2-Letter Words Starting with P

Hole-in-the-wall place (wordplay)

Outlet center (wordplay)

Wad, of tobacco say

Stake zero in space rockets

Barrier of stakes

Fence made of stakes

Heaping (up)

Making a heap

Accumulating, with 'up'

Practicing, as a trade

Travelling a route regularly

Working hard at

One of the memorable Four Chaplains

Propelling a raft

Propelling, as a raft

Worker has good bit of grub

Larva limb

Larvae limb

Introductory bit (Var.)

AI computer language

High-level computer programming language

Pouring out the whines

Whimpering

Whining

Timber in builder's scaffold

Becoming wearisome

Magician's skill

Using sleight-of-hand.

Parle

Taking its toll (wordplay)

Taking a toll (wordplay)

Church tower sound

Afterburn effect (wordplay)

Removing the rind

Paying for a sunburn

Bombarding with snowballs, for example

Like a hard rain

Hitting, as with hailstones

Formation of little balls on fabric through rubbing

Finishing second in a horse race

Putting in the first three

Finishing in second

Woodworker's chore

Levelling out and gliding

Shaving not on a human face

*Thin metallic layer

Armor of a sort

Chromium use

In theaters, for example

Participating in sport

As poultry, initially, producing eggs

Readying a field, say

Auto writer's synonym for understeer

Digging up some dirt

Ploy

Priding (oneself)

Receiving (a number of votes)

Removing (horns)

Gallup's trade

Combining, as resources

Combining, in a way

Combining, as money or effort

Extend argument for name being in record

Make more lengthy

Extend in length

Getting a partner rowing (wordplay)

In a tug of war

Dentist's task

Pulp

Athrob

Throbbing

Doing some knitting, maybe

Part of the knitting process

Canoeist's activity

Martinet's activity

Propelling a canoe or walking in water

Palsy

Decor of many dens

Wall material

Wall decor

Releasing, with conditions

Doing a beat cop's job

Letting out, conditionally

""Lace made from silk, also PEARLIN""

Producing a rough surface

Spin class activity

On a tandem, for example

Spinning class activity

Pitching, in a way

Hawker's activity

Pushing, as goods

Furnishing with folks

Inhabiting

Exposing to danger

Pestle

Pettle

Kilt

""A Scots kilt, also FILIBEG, FILABEG, FILLIBEG, PHILABEG""

Preparing, as kimchi

Small and of little importance

Wee weeing

Detective finds theologian with long swimmer trivial

Informally trivial or worthless

Pressure provided by affair is trivial

Of no importance at all

Doing a jet job.

Important skill on shipboard.

At the helm of

Puny or sickly

Tormenting incessantly

Bothering persistently

Bothering incessantly

Complaint

Anything that is braided

Align tip for weaving hair

Making braids

Boards for the scheme of monarchy

Recent fad requiring one to lie stiff

Recent fad

Intending or preparing

Preparation for future

At the drawing board

Putting into ground for growth

Placing in the ground for growth

Farmer's chore

A process of hedge mending

""Plaited braid, also PLAITING""

Making one's case in court

Arguing quietly with principal

Petitioning for parking at the front

Delightful, quiet meadow with grass

Relaxing by empty pool must be agreeable

Nice to be letting it sound soft

Place with restaurant activity that's folding

Excuse a little colour without energy, maybe, on box

Fund-drive goings-on

Frat-bound, possibly

Rush activity on campus

Banjoist's action

Banjo-player's activity

Moving along slowly

Working or walking laboriously

Walking heavily and laboriously

Making self-important remarks about mundane matters

Falling heavily

Conspirator's activity

Cabal's work

Novelist's concern

Fainting, as from surprise

Stripping of feathers

Stopping for advertising

Blocking promotion

System of pipes

Pipes and such

Household water pipes

Plump

Dropping like a rock

Dropping steeply

Falling uncontrollably

Plunk

Task of blue knights

Maintaining law and order

Keeping order.

Bohemian wedding activity

President strangely agin dancing

Frog-to-be

Frog to be

Gill-breathing amphibian

Tadpole

Popple

Prill

Cougar's activity (wordplay)

In search of prey

Psalm

Forming into small pools

An artisanal process for purifying pig iron - or of cultivating rice (wordplay)

Pungle

Ornamentation on the edges of a violin

Bruise discoloration

Like a crossword (wordplay)

Baffling, enigmatic

Baffling, bewildering

Palpate

Palter

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

Heather below window beginning to level part of wall (wordplay)

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Letting ride, as at the track

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

Pellet

Pelter

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

Peril

Philtre

Pilfer

The medicine is gettint too old, so it's robbery

It's robbery when the medicine is getting too old

Pillar

Pillow

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Pleach

Plight

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Poleax

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

Pollen

Contaminating

Thumping.

Little talk sounds so loose

Talking too much

There's little talk of the piano sounding as if there's something loose in it

Prefile

Prelude

Make a small hole in fish, causing sensation

Profile

Prolog

Athrob

Vibrant.

Pummel

Padlock

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Fortifying with fences.

Palliate

Paralyse

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

Partly cooking

Parcel

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Peculate

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penalize

Pencil

Very strange

Discombobulating

With a little preparation back then, the French crossing was puzzling

Philter

Pillory

Pinfold

Pinnacle

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

Pistol

Placard

Planish

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

Plateau

Platoon

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

QB's talent

Pleasure

Plenish

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Spoliative.

Pillaging

Polarise

Polarize

Polemize

Pollard

Beating

Populate

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Poultice

Prebill

Preboil

Counteracting in advance

Precool

Prelect

Premold

Preplace

Presell

Preslice

Like some winds and opinions

Two priests sick, but gaining strength

Most general.

Minor male royalty

Young royal broke pincer taking fish

Pair in church : Heather and a young royal

Prolapse

Prologue

Continuing desire to follow master

Expert sportsman with desire keeping going

Promulge

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Purloin

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

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

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Beating with excessive rapidity

One way to cook meat

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

""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.""

Pavilion

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

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

PHOTOLYZE

Pinwheel

PITCHPOLE