2-Letter Words Starting with P

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

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

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

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

Stood for

Embodied

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

Womanized

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Photomap

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

Photostat

Pickaback

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

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.""

Pitchfork

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

Delivered strong opinions

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLITICIZE

CHROMED chrome

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Pompadour

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preadmit

Saved for future use

APPROVED approve

ARRANGED arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precensor

COMPUTED compute

DECEASED decease

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

FINANCED finance

Prefocus

MEASURED measure

MODIFIED modify

Premonish

NOTIFIED notify

Prenumber

Totally engrossed (by an idea)

Produce epic novel, when lost in thought

Totally engrossed

Fated to happen

Unhappy acceptance of original order, as decided in advance

PACKAGED package

PREPARED prepare

Prerecord

REQUIRED require

Prescreen

Chosen beforehand

Like an airliner's cabin

Forced to eat apple, not entirely taken aback, as coerced

Like airplane cabins

Prestress

Before alleged, that's taken for granted

Prevision

PRIORITIZE

Marauded, in a way.

Made a killing, say

Made money, in a way.

PROLOGUIZE

Made known

A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

Made peace with

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

Protocol

Supplied with food.

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCALIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

PERSEVERATE

PERSONALISE

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

Past tense or past participle

Photograph

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOREDUCE

PHOTOSTAT

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""

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

ANNOUNCED announce

ASSEMBLED assemble

CANCELLED cancel

Brought about

CONCEIVED conceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

DOMINATED dominate

FORMATTED format

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premoisten

NOMINATED nominate

Preportion

Having a fixed idea

Having mind set on something second-hand apparently

Preprocess

Preprogram

PURCHASED purchase

QUALIFIED qualify

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

SCHEDULED schedule

SENTENCED sentence

SIGNIFIED signify

SPECIFIED specify

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Avoided coming to the point

Procession

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Proportion

Tried to convert

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Past tense or past participle

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Having the head full of confused notions.

Pamphleteer

PARAMETERIZE

Big as Daddy 36 across

Seems as big as one's old man in brackets

That looks as big as a father in brackets

Builder's supply item

Compressed wood item

PHILOSOPHISE

Searched into the reason and nature of things

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

PHOTOCOMPOSE

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PICTORIALIZE

POLITICALIZE

Baked like potter's lay; applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Posttension

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Inflected form of DESTINATED Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Decided in advance

Set in advance

Ordained

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Inflected form of PONDERATED Inflected form of PONDERATE To consider; to ponder.

Planned in advance

Preregister

SANCTIFIED sanctify

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

PROPAGANDIZE

Backing arranged, having acted as solicitor

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

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.""

PHOSPHORYLATE

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Precondition

Preconstruct

Preestablish

Preinterview

Engaged in timely theft (wordplay)

Put off action

Forecast

PROPORTIONATE Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

PROVINCIALIZE To render provincial.

PSYCHOANALYZE

PHOTODUPLICATE

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PINEALECTOMIZE

DIET FOOD CLAIM (wordplay)

Like some fat

Fat parrot talking with extra capacity

MANUFACTURED Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.hand-made.

PROLETARIANISE proletarian

PROLETARIANIZE