2-Letter Words Starting with P

Phenocryst

Phenology

Sports prodigies

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Philology

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Philosophe

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

Phlebogram

Phlogiston

Phlogopite

Adjective meaning resembling

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Phoniness

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

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

Phonology

One versed in phonology.

""(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.""

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Relating to one element

Phosphoryl

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

Photoflood

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Photometer

""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

Photomural

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

Photophase

A dread or intolerance of light.

PHOTOPHOBE

Photophore

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phycology

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

Pl. phyllotaxies also phyllotaxes The arrangement of leaves on a stem.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Phylloxera

Phylogeny

Cast of one's features

Physiological.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

English word

Pianissimo

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaroon

Piccoloist

Picketboat

Divers strike supporters surrounding pit

Some thieves

Picosecond

Picrotoxin

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Person paid per item produced

Piezometer

Instruments

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Puts into small compartments

Classifies

Compartmentalizes.

Pigeonwing

English word

Items of bed linen

They touch your hair at night

Linen closet items

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Pilothouse

Pimpmobile

Tailors' conveniences

Stuffed accessories

Sewers' conveniences

Plural or third person singular

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

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

Locating exactly

Pinspotter

Piousness

Swiveling, in ballet

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Pitchfork

PITCHPOLE

A sorry state

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

Pixilation

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Astronomy ()

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

Once-common Georgia sights

Farms with banana trees

Large farms that were often established as pioneers moved farther west

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Plasmolyse

Plasmolysie

""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.""

PLASMOLYZE

Plasmolyze

Decorative interior mouldings

Dad (about 50) shows signs of age, circumventing loud mates

Playground

See stonefly .

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

Having full power

Plenteous

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

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

Plesiosaur

English word

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

Gram positive balls, often from the lung

Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease

Respiration recorder

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

Clutches, for example

Go klepto in the paperback aisle (wordplay)

Purses

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Pockmark

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

Podiatrist

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

PODZOLIZE

POETICIZE

Poignancy

Traditional Christmas plants

Christmas decorations.

Xmas plants

POINTED point

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

Artist using dots of color.

Artist using tiny dots

Without point.

Poisonous

Poisonwood

Take a jab in the produce aisle (wordplay)

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

Polemical

*Skilled debaters

Delivered strong opinions

Polemicize

Polemonium

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

We compile no rubbish for coppers

They patrol with uneven paces

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

More of a quote by William E. Simon

People in smoke-filled rooms

Ins and outs

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

Politicise

POLITICIZE

Politicize

Politicker

Politick

Pollenizer

POLLINATE Pollinose.

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Bees are these, for instance, when they travel from plant to plant

Pollinizer

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

CENTRIC situated at the center

Polychaete

English word

CHROMED chrome

Polychrome

Polyclinic

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

POLYDACTYL

Polydipsia

""ESTROUS pertaining to estrus, also ESTRAL, OESTRAL, OESTROUS, ESTRUAL""

Polygamist

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.