2-Letter Words Starting with P

Walking about, perhaps frustrated

Tempo of a play

Sign of anxiety

Material to protect goods

Filling a suitcase before a vacation

Preparing for a getaway

Peace

Pech

Hierarchy (of hens?)

Reaction to chicken feed

Kind of order

Plucking strings of (guitar, banjo)

Selecting

Eating between meals

Working on a crazy quilt

Uniting into a whole.

Finishing second in a horse race

Putting in the first three

Finishing in second

Pock

Ponce

Evaluating the worth of

Tagging, in a way

Market strategy

Parch

Seamstress's task, maybe

Fixing jeans, perhaps

Peach

Fishing, perhaps, for 32 across

Coarse fish course for 18 down with gin

Insessorial.

Preparing, as kimchi

Picot

Making a hole in (something)

Very cold (wind)

Shrill, as a scream

A large beetle

Stealing, so to speak

That's what a nipper might be up to

Arresting for being tight

Putting up (a tent)

Make a contribution with good setting up

Carlton's craft

Stripping of feathers

Hunting for game or fish illegally

Catching game illegally

Stealing game

Task of blue knights

Maintaining law and order

Keeping order.

Pooch

Pouch

Swooping on prey

(Of horse) moving with high steps

Walking with high steps

Dancing along

A prickly feeling

Means of intimidation

Using a certain abrasive on

Boxer's activity

Hitting with the fist

Purpose of a conciliatory gesture

Calming (baby)

Appeasing

Shipping-room activity

Boxes, wrapping, etc

Wrapping or container

Packet

Landing a plane trickily

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Pectize

Penance

""The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. as, delicate penciling in a picture.""

Pickax

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Forming mental images of

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Pleach

Pocket

Bible-thumping, perhaps

Get to pulp it for to be doing this

Power coming to pulpit activity

Preact

Former priest going bald (wordplay)

Coming before Penny again giving way

Coming earlier, quietly going back

Precis

Precode

Precure

Preceding

Make a small hole in fish, causing sensation

It takes a professional to be getting you well

Getting

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

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

Some race action

Paddock

Padlock

Parcel

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

Peculate

Pedicure

Pencil

Perceive

Percuss

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

Physic

Pickeer

Alfresco enjoyment

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

Pinnacle

Placard

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Poultice

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

Precast

Precent

Precess

Counteracting in advance

Parboiling

Precool

Precut

Predict

Prelect

Prentice

Prepack

Preplace

Preprice

Prescore

Preslice

Minor male royalty

Young royal broke pincer taking fish

Pair in church : Heather and a young royal

On-going course of action

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

Proctor

Project

Prosect

Guardian's job

Puncture

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Sports See pacemaker .

Jumping from a plane

""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.""

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

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Picaroon

PICTURIZE To picture.

The act of hunting for wild boar

Pinprick

PITCHPOLE

Pockmark

POETICIZE

Politick

Postsync

Potlatch

Praelect

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASING crease

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

FOCUSING focus

Biasing

Prepunch

Prescind

Advising the use of (medicine)

Proclaim

PROCREATE To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

""Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. as, a pronouncing dictionary.""

Prohibiting professional writing

""PROSECUTE To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim. as, to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim.""

Looking for gold

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

Protract

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Pickaback

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)

Placekick

PLASTICIZE

POLEMICIZE

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

CHROMING a chromium ore

Preachify

Precancel

Precensor

COMPUTING compute

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

Preoccupy

PACKAGING package

Prescreen

Preselect

Protocol

PARFOCALIZE

Taking part (in)

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOTOREDUCE

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

ANNOUNCING announce

CANCELLING cancel

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

CONCEIVING conceive

Preconcert

Preprocess

PURCHASING purchase

SCHEDULING schedule

SENTENCING sentence

Prespecify

""PREVARICATE To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. as, he prevaricates in his statement.""

A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Procession.

PHOSPHORESCE To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

PHOTOCOMPOSE

PICTORIALIZE

POLITICALIZE

PORCELAINIZE

""Inflected form of FABRICATING Inflected form of FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

Inflected form of STRUCTURING Inflected form of STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

PARTICULARISE particular

""PARTICULARIZE To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Put into the required shape beforehand

Off-putting (wordplay)

Retirement benefit

Hanging back.

""PROGNOSTICATE To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. as, to prognosticate evil.""

PROVINCIALIZE To render provincial.