2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pyrolize

Pyrolyze

Sports See pacemaker .

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Beating with excessive rapidity

One way to cook meat

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

The process or craft of making paper.

Jumping from a plane

Paraffin

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

""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.""

PASSIVATE

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

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

Pavilion

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

PERENNATE

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

""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.""

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Acting a part.

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

Phantasy

PHOTOLYZE

Picaroon

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

The act of hunting for wild boar

Locating exactly

Pinprick

Pinwheel

Swiveling, in ballet

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Plaister

Present participle or gerund

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

The writing of plays.

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

Pockmark

PODZOLIZE

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

Preaver

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASING crease

DEFINING define

""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.""

Predrill

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Preexist

FIGURING figure

FOCUSING focus

Prefrank

Prefreeze

Biasing

Prelimit

Preorder

Preplan

PLANTING a plantation

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Advising the use of (medicine)

Prestamp

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Prettify

Prewrap

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

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

""PRIVILEGE A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.""

Proclaim

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

Arrangement for being a 2, possibly, without a lot of grace

Moving forward

Advancing

Prohibit

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

""PROMENADE A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise.""

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

""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.""

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

Setting forth (an idea)

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prohibiting professional writing

""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

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.""

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Putting up wall covering

Paradrop

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

Parallel

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

Partition

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

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.""

Representing in human form

Quibbling

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Photomap

Photoset

Photostat

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Pickaback

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

""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.""

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Placekick

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

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

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

POLEMICIZE

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

CHROMING a chromium ore

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.""

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.""

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Preachify

Preadmit

Preallot

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precensor

COMPUTING compute

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

DESTINING destine

Predigest

DISPOSING dispose

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

Premarket

MEASURING measure

Premodify

Premonish

Prenotify