2-Letter Words Starting with P

Kind of girdle

Of the sacrum, ilium, and so on

Near the hip area

Pertaining to {phyle=n}

Community in the open (wordplay)

Open watering hole - left in charge!

Bar the audience (wordplay)

Ocean zone above the oceanic zone

Inhabiting the deep

There's a gale back in there out at sea

Pertaining to {pelite=n}

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Like cucumber or a banana, maybe

Cocky (wordplay)

Cocky image impressing chamber

Like a certain fluid

Relating to the colourless component of blood

It supplies credit cards (wordplay)

Credit cards (wordplay)

Clasp it (anagram)

Containing lead

Contents of a political tract, maybe

A controversial argument

Controversy; attacking speech

What a tactful coil with a twisted tip!

Body type (wordplay)

Prudent - type of body

Like much worship music

Relating to sacred hymns

Like David's writing

Pertaining to the pylorus

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

Of element #46

Of the metallic compound atomic number 46

Pertaining to {parhelia=n}

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

Pertaining to {perlite=n}

Derived from petroleum

Kind of acid.

Pertaining to {phenyl=n}

Pertaining to a certain acid

Pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Pertaining to {platinum=n}

Half play a note for love (wordplay)

Non-sexual (friendship)

Purely spiritual (love)

Like deep igneous rock

Solidified molten rock

Related to a former planet

Relating to podsol

Relating to podzol

Pertaining to pollen

Pertaining to {polyene=n}

Pertaining to {polyuria=n}

Composed of many zooids

Pertaining to the part of the leg behind the knee

Pertaining to a {prelate=n}

Churning out book after book, say

Producing in great abundance

Producing in abundance

Pertaining to {propyl=n}

Pertaining to {psilosis=n}

Old word for sufferer of lung disease

Pertaining to {pyelitis=n}

Pertaining to {pyrrole=n}

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEDOCAL a type of soil

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

Of or relating to pathology.

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

PERICYCLE

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

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.""

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.

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

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

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

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

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

""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.""

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

Physiological.

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

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

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

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

PROTOSTELE

PSILOPHYTE

New word in hip talk.

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

Vividly colourful

Thought-related

One type of flow from a volcano

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.""

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

""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.""

""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}

ECLAMPTIC

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

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

""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   adj""

Fossils

The scientific study of parasitism.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

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)

PHYSICALIST

(Of a crystal) producing charge under pressure

Geology ()

POINTILLISTE

POLAROGRAPH

Multi-coloured

Multicoloured

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

Inflected form of CISTRONIC Inflected form of CISTRON a segment of DNA

Polyembryonate.

Adjective (-ic)

""GANGLIONIC Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord. as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.""

Based on chance variation

Adjective (-ic)

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

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

Adjective (-ic)

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

""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,""

""Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by bacterial infection.""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the intensity of the sun’s radiation. ; pyrheliometric,""

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

PARTICULARIST One who holds to particularism.

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

PHYTOPLANKTON

PLATYHELMINTH

*Like the 'Hunger Games' trilogy

*Like the "Hunger Games" trilogy