2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pertaining to {burning=n}

Astronomical length - scrape (anagram)

Measure of distance in space

Astronomer's unit of distance

Acid used in dyes

Yellow acid used in dyeing

Kind of acid.

One affected with paresis

Relating to comic imitation

Like Weird Al songs

Having the character of burlesque.

Situated near the ear

Pertaining to a {peloria=n}

Of the mind

Mental

Hook-like (wordplay)

Ignoring copyrights, say

Like plunder at sea

Experienced in the past

Skilled, old style

Experienced in the past

Pair doctored photo of a Greek god

Relating to male virility

Dull for one filling bag

Boring with Mandela in charge (wordplay)

Unimaginative - air cops (anagram)

The spur has got twisted like this

Deadly acid.

Deadly acid of copper to engulf huge area shortly

Part of Jaipur, a nice place to visit, as in Hindu mythology

Pertaining to the pylorus

Feverish City rep gets treatment

Feverish

Pertaining to {pyrexia=n}

Pertaining to {pyridine=n}

Pertaining to {pyrite=n}

Such a victory as bad as defeat

Describing victory at great cost.

Very costly, as victories

One troubled with delusions

Pertaining to {parhelia=n}

Pertaining to a {parson=n}

Chemist's table (wordplay)

Occasional table, kind of (wordplay)

Occasional table, perhaps

A bone of the middle ear

A protective covering of certain hydrozoans

Pertaining to {perlite=n}

Derived from petroleum

Resembling a {phratry=n}

Pertaining to underground waters

Pertaining to {picrite=n}

Resembling {podagra=n}

Pertaining to {polyuria=n}

Pertaining to a {prelate=n}

""A student preparing for the study of medicine, also PREMED""

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 {pruritus=n}

Pertaining to nicety in literary style

Pertaining to {purpura=n}

Pertaining to {pyrrole=n}

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

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.

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

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 the early Church theologians

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

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

PHARE a lighthouse

One who is phrenetic.

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

PODIA podium

Like nylon, chemically

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

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

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

Producing rainbow colors, say

Is Ma with it in a crisp, light way (wordplay)

Rainbow-hued

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.

""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.

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

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

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

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

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

PERICYCLE

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Viewing on all sides

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Having the property of pleochroism.

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)

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

""An apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight.""

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

""Body, Human , Perception""

""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.""

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

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

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

Instruments

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

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.""

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

CENTRIC situated at the center

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polymorphous.

""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.""

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

ROMANTIC a fanciful person

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

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

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""(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""

""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.""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Weakly attracted by poles

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Word play; punning.

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

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

The description and classification of rocks.

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

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

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

HISTORIC important in history

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

ECLAMPTIC

Like music which depicts something

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

Measuring mental processes

Type of drug affecting mental state

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.