2-Letter Words Starting with P

Fake (alt. spelling)

Fake (mainly US spelling)

Not genuine (colloq.)

Short and meaningful as a saying

Short and meaningful, as a saying

Concise as a saying

Like those not willing to negotiate

Far from reticent

Backed up attempt, being assertive

Quilt work would be so sporadic

Not of uniform consistency

Irregular in quality

Lovely and fruity

Kind of complexion

Fine and dandy

False, soft, sweet and dialable, perhaps

Fake ring revealed by youth leader

Not genuine, insincere

Soft rubbish - yuk!

Doggone it!

Cry of disappointment

Concise and to the point

Black and viscid.

Full of tar

{marshy=adj}

Rich, self-assertive, grasping Liberal

Luxurious and soft, as of cloth

Luxurious

Swampy.

Word in a five-star hotel review

In a luxurious manner

Done with class

Like bags under eyes

Of a pocket-like abdominal receptacle

Vigorous (in speech)

Loopy from lack of sleep, say

Vigorous blow given, and said why

Course or route

Well-worn trail

A trodden track

{arrogant=adj}

Like many gourmands

Fat adult, forceful going round

Like one with a spare tire

Containing a radical derived from phenol

In need of Mucinex

Apathetically cold

In a fake way

In a hokey way

A tribal unit among primitive peoples

""To make frantic, also FRENZY""

(Expressed) tersely and vigorously

Using few words

Without wasting words, show sympathy, capturing child's heart

In a plush manner

Annoyingly self-righteous

Given to tedious moralising

Prone to sermonize

In an aggressive way

Universal knowledge

Itchy pal coming out in spots

Unevenly

An imaginative poem, play, etc

Product of imagination.

Power of creative imagination.

Drug dealer's science (wordplay)

Where chemist works fast to dress wound

Hurt when in lively shop

A bract of certain plants

In a very dark manner

In a plushy manner

Hard igneous rock

Perhaps that's all for the telling

Divine message of what is to come

Oracle's stock-in-trade

See what's in the cards, maybe

Reveal through divine inspiration

Foretell - portend

In a punchy manner

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Model veils hype in a petulant way

With ill temper

Around six, he yelps about in a petulant way

Government by five persons

Line acting as a boundary

Surrounding region

Outer limits

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

PHENE an old name for benzene

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Study of speech sounds

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Waldo Salt supply

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

In a mischievous manner

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

PHOTIC pertaining to light

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

PRANKISH mischievous

Study of early man

Very old times seeing unfortunate Troy perish

Early age

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Malraux explained that of art

Study of human and animal behaviour

Jung's field

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

The art of writing on stone.

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

Gym rat's concern

Cast of one's features

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pigheaded

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

English word

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

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

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Preaching

Very discouraging

PROTOTROPH

Psychical

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

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

Pathetical

See pathology .

Peripheral

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

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

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

POLAROGRAPH

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

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

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

History

Hygrometry.

The production of fruit without fertilization.

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

Perishableness.

Pharisaical

Pharmacognosis.

Study of extraordinary events.

Study of conscious, direct experience

PHOTOTOXIC

Manipulative medical treatment

Masseur spoils party, he gets treatment

Remedial treatment

PHYTOTOXIC

Polyphonous

Prohibitive

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

""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).""

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

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

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

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

""(Law) to force (someone) to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc., for some crime or misdemeanour""

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

Study or science of

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

Pathological

Peritrichous

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

Phenological

Phenotypical

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philological

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

Phonological

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

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

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

PHOTOLYTIC

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Botany ()

Polymorphous

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

In a praiseworthy manner.

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

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Psychosexual

Psychosocial

Pantheistical

In brackets

Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion

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

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

Pl. pharmacotherapies Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.

In a manner befitting Socrates one loyal Polish chap's not acting rashly

PHONOGRAMIC

Photochemical

PHOTOMETRIC

PHOTOTACTIC

""Telegraphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography.""

PHOTOTROPIC Same as Heliotropic. Heliotropic.

In a physiological manner.

See pathophysiology .

Phytochemical

""The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.""

POLYMORPHIC Polymorphous.

Prehistorical

PSYCHEDELIC

Psychiatrical

""Pl. psychobiographies A biography that analyzes the psychological makeup, character, or motivations of its subject: "We are given a kind of psychobiography which ultimately pictures a deeply egotistical individual, unable to tolerate anyone else's success" (Leon Botstein).""

PSYCHOGENIC

According to the science of mind

""Medical Specialties Medicine. the science of the diseases of the mind. ; psychopathologist, psychopathist, ; psychopathologie, psychopathological,""

PSYCHOSEXUAL

Pyrotechnical