2-Letter Words Starting with P

Kicked up, as a fuss

Put out like Vanbrugh's wife

Harassed professional, very fine editor

One who {provokes=v}

Tries to get a rise out of

Goads or incites

Stirs things up: that's fine in shows

Gathered into small folds.

Prepared to kiss - managed rude peck

Wrinkled

One that {puckers=v}

Pugmark

Retreat, withdraw

Strain on part of the body leading to retreat

Squashes questions about 2 for example

Large pulpy orange fruits

Force families to eat at Halloween

Like a pump

Punky

{catlike=adj}

Pyknosis

""A shrinking and thickening of a cell nucleus, also PYCNOSIS""

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYCNOTIC""

One in the lead.

Are pack, perhaps, keeping me back? Certainly not!

Producer of artificial rhythms

Pachinko

Packager

Shipping-room activity

Boxes, wrapping, etc

Wrapping or container

English word

Packet

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Packsack

Packwax

Paddock

Bolted (of gate)

Secured in a way

Secured, as a cellar door

Discomfort with provocative dance reported as an act of touching up (wordplay)

Dad employed to collect Ford's model car's treated surfaces

Landing a plane trickily

Panicky

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

Pannikin

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

Daily assignment (wordplay)

Dealing with documentation

Clerk's concern.

Peak rates (anagram)

They don't build love nests

Pet shop birds

Parakite

""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.""

Recreational spaces

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Parroket

Golf pros (wordplay)

Those who share

Sharers

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Pashalik

Balanced reading materials (wordplay)

Hurl some reading material (wordplay)

Revision aids issued by building societies

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Peacock

Peekaboo

Source of some jail violence (wordplay)

Folders in pockets

Dull little cutters

Sluices or floodgates.

Floodgates

Penuckle

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

Betty Boop quality

Spark

Resembling a leaf

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

English word

Physic

Choose one of the players for the ride

One way to shoulder the job of team selection

Act as a football selector - see this in celebration after goal (wordplay)

Pickadil

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

Pickax

Pickeer

Fresh-water fish

They're a striking group

Striking figures

Strikers would be the same at Lord's, taking credit for pressure

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Pickwick

Picnic

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Pigstick

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pincheck

Pinken

Pinkroot

Petty annoyances

Small irritations

Tiny irritations

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Adjective meaning resembling

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

Planking

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Adjective meaning resembling

Playback

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Plowback

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

Something to do with a turkey claiming 'e's least like a chicken (wordplay)

Subtle thieves

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Pocket

Finally check third of bomb shelters, after officer returns with scars

Juicy, blackish fruit

Pokeroot

Purple-berried plants

Politick

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

Porkwood

English word

Portapak

Mailing-date indicators

Official cancellations

Certain cancellations.

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

Prebake

Prebook

Precheck

How frankfurters are typically sold

Like Spam

Parboiled

Prefrank

MARKET to offer for sale

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

SHRANK shrink

Treat (a garment) before use so it keeps its size

Like treated jeans

Sanforized

Treated a stain, in a way

Wet, before washing

Like many a stain before washing

Printer's sign.

To put pressure on Labour - how is that the job of the media (wordplay)

STRIKE to {hit=v}

Pricky

Pricking

Prickly

Make a small hole in fish, causing sensation

Princock

Provoker

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Sunday text

Puckerer

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

In a mischievous manner

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Adjective meaning resembling

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

Adjective meaning resembling

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Some race action

Packboard

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.

Paddock

Padlock

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

Paintwork

Panicky

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

The process or craft of making paper.

Paperwork

""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

Parrakeet

Patchwork

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEACOCK to strut vainly

PEAKED peak

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

PERIKARYA

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

Tiny seafood item - purplish-blue shade

Plant with five-petalled flowers

*Edible sea snail

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

Phenakite

Photomask

Physic

Pickaback

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

Pickaroon

Pickeer

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Alfresco enjoyment

Gets a bite lying on the grass with a royal garden party host (wordplay)

Piecework

Hauls truck trailers on freight cars

Treats for children.

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

Adjective meaning resembling

Pinchbeck

Pinkness

Pinprick

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

Makes the extra point in football

Gridiron events.

Adjective meaning resembling

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Print-shop employee

Key men, in basketball.

QB's talent

A little money plus good fortune goes to one's head but gives one courage

Spunk

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment