2-Letter Words Starting with P

Wrote one's life history

Wrote a bio of, for example

Sketched a side view.

Gained pecuniarily.

Gained

Supporting, having discovered it's great

Is for turning in the money, being wise

Far-reaching, professional discovered

Prolog

Undertook (to do something)

Some drip gets spilt - guaranteed!

Dim prose may be expected from this

Made vice president, say

Advanced, preparing to drop me

Encouraged the dropout and me to move in

Held cue cards for

Moved punctually given support of journalist

Instigated

Rotated, as an extremity

Turned face downward.

Bent downward.

Propine

Propone

Asked for a hand (wordplay)

Intended (to do something)

Nominated, put forward for consideration

Argue for (idea)

Advocate opposed to the euro (wordplay)

Put forward for consideration

Divided fairly, say

Distributed in a balanced way

Charged a certain way

A part of a crustacean appendage

An {oxide=n}

Made a stipulation, with 'for'

Expert struggled taking day in the event

Made a stipulation, with "for"

Kicked up, as a fuss

Put out like Vanbrugh's wife

Harassed professional, very fine editor

Class of mollusks

Sea butterfly

Mollusk

Gathered into small folds.

Prepared to kiss - managed rude peck

Wrinkled

Nearly without sight - dim-witted

Hardly able to see

Dim-sighted

Like some strains of puppies

Of unmixed race

Pedigreed animal

Cleansed from foreign matter

Cleansed

Purpose

Supplied half clean, changing every day

Riddle, we hear, may be provided

Wasted the golf pro's time (wordplay)

Passed time casually

Worked about casually

Pertaining to a {pyran=n}

A protein body of certain lower organisms

English word

Talked at length

Talked profusely

Chatted idly

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

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

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pedicure

PEDIGREE a line of ancestors

Got it

Sensed

Percuss

English word

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

Did mod prefer rocker (wordplay)

Put on knitted jumper for media

Danced on TikTok, for example

Spread into every part of

Spread through

Diffused through

Allowed, gave consent

It's been let

Authorised instruction to Edward, the hairdresser (wordplay)

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Peroxide

Perpend

In a quandary

Mystify writer at sea

In puzzlement

Refused to stop

Spider set out and kept on going

Pressed it agitatedly and wouldn't stop

Utilized a sauna

Formed beads, in a way

Didn't stay dry

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 ...

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Pervert

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Philter

Phrensy

Pickeer

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

PINAFORE a child's apron

Blazed a trail

Religious individual before day's begun

Led the way

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Pleasure

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

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

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

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

Prebill

Like some bratwursts

Like packaged kielbasa

Prebook

Precent

Precess

Made impossible in advance.

Made impossible

Ruled out note in introduction to Debussy's first

How frankfurters are typically sold

Like Spam

Parboiled

Precool

Estimated what would happen

Made a forecast

Used a crystal ball.

Preedit

Took first (wordplay)

Broken into on TV (wordplay)

Forestalled or thwarted a plan

Prefab

Kind of stock

Kind of stocks

Penny made mention of choice

FILLED fill

Did hesitation set back, if made earlier (wordplay)

Warmed beforehand.

Coming from Peterhead warmed up beforehand

Assessed before having complete information

Condemned beforehand without sufficient evidence

Decided before having adequate information

Prelect

Introduced a show.

Was first performed when empire changed colour

Came out

Premold

Prentice

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

How some wallpaper comes

Preplace

Set costs of articles before retailing

Easy to fold

Gave formally, award say

Be introduced to the current editor

It was given here by the editor

Kept in an unaltered condition

Maintained in unaltered condition

Kept page folded finally under book

Preshape

Preshow

Presift

Like packaged meats, often

Treated a stain, in a way

Wet, before washing

Like many a stain before washing

Like much media mail

Like some mail

Ready for mass mailing

Twisted an arm, perhaps

Exerted influence on.

Constrained

Pretaste

Made believe with intent to deceive

Made believe, feigned,

Put on an act

Pretest

Pretext

Preunite

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Kept from doing

Before one gave utterance to, stopped

Kept from happening

Watched ahead of time

Saw an out-of-town play opening.

Seen in advance, and quietly assessed

Prewarm

Prewarn

Like some new jeans

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

Moved along

Moved forward

How a professional continued to do the sowing (wordplay)

Refined (of food)

Sorted out changing press code

Put something through a series of stages

Supervised

Avowed

Proffer

Prognose

Robotic variable

Scheme news boss threw out

Plan newsman threw out

Jutted out.

Prolapse

Prologue

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

Promulge

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Propend

Prorogue

Prosect

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Protend

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

Proverb

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Legally acquired

Bought

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Pyramid

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

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

Panbroil

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

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.""

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

PERIWIG a wig

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Picaroon

PICTURIZE To picture.

Pinprick

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Plaister

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

Postform

Cancelled in a way

Praelect