2-Letter Words Starting with P

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

Game resembling squash

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

PARAPODIA

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

PARENT to act as father or mother

Like a sudden outburst

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Pathetic.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

PERIHELIA

PERIKARYA

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

Minor computing device (wordplay)

To the side

Quiet goddess in jeopardy on the fringe

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Illusory

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

PHEROMONE

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Heaping dish

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Having many faces

With many plane faces

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

GENITAL pertaining to reproduction

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Of the time before the wedding bells.

Like some relations

Prenuptial

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Agreement before marriage

Certain agreement

Wedding agreement

PUBERAL pertaining to {puberty=n}

Full of presages; ominous.

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

PROCAMBIA

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

PROSTOMIA

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Constituting a pattern.

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

""A phenol metameric with phloroglucin, obtained by the distillation of gallic acid as a poisonous white crystalline substance having acid properties, and hence called also pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes. pyrogallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.""

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

PANTROPIC

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Of EMS treatment

Like leeches

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

""Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. as, a participial noun.""

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

PEDOLOGIC

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Of or pertaining to penology.

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

PEROXISOME

Self-righteously hypocritical

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pertaining to a planetoid.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Situated behind the cranium.

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Adjective (-al)

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

MEDIEVAL a person belonging to he Middle Ages

Taken before dinner

Before dinner

Quiet agent managed to phone up once before meal

PUBERTAL of puberty

TERMINAL an end

VISIONAL imaginary

Probationary.

Serving to publicise a product

Encouraging publicity

Of publicity.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

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

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Adjective (-al)

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Of or pertaining to petrology.

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

PHENOTYPIC

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

English word

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

Adjective (-ical)

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

Presbyterian.

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

Characteristic of an academic

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

PALYNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

""Capable of destroying parasites, especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.""

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Adjective (-al)

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

PERMUTATION The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

PHARMACOPEIA

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

Stoical in defeat

Uncomplaining in defeat

Calm and stoical in the face of setbacks

""Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina. as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.""

Of or pertaining to phrenology.

Relating to normal, healthy functioning

Relating to normal healthy functioning

Relating to study of organisms and their functions

Relating to phytochemistry.

Inflected form of RIBOSOMAL Inflected form of RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Era of history

Of a more recent artistic period

Later period in, eg, art

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""POSTULATION The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Behavior ()

BIOLOGICAL Of or relating to biology.

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""