2-Letter Words Starting with P

Percolation

Percussive

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

Inflammation of the pericardium.

Adjective (-al)

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

From time to time.

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Peripatetic

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

PERITRICH

Permanency

Pernicious

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

Persistence

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

Perspective

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

The description and classification of rocks.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

Phagocytosie

""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.""

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

Pheneticist

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

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

PHENOTYPIC

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

""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.""

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonotactic

PHOSPHATIDE

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Past tense or past participle

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Past tense or past participle

Motion ()

Photomosaic

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

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

Phycocyanin

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

Phycologist

Phycomycete

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

Pickaback

Pickaninny

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

PICTORIALISE pictorial

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

PIECEWORKER piecework

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Pilocarpine

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placekick

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

Placidness

""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.""

Plagioclase

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleochroism

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

Pluckiness

Plutocracy

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""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.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

POETICAL a {poet=n}

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

Polariscope

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

POLEMICIZE

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Polyalcohol

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

Polycrystal

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

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}

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Polyvalence

In a pontifical manner.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificate

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

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

Portcullis

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

English word

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective meaning resembling

Plural or third person singular

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

Superlative adjective

English word

(Of research) done after a second degree

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

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ical)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Postulancy

Adjective (-al)

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Preachify

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

Precancel

CANCELLED cancel

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea