2-Letter Words Starting with P

Resembling a {pica=n}

Chinese unit of weight

Olympic ultimatum has weight in China

Asian weight

Package of land (wordplay)

Distribute (with "out")

Distribute, with "out"

Essay on Conics author

'Essay on Conics' author

Inventor of first digital calculator

Change Luxembourg flag

Narrow flag.

If Cato had one, was it blue (wordplay)

Number 2, for one

One holding lead throughout (wordplay)

Relating to a plica

Relating to Easter

Easterly (wordplay)

Kind of lamb or candle

Slender plant stalk

Flower stalk

Stalk founder of the Met, holding up detectives

A type of soil

A small tuft of hairs

Remove field heat from before storage, as crops

Having lenses that correspond

Like Penn's Indian policy

They're headed by Tim Wheeler

Not disturbed by strife or war

Of the chest, say muscles

Of the chest

Bench press muscle

Swan formerly on sovereign's banner

Strenuous training (wordplay)

Involving matter, the body say

Annual checkup, perhaps

A type of collar

Young or small pike; prick eel (anagram)

Fresh-water fish.

Combination of kelp, rice and fish

Resembling a {piscina=n}

Ace pilot (anagram)

Like Byron's words

Like rhyming works

Relating to a pollex

Pertaining to a {precava=n}

Prepare a new wine for drinking

Pertaining to obtaining

White House observation (wordplay)

The right stuff (wordplay)

Formal code of primitive army officer

Time-sensitive (wordplay)

Arriving on the dot

Bang on time

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Like a category of mammals

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

COITAL relating to coitus

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

5 across moral, say (wordplay)

Mr. Belding, for one

Class action suit (wordplay)

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

Having a sixth sense

Just the thing for the pugilists' dance!

Kids' outdoor game played with fists

Urban kids' sport

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Pathetic.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

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

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

POCKETS pocket

CLONAL pertaining to a {clon=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

ETHICAL a drug sold by prescription only

LOGICAL pertaining to {logic=n}

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

PROCAMBIA

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

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

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

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

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

PEDOLOGIC

Of or pertaining to penology.

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

PERITHECIA

Self-righteously hypocritical

Concerning fishing

Fishy

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.""

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

""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.""

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

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

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 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)

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

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.

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

""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.""

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 (-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.""

(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.""

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

(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

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

PHARMACOPEIA

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.

Era of history

Of a more recent artistic period

Later period in, eg, art

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.""

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

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

PROCTOLOGIC

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

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

Relating to the study of elections

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

PALEOBOTANIC

Of or pertaining to paleography.

Pertaining to petrography.

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

Drug-related

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Astronomy ()

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

Of or relating to psychochemicals.

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.

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

The study of ferns.

PALEOBIOLOGIC

PALEOECOLOGIC

Of fossil lore

Fossils

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

PARASITOLOGIC

""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.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

PHOTOBIOLOGIC

PHOTOGEOLOGIC

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

""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.

Adjective (-al)

""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.""

""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.""