10-Letter Words Containing P

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Late payers settle one by one

Individually

Divorcing pairs get an arrangement

Confess about end of marriage, moving apart thus

Dividing

One is apart (anagram)

Freedom from marital break-up (wordplay)

With apt reason I arranged for divorce

A miser's apt to become perverse, not joining in

One who advocates secession

One who would break up a union

One advocating political autonomy

""Causing, or being to cause, separation.""

Separator

Sepiolite

""Pl. septenarii (- - ) A Latin verse used only in comedy and consisting of seven feet, especially a catalectic iambic or trochaic tetrameter.""

Like the seven-year itch (wordplay)

Like a seven year itch

Recurring every seven years

""Poison blood poisoning caused by pathogenic microorganisms and their toxic products in the bloodstream. ; septicemic, ; septicaemic,""

SEPTIC an agent producing sepsis

Dividing the partitions; said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

One followed by 24 zeros

25-figure figure

Septuple

Sepulcher

Purcell has developed melancholy

Hollow and deep

Purcell has composed, despite being gloomy

""SEPULCHRE The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.""

Sepulchre

Sepulture

Serigraph

SERIGRAPH An autographic device to test the strength of raw silk.

Winding, twisting; mineral

Mineral; like a snake

Where Londoners go boating in Hyde Park.

Serpigo

Sextuplet

Sextuple

Head of salon put rollers in baskets for the juniors

Cleaning mess - what's humiliating about that (wordplay)

Using bathroom product, soap on him foaming and popping at last

An arch support inserted into the shank of a shoe.

Most curve-laden

Most curvaceous

Sharecrop

Office equipment.

Office equipment

They'll give an edge for writer accommodated by flatmates

Sharpen

Honeysuckle's kin

Sheepcote

Sheepfold

Woman begins episcopate, nothing less than perfect, as if unsure of her welcome

Conformist's tee shot (wordplay)

What a stringy leg of mutton!

Knot used to shorten a rope temporarily

""A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Archosargus, ∨ Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds.""

Grad's grants

College goals

Diplomas, informally

Capable of resisting bombs or other shells; bombproof.

Emulated Bo-Peep

Tended sheep

Escorted

Shipboard

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A man in control of his craft (wordplay)

One i/c vessel - tramp is she, perhaps (wordplay)

Skipper

Shipowner

Some contain treasure

Such as 5 down lost 9 down

Hatteras occurrences

Skilled craftsman (wordplay)

A worker who knows his craft (wordplay)

Craftsman cracking whip's not mistaken

Protected, in a way

Resistant to violent impact

Like some timepieces

E.g. newsagent

Irish operator is such a person in trade

Little Nell's Grandfather, for example

Stole

Robber holding up store (wordplay)

One needing a fence (wordplay)

Criminal (in a retail context)

Place for a mannequin

It shows what's in store for outsiders

Where things are shown to advantage

Reese, Marion et al.

I Don't Care et al.

Miranda and Dark.

Showpiece

Theatres (wordplay)

Properties on display

Shrimpy

Adjective meaning resembling

Shunpiker

Shunpike

Parts of eyeglasses.

Went door to door (wordplay)

Struck a glancing blow

Hits, as a car.

Hits with a glancing blow

Glancing bows

Marked with roadside pointers

The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.

Dunderheads

Saps

SIMPLICIA simplex

Couldn't be easier!

Lack of affectation

Start of a quip

Made plain.

Made easier

Made easy

SIMPLE to gather medicinal plants

Makes less complex

Ignoring real complexity

Not recognising true complexity

Naive; ignoring complexities

Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of the sinciput.

Singspiel

Show me state (wordplay)

"Show me" state (wordplay)

Doubt about the truth of something

Aboard ship, girl longs for 16 11 character

Want Christmas trees covered with treats in a superficial way

Almost missed call, being captain

Acting as captain

Being leader, having to hide hesitation, prancing around

Picture on a big-city postcard, perhaps

High-rise building (wordplay)

*Chicago's Sears Tower, for one

Slapdash

Slapstick

Common drug side effect

Sandman's gift.

Tired state

Weekend night events, usually

Some kids' parties

Pajama parties

Is out and about (wordplay)

Emulates Lady Macbeth

Somnambulates.

One nodding off (2 words)

Yawning child (wordplay)

Slacker ground he'd ply with ease

Slimpsy

They're fitted for furniture

Upholsterer's project

They may be on your chairs

Slipform

Slippery

Lams priest (anagram)

Wake up at the back (wordplay)

Air driven back by a propeller

Casual attitude to trees in waste

Smallpox

Break to stretch out - such a bloomer!

