2-Letter Words Starting with P

Psychosomatic

Psychosurgeon

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

Psychrometry

The study of ferns.

Pugnacious

""Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by bacterial infection.""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the intensity of the sun’s radiation. ; pyrheliometric,""

Pyrogenicity

Pyrometrical

Adjective (-ic)

PALEOBIOLOGIC

PALEOECOLOGIC

Paleoecologist

Adjective (-ic)

Of fossil lore

Fossils

Palynological

Pantheistical

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

Pantisocratist

Paradoxical

PARAGENETIC

Paralinguistic

PARASITOLOGIC

""Of, relating to, or affecting the parasympathetic nervous system: parasympathetic activity; parasympathetic agents.""

In brackets

Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion

Work ethic following a payment matey's pocketed (thus?)

Parthenocarpy

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARIST One who holds to particularism.

Details

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

Pathogenicity

PEACEABLENESS peaceable

Pectinesterase

""PERFECTIONIST One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.""

The quality or state of being perfunctory.

In an itinerant fashion

How this word fits in

A. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

With great insight

With discernment

Perspicuous

Pessimistical

Pharisaical

Drugs capitals are much busted

Medicinal drugs

Manufactured drugs

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

Pharmacognosy

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Pharmacologist

Pl. pharmacotherapies Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.

Relating to observable facts

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

In a manner befitting Socrates one loyal Polish chap's not acting rashly

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

PHONOGRAMIC

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

Ignis fatuus, for example

Cold emitted light

Light emitted without burning or heat

PHOTOBIOLOGIC

Photochemical

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

PHOTODISSOCIATE

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoduplicate

PHOTOELECTRON

Noun (-tion)

PHOTOGEOLOGIC

""The process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, especially aerial photographs.""

Photoinduction

""Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.""

PHOTOMETRIC

An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph. Microphotograph.

Photoproduct

Photoreception

PHOTOREDUCTION photoreducte

PHOTOTACTIC

Phototoxicity

PHOTOTROPIC Same as Heliotropic. Heliotropic.

Phthalocyanine

""Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.""

Of or pertaining to physiography.

In a physiological manner.

Phytochemical

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

Phytotoxicity

PICTORIALNESS pictorial

Constable landscape feature

PINEALECTOMIZE

Pinealectomize

PINOCYTOTIC

Fossil hominid discovered in Java in 1891-2

Thin chap, posture bent, forerunner of Man (wordplay)

Old man in mine, he is unable to regularly take hard work

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Planimetrical

Plasticization

Platinocyanide

PLATYHELMINTH

PLURALISTIC

Plutocratical

Pneumonectomy

Politicization

Polyacrylamide

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

POLYMORPHIC Polymorphous.

Polynucleotide

Polysaccharide

Plural noun or verb form

*Like the 'Hunger Games' trilogy

*Like the "Hunger Games" trilogy

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

Noun (-tion)

Postproduction

Noun (-tion)

Practicable

PRACTICALNESS Same as Practicality. Practicality.

Preadolescence

""AGRICULTURAL Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.""

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

The quality or state of being precipitant; precipitation.

Precipitate

Precipitinogen

Acrophobiac's dread

Sheer quality of valuable mine included on cape

Impetuosity

Put into the required shape beforehand

Things made earlier than absolutely necessary

Prehistorical

Prejudicial

MANUFACTURED Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.hand-made.

Premanufacture

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Plural or third person singular

Preponderancy

Prepublication

SYNAPTICALLY synaptical

Prettification

In a dubious way

In a way fraught with trouble

Off-putting (wordplay)

Retirement benefit

Hanging back.

Theme of this puzzle, finally

Thief of time.

Start of a slacker's quip

Off-putting sorts (wordplay)

Devotees of tomorrow

""PROGNOSTICATE To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. as, to prognosticate evil.""

Seer's forte

Weatherman's job

Seer's utterance

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style

Nostradamus et al.

PROGRESSIVIST

The quality or state of being promiscuous.

High-level edicts

Manifestoes

Publications abroad for sister to get undercover investigators southwards

""PRONUNCIATION The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.""

Proprioception

Prostatectomy

""PROTEOLYTIC Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded traits

PROVINCIALIZE To render provincial.

Ability to stimulate

PSEUDOCOELOMATE

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

Quack of a sort

Pseudoscorpion

PSYCHEDELIC

Psychiatrical

Psychoacoustic

Treating on a couch, perhaps [38 points]

Studying on a couch (wordplay)

So, zany chap lying around, listening to one on the couch (wordplay)

""Pl. psychobiographies A biography that analyzes the psychological makeup, character, or motivations of its subject: "We are given a kind of psychobiography which ultimately pictures a deeply egotistical individual, unable to tolerate anyone else's success" (Leon Botstein).""

Psychobiology

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

Psychochemical

PSYCHOGENIC

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

Psychohistory

Psycholinguist

According to the science of mind

Psychology

Psychoneurotic

""Medical Specialties Medicine. the science of the diseases of the mind. ; psychopathologist, psychopathist, ; psychopathologie, psychopathological,""

Stimuli-response researcher

PSYCHOSEXUAL

Psychosurgery

Plural or third person singular

""(Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Self-help) a form of psychotherapy intended to release the patient's full potential by focusing on the positive rather than the negative""

Psychotherapy

Healer with issues (wordplay)

One who treats mental disorders

One dealing with issues

""Tending to induce hallucinations, delusions, or other symptoms of a psychosis. Used of a drug.""

Beautiful people lead ridiculous hunt sabotage

Comely.

Beautiful

Policies stun Sun unexpectedly in attention to detail

Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Pyrotechnical