2-Letter Words Starting with P

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

PINAFORE a child's apron

Pinfold

Somewhat thick

Stupid.

Having spires

Blazed a trail

Religious individual before day's begun

Led the way

Sent from Alaska, perhaps

Transported, as gas

Pistol

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planish

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Platoon

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

English word

Pleasure

Plenish

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plumpen

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Polemize

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

""POLYPE an animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPIDE""

Pommel

Poniard

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

Taken over ownership (wordplay)

Owned - by evil spirit (wordplay)

Victimized by bad spelling (wordplay)

Followed in time.

Like some checks

Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques

Appended

What an off-putting way to have behaved!

Put off, but not deterred (wordplay)

Put off, but not deterred

Potboil

Poultice

Skilled (US spelling)

Ran through charge over action by writer

Met with the band

Perfectly proficient (wordplay)

Carried out or rehearsed

Expert forced to accept work

Prebill

Like some bratwursts

Like packaged kielbasa

Prebook

Precent

Precess

Made impossible in advance.

Made impossible

Ruled out note in introduction to Debussy's first

How frankfurters are typically sold

Like Spam

Parboiled

Precool

Estimated what would happen

Made a forecast

Used a crystal ball.

Preedit

Took first (wordplay)

Broken into on TV (wordplay)

Forestalled or thwarted a plan

Prefab

Kind of stock

Kind of stocks

Penny made mention of choice

FILLED fill

Did hesitation set back, if made earlier (wordplay)

Warmed beforehand.

Coming from Peterhead warmed up beforehand

Assessed before having complete information

Condemned beforehand without sufficient evidence

Decided before having adequate information

Prelect

Introduced a show.

Was first performed when empire changed colour

Came out

Premold

Prentice

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

How some wallpaper comes

Preplace

Set costs of articles before retailing

Easy to fold

Gave formally, award say

Be introduced to the current editor

It was given here by the editor

Kept in an unaltered condition

Maintained in unaltered condition

Kept page folded finally under book

Preshape

Preshow

Presift

Like packaged meats, often

Treated a stain, in a way

Wet, before washing

Like many a stain before washing

Like much media mail

Like some mail

Ready for mass mailing

Twisted an arm, perhaps

Exerted influence on.

Constrained

Pretaste

Made believe with intent to deceive

Made believe, feigned,

Put on an act

Pretest

Pretext

Preunite

Evil padre somehow came out on top

Persisted and finally succeeded

Rival with deep novel won

Kept from doing

Before one gave utterance to, stopped

Kept from happening

Watched ahead of time

Saw an out-of-town play opening.

Seen in advance, and quietly assessed

Prewarm

Prewarn

Like some new jeans

I put ink to paper - hence remove copy in the commercial

Moved along

Moved forward

How a professional continued to do the sowing (wordplay)

Refined (of food)

Sorted out changing press code

Put something through a series of stages

Supervised

Avowed

Proffer

Prognose

Robotic variable

Scheme news boss threw out

Plan newsman threw out

Jutted out.

Prolapse

Prologue

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

Promulge

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Propend

Prorogue

Prosect

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Protend

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

Proverb

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

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

Pyramid

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Trembled

Quivered

Panbroil

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

In some common women's office attire

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

""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.""

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

Like fleas and ticks

""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.""

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

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

Pavilion

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

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.

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

PERIWIG a wig

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Phantasy

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Light used by pro cameramen

PHOTOLYZE

Picaroon

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

Pigstick

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

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

Pinwheel

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.

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Like the surface of the moon

PODZOLIZE

POETICIZE

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

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