St. George's bloomer (wordplay)

Photograph a monitor lizard (wordplay)

Brisk quality

SNAPPISH tending to behave in an impatient or irritable manner

Snippety

Like some tall mountains

Like a white peak

Tired about absence of throne, like some in high places (wordplay)

Snowplow

Snowscape

Rocks that contain mostly talc

Soft rocks composed of talc

Talcs

*The girls in "Gone Girl" and "Girl, Interrupted," for two

Flatiron parts

Solipsism

Solipsist

""The structure or build of a person, especially to the extent to which it exhibits the characteristics of an ectomorph, an endomorph, or a mesomorph.""

SONOGRAPH

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Sopapilla

American students appear more posh so dressed

Pertaining to a second-year student (US)

Like a lot of humor in this puzzle, maturity-wise, admittedly

Long-winded speeches, for example

Sleep-inducing medicaments

Sopranino

Impervious, in a way

Kind of room

Like recording booths

Utensils used before entrees are served

Utensils from the second half

Chowder-eating aids

Grouches

Marching-band instrument

March king's namesake, in a way

Relative of a helicon

Spaceband

Room for skill with shuttle, perhaps

*Mars Pathfinder, for one

Discoverer, for one.

Milieu for astronauts.

Places to go out to launch

Sci-fi crafts

Sci-fi staples

Modern transportation

Certain tethered strolls

SPACIOUS ample in extent

Spadework

Spaghetti

SPALLE the shoulder

SPANCEL to bind with a rope

Spancel

Spangly

Sparkly

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V-8's octet

They fire the spirit of motorists

Characteristic of desert vegetation

Boondocks quality

Boondocks feature

Sparsity

Sparteine

A state of spasm.

See Spatulate. Spatulate.

""SPATIAL pertaining to space, also SPACIAL""

Strewing about in little drops

Splashing

Asparagus tips? They're in the van!

The points of savage attacks

Leads attack as hare sped off

Plants used for flavoring.

Herbs used for flavouring chewing gum

Spearwort

Special

Train in a particular area requiring less pace, one twice derailed

Concentrate on expertise in unique island with endless sunshine finally

Strong subject

Circling island, misplaces cultivated field

Place-kicker, for example

Cracking pace is set by heel, an expert

Expert of a sort

Expert's skill or interest

Particular work to be done in a field

Person's particular skill

Work in a limited field.

Major in

Speciate

Evolutionary process

Belief in human supremacy

Bias favoring humans over every other animal

Specifier

Clearly identifying

The quality or state of being specious; speciousness.

""SPECIOUS plausible, but inaccurate""

Marked beast, much loved, taken round Britain on display

Sights for sore eyes (wordplay)

De Mille specialties

Eyewear for Grandpa

Watching

They watch sport etc. as a change

People on the sidelines.

People looking on as Prescott dances

In the form or manner of a specter.

SPECULAR relating to a speculum

Put one's thinking cap on

Took risks

Considered options, then played the market

Theorises; takes financial risks

Conjectures

Guesses

Risky market trader, ponderous type

Second embezzler is better

Adirondack ski center.

Unable to say anything

Dumbfounded, say

Dumbfounded (wordplay)

Speedball

Fast craft

Hydroplanes.

Haste

Rapidity

Speedster

Plants make water to live on board

Hurry to small city to see flowering plants

Science of cave exploring

Study of caves

Scientific study of caves

Entrances

B..O..U..N..D (wordplay)

Give the letters a leap - how enchanted!

Absorbed by B-O-U-N-D, perhaps

Cave men, of sorts

Cave men of today.

Underground hobby (wordplay)

Tell about gym bumbler exploring caves

Exploration of caves as a hobby

Waxy substance from whales

Oily stuff: it's about to keep hairdo wonderful

Once-valuable substance harvested from certain whales' heads

Spermary

SPERMATIA

Spermatid

One of the motionless spermatozoids in the conceptacles of certain fungi.

Team swallowing one short, misguided empiric's contraceptive

""An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tinwhite color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature.""

Mineral lets delicate little person keep healthy

Sphenodon

English word

Sphenoid.

English word

""The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water. as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.""

Nearly globe-shaped

Resembling a globe.

Fashion from Dior's a help with a round figure

""A minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.""

Muscular contractors in pub stopping cisterns juddering

Inscrutable

Inscrutable

Enigmatic

Sphygmus

Spidery

Like a spider.

Intricate designs in nature

""An American endogenous plant (Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. Tradescantia Virginica), with long linear leaves and ephemeral blue flowers. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus.""

""Spiffier , spiffiest Smart in appearance or dress; stylish.""

Spikenard

Game, also called jackstraws

Game without kids (in bed?) is engaging relations

Rejected fielders admit enjoyin' the game

They slop out of buckets

Most long, thin and frail-looking

Tell tales about duke on starter of tempura being least fat

Spindrift