10-Letter Words Containing P

Increase (in value)

(Of asset) rise in value

Be fully aware of.

Detains suspects

Understands, perhaps wrongly, the object is to get inside

Sugarplum is what one gets!

Worker learning a trade

One is bound to be in training

Was nearly as good as

Came near

Drew near

Nuisance at a phone store (wordplay)

Means of access.

Cowboy, for example, captured by Indians comes closer

APPROBATE Approved.

Approbate

Worthy of being approved; meritorious.

APPROVE to regard favourably

Skidded on film of water

Water-skier's next of kin

Boards pulled by motorboats

Motorboat tows

Coy Joey (wordplay)

Provincial administrator (wordplay)

Canterbury tales subject

Real and patchy - crudely typical!

Classic N chapel tray (anagram)

Chat with player when ground's ideal

Original models of sports cars found on bridge

""A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.""

Arhatship

ARPEGGIATE

Spiders and crabs.

Troops hard to move - they've no backbone

Asclepiad

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

Ascospore

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

I give praise to Paris in a hundred shapes

Assignment

The act of ascribing.

""A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine. C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; called also altheine.""

Aspartame

Aspartate

Asperate

Instruments for sprinkling holy water

Implements for sprinkling holy water

""Pl. aspergilli (-j l ) Any of various fungi of the genus Aspergillus, which includes many common molds.""

Asperity

Disparaging remarks about rap session

They're often cast in soap operas

Slurs on a person's reputation

Asphalt

Asphaltic.

Asphaltum

ASPHERIC not spherical

Choke (to death)

After wrecking taxi he pays for throttle

Choke, but manage to pay his tax before the end of June

Huge house plant

Iris adapts, being adaptable plant

Plant rallied Ada's spirit

Pronouncing the "h" as in house

... to turn Paris into a dream, ...

Breathing in desire

Desire to Parisian is strange ...

Removers of some body fluids

Suction devices

Medical instruments removing fluids from cavities

Assumpsit

Guess feast day (wordplay)

Belief held without proof

Undertaking reform must pain so

As one might be, following tips resulting in cash hoarding

They're approachable (wordplay)

Lines that approach curves (but never touch them)

Type of curve, in math.

Feeling blue (wordplay)

Candles create a romantic one

Pervading tone or mood

Wasting away as a result of disease

Silver-plated souvenir at home is deteriorating

Inga wavering: accepting award or declining (wordplay)

Attemper

Good Twitter handle for a seductress (wordplay)

Against expectations

One predictably in a way deviating from the expected pattern

Bill takes pity, moving colleague in an unusual way

Emery phor buphs (wordplay)

One making a sound investment (wordplay)

Hi-fi fan.

Media for drivers

Driver's entertainment, sometimes

Dinosaurs next to the iPod

Like a double rainbow, perhaps

Encouraging suspect given new start

Rosy doubtful about substituting top

Novelist's craft (wordplay)

The Caine or the Pequod?

The Caine or the Pequod (wordplay)

Fan collection (wordplay)

Star signs (wordplay)

Collector's items.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

Ones who'd never think of flying (wordplay)

Autopsy

Autotroph

""AUTOTROPH an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.""

Autotypy

Auxotroph

AUXOTROPH

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

Azeotrope

Backpack

Traveller with a rucksack

One who likes to hike

One travelling with a rucksack

Football player goes biking (wordplay)

Starts to waffle

Does a volte-face.

BACKSPACE

Hits the Delete key

SPLASH to scatter liquid about

He's debased (wordplay)

Fieldstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Musician at a dance (wordplay)

Today's most popular writers (wordplay)

Pens from pin endings

Some pens

Desperate declaration (seven letters)

Red state (wordplay)

State of insolvency

Bankrupt

Pool house (wordplay)

Brat's piety seems phony in sacred area

Sportscaster Red's short leap (wordplay)

Dance for tonsorial artists?

Where to find a short cut (wordplay)

Lush travel plan (wordplay)

Doing the town

Tavern-tour activity

Barkeeper

Agent noun (-or)

Barograph

Basophile

""The affinity of cellular structures for basic dyes, such as methylene blue.""

BASOPHILE

Deep-sea submersible

Formidable, perhaps, as Hood

The USS Maine, for one

15 - or should it be Queen? - maybe 19

Becarpet

Beclasp

Bediaper

Bedimple

They may be laid on for midnight feasts

Throws a banquet in the garden

Nighttime covers

JUMPING AIDS

Plural noun or verb form

Apiary workers

They profit from their workers' operations

THEME ANSWER 2

A honey of a job (wordplay)

Apiarist's job

Honey producer's task

Bepaint

Bepimple

Splashes with mud

Bespeak

Bespouse

To sprinkle over; to scatter over.

