2-Letter Words Starting with P

Proved a will genuine.

Proved valid, in a way

Established as valid, as a will

Treated with irreverence.

Academic dean sacked, treated with no respect

Desecrated

Rotated, as an extremity

Turned face downward.

Bent downward.

Divided fairly, say

Distributed in a balanced way

Charged a certain way

That had them beat!

Beat the heartless lads up cruelly

This was beating, but not with the blows

Pertaining to a {pyran=n}

English word

Paddock

Bolted (of gate)

Secured in a way

Secured, as a cellar door

Paganise

Paganize

Made book marks (wordplay)

Like leaves in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"

Talked at length

Talked profusely

Chatted idly

Fenced in

Palliate

Equipped as a knight of yore.

Equipped for a raid, by the sound of it

Served as a model of

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Immobilized

Like castle walls

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

Allotted, British style

Parget

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

Containing parsley

Teamed up (with)

Teamed up with

United in a twosome

Patinate

Patinize

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

In the style of, with "after"

Argyle, say

That's not made it plain

Peacock

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Subjected to punishment

Put at a disadvantage

Peru deals in Scotch - is made to pay for it

Docked

Spread into every part of

Spread through

Diffused through

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Induced by argument.

Twisted someone's arm, metaphorically

Twisted someone's arm

Was applicable (to something)

Was relevant (to)

Belonged, but need a trip away ...

Petnap

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

PINAFORE a child's apron

Somewhat thick

Stupid.

Having spires

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planish

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Platoon

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

English word

Pleasure

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

Poniard

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

Followed in time.

Like some checks

Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques

Skilled (US spelling)

Ran through charge over action by writer

Met with the band

Perfectly proficient (wordplay)

Carried out or rehearsed

Expert forced to accept work

Prefab

Warmed beforehand.

Coming from Peterhead warmed up beforehand

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

How some wallpaper comes

Preplace

Preshape

Treated a stain, in a way

Wet, before washing

Like many a stain before washing

Pretaste

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Prewarm

Prewarn

Like some new jeans

I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial

Robotic variable

Prolapse

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

Legally acquired

Bought

Pyramid

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

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Trembled

Quivered

Panbroil

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

In some common women's office attire

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

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.""

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

Like fleas and ticks

""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.""

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

Pedestal

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Phantasy

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Picaroon

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Pitapat

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Plaister

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Like the surface of the moon

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Cancelled in a way

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Potlatch

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Preclean

Preclear

CREASED crease

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Preenact

Prefrank

Intentional

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Prewrap

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Fed the computer.

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

PROROGATE To prorogue.

French author not superior, chided and laid low

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Like dime novels

Paradrop

Paragraph

Parallel

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Like much yogurt and apple juice

lamb's place

Pedestal

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Caused to continue

Wearing an underskirt

Womanized

Photomap

Photostat

Pickaback

Piggyback

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Placekick

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Pompadour

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public