2-Letter Words Starting with P

Obsession source (wordplay)

Art of scent-making

Be livid when probing drink's source of aroma

Line acting as a boundary

Surrounding region

Outer limits

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Peevish state

PHENE an old name for benzene

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Study of speech sounds

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Waldo Salt supply

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

English word

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

In a pinnate manner.

In a stimulating way.

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

PITYING pity

PIVOTAL critically important

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

PLAYFUL full of fun

Numerousness

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

Juicy, blackish fruit

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

Among the people

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

POURING the act of pouring

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Suppliant; beseeching.

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Preying on others

Given to plundering.

Falsely portrayed as being rapacious

Like introductions

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

MODIFY to alter slightly

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)

In the near future

The quality or state of being primal.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Serving for trial; probationary.

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Wordiness

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

The quality or state of being prurient.

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Biology ()

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

In a parental manner.

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Duct, for instance

Die when embracing Georgia in corridor

Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley

In a pastoral or rural manner.

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Oddly

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

With remorse.

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

PERDURE to continue to exist

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERILOUS dangerous

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Speaking for oneself

For one's own part

Being a friend, in a very private way

The state of being a person; personality.

Relevance

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Querulously

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

Having color

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Without mercy

Cruelly

PLANGENT resounding loudly

PLANLESS without a plan

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

Property of a brain (wordplay)

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

In a poetic manner.

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

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

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

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.""

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Fit to drink.

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

Before birth

PREPARED prepare

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

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}

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Rear area (wordplay)

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

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit