2-Letter Words Starting with P

Muscle spasm produces acid sort

Type of acid

Kind of acid from apples, grapes, etc.

Pertaining to digestion

Relating to digestion

Spasm follows on from ginger digestive

Sharing feelings rather than ideas

Pertaining to light

Caused by light

Pertaining to light.

Justice for linesmen perhaps (wordplay)

Imaginative kind of justice (wordplay)

On one's feet (wordplay)

Pertaining to {ptosis=n}

One affected with paresis

Situated near the ear

Pertaining to {pelite=n}

Hook-like (wordplay)

Ignoring copyrights, say

Like plunder at sea

It supplies credit cards (wordplay)

Credit cards (wordplay)

Clasp it (anagram)

Resembling a {podite=n}

What a tactful coil with a twisted tip!

Body type (wordplay)

Prudent - type of body

Pertaining to {rivers=n}

Experienced in the past

Skilled, old style

Experienced in the past

Pertaining to {psoas=n}

Feverish City rep gets treatment

Feverish

Pertaining to {pyrite=n}

Comprehensive, as a view

Inspiring pity, contempt

Pedestrian way state overturned poor

Pitiful way to cite retrospective

Fussy about correctness

Excessively nit-picking

Overly focused on minor rules

Designating the modern U. S. Army organization.

Pertaining to {peptide=n}

Pertaining to a {peptone=n}

A bone of the middle ear

Pertaining to {perlite=n}

Derived from petroleum

Pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Pertaining to the phimosis

Pinch toe (anagram)

Spelt as spoken.

Representing speech sounds.

Pertaining to {photon=n}

Like vision in bright light

Resembling a {phratry=n}

Pertaining to underground waters

Pertaining to a certain acid

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

Pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Pertaining to a {phyton=n}

Pertaining to {picrite=n}

Pertaining to {platinum=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

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

Pertaining to a {prelate=n}

Pertaining to a {protasis=n}

Pertaining to a {proton=n}

Pertaining to {pruritus=n}

Pertaining to {psilosis=n}

Judging in a critical manner

Pertaining to nicety in literary style

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYKNOTIC""

Pertaining to {pyelitis=n}

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYCNOTIC""

Hypnotic writhing of a snake

Random mating within a breeding population.

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

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

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.

One who is phrenetic.

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

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

Adjective (-ic)

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

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

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.""

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

PODIA podium

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

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'

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""

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

A patricide (anagram)

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

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

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,""

""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.""

""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.""

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

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

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

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

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

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

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.""

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

PHENOTYPE

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

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

PHONEME a unit of speech

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

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

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Adjective (-ic)

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

MEIOTIC pertaining to {meiosis=n}

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

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

""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)

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

Worshipping many gods

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

""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""

The process of soil formation.

""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.""

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

""(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

Instruments

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

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

""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.

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

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

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.

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

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

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.

Adjective (-ic)

Fossils

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

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.

Pathogenic.

""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.

""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.""