2-Letter Words Starting with P

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma. Epineurium, and Neurilemma.""

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Subjectivity

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

The quality or state of being plebeian.

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

Neo-impressionist painting style

Neo-Impressionist technique

Technique employed in the painting hidden in this puzzle

POLYGLOT one who speaks or writes several languages

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Cult of eg tribal art

Painting genre of Grandma Moses

The doctrine of the probabilists.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Projection of the jaws.

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

Same as Prothallus. Prothallus.

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

POLYGLOTT

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

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

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

PSYCHOLOGISE

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Four-sided shape

Type of quadrilateral

Four-sided figure

Weak form of attraction

A minute description; a detailed statement.

Addiction of the 50-mile hikers.

Walking skill

President aims to shatter eco-friendly movement

Won't get any better with unseemly imperfections

""The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.""

""That theory which limits positive or scientific knowledge to phenomena only, whether material or spiritual.""

Love of Greece.

""(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""

A record or tracing produced by a plethysmograph.

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Political ideology advocating reform

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

The study of the remanent magnetization in rocks.

Subjective journalism that uses some of the techniques or license of fiction.

PHOTOPERIOD

""The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.""

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

Special type of reporting

Picture book theory used by the press

News in which pictures play a more important role than text

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness