2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pharmacology

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Drug-related

Pharmacopoeia

Phencyclidine

Phenmetrazine

Phenobarbital

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

Phenological

Phenomenalism

Phenomenalist

Phenothiazine

Phenotypical

Phenylalanine

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

Phenylephrine

See phenylthiocarbamide .

Philadelphus

Philanthropy

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philhellenism

Philhellenist

Philological

PHILOSOPHISE

Philosophizer

""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

Phosphokinase

Phospholipase

""Any of a group of proteins, such as casein, containing chemically bound phosphoric acid.""

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

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

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ic)

Phosphorylase

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phosphorylate

An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source. Green plants and photosynthetic bacteria are photoautotrophs.

Photobiology

Person associated with (-ist)

""The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.""

Photochromism

Photocomposer

PHOTOCOMPOSE

Photodetector

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoelectron

Photoemission

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.""

Photofinisher

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.""

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOLYTIC

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PHOTOPERIOD

Photoreaction

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Photoreceptor

Photoreducte

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

Photosynthate

Plural or third person singular

Process by which plants trap light energy

Pictures, strangely shiny, set in process that gives everything more life

The posy this son arranged, showing what plants can do

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.

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

Phraseologist

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

Phycoerythrin

Physicalness

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

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

Botany ()

An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and humans. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

Plural or third person singular

""A process in which plasma is taken from donated blood and the remaining components, mostly red blood cells, are returned to the donor.""

Platyhelminth

PLAYWRIGHTING playwright

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.""

Pneumatophore

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Polarography

Polymorphous

Inflected form of PHONICALLY Inflected form of PHONIC pertaining to the nature of sound

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

""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.""

Posthumous

The office of postmaster.

In a praiseworthy manner.

Prankishness

Word with prefix pre-

Precentorship

Preceptorship

Preestablish

Preestablish

Prehensility

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Presidentship

Priggishness

Principalship

PRIZEFIGHTING prizefight

Proconsulship

Chairs looking small amid rocking horses, if amongst items on stage

Banner of the Bourbons, perhaps

In this poor bit, I displayed banner

Spirits-free

The state of being proprietor; ownership.

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

""The anterior segment of the brain, including the cerebrum and olfactory lobes; the forebrain""

""PROSTHETIC Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with the replacement of missing teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by bridges, dentures, or other artificial devices.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The branch of dentistry that deals with the replacement of missing teeth and related mouth or jaw structures by bridges, dentures, or other artificial devices.""

Protectorship

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

Prothonotary

History

Protohistory

""A metal-free porphyrin, C 32 H 32 N 4 (COOH) 2 , that combines with ferrous iron to form the heme group in hemoglobin and myoglobin, and with ferric iron to form the hemin group in catalase and some cytochromes.""

Bible

Pseudepigraph

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

""The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.""

Not having the true form.

Psychasthenia

Psychasthenic

Sound ()

Psychoanalyse

Hitchcock film discussion (wordplay)

System of mental therapy

Freudian theory

Crazy sycophants slay shrinks, perhaps

""Pl. psychoanalyses (-s z ) a. The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.""

PSYCHOANALYZE

Psychoanalyze

Psychobabbler

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

Of or relating to psychochemicals.

PSYCHODRAMA

Psychodynamic

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

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

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

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

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

Psychosexual

Psychosocial

Psychosomatic

Psychosurgeon

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

Psychrometry

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

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

Pyrheliometer

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

Pyrimethamine

Adjective (-ic)

Pyrophosphate

Adjective (-ic)

Pantheistical

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

In brackets

Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion

Work ethic following a payment matey's pocketed (thus?)

Parthenocarpy

Means to reproduce (small melon), but raise temperature, hospital!

Sort of reproduction in earphones gets distorted

Quietly distributing another book of the Bible that describes the Virgin Birth

Conception of retro music followed by old rock group

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

Pathogenicity

In both senses also called physiopathology . The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury.

Perishability

These may cause screams in dreams

Pharisaical

Drugs capitals are much busted

Medicinal drugs

Manufactured drugs

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

Pharmacognosy

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Pharmacologist