2-Letter Words Starting with P

Member of the paparazzi for short

Picture taker, briefly

Snapper (wordplay)

Timber in builder's scaffold

Not the skirting (wordplay)

Out of breath decorating? Not I!

Perhaps trousering what's out of breath

Hairline fracture (wordplay)

A result of splitting hairs (wordplay)

Splitting hairs (wordplay)

Giving it stick with a pain at last

Awful beating causes Pop pain

Kindergarten occupation.

Striking lightly

Touching gently

Stroking gently

Bombarding with snowballs, for example

Like a hard rain

Hitting, as with hailstones

Kind of zoo

Stroking a dog or cat

Stroking a puppy

Pith

Marking with small hollows

Placing in direct competition

Removing seeds

Feeling compassion for

President's one association with Ruth

Looking witheringly on apparently good fastening

*Thin metallic layer

Armor of a sort

Chromium use

Turning left, asea

Transferring, in a way

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

Plant nursery activity

Activity in some nurseries

Gardening task

Expressing displeasure with the lips

Looking grumpy

Showing pique

Cackler's specialty

Going on patrol, initially, with sailor

Running off at the mouth

Kicking (a football)

Play mainly for defense

Skill in golf, for placing

What to do on 5 down

Placing action on the green

Putz

Oil, for example

Just picture losing breath about one

Very eager to put one in the picture

Going out around end of day

End of the quote

Enjoying oneself at a do

Seamstress's task, maybe

Fixing jeans, perhaps

Patine

Pestle

Dwindling, with "out"

Dwindling, with 'out'

Quibble over trifles

Poet with gift for sorting out quibble

Quibble with gift poet arranged

Pettle

Snapping

Picot

Doing a jet job.

Important skill on shipboard.

At the helm of

Using without paying royalties, say

Henry Morgan's activity: 17th century

Stealing, in a way.

Putting up (a tent)

Make a contribution with good setting up

Carlton's craft

Spinning good election (wordplay)

Swivelling or revolving

Taking turns

Anything that is braided

Align tip for weaving hair

Making braids

Putting into ground for growth

Placing in the ground for growth

Farmer's chore

""Plaited braid, also PLAITING""

Place with restaurant activity that's folding

Excuse a little colour without energy, maybe, on box

Conspirator's activity

Cabal's work

Novelist's concern

Fainting, as from surprise

Direction for one loading Aussie skip

It's more filling between courses

Indicating renovation to the brickwork

Putting forth as fact

Advancing or retreating, it is in bad odour

Postulating

Following the taking of a drug

One of Franklin's fortes

Run of books

You get all types in this trade

Pupate

Pasting (glass into position)

Start 1 and 9 across with a knot around the pane

Place this, with making a knot around the pane

Packet

Palpate

Palter

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

Ornamental plasterwork

Mindlessly repeating

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Pastor

Pasture

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Sound of rain on the roof

Pectize

Pellet

Pelter

Peptize

Permute

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

Philtre

Phonate

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Forming mental images of

Pipet

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Plight

Pocket

Poetise

Poetize

Contaminating

Portage

Porter

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

Pother

Fiddling around with work on the wheel, perhaps

Making progress unhurriedly - like Harry (wordplay)

Little talk sounds so loose

Talking too much

There's little talk of the piano sounding as if there's something loose in it

Preact

Antecedent to

Perhaps coming before not being a vegetarian

Making an appointment in advance may be the death of one

Pretape

Adorning (with "up")

Gussying up

Pretype

Priest

Probate

Profit

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Causing, bringing about

Pronate

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

Athrob

Vibrant.

Dawdling

Printer's job

Palliate

Parget

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Joining forces

Patinate

Patinize

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Peculate

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

Permit

Perorate

Continuing to exist

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

Perturb

Pervert

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Philter

Pigment

Pistol

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

Plateau

Platoon

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Populate

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Portion

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

Postfix

Present participle or gerund

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Poultice

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

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

Precast

Precent

Precut

Predict

Preedit

Supplanting

Oven-ready act

Warming up

Prelect

Prentice

Prepaste

Doing a demo of

What is the hostess doing giving out (wordplay)

Gift in fourth programme is for working in television

Preset

Presift

Presort

Pretaste

Acting quietly, get dinner served

Claiming that the last of it's lasting

Role-playing before acting like shepherd

Pretest

The act of alleging as an excuse

Preunite

Before sounding off (wordplay)

WRITING the act of {recording=v}

Proctor

Project

Prosect

Guardian's job

Protend

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

Puncture

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

Putrefy

Sports See pacemaker .

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Beating with excessive rapidity

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Jumping from a plane

PASSIVATE

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

PERENNATE

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

""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.""

Acting a part.

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

Phantasy

PHOTOLYZE

PICTURIZE To picture.

The act of hunting for wild boar

Locating exactly

Swiveling, in ballet

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Plaister

Present participle or gerund