2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pavilion

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

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

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Acting a part.

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

PHOTOLYZE

Picaroon

Locating exactly

Swiveling, in ballet

PITCHPOLE

Pockmark

PODZOLIZE

POETICIZE

Politick

POLLINATE Pollinose.

Aligning

Locating

Present participle or gerund

Postform

Present participle or gerund

Postmark

Postsync

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Present participle or gerund

Potlatch

Potshot

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Preadopt

FOCUSING focus

Preorder

Proclaim

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

Arrangement for being a 2, possibly, without a lot of grace

Moving forward

Advancing

Prohibit

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

""PROMENADE A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.""

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

""PROPAGATE To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree. as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.""

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

Setting forth (an idea)

PROROGATE To prorogue.

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.""

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Looking for gold

""PROSTRATE Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate prostrate""

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

PROTONATE

Protract

Paradrop

Partition

Representing in human form

Quibbling

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Photomap

Photoset

Photostat

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PLASMOLYZE

POLEMICIZE

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

CHROMING a chromium ore

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.""

POPULARISE

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Preallot

APPROVING approve

Precensor

COMPUTING compute

DISPOSING dispose

Prefocus

Premodify

Premonish

Prenotify

Preoccupy

Preordain

SUPPOSING suppose

Prevision

PRIORITIZE

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

PROLOGUIZE

""PROMULGATE To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.""

Study ace (wordplay)

Checking printed text for errors

The Royals' employee checking passage

PROPITIATE To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.

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

Protocol

Provision

Pussyfoot

PARFOCALIZE

Role passing in moves focusing on individual qualities

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

Photograph

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOREDUCE

PHOTOSTAT

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

ANNOUNCING announce

CONCEIVING conceive

Preconcert

In control.

FORMATTING format

Premoisten

NOMINATING nominate

Preportion

Winning, before bands break into song

Taking gang in critical setting

Crucial to keep gang looking good

Preprocess

Preprogram

One's no good after foolish vanity in stretching before cast

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

Multiplying rapidly

How the professional life is reckoning to be spreading around

Proportion

PROSELYTISE

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

PHILOSOPHISE

""PHILOSOPHIZE To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.""

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

PHOTOCOMPOSE

""The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.""

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PICTORIALIZE

POLITICALIZE

PORCELAINIZE

Posttension

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

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

PROGRAMMING program

PROPAGANDIZE

Work of a full-time contortionist (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phrasemonger

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.""

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

PROVINCIALIZE To render provincial.

Treating on a couch, perhaps [38 points]

Studying on a couch (wordplay)

So, zany chap lying around, listening to one on the couch (wordplay)