2-Letter Words Starting with P

PROTONATE

Protract

PULVERISE

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

Putting up wall covering

Paradrop

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

Parallel

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

Partition

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

""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.""

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Representing in human form

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

""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.""

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

CHROMING a chromium ore

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.""

Preachify

Preadmit

Preallot

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precensor

COMPUTING compute

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

DESTINING destine

Predigest

DISPOSING dispose

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

Premarket

MEASURING measure

Premodify

Premonish

Prenotify

Prenumber

Preoccupy

Preordain

PACKAGING package

REQUIRING require

Prescreen

Preselect

Preshrink

PRESSURISE

PRESSURIZE

Prestress

SUPPOSING suppose

Prevision

PRIORITIZE

Cruising in a privateer.

The best in show champion taking first place

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

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCALIZE

Taking part (in)

""Strolling or walking around; as, in the field we met some perambulating veterans.as, in the field we met some perambulating veterans.""

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

PERSEVERATE

Role passing in moves focusing on individual qualities

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Photograph

PHOTOREDUCE

Playwright

ANNOUNCING announce

CANCELLING cancel

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

CONCEIVING conceive

Preconcert

In control.

FORMATTING format

MEDITATING meditate

Premoisten

NOMINATING nominate

Preportion

Winning, before bands break into song

Taking gang in critical setting

Crucial to keep gang looking good

Preprocess

Preprogram

PURCHASING purchase

Prequalify

SCHEDULING schedule

SENTENCING sentence

Presignify

Prespecify

Presweeten

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

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

""PREVARICATE To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. as, he prevaricates in his statement.""

Boxing for money

Boxing

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.""

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Pamphleteer

PARAMETERIZE

PARENTHESIZE To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

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

""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.""

PICTORIALIZE

PORCELAINIZE

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

Inflected form of DESTINATING Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Inflected form of DETERMINING Inflected form of DETERMINE To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

""Inflected form of FABRICATING Inflected form of FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

""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

Choosing classes early

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

Inflected form of STRUCTURING Inflected form of STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

PROPAGANDIZE

Work of a full-time contortionist (wordplay)

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

Phrasemonger

Put into the required shape beforehand

Preestablish

Preinterview

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.