2-Letter Words Starting with P

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

The writing of plays.

POETICIZE

Politick

POLLINATE Pollinose.

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

Potlatch

Potshot

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

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Preexist

Prelimit

PLANTING a plantation

Preprint

Prestamp

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Prettify

""The artistic design and manufacture of prints, such as woodcuts or silk-screens.""

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

PROCREATE To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

Prohibit

""PROPAGATE To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree. as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.""

PROROGATE To prorogue.

""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""

PROTOCOL to form a draft treaty

PROTONATE

Protract

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

""PUNCTUATE To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.""

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

Partition

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

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.""

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

Quibbling

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Photomap

Photoset

Photostat

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PLASTICIZE

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Preadmit

Preallot

COMPUTING compute

DESTINING destine

Predigest

Premarket

Prenotify

Preselect

Prestress

PRIORITIZE

Cruising in a privateer.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

""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.""

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

Pussyfoot

PARAMETRIZE

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

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

Photograph

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOREDUCE

PHOTOSTAT

Playwright

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

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

Preconcert

In control.

FORMATTING format

MEDITATING meditate

Premoisten

NOMINATING nominate

Preportion

SENTENCING sentence

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

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.""

Pamphleteer

PARAMETERIZE

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

PHOTOCOMPOSE

""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.""

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PICTORIALIZE

POLITICALIZE

Posttension

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.

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.

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

Heavy on the bromides

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.