2-Letter Words Starting with P

""A drug, C 16 H 21 NO 2 , that blocks beta-adrenergic activity, used to treat hypertension, angina pectoris, and cardiac arrhythmia and to prevent migraine headaches.""

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

Temporary - viral poison (anagram)

Pending subsequent decision

Temporary - conditional

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

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Serving to purify of sin; expiatory.

Marked by stern morality

Very strict or censorious

Strictly moral in conduct

Of or pertaining to a pyramid; having the form of a pyramid; pyramidal.

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

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

""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.""

Adjective (-al)

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Of or pertaining to petrology.

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

PHENOTYPIC

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

Of or pertaining to phonology.

English word

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

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

Adjective (-ical)

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective (-al)

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

Presbyterian.

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

Characteristic of an academic

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

PROTONEMATA

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

PALYNOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.""

""Capable of destroying parasites, especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms.""

(Word or phrase) in brackets

Like some remarks

Using brackets

Adjective (-al)

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

PERMUTATION The act of permuting; exchange of the thing for another; mutual transference; interchange.

Such as paraffin or fuel oil

PHARMACOPEIA

""A crystalline barbiturate, C 12 H 12 N 2 O 3 , used medicinally as a sedative, a hypnotic, and an anticonvulsant.""

Stoical in defeat

Uncomplaining in defeat

Calm and stoical in the face of setbacks

""Of or pertaining to chemical action of light, or produced by it; as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina. as, the photochemical changes of the visual purple of the retina.""

Of or pertaining to phrenology.

Relating to normal, healthy functioning

Relating to normal healthy functioning

Relating to study of organisms and their functions

Relating to phytochemistry.

Inflected form of RIBOSOMAL Inflected form of RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Era of history

Of a more recent artistic period

Later period in, eg, art

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

""POSTULATION The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Behavior ()

BIOLOGICAL Of or relating to biology.

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

""INDUSTRIAL Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.""

""Inflected form of MENOPAUSAL Inflected form of MENOPAUSE The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change. Change of life, under Change.""

"", Previous to the millennium.""

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.

Out of the ordinary.

Beyond what is normal

Extraordinary and unexplainable

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

PROCTOLOGIC

""Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.""

""Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.""

""Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. as, a propositional sense.""

Possessive

""PROSECUTOR One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.""

Relating to the study of elections

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

PALEOBOTANIC

Of or pertaining to paleography.

""Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.""

Pertaining to petrography.

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

Drug-related

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Astronomy ()

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

Adjective (-al)

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Of or occurring in the time following menopause.

Happening or existing after the millennium.

Of or pertaining to postposition.

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

""OPERATIONAL of or pertaining to operations; as, operational procedure.as, operational procedure.""

""PRESENTATION The act of presenting, or the state of being presented; a setting forth; an offering; bestowal.""

Here one's suffering from a disturbance of the mind that's ominous

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

""Of or relating to the phase of the menstrual cycle immediately following ovulation, characterized by secretion of progesterone.""

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Of or relating to psychochemicals.

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.

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

The study of ferns.

PALEOBIOLOGIC

PALEOECOLOGIC

Of fossil lore

Fossils

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

PARASITOLOGIC

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

PHOTOBIOLOGIC

PHOTOGEOLOGIC

""Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.""

""Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.""

Of or pertaining to physiography.

Adjective (-al)

""AGRICULTURAL Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.""

PRESIDENTIAL Presiding or watching over.

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

""PRONUNCIATION The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.""

Relating to inexplicable mental phenomena

Concerning the effects of drugs on the mind