2-Letter Words Starting with P

Astronomical length - scrape (anagram)

Measure of distance in space

Astronomer's unit of distance

Of a stage

Relating to a stage in a cycle

His cap unravelled in stages

Medicinal drugs (arch.)

Old medicine - shy pic (anagram)

Soft, shy dose, I see

Like a certain fluid

Relating to the colourless component of blood

It supplies credit cards (wordplay)

Credit cards (wordplay)

Clasp it (anagram)

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

Like much worship music

Relating to sacred hymns

Like David's writing

Pertaining to {psoas=n}

Pro with a deck of cards, maybe

Futures dealer (wordplay)

Know-it-all (wordplay)

Pertaining to a {parson=n}

""The territory of a pasha, also PASHALIK, PACHALIC""

A protective covering of certain hydrozoans

""A disease of the lungs, also PHTHISIS""

Relating to podsol

To add sound to a film

Of a silvery alkaline metallic element

Of the rules of verse

Re language's rhythms

Pertaining to the rhythm of speech

Pertaining to {psilosis=n}

Pertaining to nicety in literary style

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

Relating to the early Church theologians

PHARE a lighthouse

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

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

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Producing rainbow colors, say

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

Rainbow-hued

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

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

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Viewing on all sides

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

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

""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

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

PHASIC relating to a phase

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Adjective (-ic)

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

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

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Worshipping many gods

""Body, Human , Perception""

""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.""

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

PHOTOSTAT

Physiological.

""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.""

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

Adjective (-ic)

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

PROTOSTELE

PSILOPHYTE

Birds

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

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

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.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHOSPHATIDE

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

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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

""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.""

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

HISTORIC important in history

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

The scientific study of parasitism.

Formed from a compound word.

Caring but condescending

Behaving in a fatherly but unwelcome way

Closely supervising

PERSONALIST

PHYSICALIST

See physical geography .

POINTILLISTE

Inflected form of CISTRONIC Inflected form of CISTRON a segment of DNA

Following the embryonic stage of development.

Adjective (-ic)

Following injury or resulting from it: posttraumatic amnesia.

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Quite simple, with five

Like Stone Age culture

Based on chance variation

PROGESTOGEN

History

Adjective (-ic)

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

""The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.""

Moving things by mental force

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

Adjective (-ic)

Thriving at relatively low temperatures. Used of organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Inflected form of SYMPTOMATIC Inflected form of SYMPTOM a subjective indication of a disease

Seeking to influence opinion in favour of non-religious short verse

Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon.

Sound ()

""Pl. psychoanalyses (-s z ) a. The method of psychological therapy originated by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts, in order to free psychic energy for mature love and work.""

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

PSYCHODRAMA

Pl. psychoneuroses (-s z) Neurosis. No longer in scientific use.

""Of, relating to, or affecting the parasympathetic nervous system: parasympathetic activity; parasympathetic agents.""

PARTICULARIST One who holds to particularism.

""PERFECTIONIST One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.""

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

Relating to observable facts

*Like the 'Hunger Games' trilogy

*Like the "Hunger Games" trilogy

Adjective (-ic)

PROGRESSIVIST

""Tending to induce hallucinations, delusions, or other symptoms of a psychosis. Used of a drug.""

Like astrology or psychokinesis

(Of knowledge) not based on rigorous investigation