2-Letter Words Starting with P

One's no good after foolish vanity in stretching before cast

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

""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.""

Primatology

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

Primogenitor

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Their living's in a ring

Boxers

Boxing for money

Boxing

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

PROCTOLOGIC

They analysed stool and got scrip

Some MDs

Prodigality

Progesterone

PROGESTOGEN

Forecast disastrous operating cost

Divine erotic snap got hacked

Prophesy, foretell

Programmable

""Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.""

Progressive

Political ideology advocating reform

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""Books a preliminary remark or introduction, as to a speech; the foreword to a book or treatise. ; prolegomenary, prolegomenous,""

Multiplying rapidly

How the professional life is reckoning to be spreading around

Prolongation

Promulgation

Those pushing information or allegations

Advocates for heathen princess facing saints over time

PROPAGANDIZE

PROPAGANDIZE

Propagandize

Proportion

PROSELYTISE

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

""A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context: "an authentic tour de force of historical writing: part intellectual history, part cultural history, part prosopography" (Josiah Bunting III).""

""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.""

Proteoglycan

Protogalaxy

A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Ursprache .

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Relating to the study of elections

Experts on election statistics and voting trends

Writing or recording related

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

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.""

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

""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.""

Pteridology

One who is versed in pteridology.

Paleobiology

Fossils

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

The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

Of or pertaining to paleography.

The study of the remanent magnetization in rocks.

Person associated with (-ist)

Paleontology

Expert on fossils (US spelling)

One who studies fossils

Student of fossils

Study or science of

Paleozoology

Fossils

Pamphleteer

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

Parallelogram

Paramagnetism

PARAMETERIZE

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

Parasitology

The scientific study of parasitism.

PARENTHESIZE To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

American trailing plant

Pathobiology

Pathological

Peptidoglycan

Peregrination

Study or science of

Pertaining to petrography.

According to petrology.

Pettifoggery

Illusory series about an atom is a graph

Fantastic dreamlike series of images

Dreamlike sequence

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

Pharmacology

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Phenological

Philological

PHILOSOPHISE

""PHILOSOPHIZE To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.""

Phlebography

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

Phonological

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

Photobiology

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Photoengraver

""The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.""

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

PHOTOGENIC Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

Photogeology

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

""A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.""

PHOTOOXIDIZE

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

Phraseologist

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

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Botany ()

PICTORIALIZE

Pidginization

Astronomy ()

Planetologist

PLAYWRIGHTING playwright

Pleasingness

Plethysmogram

""An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.""

Pneumatology

Polarography

POLITICALIZE

PORCELAINIZE

POSTCOLLEGE

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

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

Posttension

ARRANGEMENT The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

PRECIPITIN

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

Inflected form of DESTINATING Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Inflected form of DETERMINING Inflected form of DETERMINE To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

""Inflected form of FABRICATING Inflected form of FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

Prefiguration

Prefigurement

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Pregnability

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

PROGRAMMING program

Choosing classes early

Plural of gerund noun

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

Inflected form of STRUCTURING Inflected form of STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Priggishness

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

Primatologist

Primogeniture

PRIZEFIGHTING prizefight

The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.

""Of or relating to the phase of the menstrual cycle immediately following ovulation, characterized by secretion of progesterone.""

Forecast

Prognosticate

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

Progressivism

Progressivist

Seeking to influence opinion in favour of non-religious short verse

Propagandizer

PROPAGANDIZE

Work of a full-time contortionist (wordplay)

Prostaglandin

Protolanguage

Protozoology

The biological study of protozoans.

Bible

Pseudepigraph

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

""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. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Psychosurgeon

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

The study of ferns.

Pteridologist

Pugnacious

Pyrogenicity

""Pl. pyrometallurgies An ore-refining process, such as smelting, dependent on the action of heat.""

PALEOBIOLOGIC

Paleobiologist

PALEOECOLOGIC

Paleoecologist

Adjective (-ic)

Paleomagnetism

Paleomagnetist

Of fossil lore

Paleontologist

Fossils

Paleozoologist