2-Letter Words Starting with P

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHOSPHATIDE

""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""

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Motion ()

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

""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.

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

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

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Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

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

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

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

""(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks, used to determine the past configurations of the continents and to investigate the past shape and magnitude of the earth's magnetic field palaeomagnetic   adj""

Fossils

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

""Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. as, a pathognomonic symptom.""

PERSONALIST

""Centered on men or on a male viewpoint, especially one held to entail the domination of women by men.""

Donating to good causes

Doing good works

Intended to promote the welfare of others

The study of the effects of light on living organisms and biological processes.

Emitting electrons under light

Light-detecting

Adjective (-ic)

PHOTOPERIOD

PHREATOPHYTE

PHYSICALIST

(Of a crystal) producing charge under pressure

Geology ()

POINTILLISTE

Multi-coloured

Multicoloured

Old mum wrapped in pricy cloth, magically displaying range of colours

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

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

""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.

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Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

The production of fruit without fertilization.

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

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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.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

An instrument for measuring an unknown voltage by comparison to a standard voltage.

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

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""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.""

PSYCHODRAMA

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

""Inflammation of the kidney and its pelvis, caused by bacterial infection.""

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the intensity of the sun’s radiation. ; pyrheliometric,""

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

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

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.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

Relating to observable facts

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

PHOTOELECTRON

""The process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, especially aerial photographs.""

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PLATYHELMINTH

*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