2-Letter Words Starting with P

PALLETIZE

Trembled

Quivered

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

In some common women's office attire

""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.""

Like fleas and ticks

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

PASSIVATE

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

Pedestal

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Persistently harassed

Tormented

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Phantasy

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Light used by pro cameramen

PHOTOLYZE

PICTURIZE To picture.

Pigstick

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Plaister

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

POETICIZE

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

PONYTAIL a hair-style

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

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Potlatch

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

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Prelimit

Preprint

Imprinted beforehand.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

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

PRIVATIZE

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Proglottis.

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

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

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

PROROGATE To prorogue.

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

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

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

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

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

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

Pedestal

""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

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Photomap

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

Photostat

Pitchfork

PLASTICIZE

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLITICIZE

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Preadmit

Saved for future use

COMPUTED compute

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Predigest

NOTIFIED notify

Chosen beforehand

Prestress

PRIORITIZE

Marauded, in a way.

Made a killing, say

Made money, in a way.

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

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

Protocol

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

PARAMETRIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

""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

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

Past tense or past participle

Photograph

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOREDUCE

PHOTOSTAT

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Brought about

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

DOMINATED dominate

FORMATTED format

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premoisten

NOMINATED nominate

Preportion

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

SENTENCED sentence

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Avoided coming to the point

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

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

PHOTOCOMPOSE

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

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PICTORIALIZE

POLITICALIZE

Posttension

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

Inflected form of DESTINATED Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Decided in advance

Set in advance

Ordained

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Inflected form of PONDERATED Inflected form of PONDERATE To consider; to ponder.

Preregister

SANCTIFIED sanctify

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

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

Backing arranged, having acted as solicitor

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.""

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

PHOSPHORYLATE

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Precondition

Preconstruct

Preestablish

Preinterview

Engaged in timely theft (wordplay)

Put off action

Forecast

PROPORTIONATE Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

PHOTODUPLICATE

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PINEALECTOMIZE