2-Letter Words Starting with P

Eloise's pet Weenie, for one

Rocky, for one

Frank of 'Men in Black,' for one

Hole-in-the-wall place (wordplay)

Outlet center (wordplay)

Wad, of tobacco say

Sleigh of "Jingle Bells" days.

Sleigh drawn by one horse.

Low, one-horse box sleigh

Dog keeps family from throwing up

Pouring out the whines

Whimpering

Whining

Timber in builder's scaffold

Admin worker taking advantage of break

Taking a break

On a break

Arousing, as curiosity

Priding (oneself)

Coming down in buckets

Hard, like rain

Raining cats and dogs.

Expressing displeasure with the lips

Looking grumpy

Showing pique

Trimming (trees)

Clipping, as shrubs

Kind of shears

Hasty, for one

Cooked sweet dish

Swiss Miss product

Out of breath

5 down takes note: Billy was on track

Flier good for advertising

A {beating=n}

Getting a partner rowing (wordplay)

In a tug of war

Dentist's task

Pulp

Athrob

Throbbing

Way to move liquids

Action at a well

Persistent questioning

Making a play on words

Wit's way

Kicking (a football)

Play mainly for defense

Pup

Spiritual cleansing

Removing, as undesirables from a political party

Doing some knitting, maybe

Part of the knitting process

Operating smoothly, as an engine

Like a contented cat

Sounding like happy cat

Puckering, as lips

Schoolyard no-no

Buried, so to speak

Urging a dog to swallow a bone (wordplay)

Skill in golf, for placing

What to do on 5 down

Placing action on the green

Putz

Looking at country, celebrate

Studying through employment

More than reviewing

A large beetle

Tormenting incessantly

Bothering persistently

Bothering incessantly

Stripping of feathers

Stopping for advertising

Blocking promotion

System of pipes

Pipes and such

Household water pipes

Plump

Dropping like a rock

Dropping steeply

Falling uncontrollably

Plunk

Following the taking of a drug

Pouch

Swooping on prey

Delivering repeated heavy blows

Pestle's purpose

Beating

Emulating a movie critic

Forming into small pools

An artisanal process for purifying pig iron - or of cultivating rice (wordplay)

Using a certain abrasive on

Boxer's activity

Hitting with the fist

Pungle

Pupate

Preparing baby food, perhaps

Processing peaches, perhaps

Ornamentation on the edges of a violin

Bruise discoloration

Following or chasing

Cop's activity re a getaway car

Chasing down

Pasting (glass into position)

Start 1 and 9 across with a knot around the pane

Place this, with making a knot around the pane

Like a crossword (wordplay)

Baffling, enigmatic

Baffling, bewildering

Pasture

Pauper

Perdure

Perfume

Perfuse

Forswearing.

Permute

Forming mental images of

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Contaminating

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

Precure

Prelude

Taking for granted

Making suppositions.

Overconfident

It takes a professional to be getting you well

Getting

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

Athrob

Vibrant.

Pummel

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Purpose

Purvey

Dawdling

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Peculate

Pedicure

Percuss

Persuade

Perturb

Plateau

Pleasure

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Spoliative.

Pillaging

Populate

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Poultice

Counteracting in advance

Precut

Prejudge

Lobbyist's activity

Exerting compelling influence on.

Putting the squeeze on

Preunite

Prologue

Promulge

Prorogue

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

Book work (wordplay)

Time work (wordplay)

Book trade has short blip in advertising

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Puncture

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

Purloin

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

Putrefy

Jumping from a plane

""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.""

""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.""

PICTURIZE To picture.

Swiveling, in ballet

PLURALIZE To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

""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.""

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

FIGURING figure

FOCUSING focus

Biasing

Prepunch

""Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. as, a pronouncing dictionary.""

Setting forth (an idea)

""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.""

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

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

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

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

POPULARISE

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

COMPUTING compute

Prefocus

MEASURING measure

Prenumber

Preoccupy

REQUIRING require

PRESSURISE

PRESSURIZE

SUPPOSING suppose

PROLOGUIZE

""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.""

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

Pussyfoot

""Strolling or walking around; as, in the field we met some perambulating veterans.as, in the field we met some perambulating veterans.""

PHOTOREDUCE

ANNOUNCING announce

PURCHASING purchase

Prequalify

SCHEDULING schedule

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

""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 STRUCTURING Inflected form of STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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.""

Heavy on the bromides