2-Letter Words Starting with P

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

English word

Study of light's effect on living organisms

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Of or relating to the energy of light.

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

PHOTOLYZE

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

Photosystem

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

Phycocyanin

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

Phycologist

Phycomycete

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Phyllotaxy

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

Physiatrist

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""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.

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Physiology

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Phytoalexin

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

See plant hormone .

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

Phytosterol

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

English word

PLASMOLYZE

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

POLAROGRAPH

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Polyalcohol

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

Polycrystal

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Adjective (-ic)

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

HISTORIC important in history

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

Polypeptide

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

""Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.""

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

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

Polyploidy

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Polysorbate

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polystyrene

Polysulfide

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

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

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

TONALITY a system of tones

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Polyvalence

In a pontifical manner.

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Portentous

Positional

In a possessive manner.

English word

Noun (-ery)

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

English word

State of possessing latent power

A realistic matter

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

Preachify

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Predominance.

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

Premarital

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

Premodify

Prenotify

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Preoccupy

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Presbyterian.

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

Presbytery

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

Procedural

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Pronounced

PROPERTY something owned

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

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Tried to convert

Proselytise

Proselytism

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

One who proselytes.

Proselytize

Prosodical

In a affluent and successful manner

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

Protective

Protensive

English word

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

History

Protomartyr

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

""; protozoologist , Biology""

In a protrusive manner.

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

In a provincial manner.

Provisional.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

""Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. as, a pseudonymous work.""

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)