2-Letter Words Starting with P

Pertaining to {pus=n}

Pertaining to {burning=n}

Pertaining to {phyle=n}

Medicinal drugs (arch.)

Old medicine - shy pic (anagram)

Soft, shy dose, I see

Pertaining to {pyemia=n}

It means "fat," not a lunch in the park

Short and stocky

Sounds like Tea Party, representative of fat cats (wordplay)

Pro with a deck of cards, maybe

Futures dealer (wordplay)

Know-it-all (wordplay)

Relating to pyaemia

Pertaining to the pylorus

Feverish City rep gets treatment

Feverish

Pertaining to {pyrexia=n}

Pertaining to {pyridine=n}

Pertaining to {pyrite=n}

Such a victory as bad as defeat

Describing victory at great cost.

Very costly, as victories

Pertaining to {phenyl=n}

Pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Pertaining to a {phyton=n}

Pertaining to {polyene=n}

Pertaining to {polyuria=n}

Composed of many zooids

To add sound to a film

Pertaining to {propyl=n}

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYKNOTIC""

Pertaining to {pyelitis=n}

""Exhibiting pyknosis, also PYCNOTIC""

Producing pus

Pertaining to {pyrrole=n}

Hypnotic writhing of a snake

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Adjective (-ic)

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

PERICYCLE

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

""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.""

PHENOTYPE

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

Poisonous to plants.

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

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

PHASIC relating to a phase

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

MYCOTIC pertaining to {mycosis=n}

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

""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.""

One who loves lighting (wordplay)

One who goes up on flames (wordplay)

He's a flaming nutter!

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

PYROPE a variety of garnet

Biology ()

Physiological.

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

""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.""

CENTRIC situated at the center

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

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polymorphous.

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.""

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

PROKARYOTE

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

PSILOPHYTE

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Concerned with treatment of the mind

Chirpy cat is mad about mental health

Concerned with the treatment of mental illness

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

Thought-related

One type of flow from a volcano

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""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.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Of or relating to the energy of 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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

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.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

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

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

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

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Type of drug affecting mental state

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

Formed from a compound word.

PHREATOPHYTE

PHYSICALIST

See physical geography .

Geology ()

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

Polyembryonate.

Following the embryonic stage of development.

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

""(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.""

""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.

Adjective (-ic)

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

Adjective (-ic)

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.

Inflected form of PSYCHEDELIC Inflected form of PSYCHED psych

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

Sound ()

""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.""

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

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,""

Adjective (-ic)

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

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

""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.""

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

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PLATYHELMINTH

*Like the 'Hunger Games' trilogy

*Like the "Hunger Games" trilogy

""Tending to induce hallucinations, delusions, or other symptoms of a psychosis. Used of a drug.""