2-Letter Words Starting with P

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

Lady protects terrible old creatures

In replay, clatters dopy old wingers

Lady Prescott transported some flying reptiles!

Pugnacious

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Pyrargyrite

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

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

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert

In a most careful way

In meticulous style

Capital removed from country, betting on pound and yen with great care

PALYNOLOGIC

Palynologist

Pancreozymin

Pancytopenia

Panegyrical

PANORAMIC

Papyrologist

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

In a way that's contrary to what's expected

Ambiguously

PARALYTIC Of or pertaining to paralysis; resembling paralysis.

Paralyzation

""Pl. paramyxoviruses Any of a group of viruses that contain RNA and are similar to but larger and more variable in size than the related myxovirus. The paramyxoviruses include the Sendai virus, the parainfluenza viruses, and the viruses that cause measles and mumps.""

""PARANORMAL Of or pertaining to parapsychology; pertaining to forces or mental processes, such as extrasensory perception or psychokinesis, outside the possibilities defined by natural or scientific laws; as, paranormal phenomena.as, paranormal phenomena.""

PARASEXUAL

Soldier to brood with one cold fellow-soldier as a hanger-on

Language ()

Language ()

Formed from a compound word.

Relating to highest legislative body in Britain

Governmental

Standard complaint about one on a railway regarding diet (wordplay)

The production of fruit without fertilization.

""Affording the opportunity for individual participation; as, participatory democracy.as, participatory democracy.""

In the sense or manner of a participle.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

A. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.

""PATHOGENIC Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium. as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.""

""PATRIOTIC Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance. as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.""

Patronizing

Pedagogical

""The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.""

In a penetrating manner.

Start to write it, by way of punishment

Small flutes

Penultimate

""A polymer found in the cell walls of prokaryotes that consists of polysaccharide and peptide chains in a strong molecular network. Also called mucopeptide , murein .""

PERAMBULATOR One who perambulates.

Durability; lastingness.

In a perfunctory manner; formally; carelessly.

Periodontal

Perishableness.

Maybe horse destroyed 8 crops

With steadfastness.

Optically; as through a glass.

Perspicuous

In a pestiferuos manner.

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phanerophyte

Pharisaical

Pharmacognosis.

Plural or third person singular

""A drug, C 17 H 25 N, used in veterinary medicine as an anesthetic and illegally as a hallucinogen; PCP.""

Study of extraordinary events.

Study of conscious, direct experience

""An essential amino acid, C 9 H 11 NO 2 , that occurs as a constituent of many proteins and is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body. It is necessary for growth in infants and for nitrogen equilibrium in adults.""

""An adrenergic drug, C 9 H 13 NO 2 , that is a powerful vasoconstrictor and is used to relieve nasal congestion, dilate the pupils, and maintain blood pressure during anesthesia.""

Phosphatidyl

An enzyme that catalyzes the production of glucose phosphate from glycogen and inorganic phosphate.

""PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

Photopolymer

PHOTOSYNTHATE

PHOTOTOXIC

Phreatophyte

PHREATOPHYTE

A red phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of red algae.

PHYCOMYCETE

PHYSICALIST

Physicality

Physiognomy

""Geography the systematic classification and description of nature. See also geography ; geology . ; physiographer , ; physiographic, physiographical , adj . Classification""

See physical geography .

Relating to normal, healthy functioning

Relating to normal healthy functioning

Relating to study of organisms and their functions

Physiologist

Manipulative medical treatment

Masseur spoils party, he gets treatment

Remedial treatment

""An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean (the seed of Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical. Physostigma venenosum), and extracted as a white, tasteless, substance, amorphous or crystalline; formerly called eserine, with which it was regarded as identical.""

Relating to phytochemistry.

Phytochemist

Phytohormone

An organism that is pathogenic to a plant.

Comparative adjective or agent noun

""Minute, free-floating aquatic plants.""

PHYTOTOXIC

PIANISTIC

Equips with cruelty in a slovenly manner, or a charming one

Pietistical

Plastocyanin

See flatworm .

Playability

Playfulness

Playwright

A record or tracing produced by a plethysmograph.

Pneumatical

Geology ()

Pl. pneumonectomies also pneumectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a lung.

Policyholder

""A highly infectious viral disease that chiefly affects children and, in its acute forms, causes inflammation of motor neurons of the spinal cord and brainstem, leading to paralysis, muscular atrophy, and often deformity. Through vaccination, the disease is preventable. Also called infantile paralysis .""

BUTADIENE a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.

Synthetic resin

Polycentrism

Polychotomy

Adjective (-ous)

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

Polycythemia

Polydactyly

Polyembryonate.

Polyethylene

Polyglottism

Polygraphist

Polymorphism

Polyphonous

""PROPYLENE A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene. C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.""

Inflected form of RIBOSOMAL Inflected form of RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Polyribosome

Big words

Polysyndeton

Polyurethane

Porphyropsin

Postcranial

Adjective (-al)

Following the embryonic stage of development.

POSTEMERGENCE

English word

English word

In a pragmatical manner.

Praseodymium

Prayerful

Aimed at averting danger

Rainy? Cape tour gets rearranged, just in case

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.

In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly.

Precipitous

COPULATORY Pertaining to copulation; tending or serving to unite; copulative.

Predicative

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

Prejudicial

In a preliminary manner.

Premonitory

By way of preparation.

Preparatory

""The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.""

Prepositive

Prequalify

Presbyterate

Presbyterial

Presignify

Prespecify

Prestigious

""By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.""

Conceitedly

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Probational

Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial .

Progressive

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Prohibitive

In a proleptical manner.

In a promiscuous manner.

(tr) to further or encourage the progress or existence of

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

Prophylactic

Propoxyphene

PROSELYTISE

Proselytizer

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

""A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context: "an authentic tour de force of historical writing: part intellectual history, part cultural history, part prosopography" (Josiah Bunting III).""

In a prospective manner.

Prostacyclin

Pl. prostatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.

Proteoglycan

Protuberant

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

Subject to possible revision, feed friend

Provocative

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

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

Alfred Adler et al.

Those with the mind to study say this script is flawed