2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pound, in Moskva.

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Galvin

British dessert, for short

Such an enclosure - can you beat that!

Money for one whose verse was free

Basic monetary unit.

Some encouragement, you say, is in vain

Like a peacock (wordplay)

Like a peacock, in a saying

Pretentious type taken to court, say

Fraud - dupes (anagram)

False start (wordplay)

Couldn't keep it down

Had a technicolor yawn

Lamented annoyingly

Cried feebly

Cried softly

Waited for a laugh, say

Stopped benefit coming into home

Took a breather in walk round function

Having a feeling of hurt pride

Brought discontent to

Stimulated, as curiosity

Decorated with feathers

Like a peacock

Having ornamental tuft

Not flat, as hair

Fluffed out

Distributed wine, say

Served everyone champagne, say

Worked behind bars (wordplay)

Gave some lip (wordplay)

Made lips protrude in sulky expression

Pushed out lips sulkily

Started the day right (wordplay)

Worked on hedges

Did the hedges

Made cereal, maybe

Made pants (wordplay)

Enjoyed a pipe

Pug

Gave a yank

Drew or tore violently

Took (a proof) on a hand press.

Reduced to a soft, soggy mass, paper say

Mashed, as oranges

Reduced to a soft mass.

Used a blender, maybe

Went "ntss ntss ntss ntss"

Throbbed, as an artery

Forced (a fluid) to move

All excited as she avoided speed hump

Psyched (slang)

Made Berne burn (wordplay)

Emulated Shakespeare, perhaps

Made a corny joke, probably

Gave up the football, in a way

Engaged in equivocation

Bet placed around noon ended void

Pup

Used the Oster, say

Put through the blender, maybe

Made into pulp, say fruit or veg

Went on an unfriending spree, maybe

Penny pressed and cleaned

Freed of all dissidents

Did some knitting

Knitted the other way

Made some knitting stitches

Reacted to petting, say

Sounded contented (when stroked?)

Ran smoothly, as a race-car engine

Puckered, as lips

Gathered into small folds.

Drew together tightly

More than encouraged

Gave a shove

Lobbied (for)

Set free - that's rotten!

Stand clear, it's foul!

Rotten place to clear

Holed a five-footer, say

Got the ball rolling (wordplay)

Made the final stroke, perhaps

Putz

""A hermit crab, also PAGURIAN""

Gave it careful study

Studied with care

Gave the once-over

Fatty

Oily

Drove to distraction

Tormented

Harassed.

Removed the feathers from

Carried on quietly, perhaps (wordplay)

Open no more

Stopped up and plodded on

Delved into prize sack

Measured fruit and garden plot

Made ready for market, as chickens

Filled with air

Made fluffy, as pillows

Took a nosedive

Dashed with headlong haste

Took a dive.

Put (down)

Like a mother kangaroo

Pocketed (wordplay)

Like marsupials

Pouffe

Neutered hen

Plump hen

Sprang (like a cat)

Landed lightly inside on the prey

Attacked like a jaguar

Whacked hard

Hit hard

It was quite a blow to have to give a quid to the editor

Prevue

Puddle

Used a polishing material

Polished with an abrasive.

Like tickets and some stomachs

Hit with a fist

Thumped

Pungle

Made a cocoon

Purfle

Applied a color.

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

Did a glazier's job

Secured, as window panes

Played on the green around one, all around the pane

Confused (solving crosswords?)

Without a clue

At a loss

Allowed to graze, say

Retired from racing

Grazed upon

Paunch

Reduced to poverty

Brought to financial ruin

Very clear and transparent

Clear as can be

Absolutely crystal clear

Having a peplum

Perdure

Placed a sweet aroma on

Through having smoked, is smelling of

With a natural fragrance

Perfuse

Like some trial testimony

Swore falsely

Permute

Imagined, described or drew.

Imagined in one's mind

Had preconceptions of

Churned up (of soil)

Prepared (a field) for planting

Turned over soil

'Like a lark maybe?' Ma gulped in shock!

In fine feather (wordplay)

With feathers

A bird with feathered feet

Like many U.S. rivers and streams

Unfit to swim in

Made dirty or impure

Put on airs

Copped an attitude

Struck attitudes of proudest sort

Prebind

Precure

Furnished an introduction

Paid to describe abstract thought

Supposed that something is the case

Took for granted

Got golfer better (wordplay)

Got reminder about antidote

Got one's hands on

Gave rise to

Brought about, yielded

Brought to pass

Supporting, having discovered it's great

Is for turning in the money, being wise

Far-reaching, professional discovered

Argue for (idea)

Advocate opposed to the euro (wordplay)

Put forward for consideration

Gathered into small folds.

Prepared to kiss - managed rude peck

Wrinkled

{prudish=adj}

Paper-to-be

Mash for cops? Sounds like itll eventually make the papers!

That had them beat!

Beat the heartless lads up cruelly

This was beating, but not with the blows

Battered with fists

Beat in the ring

Walloped in the ring

Gave what for

Imposed a penalty

Penalised because I got rid of the joke

Nearly without sight - dim-witted

Hardly able to see

Dim-sighted

Like some strains of puppies

Of unmixed race

Pedigreed animal

Cleansed from foreign matter

Cleansed

Purpose

Supplied half clean, changing every day

Riddle, we hear, may be provided

Having a pustule

Wasted the golf pro's time (wordplay)

Passed time casually

Worked about casually

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Pedicure

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Percuss

Induced by argument.

Twisted someone's arm, metaphorically

Twisted someone's arm

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Pleasure

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plumpen

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Poultice

Made impossible in advance.

Made impossible

Ruled out note in introduction to Debussy's first

Assessed before having complete information

Condemned beforehand without sufficient evidence

Decided before having adequate information

Twisted an arm, perhaps

Exerted influence on.

Constrained

Preunite

Prologue

Promulge

Prorogue

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Pummel

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Legally acquired

Bought

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

In some common women's office attire

Not hardcover

""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.""

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Persistently harassed

Tormented

PICTURIZE To picture.

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

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.""

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Prepunch

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

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.""

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

Caused to continue

Pompadour

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public

COMPUTED compute

Prefocus

MEASURED measure

Prenumber

Totally engrossed (by an idea)

Produce epic novel, when lost in thought

Totally engrossed

REQUIRED require

Like an airliner's cabin

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

Like airplane cabins

Before alleged, that's taken for granted

PROLOGUIZE

Made known

English word

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

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

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

""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.""

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOREDUCE

ANNOUNCED announce

PURCHASED purchase

QUALIFIED qualify

SCHEDULED schedule

Past tense or past participle

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Having the head full of confused notions.

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

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

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.""

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Preconstruct

PHOTODUPLICATE

DIET FOOD CLAIM (wordplay)

Like some fat

Fat parrot talking with extra capacity

MANUFACTURED Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.hand-made.