2-Letter Words Starting with P

Ready to say "cheese"

Sat for one's portrait

Assumed the position (wordplay)

Pretentious type taken to court, say

Fraud - dupes (anagram)

False start (wordplay)

Broke down in English class (wordplay)

Broke down a sentence

Analyzed a sentence.

Pash

'Brought into effect, laws perhaps (6)'

Got a C, perhaps

Tried a bomb, perhaps

Beat decisively, say

Affixed in a scrapbook, say

Father's boy? 25 must be!

Waited for a laugh, say

Stopped benefit coming into home

Took a breather in walk round function

Peise

Gradually eased (in)

Discontinued (with "out")

Discontinued, with "out"

Course of action (wordplay)

Gut course (wordplay)

Sweats might be worn during it

Directed a cry of contempt at

All set (to)

Far from fidgety

Ready to pounce

Put on the bulletin board, say

Put up or sent out

Let 'er get scent, by the sound of it

Forced to stand up inside Palladium

Used a lever on

Levered open by spider

Wrote an essay, say

Did ordinary writing

Spoke in a dull manner.

Woodlouse, perhaps, messing up cop's ID

Used a blender, maybe

Went "ntss ntss ntss ntss"

Throbbed, as an artery

Puckered, as lips

Gathered into small folds.

Drew together tightly

More than encouraged

Gave a shove

Lobbied (for)

Friend with stricken side is paralysed

How friends die of the shakes

Friends get to die if they're so shaky

""A pea pod, also PEASECOD, PEACOD""

Gave it careful study

Studied with care

Gave the once-over

Ground, as spices

Crushed, as a spice

Pounded prescriptions.

A tropical insect

Put right inside by stages

Expressed in words

Expressed in a way

Dashed or spattered.

Replicable DNA molecule

A structure in plant cells

- to Meet You (James album)

Comparable to punch (wordplay)

Like punch (wordplay)

Not yet proven

Put forward stewed topside

Suggested as an explanation

Penny lifted and commended

People's leader elevated and honoured

Gave high marks to

Already bought and paid for

Offered for purchase in advance

Like reserved seats

Relax, say, after parking in a hurry

How iron was put into service (wordplay)

Done with the iron (wordplay)

Priss

Extolled in hymns

Responded dismissively, in a way

Exclaimed impatiently.

Interjected disapprovingly

More than ready

Like, really excited

Bursting with excitement

""Any of various plant lice, also PSYLLA""

Followed or chased

Dogged US dupe stupidly embracing right

Followed in order to overtake or capture

It's moved by a cam

Link to open valve in internal combustion engine

It opens valves in internal-combustion engine

Passage

A frequency band that transmits efficiently

ID (to access computer)

Old men perhaps foil security measure

Dad's saber (wordplay)

Pastor

Allowed to graze, say

Retired from racing

Grazed upon

Doublet front, in Shakespeare's day

Type of pod

A pod, archaically

Perfuse

Each one discarded went off

Extremely cold - died - rotted

(Of rubber) forty three

Constantly bothered by deer pets

Disciple keeps St Edward irritated

Annoyed no end

A chemical compound

Shot.

A type of high energy particle

Shaped prose with edit? That's not right

Done in a la Hamlet's father

Like some arrows or pens

Dipped in inee

Cutback, one she had smoothed over

Free from imperfections

Central European editor is accomplished

One sent home after spade, maybe

Contest entry, perhaps

Army-base cut-up?

Emily footed the bill (wordplay)

(Of letters) with no stamp required

(Of mail) charged for in advance

Put on airs

Copped an attitude

Struck attitudes of proudest sort

Dig discovery variable

Archaeological relic, maybe

Pottery fragment; the drops (anagram)

Shoots flock or piece of clay (wordplay)

Defined exactly

Summarised

Based (on)

Explained beforehand

Foresaw - red pages (anagram)

Red pages (anagram)

Foreseen before: artist making comeback

Turn aside in thought.

Withdraw attention

Consider independently.

Lived softly in the chair (wordplay)

Wielded the gavel

Acted as chairman

Paid to describe abstract thought

Supposed that something is the case

Took for granted

Previse

Ordained

Solid with parallelogrammatic faces

Solid with trapezoidal sides

Confined, in dialect

Undertook (to do something)

Some drip gets spilt - guaranteed!

Dim prose may be expected from this

Asked for a hand (wordplay)

Intended (to do something)

Nominated, put forward for consideration

That had them beat!

Beat the heartless lads up cruelly

This was beating, but not with the blows

Gave what for

Imposed a penalty

Penalised because I got rid of the joke

Purpose

Having a pustule

Paganise

Fenced in

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Containing parsley

Subjected to punishment

Put at a disadvantage

Peru deals in Scotch - is made to pay for it

Paid a retiree

Percuss

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

Phrensy

Physic

Pistol

Planish

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Pleasure

Plenish

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Taken over ownership (wordplay)

Owned - by evil spirit (wordplay)

Victimized by bad spelling (wordplay)

Followed in time.

Like some checks

Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques

Appended

What an off-putting way to have behaved!

Put off, but not deterred (wordplay)

Put off, but not deterred

Perfectly proficient (wordplay)

Carried out or rehearsed

Expert forced to accept work

Precess

How some wallpaper comes

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

Pretest

Like some new jeans

Refined (of food)

Sorted out changing press code

Put something through a series of stages

Avowed

Prognose

Prolapse

Prosect

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Legally acquired

Bought

PALLETISE

In some common women's office attire

Like fleas and ticks

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Pedestal

PELLETISE

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).""

Phantasy

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

Pigstick

Plaister

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Postform

Cancelled in a way

Postsync

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

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

Prebless

CREASED crease

Lived before

Prefocus

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.

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

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

PRIVATISE

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

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

PUBLICISE

PULVERISE

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

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

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Like much yogurt and apple juice

lamb's place

Pedestal

Stood for

Embodied

Photostat

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLYMERISE

POPULARISE

Preassign

Precensor

DECEASED decease

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

Prefocus

MEASURED measure

Premonish

Prescreen

Chosen beforehand

Like an airliner's cabin

Forced to eat apple, not entirely taken aback, as coerced

Like airplane cabins

Prestress