2-Letter Words Starting with P

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Protoplasm

Protoplast

Protostele

PROTOSTELE

Protostome

Prototroph

PROTOTROPH

Protoxylem

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Protract

Favouring attempt to cut short hostilities going on and on

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Mechanized farmer's stance (wordplay)

In favor of John Deere (wordplay)

Gizmos used in geometry class

Protreptic

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

Protrusion

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

English word

Ownership histories

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Providence

In a provident manner.

Unsophisticated ones

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

Supplied with food.

Provision

Provitamin

An agent provocateur.

Cause of expert calling

Apt title for this puzzle

Spin doctor calling for incitement

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

Provoking

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

Proximity

Pseudocoel

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Pl. pseudomonades (-m n -d z ) See pseudomonad .

An irregular or deceptive form.

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Psilocybin

Psilophyte

PSILOPHYTE

Plural or third person singular

Disease of birds (especially parrots)

Contagious disease of birds

Disease of birds

Birds

Spellbound genre

Entertainment affecting the mind and emotions

Theater class taught by Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

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

Instrument for spirit writing.

Thought-related

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

'Mad Men' (wordplay)

Mad Men (wordplay)

Serial killers, for example

""Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. Psychosis, 2.""

Pteranodon

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

""The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts. as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.""

""A germinating, or budding.""

Gambling devices

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

Punctation

Attentive to detail

Showing great attention to detail

Precise in formalities of etiquette

English class topic

Marks in writing

One concern of a proofreader

Punctuator

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Purgatory

Cloth used in Holy Communion services

Cloth used in celebrating the Eucharist

Purported

Having no aim or goal

Without an aim

Without aim

Purposive

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Wary one

The act of producing pustules; the state of being pustulated.

Pycnogonid

Pycnometer

Pyranoside

Pyrethroid

Pyridoxine

One type of flow from a volcano

Pyrogallol

Pyrolusite

Pyrolysate

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyzate

Pyromancy

Lighting enthusiasts (wordplay)

Compulsive fire starters

Pyrometry

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyroxenite

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pyroxenoid

Pyrrhotite

Pythoness

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

Pacificator

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Paddleboard

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features See also neoteny paedogenetic   [ˌpiːdəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk] , paedogenic adj PAEDOMORPHIC (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

A writer of palindromes.

Palpitation

Palynology

Biology ()

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

Pandemonium

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Marcel Marceau and others.

PANTOTHENATE

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

Paradrop

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

English word

Parathyroid

Contenders for the high jump

Paratyphoid

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Mass society (wordplay)

They mass for Mass

French city by Rhone is desperate for churchgoers

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Passagework

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

""PASTORALE A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 68 or 128 time.""

Paternoster

See pathology .

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

Pathologist

Pawnbroking

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

Pejorative

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

Pensionary

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Five-faced figures

Pentazocine

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Perchlorate

Percolation

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Perennation

Perestroika

In a perfidious manner.

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Adjective (-al)

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

PERILOUS dangerous

From time to time.

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

PERITRICH

Perjurious