2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A polymer found in the cell walls of prokaryotes that consists of polysaccharide and peptide chains in a strong molecular network. Also called mucopeptide , murein .""

Peradventure

Durability; lastingness.

""The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.""

Periodicity

(Historical Terms) the act or process of dividing history into periods

Periodontal

Periodontist

Plural or third person singular

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

Plural or third person singular

At right angles

Apple incurred difficulties? Straight up

Style of English architecture

Perverted

Plural or third person singular

""A drug, C 17 H 25 N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP.""

Philodendron

PHILOSOPHISE

Searched into the reason and nature of things

Phosphatidyl

Phospholipid

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

Photocathode

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Agent noun (-or)

PHOTOENGRAVE To engrave by a photomechanical process; to make a photo-engraving of.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

Photooxidize

PHOTOPERIOD

Photoproduct

PHOTOREDUCE

Pickerelweed

PICTORIALIZE

PIDGINIZE PIDGIN a mixed language

Shape designed to represent obstinacy

Stupidly obstinate quality

Stubbornness

Pinheaded

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Plasterboard

To utter platitudes or truisms.

Banal adult tips bandied about in Open University

Banal

""PLENITUDE The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power. as, the plenitude of space or power.""

Plerocercoid

Plural or third person singular

""PODSOLIZE PODSOL an infertile soil, also PODZOL""

""PODZOLIZE PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Pointedness

Policyholder

POLITICALIZE

BUTADIENE a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.

Polydactyly

Polysyndeton

The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Baked like potter's lay; applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Possessed

English word

Postdiluvian

POSTDOCTORATE

Students troubled as tutor gasped

Reporters who were trained in Washington, D.C. (wordplay)

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

Abstract painter's mood wanting a way that describes later works (wordplay)

English word

Posttension

Praseodymium

""ADAPTATION The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.""

Preadmission

Young lad one treated with respect

Young European about to do Cologne

Precondition

Plural or third person singular

Plural or third person singular

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Predesignate

Inflected form of DESTINATED Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Predestinate

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

Decided in advance

Set in advance

Ordained

""DETERMINER One who, or that which, determines or decides.""

Predetermine

Prediabetes

Predicative

DIGESTIONS digestion

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

Plural or third person singular

Prednisolone

Predominance

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

In control.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Plural noun (-tions)

""INDUSTRIAL Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.""

Prejudicial

MEDITATING meditate

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

Premeditator

ORDAINMENT Ordination.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

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.""

Inflected form of PONDERATED Inflected form of PONDERATE To consider; to ponder.

Preponderate

""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.""

Planned in advance

Preregister

SANCTIFIED sanctify

SCHEDULING schedule

Office of republic's leader

""Inflected form of STERILIZED Inflected form of STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

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

Privatdocent

Privatdozent

Proboscidean

Proboscidian

Procathedral

Prodigality

Propaedeutic

Those pushing information or allegations

Advocates for heathen princess facing saints over time

PROPAGANDIZE

PROPAGANDIZE

Propagandize

Backing arranged, having acted as solicitor

""Any of a group of potent hormonelike substances that are produced in various mammalian tissues, are derived from arachidonic acid, and mediate a wide range of physiological functions, such as control of blood pressure, contraction of smooth muscle, and modulation of inflammation.""

Plural or third person singular

Prudishness

Writing or recording related

Pseudoallele

Adjective (-ic)

Pseudomonad

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

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

""(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.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Pteridology

One who is versed in pteridology.

Pteridophyte

Pteridosperm

Pyridoxamine

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

Paediatrician

Paedomorphism

Pl. pedomorphoses (-s z ) Phylogenetic change in which juvenile characteristics are retained in the adult form of an organism.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Plural or third person singular

Paradisaical

Paradisiacal

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

""The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. as, the pardonableness of sin.""

Particleboard

PARTICULARISE particular

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

American trailing plant

Pedestrianism

Peptidoglycan

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.

Plural or third person singular

Pericarditis

Periodization

Study or science of

Perissodactyl

Perpendicular

Phencyclidine

Philadelphus

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

PHOSPHORYLATE

Photodetector

PHOTODUPLICATE

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PHOTOPERIOD

Photoreducte

Pidginization

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Platitudinize

Podsolization

Podzolization

ACRYLAMIDE

Polybutadiene

POLYDISPERSE

Plural or third person singular

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

English word

Plural or third person singular

Noun (-sion)

""POSTGRADUATE Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.""

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Postmodernism

Postmodernist

Work done on film after recording has finished

Preadaptation

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

Preadolescent

Precondition