2-Letter Words Starting with P

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Photometer

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

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

Photomural

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

Photophase

A dread or intolerance of light.

PHOTOPHOBE

Photophore

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phycology

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

Pl. phyllotaxies also phyllotaxes The arrangement of leaves on a stem.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Phylloxera

Phylogeny

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

Cast of one's features

Physiological.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

English word

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Puts into small compartments

Classifies

Compartmentalizes.

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Pigheaded

Pilothouse

Tailors' conveniences

Stuffed accessories

Sewers' conveniences

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

PINKISH somewhat pink

Pinwheel

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitcherful

Pitchfork

PITCHPOLE

Pithiness

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Plainchant

Planchette

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Platyfish

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

Theater notables

Dramatists

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

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

Plushness

Respiration recorder

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Polychaete

English word

CHROMED chrome

Polychrome

Polygraph

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polyhedron

Polyhistor

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

Polymathy

Polymorphous.

Polyphagia

Polyphagy

Potentially happy soul about to become open-mouthed

Polyphenol

Polyphony

Same as Polyphonic. Polyphonic.

Polyrhythm

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

Polytheism

Polytheist

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Superlative adjective

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Pothunting

Potlatch

Potshot

Very strong bridge hands

Juggernauts

Fireballs

""An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.""

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preachify

ACHINESS the state of being {achy=adj}

Preaching

Tiresome sermons

Precheck

Prechill

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Word with prefix pre-

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Prehension

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

Prehominid

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Office of Prime Minister

English football's top league

Top soccer division

Premonish

Premonish

Prepunch

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

Preschool

SHRUNKEN shrink

Priesthood

""The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.""

Princeship

Some scenes in "Raging Bull"

Boxing matches

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

""The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office.""

Projection of the jaws.

""Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.""

Prohibit

Ban (eg on alcohol)

Anti-Saloon League goal

The 18th Amendment, briefly

(Of a price) excessively high

(Of price) excessively high

I have bar first excessively high

Very discouraging

Promethium

Prophesier

Work he's put into surveillance, suggesting what lies ahead

A person who speaks by divine inspiration or as the interpreter through whom the will of a god is expressed.

""Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold.""

Health

Action taken to prevent disease

One of the Prosobranchiata.

Artificial body parts

(Branch of surgery concerned with) artificial body parts

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

English word

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

""Pl. prothoraxes or prothoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.""

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

Prothorax

A plasma protein that is converted into thrombin during blood clotting.

Protohuman

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

Prototroph

PROTOTROPH

Elsie Dinsmore's forte.

Easily offended nature

An irregular or deceptive form.

Psilophyte

PSILOPHYTE

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

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

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

Psychical

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

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

Instrument for spirit writing.

Thought-related

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

'Mad Men' (wordplay)

Mad Men (wordplay)

Serial killers, for example

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

Publishing

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

Gambling devices

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

Sanctions, e.g

Penalties

On the market

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

PUSHFUL {pushy=adj}

Pushiness

Pyracantha

Pyrethroid

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyrrhotite

Pythoness

Pachysandra

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Paddlefish

""(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""

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

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

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited