2-Letter Words Starting with P

Of a stage

Relating to a stage in a cycle

His cap unravelled in stages

Sharing feelings rather than ideas

More than anxious

Having unreasoning fear

Having an irrational fear

Stereo add-on (wordplay)

Pertaining to voice.

Chopin pieces can be voiced

Pertaining to light

Caused by light

Pertaining to light.

Pertaining to {phyle=n}

Medicinal drugs (arch.)

Old medicine - shy pic (anagram)

Soft, shy dose, I see

Like cucumber or a banana, maybe

Cocky (wordplay)

Cocky image impressing chamber

Of the mind

Mental

Pro with a deck of cards, maybe

Futures dealer (wordplay)

Know-it-all (wordplay)

Such a victory as bad as defeat

Describing victory at great cost.

Very costly, as victories

""The territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PASHALIC""

Pertaining to {parhelia=n}

""The territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PACHALIC""

Inspiring pity, contempt

Pedestrian way state overturned poor

Pitiful way to cite retrospective

Pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Kind of acid.

Pertaining to {phenyl=n}

Pertaining to the phimosis

Pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Pinch toe (anagram)

Spelt as spoken.

Representing speech sounds.

Pertaining to {photon=n}

Like vision in bright light

Resembling a {phratry=n}

Pertaining to underground waters

Pertaining to a certain acid

""A disease of the lungs, also PHTHISIS""

Pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Pertaining to a {phyton=n}

Hypnotic writhing of a snake

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

One who is phrenetic.

Excessively abundant

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

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.""

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

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

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

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

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

PHONEME a unit of speech

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Poisonous to plants.

Having the property of pleochroism.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

PHASIC relating to a phase

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

PYROPE a variety of garnet

Worshipping many gods

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

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

""Body, Human , Perception""

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""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

PHOTOPHOBE

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

Physiological.

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

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

Polymorphous.

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

""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.""

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

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

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

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

PSILOPHYTE

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

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

Thought-related

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

""(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""

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

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Pathogenic.

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

The description and classification of rocks.

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

PHOSPHATIDE

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

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

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

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

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

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

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

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

PROTOTROPH

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

Formed from a compound word.

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

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

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

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

The study of the effects of light on living organisms and biological processes.

Emitting electrons under light

Light-detecting

Adjective (-ic)

PHOTOPERIOD

PHREATOPHYTE

PHYSICALIST

See physical geography .

POLAROGRAPH

Multi-coloured

Multicoloured

Old mum wrapped in pricy cloth, magically displaying range of colours

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

History

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

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

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

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

Moving things by mental force

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

Adjective (-ic)

Thriving at relatively low temperatures. Used of organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

The production of fruit without fertilization.

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

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.

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

Sound ()

""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.""

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

PSYCHODRAMA

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&#x2019;s radiation. ; pyrheliometric,""

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

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

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

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

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.""

Relating to observable facts

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

PHOTOELECTRON

""The process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, especially aerial photographs.""

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PLATYHELMINTH

Adjective (-ic)

""Tending to induce hallucinations, delusions, or other symptoms of a psychosis. Used of a drug.""