2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Jerky cousin (wordplay)

Native American dried-meat concoction

Staple of old Arctic explorers

Brass container (wordplay)

It holds a lot of brass (wordplay)

Brass building (wordplay)

Plant substance

Type of falcon variable

Type of falcon Var.

Type of spring tide

Like very close passage, as with fabled flyer going by wild cherry

Amendment impetus, maybe

Request (often by many)

Request, maybe signed by many

A chemical compound

A poisonous gas

A chemical compound

Alternative to "rapscallion!"

Pirate ship

Pirate perhaps still gets broken oar working

Certain major leaguer in ads (wordplay)

Jim Palmer in TV ads (wordplay)

Billy Mays, notably

Pitchman

Basketball center, for example

Basketball center, at times

One playing under the hoop, often

Pivotman

Priest to thrash male civil servant

British spoils-system beneficiaries

Food for whales (wordplay)

Board not up for school food (wordplay)

Board weight (wordplay)

Pal at inn (anagram)

A hollow nut found in ordinary fruit

Firmly fix one in fruit

Turtle's bottom shell.

Torso-protecting armor

Doctor patrols with new pad to protect chest

Minimise the importance of (something)

Make light of drama not working

Make light of

Non-U (wordplay)

Of the common people

Vulgar 'bleep' in a broadcast

""A small pointed object for plucking guitar strings, also PLECTRUM, PLECTRE""

Aquatic vegetation

A type of vacuum tube

Soldier at the head of a patrol

Go-to person

Forefront figure

Pointman

Having cut back course, one's afraid

No, L Troop does not want such a coward

Utter coward

Old place to learn, with Australian, about an aquatic invertebrate

It for one has a place in a broken spoon

Is it one place in the spoon (wordplay)

With it I have a place in 16 across

Sub-atomic particle

Particle one found in smashing protons

Antiparticle of the electron

Following a burn

Occurring after one's teenage years [adj] / a young adult

Bartender's product

One can swig a pint, too

Drink - a magical one ensnaring volunteers

A finely divided material used to make cement

Tidy up ahead of time

Tidy up for the maid

From a time before man evolved

Before mankind's time

Earlier than the appearance of man

The first name of an ancient Roman

Preshow

Certain newspaper employee

Urge fellow to become reporter

Correspondent put squeeze on husband

Galley slaves (wordplay)

Workers in paper hats

Urge fellows to become journalists

Number of book copies made

Circulation calculation

Discipline beforehand.

A union beforehand

""Phallic, also PRIAPIC""

Next (French)

""Nearest in time, relation or degree, also PROCHAIN""

A simple protein

Structure forming the entrance to a temple

A simple protein

In behalf of organized labor

Like a Teamster, presumably

A hallucination

Mushroom drug

Substance used in treating acne

One who'd give you wallop (wordplay)

Man behind bars (wordplay)

British tavern keeper

Drink a very long time - one has several gallons

Might C. ask for boxing, by the sound of it (wordplay)

Change starter in midday meal for quite a few gallons

Punishment

The act of {pupating=v}

A reddish dye

Depress

Like a pygmy

Shoulder-borne litter for one person

Box carried on poles

Scheme to kidnap adult one of five in litter

""PALMATE resembling an open hand, also PALMATED""

'Feeling' in a laptop programme

Stock comic character

Man's sixth age

On to a plan about Columbine's father

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

Insecticide containing phosphorus and sulphur

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Small enclosure on rough Alpine land surface that's denuded

Step on men, strangely, to get to the flower

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

The act of perfusing.

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

A gradual reduction.

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

An old Spanish silver coin of the value of about twenty cents.

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Geologic process of erosion

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Fold.

Plutonic.

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

Inflected form of FROZEN Inflected form of FROZE freeze

A prelude or introduction.

Occurring before the Renaissance, for example

An idea arrived at beforehand.

Made dean and prior decide in advance

Decree in advance

De Niro part almost recast for 'Doom'

RETURN to go back

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Add salt before the game (wordplay)

Training time for ballplayers

Like some exhibition games

Citizen of Transvaal's capital.

Glimpse of the future

Foresight shown in quiet homework

Power to see future change under leader of party

A state without essentials of life

Hardship from lack of essentials

Absence of essentials

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Faulty foot posture

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

PRORATE to divide proportionately

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

""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.""

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

""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.""

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

Orbital position nearest the sun

Orbit point closest to the sun

Old MacDonald had an orbit's closest point...

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

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

A mere point about saturation

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

See acetophenetidin .

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

English word

English word

Technique for making people appear as animations

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

English word

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

""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

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Regular change in direction of an axis

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

EMPTION the act of {buying=v}

""The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.""

A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company.

MOISTEN to make {moist=adj}

PORTION to divide into shares for distribution

SWEETEN to make {sweet=adj}

A claim or aspiration (to something)

Show anxiety before changing places

Claim tin-openers had been damaged

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip