2-Letter Words Starting with P

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASED crease

DEFINED define

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Predrill

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Prefrank

Early primate

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Prelimit

Bought before the official release

Intentional

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

Prewrap

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Proglottis.

Fed the computer.

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""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.""

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protocol

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Like dime novels

Paradrop

Paragraph

Parallel

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

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

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Like much yogurt and apple juice

lamb's place

""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

Womanized

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

""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

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).

CHROMED chrome

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

""-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

English word

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

Protocol

Supplied with food.

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCALIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

""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.

Photograph

PHOTOREDUCE

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.""

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

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

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

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

PICTORIALIZE

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

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