2-Letter Words Starting with P

They bear heavy burdens, so include supporting frames in case (wordplay)

Packness

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

Game resembling squash

Lakeshore rental, perhaps

Lake rental, maybe

Propel canoe or larger craft

""A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.""

Paddock

Padlock

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Paganise

Paganizer

Paganize

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Paillette

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

English word

Litters of the Orient.

To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Paleness

Palimony

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palladium

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETISE

Palletise

PALLETIZE

PALLETIZE

Palletize

Kippers on these? Mostly wan plonkers

Mattresses given by Greek character for collection of complete idiots

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Palliator

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palmation

""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.""

PALMETTO a tropical tree

Palmitate

Green-trunked shrubs

Palpation

Trembled

Quivered

Palpitate

Palsgrave

The state or quality of being paltry.

Biology ()

Panbroil

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pancreas

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""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.""

Pandanus

Some apple pies

Deep-dish apple pies.

Apple treats

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Panelling

Sweet loaves on Christmas tables (PA)

Fruity Italian breads

Italian sweet breads

PANGENES pangene

Transmission theory accounting for rotary engines keeping in step

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Strips of land, as in West Virginia.

Long, narrow regions of Texas and Florida

Panicky

PANICULATE

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Pansophy

Pantalone

Outdated men's wear

Disguise not on, as pal in trousers

Baggy trousers gathered at the ankles

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

In some common women's office attire

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

""Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.""

The process or craft of making paper.

Paperwork

Papeterie

Papilloma

Papillote

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

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Paraffin

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Paragon

Two charts (wordplay)

Bar chart and scatter diagram

New ones are usually indented

Attorney's aides

Parallax

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

""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.""

Paralyse

Paralytic

Paralyzer

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Team with spare over taking runs, boundaries

A charge concealed by fiddling preset boundaries

Limits

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paramylum

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARAPH to {initial=v}

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

PARAPODIA

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

""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.""

English word

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

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

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Like fleas and ticks

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathion

Two scout groups (wordplay)

Unit of infantry soldiers

Soldiers to be dropped by parachute

Partly cooking

""PARBUCKLE 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.""

Parbuckle

Parcel

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

Paregoric

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Parentage

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parenting

Spent laser (anagram)

Parfleche

Parflesh

Parget

Pargyline

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

Like a sudden outburst

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Parrakeet

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Parritch

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

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

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Duct, for instance

Die when embracing Georgia in corridor

Goodbye to the outside, going in to die in alley

Fares going up on flights (wordplay)

Go by the greens (wordplay)

1 across is not expressly for them

Having to go by Ireland, 'e's perching with them

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

PASSIVATE

Passivate

Passivism

Passivist

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!