Bethump

Bewrap

Pile big boy upset reveals some fine bookbinding

Bookseller.

The subject of a biography.

Creator of life in a bookshop (wordplay)

A life's work for him

One who can tell your story

BIOGRAPH to write a biography of

BIOMORPH a decorative image of a living thing

Cissy with phobia, mostly about science

""A macromolecule in a living organism that is formed by linking together several smaller molecules, as a protein from amino acids or DNA from nucleotides.""

Bioscopy

Is posh beer brewed in living quarters (wordplay)

BIOSPHERE

PARENTAL pertaining to a parent

What foreign policy often is.

With two-party support

Involving the agreement of two parties

BIPEDAL having two feet

BIPEDAL having two feet

State of two extremes

""POLARIZE to give polarity to, also POLARISE""

Bipyramid

Town one's arrived in (wordplay)

Natal region (wordplay)

Where one enters the race (wordplay)

Bishopric

Blackpoll

""BLASPHEME To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.""

Rebel MP has reformed, so he swears!

One who reviles

Impious one

Speaks irreverently.

Curses

""The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.""

BLIMPISH like Colonel Blimp

Small oysters

Choice oysters

Many have designs on them

They're drawn for lots

Architect's plans

Library menace (wordplay)

Librarian's bane?

Librarian's bane (wordplay)

Set of ex libris

Fasteners on a German boat (wordplay)

Pull yourself up the ladder to load computer program

Borescope

Marine invertebrate crab craftily hid around different pool mostly

Ruling (or, more modestly, intelligence)

Support presiding wisdom

'Solvers need this book' (The Sun's ruling)

Broomrape

Bryophyte

Of or pertaining to bryophytes.

BUMPKIN a clumsy rustic

Spread what's blooming well in them

Love-in-a-mist bouquet

Bad handwriting or spelling, as any fule kno

Educational opportunity for trainees? CDs shape it, possibly

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany growing in dense tufts [from New Latin caespitōsus, from caespitem turf]""

Calipash

Measuring thicknesses

Dominions of some Islamic leaders

Calliper

Boisterous parade

Old name for the giraffe

Old mammal arrived with another short of energy

Obsolete word for a giraffe

Lobbied for water charges during election, for instance? They did it!

Crusaded

Person on a trail

Man running for office.

Party man in action.

Belly buildings (wordplay)

Bell towers

Pitch your tent over a river's belly places

Campanula

Campcraft

Campesino

Growing in level fields.

Place to erect a tent

Only common word in the English language with the consecutive letters MPG

Treat with a type of insect-repellent

Game for skinny-legged keglers?

Kind of bowling

New England style bowling.

Hasn't a way to run away?

Hasn't a way to run away (wordplay)

Fruit worker gangster forced into car

Cantaloup

Gardener's skill (wordplay)

Faculty garden designer (wordplay)

Power (to do something)

Make legally competent

Enable

Put the lid on a start of the towns - it's all they'll take

Contents.

Of or pertaining to capacitance.

Charge holders

Electrical devices

Condensers

Caparison

Cash in London, say, is preferable, ultimately

What one should do to names making profit

Make the most of IIIIIII, by the sound of it

Politico-economic system

America's economic system

U.S. economic system, for example

The Ist one not a communist (wordplay)

Deep-dyed villain, a la Moscow.

Astor, for example

Teacher's fiat re spelling proper nouns

Profit by

Payment per head

Memorable mention about a prince introducing poll-tax

Beginners' alphabet in wording under diagram could be taxing

English word

Surrender on terms

Yield a title and a cup when beaten

Not about to sum up but give up

Caponize

Sounds like Al's hat (wordplay)

Frothy coffee drink

Type of coffee

Capriccio

Island with many debts is undependable

Arbitrary and inconsistent

Island with many debts is unstable

Capriole

Capsaicin

""Inclosed in a capsule, or as in a chest or box;""

Like a news brief

Capsulize

Captain

Caption

In a faultfinding way

Fixed cat - vet paid and delighted

Enchanted

Charms

CAPTIVATE To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

Captopril

One who wants in on the deal

One holds hands during the game

World Series participant

Bottom dealers, perhaps

Poker pros, say

They may change hands fraudulently

Carpaccio

""Belonging to, forming, or containing carpels.""

Bearing or consisting of carpels. Opposite of acarpelous.acarpelous.

They saw how the fish gets in

"(They Long to Be) Close to You" duo

We've Only Just Begun performers