2-Letter Words Starting with P

Vancouver Island's ocean (abbreviation)

Pre-election ad buyer, maybe

Campaign contributor, maybe

Reaction to a pop quiz, perhaps

What a frightful god I see here!

Pre-exam feeling, maybe

Astronomical length - scrape (anagram)

Measure of distance in space

Astronomer's unit of distance

Of a stage

Relating to a stage in a cycle

His cap unravelled in stages

Sharing feelings rather than ideas

Relating to pian

Not stormy? Nonsense!

It washes 500 miles of Canada.

The peaceless main.

One affected with paresis

Relating to comic imitation

Like Weird Al songs

Having the character of burlesque.

Situated near the ear

Ocean zone above the oceanic zone

Inhabiting the deep

There's a gale back in there out at sea

Like cucumber or a banana, maybe

Cocky (wordplay)

Cocky image impressing chamber

Hook-like (wordplay)

Ignoring copyrights, say

Like plunder at sea

Like a certain fluid

Relating to the colourless component of blood

It supplies credit cards (wordplay)

Credit cards (wordplay)

Clasp it (anagram)

Pertaining to {rivers=n}

Experienced in the past

Skilled, old style

Experienced in the past

Pair doctored photo of a Greek god

Relating to male virility

Dull for one filling bag

Boring with Mandela in charge (wordplay)

Unimaginative - air cops (anagram)

Like much worship music

Relating to sacred hymns

Like David's writing

Pertaining to {psoas=n}

Part of Jaipur, a nice place to visit, as in Hindu mythology

Relating to pyaemia

""The territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PASHALIC""

Of element #46

Of the metallic compound atomic number 46

Denim cap (anagram)

Pervasive, as a disease

Widely spread disease

Comprehensive, as a view

One troubled with delusions

Pertaining to {parhelia=n}

Pertaining to a {parson=n}

""The territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PACHALIC""

Inspiring pity, contempt

Pedestrian way state overturned poor

Pitiful way to cite retrospective

Fussy about correctness

Excessively nit-picking

Overly focused on minor rules

A protective covering of certain hydrozoans

Resembling a {phratry=n}

Pertaining to underground waters

Pertaining to a certain acid

Pertaining to {platinum=n}

Half play a note for love (wordplay)

Non-sexual (friendship)

Purely spiritual (love)

Resembling {podagra=n}

Of a silvery alkaline metallic element

Pertaining to a {prelate=n}

Pertaining to a {protasis=n}

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

PEDOCAL a type of soil

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

PODIA podium

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""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.""

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

PHONEME a unit of speech

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

PHASIC relating to a phase

Adjective (-ic)

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

VOCALIC a vowel sound

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

Worshipping many gods

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

""Body, Human , Perception""

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

""Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.""

PROKARYOTE

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

Birds

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

One type of flow from a volcano

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Weakly attracted by poles

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

The description and classification of rocks.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

PHOSPHATIDE

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

ECLAMPTIC

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic &nbsp; adj""

Fossils

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

""Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. as, a pathognomonic symptom.""

PERSONALIST

""Centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.""

""The science of drugs, including their composition, uses, and effects.""