2-Letter Words Starting with P

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

Emulate Freud

PSYCHOBABBLE

Psychobabble

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

""(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.""

Plural or third person singular

""Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection. natural selection.""

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

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Brain

Supposed ability to move objects by mental effort

Moving things by mental force

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

PSYCHOLOGISE

Psychologise

Psychologism

Scientists working in school's pigsty

Q: See title A: "Just one, but it has to really WANT to change"

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Psychologize

Psychometric

Psychometry

Psychopathic

Psychopathy

The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

Psychotropic

Psychrometer

Adjective (-ic)

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

Pteridophyte

Punctilious

""(Law) to force (someone) to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc., for some crime or misdemeanour""

In a puritanical manner.

Purposeless

Lack of courage

Lack of courage, timidity

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

Pyridoxamine

""A drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

Pyrocatechol

PYROLYTIC

Pyromorphite

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

Pyrophyllite

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

Fireworks experts.

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

PACIFISTIC

The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

Study or science of

Pl. pancreatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas.

PARABIOTIC

Paradisaical

Paradisiacal

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Parametrical

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

Paratactical

""PARENCHYMA The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Engaged in crime, I'm going in devoutly, giving little away

American trailing plant

Pathological

Peptidoglycan

""The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. as, the perceptibility of light or color.""

Percutaneous

The quality or state of being perfectible.

To carry out or do (an action)

Study or science of

Perissodactyl

Peritrichous

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

Pertinacious

Pestilently.

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

According to petrology.

Phencyclidine

Phenological

Phenotypical

Phenylalanine

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

Phenylephrine

See phenylthiocarbamide .

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philological

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

Phonological

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ic)

Phosphorylase

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phosphorylate

""The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.""

PHOTOGENIC Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

""A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.""

PHOTOLYTIC

Photosynthate

Plural or third person singular

Process by which plants trap light energy

Pictures, strangely shiny, set in process that gives everything more life

The posy this son arranged, showing what plants can do

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.

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

Phycoerythrin

Physicalness

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

Botany ()

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

Platyhelminth

PLAYWRIGHTING playwright

Agreeable; gratifying.

In a pleonastic manner.

Plethysmogram

""An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.""

Abstract noun (-ity)

ACRYLAMIDE

Polybutadiene

Polycarbonate

POLYDISPERSE

Polyembryony

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

Polymorphous

Plural or third person singular

Polyneuritis

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Inflected form of PHONICALLY Inflected form of PHONIC pertaining to the nature of sound

Polypropylene

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

Polytonality

English word

English word

Postpositive

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

In a praiseworthy manner.

Preconscious

Quality offering few surprises

Plural noun (-ments)

Preferential

Deep matter idly represented, but in a planned way

Premenstrual

Preoperative

Preponderant

Preponderate

Purposely store bananas in a ridiculous way

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

Presbyterial

By prescription.

""That can be given, displayed, or offered: presentable gifts; presentable attire.""

Something that acts to preserve; a preservative.

Presidential

In a presumptuous manner; arrogantly.

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

The quality or state of being preventable.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Abstract noun (-ity)

Processional

Very skilfully and competently

Person's loyal if working for money

Professorial

Proportionally.

Supporting and helping colleague, in a manner that's relatively consistent

""PROSCRIPTIVE Of or pertaining to proscription; consisting in, or of the nature of, proscription; proscribing.""

""PROSTHETIC Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word.""

PROTOPLANET

""A metal-free porphyrin, C 32 H 32 N 4 (COOH) 2 , that combines with ferrous iron to form the heme group in hemoglobin and myoglobin, and with ferric iron to form the hemin group in catalase and some cytochromes.""

Prototypical

Providential

The ascription of false names of authors to works.

Pseudonymity

Pseudonymous

Psychasthenia

Psychasthenic

Sound ()

Psychoanalyse

Hitchcock film discussion (wordplay)

System of mental therapy

Freudian theory

Crazy sycophants slay shrinks, perhaps

""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.""

PSYCHOANALYZE

Psychoanalyze

Psychobabbler

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

Of or relating to psychochemicals.

PSYCHODRAMA

Psychodynamic

""(used with a sing. verb) The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

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