2-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Potlatch

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

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASED crease

DEFINED define

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Predrill

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Prefrank

Early primate

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

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

Biased

Prelimit

Bought before the official release

Intentional

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

Prewrap

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Proglottis.

Fed the computer.

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""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.""

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protocol

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

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.""

One of the Pycnogonida.

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Like dime novels

Paradrop

Paragraph

Parallel

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

""(Medicine / Pathology) See paratyphoid fever PENTAMIDINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

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

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.""

Caused to continue

Stood for

Embodied

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

Womanized

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Photomap

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

Photostat

Pickaback

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

Piggyback

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pitchfork

Placekick

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

Delivered strong opinions

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLITICIZE

CHROMED chrome

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Pompadour

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preadmit

Saved for future use

APPROVED approve

ARRANGED arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precensor

COMPUTED compute

DECEASED decease

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

FINANCED finance

Prefocus

MEASURED measure

MODIFIED modify

Premonish

NOTIFIED notify

Prenumber

Totally engrossed (by an idea)

Produce epic novel, when lost in thought

Totally engrossed

Fated to happen

Unhappy acceptance of original order, as decided in advance

PACKAGED package

PREPARED prepare

Prerecord

REQUIRED require

Prescreen

Chosen beforehand

Like an airliner's cabin

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

Like airplane cabins

Prestress

Before alleged, that's taken for granted

Prevision

PRIORITIZE

Marauded, in a way.

Made a killing, say

Made money, in a way.

PROLOGUIZE

Made known

A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

Made peace with

English word

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

Protocol

Supplied with food.

""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

PARAMETRIZE

PARFOCALIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

""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.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

PERSEVERATE

PERSONALISE

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

PHOSPHATIZE

""Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin and cephalin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule. Also called phosphatide .""

Past tense or past participle

Photograph

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOREDUCE

PHOTOSTAT

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""