2-Letter Words Starting with P

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.""

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Something worthy of praise.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

TONALITY a system of tones

In a pontifical manner.

Positional

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-ery)

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

State of possessing latent power

A realistic matter

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Predominance.

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

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

Premarital

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

Prosodical

Protective

Protensive

History

In a protrusive manner.

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

In a provincial manner.

Provisional.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

Pugnacious

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

In a most careful way

In meticulous style

Capital removed from country, betting on pound and yen with great care

Panegyrical

PANORAMIC

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

In a way that's contrary to what's expected

Ambiguously

PARALYTIC Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

""PARANORMAL Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.as, paranormal phenomena.""

PARASEXUAL

Soldier to brood with one cold fellow-soldier as a hanger-on

Relating to highest legislative body in Britain

Governmental

Standard complaint about one on a railway regarding diet (wordplay)

""Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.as, participatory democracy.""

In the sense or manner of a participle.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

A. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.

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

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""

Patronizing

Pedagogical

""The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.""

In a penetrating manner.

Start to write it, by way of punishment

Penultimate

Durability; lastingness.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.

Periodontal

Perishableness.

With steadfastness.

Optically; as through a glass.

Perspicuous

In a pestiferuos manner.

Pharisaical

PHOTOTOXIC

Manipulative medical treatment

Masseur spoils party, he gets treatment

Remedial treatment

PHYTOTOXIC

PIANISTIC

Equips with cruelty in a slovenly manner, or a charming one

Pietistical

Pneumatical

Postcranial

In a pragmatical manner.

Aimed at averting danger

Rainy? Cape tour gets rearranged, just in case

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.

Precipitous

Predicative

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

Prejudicial

In a preliminary manner.

Premonitory

By way of preparation.

Preparatory

Prepositive

Prestigious

""By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.""

Conceitedly

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Probational

Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial .

Progressive

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Prohibitive

In a proleptical manner.

In a promiscuous manner.

(tr) to further or encourage the progress or existence of

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

In a prospective manner.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

Subject to possible revision, feed friend

Provocative

""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.

PSYCHOTIC

Punctilious

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

In a puritanical manner.

Lack of courage

Lack of courage, timidity

PYROLYTIC

PACIFISTIC

PARABIOTIC

Paradisaical

Paradisiacal

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Parametrical

Paratactical

Engaged in crime, I'm going in devoutly, giving little away

American trailing plant

Pathological

""The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. as, the perceptibility of light or color.""

The quality or state of being perfectible.

To carry out or do (an action)

Study or science of

Peritrichous

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

Pertinacious

Pestilently.

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

According to petrology.

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.

PHOTOLYTIC

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

Botany ()

Agreeable; gratifying.

In a pleonastic manner.

Abstract noun (-ity)

POLYDISPERSE

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

Postpositive

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

In a praiseworthy manner.

Preconscious

Quality offering few surprises

Preferential

Deep matter idly represented, but in a planned way

Preoperative

Presbyterial

By prescription.

""That can be given, displayed, or offered: presentable gifts; presentable attire.""

Something that acts to preserve; a preservative.

Presidential

The quality or state of being preventable.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Abstract noun (-ity)

Processional

Very skilfully and competently

Person's loyal if working for money

Professorial

Proportionally.

Supporting and helping colleague, in a manner that's relatively consistent

""PROSCRIPTIVE Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.""

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

Prototypical