virtuoso's profession

Broadcast favouring assertion

A hard outer plate of an insect

Unpoetical idiom; or passim (anagram)

Unimaginative style

The seed of the fleawort

An excessive flow of saliva

The external genital organs of a woman

What happens in rings

The art of boxing

Boxer's area

A pupal shell

Doggies, collectively

Doggies, collectively.

An insect's tail-plate

A stunted or dwarfish condition

Pear-shaped

""A type of seed vessel, also PYXIS""

Hippo, say (wordplay)

Rhino or hippo, say (wordplay)

Elephant, hippo etc

Theatrical element (wordplay)

London theatre element

Element; London theatre

Readiness to believe in all or many gods

Belief that God is in everyting

Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment

""A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.""

""The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.""

Penury

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Bad ideas (wordplay)

Gloomy view of life

Tendency to take a gloomy view of things

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Pictorial photograph

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

See babesia .

Like network; complicated.

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

Banal bit of versification

""A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.""

""A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.""

Silvery-white metallic element

Its symbol is K

Mineral in bananas

Type of course work undertaken to supplement academic studies

Ruling body in U. S. S. R.

Malenkov, Beria, et al.

Soviet high council.

Sarah Sanders spot

*White House conference site

Where the fourth estate gets briefed

Monaco, for one

Rank of Charles or Andrew

Jurisdiction of Charles or William

PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

English word

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

A growth over the cornea

Juvenility

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

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

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

""Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.""

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

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

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

See Phallism. Phallism.

A plant that produces seeds.

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

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

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

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

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

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

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

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

""(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 ]""

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

Code in advance

PRESENT to introduce

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

""Pl. principia (- - ) A principle, especially a basic one.""

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

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

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Birth

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

The quality or state of being parallel.

PASTORALI

Having the form of a patella.

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.