2-Letter Words Starting with P

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One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

Like the surface of the moon

Pokiness

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Poppycock

Portapack

English word

Cancelled in a way

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

PRANKISH mischievous

Mischievous ones

Prebook

Precheck

Parboiling

Prefrank

PACKAGE to put into a container or wrapping

Prepack

Preshrink

Presoak

Pressmark

Presswork

Model prices kilt - that's the most irritating thing!

Currier or Ives

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Psalmbook

Puckery

Adjective meaning resembling

Pacemaking

A. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Like dime novels

Papermaker

The process or craft of making paper.

""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.""

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

Peacemaker

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

Peacocky

Peckerwood

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

Periwinkle

Perkiness

Perovskite

Antonym for "unconcerned"

Adjective meaning resembling

Adjective meaning resembling

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Pickaback

Picketboat

Divers strike supporters surrounding pit

Some thieves

Person paid per item produced

Piggyback

Pigsticker

The act of hunting for wild boar

PINKISH somewhat pink

Pinprick

Pitchfork

Placekick

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

Decorative interior mouldings

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Playmaking

Clutches, for example

Go klepto in the paperback aisle (wordplay)

Purses

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Pockmark

Take a jab in the produce aisle (wordplay)

Politicker

Politick

Postmark

Precheck

Prefrank

PACKAGED package

Prepackage

SHRUNKEN shrink

""The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.""

Printmaker

""The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.""

Prokaryote

PROKARYOTE

Promptbook

Provoking

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Punkiness

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Painstaking

Papermaking

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Passagework

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pawnbroking

It's calm at most ends of the pitch, as they separate those causing trouble

Those calming things down in 21 across working in the zoo

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Peakedness

Perestroika

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

Phrasemaker

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Pickaback

Pickaninny

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

PIECEWORKER piecework

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placekick

Plasterwork

Platemaking

Pluckiness

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

PRANKISH mischievous

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

Premarket

PACKAGING package

Preshrink

Printmaking

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Pumpkinseed

Packability

Packinghouse

In a most careful way

In meticulous style

Capital removed from country, betting on pound and yen with great care

See distemper 1 .

Parkinsonism

Peacekeeping

English word

Phrasemaking

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""Minute, free-floating aquatic plants.""

Pickerelweed

Pinkishness

Poikilotherm

Adjective meaning resembling

Prickliness

Brain

Supposed ability to move objects by mental effort

Moving things by mental force

Puckishness

Pumpernickel

Panleukopenia

Phosphokinase

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Prankishness

A. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

PHYTOPLANKTON

Plainspoken

Educational foundation (wordplay)