2-Letter Words Starting with P

Reaction to a pop quiz, perhaps

What a frightful god I see here!

Pre-exam feeling, maybe

Stereo add-on (wordplay)

Pertaining to voice.

Chopin pieces can be voiced

Relating to pian

Food fieldfare split (wordplay)

Lunch taken to go (wordplay)

Eat out of house and home!

Pertaining to a {pion=n}

It means "fat," not a lunch in the park

Short and stocky

Sounds like Tea Party, representative of fat cats (wordplay)

Of the mind

Mental

Part of Jaipur, a nice place to visit, as in Hindu mythology

Denim cap (anagram)

Pervasive, as a disease

Widely spread disease

Comprehensive, as a view

One troubled with delusions

Pertaining to a {parson=n}

Fussy about correctness

Excessively nit-picking

Overly focused on minor rules

Designating the modern U. S. Army organization.

Pertaining to a {peptone=n}

Pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Kind of acid.

Pertaining to {phenyl=n}

Pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Pinch toe (anagram)

Spelt as spoken.

Representing speech sounds.

Pertaining to {photon=n}

Pertaining to a {phyton=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

Pertaining to pollen

Pertaining to {polyene=n}

Like a pope, old-style

To add sound to a film

Pertaining to a {proton=n}

Old word for sufferer of lung disease

Judging in a critical manner

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYKNOTIC""

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYCNOTIC""

Producing pus

Hypnotic writhing of a snake

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Adjective (-ic)

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

One who is phrenetic.

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

Adjective (-ic)

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

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

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Adjective (-ic)

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

PHENOTYPE

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.

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

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

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

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.

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

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

The process of soil formation.

""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.""

""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.

CENTRIC situated at the center

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

Help cynic to set off for college

Embracing many arts.

Former type of college

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Adjective (-ic)

Fossils

""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.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

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

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.""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Motion ()

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

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

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

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

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

""(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

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

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.""

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others

Geology ()

POINTILLISTE

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

Polyembryonate.

Following the embryonic stage of development.

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

""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.""

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

PROGESTOGEN

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

""The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.""

Moving things by mental force

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

The production of fruit without fertilization.

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

An instrument for measuring an unknown voltage by comparison to a standard voltage.

Seeking to influence opinion in favour of non-religious short verse

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.""

Pl. psychoneuroses (-s z) Neurosis. No longer in scientific use.

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

Adjective (-ic)

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

""PERFECTIONIST One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.""

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

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

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PLATYHELMINTH

Like astrology or psychokinesis

(Of knowledge) not based on rigorous investigation