2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pleochroism

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

Plushiness

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

POLAROGRAPH

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Polyalcohol

Polyanthus

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Adjective (-ic)

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

HISTORIC important in history

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

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.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

Adjective (-al)

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

English word

English word

Praetorship

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

PRANKISH mischievous

Preachify

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

ESTABLISH To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Prehistory

Offices of government leaders, on top of everything else, carrying passengers

Premonish

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

PRESCHOOLER preschool

Preshrink

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Primateship

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Proctorship

Prognathism

They aim to stop the selling of alcohol, for instance, in bars

Pronephros

Prophetess

Prophethood

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Prosobranch

Prosthetist

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Prothrombin

History

Protophloem

PROTOTROPH

Past tense or past participle

Psephology

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

Pseudomorph

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

Pulchritude

Punchinello

Some military decorations

The uppers a girl (let alone GI) is thrilled by

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

Having the head full of confused notions.

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert

Packinghouse

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Paleographer

Paleography

Pamphleteer

Large vans

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

Pantothenate

Paperhanging

Paraesthesia

Various bits of equipment

Various gear for a certain job

Objects and accessories

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

Language ()

Language ()

Formed from a compound word.

Parathormone

Big as Daddy 36 across

Seems as big as one's old man in brackets

That looks as big as a father in brackets

Parenthesize

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Parochialism

The production of fruit without fertilization.

Partisanship

""PATHOGENIC Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.""

""Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. as, a pathognomonic symptom.""

Patriarchate

Paunchiness

Peevishness

Small flutes

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

Perishableness.

Perphenazine

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

Petrographer

Petrography

Pettishness

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phalanstery

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

Phanerophyte

Pharisaical

Pharmacognosis.

""The science of drugs, including their composition, uses, and effects.""

PHARMACOPEIA

Pharmacopeia

A book containing an official list of medicinal drugs together with articles on their preparation and use.

Plural or third person singular

Phenanthrene

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

English word

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

""That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.""

PHENOMENALISE phenomenal

Study of extraordinary events.

Study of conscious, direct experience

Drug used as a strong tranquilliser and in the treatment of schizophrenia

Phentolamine

""An essential amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 2 , that occurs as a constituent of many proteins and is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body. It is necessary for growth in infants and for nitrogen equilibrium in adults.""

""An adrenergic drug, C 9 H 13 NO 2 , that is a powerful vasoconstrictor and is used to relieve nasal congestion, dilate the pupils, and maintain blood pressure during anesthesia.""

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others

Philharmonic

Love of Greece.

""A friend of Greece; one who supports the cause of the Greeks; particularly, one who supported them in their struggle for independence against the Turks; a philhellene.""

Philistinism

Phillumenist

Philodendron

Stoical in defeat

Uncomplaining in defeat

Calm and stoical in the face of setbacks

PHILOSOPHISE

Philosophise

Searched into the reason and nature of things

One who philosophizes.

Philosophize

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Phlebotomist

PHONOGRAPHER One versed or skilled in phonography.

Phonography

Phosphatidyl

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphaturia

English word

Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze specific ester bonds in phospholipids.

Phospholipid

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