2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

PERILOUS dangerous

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry

Specialized tooth care pro

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Peritoneal

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Commission for distribution of dog food

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

Persistence

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

PERSONALISE

Makes for you an espresso, one left to stir

Personalism

Personalist

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

Personalty

Personation

Personifier

Representing in human form

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

Disquiet

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Petiteness

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Plural or third person singular

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

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

Quibbling

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

Pheneticist

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

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

PHENOTYPIC

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Unfaithful types

Philip and Elizabeth repeatedly meeting southern Lotharios

Flirts

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Philhellene

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

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

One versed or skilled in phonography.

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

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonologist

Phonotactic

Phosphonium

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.

One way to reproduce a picture

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

Photomap

Composite picture

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Photoset

Photostat

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycocyanin

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

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

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

Phytoalexin

See plant hormone .

Pickaback

Pickaninny

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

Video communication device

Pigeonholer

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilocarpine

English word

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

Placekick

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

Placidness

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

PLANLESS without a plan

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

Plantigrade

Plasminogen

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Plebeianism

Plecopteran

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Pluckiness

Plushiness

""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.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Podophyllin

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

POLEMICIZE

Politeness

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Plural or third person singular

Pollination

Plural or third person singular

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

CHROMING a chromium ore

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

Polystyrene

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

The science of the mechanic arts.

TONALITY a system of tones

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Polyvalence

Pomegranate

In a pontifical manner.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificate

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

POPULARISE

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

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

Porousness

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Portentous

Portliness

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them