2-Letter Words Starting with P

Preconcert

Precondition

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

""CONVICTION The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.""

COPULATORY Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Predicative

PREDILECTION A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

Plural or third person singular

Predominance

Preeclampsia

Preexistence

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

Prefabricate

""GANGLIONIC Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord. as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.""

""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.""

Plural noun (-tions)

Prejudicial

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

""The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.""

Preprocess

Preprocessor

""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.""

""PUBESCENCE The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.""

Prepubescent

PURCHASING purchase

SANCTIFIED sanctify

SCHEDULING schedule

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Pharmacist's concerns

SELECTIONS selection

SENTENCING sentence

Prespecify

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

Prestructure

""PREVARICATE To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. as, he prevaricates in his statement.""

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

Those who are evasive; hedgers

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

Prickliness

Quite simple, with five

Like Stone Age culture

College head's office

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Privatdocent

Based on chance variation

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

Proboscidean

Proboscidian

Procarbazine

Procathedral

Processional

A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Procession.

Notices penny, then pound astronomical

Proconsulate

Proconsulate.

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

PROCTOLOGIC

They analysed stool and got scrip

Some MDs

""Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.""

Proficiency

PROGESTOGEN

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

He's reel handy

Movie theater employee

Theater worker

In a proleptical manner.

Prolificacy

Prolificity

Promiscuity

In a promiscuous manner.

Capable of being pronounced.

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

Propaedeutic

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

Prophylactic

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

Bans

""PROSECUTOR One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.""

Brain

In a prospective manner.

Prostacyclin

Pl. prostatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.

Protactinium

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

Protectorate

Position of, eg, a regent

Protectress

Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.

Proteoglycan

History

Lumps of old potato, say, in capers

Lumps of old potato surrounded by capers

Pl. proventriculi (-l ) The division of the stomach in birds that secretes digestive enzymes and passes food from the crop to the gizzard.

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

To render provincial.

Provocative

Relating to the study of elections

Adjective (-ic)

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

""A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.""

Plural or third person singular

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

Alfred Adler et al.

Those with the mind to study say this script is flawed

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

Emulate Freud

PSYCHOBABBLE

Psychobabble

""Biology the study of the relations or interrelations between body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system. ; psychobiologist, ; psychobiologic, psychobiological,""

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

Plural or third person singular

""Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection. natural selection.""

""The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.""

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Brain

Supposed ability to move objects by mental effort

Moving things by mental force

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

PSYCHOLOGISE

Psychologise

Psychologism

Scientists working in school's pigsty

Q: See title A: "Just one, but it has to really WANT to change"

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Psychologize

Psychometric

Psychometry

Psychopathic

Psychopathy

The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

Psychotropic

Psychrometer

Adjective (-ic)

Thriving at relatively low temperatures. Used of organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

Puckishness

Pumpernickel

Punctilious

Punctuality

Purification

In a puritanical manner.

Putrefaction

Pyrocatechol

PYROLYTIC

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

Fireworks experts.

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

PACIFISTIC

Paediatrician

PALEOBOTANIC

Paleoecology

(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived palaeoecological   adj

Of or pertaining to paleography.

Pl. pancreatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas.

Plural or third person singular

Pantisocracy

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

Resembling the butterfly.

PARABIOTIC

Paradisaical

Paradisiacal

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

Parametrical

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

Paratactical

""PARENCHYMA The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

The production of fruit without fertilization.

Participation

Particleboard

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARISE particular

Particularism

Particularist

""PARTICULARIZE To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Particularize

Pathological

Peacefulness

""An enzyme found in certain plants, bacteria, and fungi that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pectin to pectic acid and methanol. Also called pectase .""

Penicillamine

Penicillinase

Peptidoglycan

""The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. as, the perceptibility of light or color.""

Acuity

Perceptivity

Percussionist

Percussive

Percutaneous

The quality or state of being perfectible.

Perfectionism

In respect of its being transformed, they demand the best

Perfective

Perfectivity

Plural or third person singular

Pericarditis

Perissodactyl