2-Letter Words Starting with P

Patronizing

Pedagogical

PERAMBULATOR One who perambulates.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.

Periodontal

Perspicuous

In a pestiferuos manner.

Pharmacognosis.

Study of extraordinary events.

Study of conscious, direct experience

PHOTOTOXIC

Manipulative medical treatment

Masseur spoils party, he gets treatment

Remedial treatment

PHYTOTOXIC

Pl. pneumonectomies also pneumectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a lung.

Polyphonous

Postcranial

POSTEMERGENCE

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Aimed at averting danger

Rainy? Cape tour gets rearranged, just in case

Precipitous

COPULATORY Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

Premonitory

Preparatory

""The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.""

Prepositive

Prestigious

Conceitedly

Probational

Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial .

Progressive

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Prohibitive

In a proleptical manner.

In a promiscuous manner.

(tr) to further or encourage the progress or existence of

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

""A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context: "an authentic tour de force of historical writing: part intellectual history, part cultural history, part prosopography" (Josiah Bunting III).""

In a prospective manner.

Pl. prostatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.

Protuberant

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

Subject to possible revision, feed friend

Provocative

""Biology the study of the relations or interrelations between body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system. ; psychobiologist, ; psychobiologic, psychobiological,""

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

Punctilious

Purposeless

PYROLYTIC

The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

Study or science of

Pl. pancreatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas.

PARABIOTIC

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

Engaged in crime, I'm going in devoutly, giving little away

Pathological

Percutaneous

To carry out or do (an action)

Study or science of

Peritrichous

Pertinacious

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

According to petrology.

Phenological

Phenotypical

Philological

Phonological

""The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.""

PHOTOGENIC Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

""A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.""

PHOTOLYTIC

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Botany ()

In a pleonastic manner.

Abstract noun (-ity)

POLYDISPERSE

Polymorphous

Inflected form of PHONICALLY Inflected form of PHONIC pertaining to the nature of sound

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Postpositive

In a praiseworthy manner.

Preconscious

Preoperative

Preponderant

Preponderate

Purposely store bananas in a ridiculous way

In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Abstract noun (-ity)

Processional

Very skilfully and competently

Person's loyal if working for money

Professorial

Proportionally.

Supporting and helping colleague, in a manner that's relatively consistent

""PROSCRIPTIVE Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.""

""PROSTHETIC Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.""

PROTOPLANET

Prototypical

Providential

Pseudonymous

Psychosexual

Psychosocial

""Pl. pyrometallurgies An ore-refining process, such as smelting, dependent on the action of heat.""

Pyrometrical

Palynological

In both senses also called physiopathology . The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury.

With great insight

With discernment

Pl. pharmacotherapies Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.

In a manner befitting Socrates one loyal Polish chap's not acting rashly

PHONOGRAMIC

Photochemical

PHOTOMETRIC

PHOTOTACTIC

""Telegraphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography.""

PHOTOTROPIC Same as Heliotropic. Heliotropic.

In a physiological manner.

See pathophysiology .

Phytochemical

PINOCYTOTIC

How a cliche may come across

Delegate with full power

What's my line: #3

Robert Murphy, on occasion.

""The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.""

Plutocratical

POLYMORPHIC Polymorphous.

Postoperative

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Prehistorical

Prepositional

In a dubious way

In a way fraught with trouble

; Chiefly British Variant of program .

The state of being in proportion.

In proper ratio

In a balanced way

In favour of part at city having the same ratio

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

Pl. pseudopregnancies See false pregnancy .

""Pl. psychobiographies A biography that analyzes the psychological makeup, character, or motivations of its subject: "We are given a kind of psychobiography which ultimately pictures a deeply egotistical individual, unable to tolerate anyone else's success" (Leon Botstein).""

PSYCHOGENIC

According to the science of mind

""Medical Specialties Medicine. the science of the diseases of the mind. ; psychopathologist, psychopathist, ; psychopathologie, psychopathological,""

PSYCHOSEXUAL

In a cowardly way

Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.

Pyrotechnical