2-Letter Words Starting with P

Preparing for a selfie, say

What model behaviour!

Sitting pretty (wordplay)

Taking apart, as a sentence

Taking a sentence apart

Task in a Latin class

Pash

Making the grade.

Short-lived - death

Making the grade

Giving it stick with a pain at last

Awful beating causes Pop pain

Kindergarten occupation.

Admin worker taking advantage of break

Taking a break

On a break

Peise

Withdrawing gradually, with 'out'

Withdrawing gradually, with "out"

Reducing gradually, with 'out'

Pish

Getting on the ready

Setting in balance

Balancing.

Letters seeing job secure (wordplay)

Pouch used in shipment of mail

Sack for letters

Bulletin board item

Rising to the trot, in manege.

That will mean a new job for the mail

Before a song

Using force on rebellion, ousting leader

Talking dully

Athrob

Throbbing

Puckering, as lips

Schoolyard no-no

Buried, so to speak

Urging a dog to swallow a bone (wordplay)

Palsy

Almost 4 miles, in Persia

Looking at country, celebrate

Studying through employment

More than reviewing

Pestle

Sharp gin (anagram)

Warning from Trebek

Expressing in groups of words

A process of hedge mending

Delightful, quiet meadow with grass

Relaxing by empty pool must be agreeable

Nice to be letting it sound soft

Putting forth as fact

Advancing or retreating, it is in bad odour

Postulating

Following the taking of a drug

Approving prices initially going up

Getting the piano amid applause

Paying compliments is quietly uplifting

Urgent work for the papers, perhaps

Putting the squeeze on what's urgent

That's urgent enough to feel the pinch

Priss

Psalm

Expressing contempt or impatience

Means of intimidation

Following or chasing

Cop's activity re a getaway car

Chasing down

Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways

Pastor

Pasture

Perfuse

Missile one's invested in going west

Bloody cold!

Blasted freezing!

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

Poetise

Contamination or opining so anyhow

Of course that may be the death of you

Playful pig soon in contamination

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

For letters you phone for an attitude

The position is, stick at it before you phone

The attitude is to put it in the letter box before you phone to me

Precis

Premise

This could give an indication of the port ending

It sounds soft, living in the chair

Showing bias before taking the chair

Wielding the gavel

Taking for granted

Making suppositions.

Overconfident

Previse

Priest

Prison

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

Athrob

Vibrant.

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Purpose

Paganise

Fortifying with fences.

Paralyse

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Pension

Percuss

Continuing to exist

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Persuade

Phrensy

Physic

Pistol

Planish

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

Pleasure

Plenish

Polarise

Having groups of friends, sign off

Having power over gangs, turn informer

Having power over Eoin speaking in Gulf

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

Postfix

Present participle or gerund

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

Precast

Precess

Prepaste

Prescore

Presell

Doing a demo of

What is the hostess doing giving out (wordplay)

Gift in fourth programme is for working in television

Before starting a tennis game (wordplay)

Keeping safe

Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam

Preset

Preshape

Preshow

Presift

Preslice

Presoak

Presort

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Pretaste

Pretest

Prewash

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Prognose

Prolapse

Prosect

Prosper

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Sports See pacemaker .

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

PALLETISE

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

PASSIVATE

PATRONISE

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

PELLETISE

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Acting a part.

Phantasy

The act of hunting for wild boar

Plaister

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

Potshot

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

Prebless

CREASING crease

Preexist

FOCUSING focus

Prescind

Advising the use of (medicine)

Prestamp

PRIVATISE

Moving forward

Advancing

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

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""

PUBLICISE

PULVERISE

""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

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Pedestal

Representing in human form

Photoset

Photostat

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

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

POLITICISE

POLYMERISE

POPULARISE

Preassign

Precensor

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

DESTINING destine

Predigest

DISPOSING dispose

Prefocus

MEASURING measure

Premonish

Prescreen

Preselect

Preshrink

PRESSURISE

PRESSURIZE

Prestress

SUPPOSING suppose

Prevision

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

Provision

Pussyfoot

PERSEVERATE

Role passing in moves focusing on individual qualities

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

PHOTOSTAT

Premoisten

Winning, before bands break into song

Taking gang in critical setting

Crucial to keep gang looking good

Preprocess

PURCHASING purchase

SCHEDULING schedule

SENTENCING sentence

Presignify