2-Letter Words Starting with P

More than anxious

Having unreasoning fear

Having an irrational fear

Stereo add-on (wordplay)

Pertaining to voice.

Chopin pieces can be voiced

Pertaining to light

Caused by light

Pertaining to light.

Pertaining to a {pion=n}

Justice for linesmen perhaps (wordplay)

Imaginative kind of justice (wordplay)

On one's feet (wordplay)

Pertaining to {ptosis=n}

Relating to comic imitation

Like Weird Al songs

Having the character of burlesque.

Situated near the ear

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Resembling a {podite=n}

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

Pertaining to {rivers=n}

Dull for one filling bag

Boring with Mandela in charge (wordplay)

Unimaginative - air cops (anagram)

Pertaining to {psoas=n}

Pertaining to the pylorus

Comprehensive, as a view

One troubled with delusions

Pertaining to a {parson=n}

Designating the modern U. S. Army organization.

Pertaining to a {peptone=n}

Chemist's table (wordplay)

Occasional table, kind of (wordplay)

Occasional table, perhaps

A bone of the middle ear

Derived from petroleum

Kind of acid.

Pertaining to the phimosis

Pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Pinch toe (anagram)

Spelt as spoken.

Representing speech sounds.

Pertaining to {photon=n}

Like vision in bright light

Pertaining to a {phyton=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

Resembling {podagra=n}

Relating to podsol

Relating to podzol

Pertaining to pollen

Pertaining to {polyene=n}

Pertaining to {polyuria=n}

Composed of many zooids

Like a pope, old-style

Pertaining to the part of the leg behind the knee

To add sound to a film

Of a silvery alkaline metallic element

Churning out book after book, say

Producing in great abundance

Producing in abundance

Pertaining to {propyl=n}

Of the rules of verse

Re language's rhythms

Pertaining to the rhythm of speech

Pertaining to a {protasis=n}

Pertaining to a {proton=n}

Pertaining to a branch of environmental study

Pertaining to {psilosis=n}

Old word for sufferer of lung disease

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYKNOTIC""

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYCNOTIC""

Producing pus

Pertaining to {pyrrole=n}

Hypnotic writhing of a snake

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

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

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

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

Like a green gem or olivine.

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

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

Adjective (-ic)

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

Excessively abundant

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

PODIA podium

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

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""

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Adjective (-ic)

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

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

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Viewing on all sides

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

PHENOTYPE

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

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.

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

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

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Poisonous to plants.

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

Adjective (-ic)

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

VOCALIC a vowel sound

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

Adjective (-ic)

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Biology ()

The process of soil formation.

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

""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.""

""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

PHOTOPHOBE

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

Physiological.

Instruments

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

""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.""

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

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

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

PROKARYOTE

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

Of or pertaining to the prothorax.

""Sensing pain, pressure, heat, or cold in a nonspecific manner, usually without localizing the stimulus. Used especially of certain sensory nerves.""

PROTOSTELE

PSILOPHYTE

Birds

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

Thought-related

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

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

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

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.""

Word play; punning.

Pathogenic.

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

The description and classification of rocks.