2-Letter Words Starting with P

Astronomical length - scrape (anagram)

Measure of distance in space

Astronomer's unit of distance

Muscle spasm produces acid sort

Type of acid

Kind of acid from apples, grapes, etc.

Kind of girdle

Of the sacrum, ilium, and so on

Near the hip area

Pertaining to digestion

Relating to digestion

Spasm follows on from ginger digestive

Justice for linesmen perhaps (wordplay)

Imaginative kind of justice (wordplay)

On one's feet (wordplay)

Pertaining to {pyemia=n}

One affected with paresis

Ocean zone above the oceanic zone

Inhabiting the deep

There's a gale back in there out at sea

Pertaining to {pelite=n}

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Of the mind

Mental

Contents of a political tract, maybe

A controversial argument

Controversy; attacking speech

Relating to pyaemia

Feverish City rep gets treatment

Feverish

Pertaining to {pyrexia=n}

Denim cap (anagram)

Pervasive, as a disease

Widely spread disease

Pertaining to {parhelia=n}

Inspiring pity, contempt

Pedestrian way state overturned poor

Pitiful way to cite retrospective

Fussy about correctness

Excessively nit-picking

Overly focused on minor rules

Designating the modern U. S. Army organization.

Pertaining to {peptide=n}

Pertaining to a {peptone=n}

Chemist's table (wordplay)

Occasional table, kind of (wordplay)

Occasional table, perhaps

A bone of the middle ear

A protective covering of certain hydrozoans

Pertaining to {perlite=n}

Derived from petroleum

Pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Kind of acid.

Pertaining to {phenyl=n}

Pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Pinch toe (anagram)

Spelt as spoken.

Representing speech sounds.

Pertaining to underground waters

Pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Pertaining to {polyene=n}

Pertaining to a {prelate=n}

""A student preparing for the study of medicine, also PREMED""

Pertaining to a branch of environmental study

Pertaining to {pyelitis=n}

Producing pus

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Like a green gem or olivine.

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

One who is phrenetic.

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

PERICYCLE

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Viewing on all sides

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

PHENOTYPE

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

PHONEME a unit of speech

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Having the property of pleochroism.

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Adjective (-ic)

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

Worshipping many gods

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

""Body, Human , Perception""

The process of soil formation.

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

Instruments

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

""Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria. as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.""

CENTRIC situated at the center

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

""Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head.""

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

PROTOSTELE

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Adjective (-ic)

""(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""

Fossils

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Pathogenic.

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

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

The description and classification of rocks.

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

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

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Adjective (-ic)

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.""

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Adjective (-ic)

ECLAMPTIC

Providing introductory instruction.

Measuring mental processes

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic   adj""

Fossils

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

PERSONALIST

""Centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.""

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Emitting electrons under light

Light-detecting

Adjective (-ic)

PHOTOPERIOD

PHREATOPHYTE

(Of a crystal) producing charge under pressure

Geology ()

Polyembryonate.

Following the embryonic stage of development.

Adjective (-ic)

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

""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.""

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

PROGESTOGEN

Adjective (-ic)

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

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

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

Moving things by mental force

Adjective (-ic)

The production of fruit without fertilization.

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

An instrument for measuring an unknown voltage by comparison to a standard voltage.

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Inflected form of SYMPTOMATIC Inflected form of SYMPTOM a subjective indication of a disease

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

Pl. psychoneuroses (-s z) Neurosis. No longer in scientific use.

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

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

Adjective (-ic)

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

Relating to unfertilised reproduction