2-Letter Words Starting with P

PERICYCLE

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

Viewing on all sides

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

""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.

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Having the property of pleochroism.

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

PHASIC relating to a phase

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Adjective (-ic)

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

Adjective (-ic)

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

Worshipping many gods

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""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.""

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

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

""Body, Human , Perception""

The process of soil formation.

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

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.

Instruments

""Introduction of fluids into a cell by invagination of the cell membrane, followed by formation of vesicles within the cells.""

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

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

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

CENTRIC situated at the center

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

""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.""

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Injured climber, a top becoming tricky

Uncertain or questionable

Raising a lot of doubt

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

Medical Specialties

PROKARYOTE

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

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.""

PROTOSTELE

PSILOPHYTE

Birds

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

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Adjective (-ic)

""(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""

Fossils

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

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

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.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Weakly attracted by poles

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

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

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

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.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

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

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

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

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

ECLAMPTIC

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

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

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic &nbsp; adj""

Fossils

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

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

PERSONALIST

""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 .