10-Letter Words Starting with P

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Some race action

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Pachytene

Capable of being appeased

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

Packboard

They bear heavy burdens, so include supporting frames in case (wordplay)

Packness

Beast's burden, sometimes

Beast of burden's burden

Holder of loads for horses or donkeys

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

Paddock

Padlock

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Adjective (-ic)

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pancreas

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Panicky

PANICULATE

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

""PARAFFINE A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used in candles, as a sealing agent (such as in canning of preserves), as a waterproofing agent, as an illuminant and as a lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus gasoline, coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.paraffins.""

Paralytic

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Paranoiac

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parbuckle

Parcel

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Paregoric

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

Parfleche

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Parritch

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

Pasticcio

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Non-uniform quality

Patchouli

Patchwork

Pathetic.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Of or relating to pathology.

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Post-treaty periods

Peacocky

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEACOCK to strut vainly

Ice-cold alp collapsed? It's a sin!

Trifling fault - I called cop (anagram)

Minor sin or fault

Peccancy

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Peculator

Oddly

The science or art of teaching; the principles and rules of teaching; pedagogy.

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Lousy, literally

Pedicular.

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

PEDOPHILE A person who has pedophilia.

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Pelecypod

How translucently clear Pelly comes over all lucid

Transparently.

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

Penciling

Pencil

Pendency

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

A plural of penicillium .

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Penitence

Pennoncel

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.penny cress.

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Percaline

Perceiver

Perceive

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Showing acute insight

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

Providers of finishing touches

Perfect

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Pl. pericardia (-d - ) The membranous sac filled with serous fluid that encloses the heart and the roots of the aorta and other large blood vessels.

Pl. pericrania (-n - ) The external periosteum that covers the outer surface of the skull.

Pericycle

PERICYCLE

Time, for one

Newsstand purchase, perhaps

Time, perhaps, for police raid

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

Kind of peepholes

U-boat features

Viewing on all sides

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Destructive and harmful

Having a harmful effect to roughly ruin copies

Ruinous for an intellect around here in France

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Persistently harassed

Tormented

""(tr) to oppress, harass, or maltreat, esp because of race, religion, etc.""

Causes to suffer

Ill-treats

Harasses intrinsically cute Swedish leader

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Petulance

Phagocyte

""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.""

See Phallism. Phallism.

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

""A white crystalline compound, C 18 H 22 N 2 O 2 , used in the form of its hydrochloride as a local anesthetic in ophthalmology.""

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOTYPE

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Tirades delivered after man snaps

Queen Elizabeth's social media uploads (wordplay)

Conservative in battle's making bitter speeches

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

PHONEME a unit of speech

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

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

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

AMA members

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Physic

Poisonous to plants.

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Picaroon

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

Mustard relish (by Marilynne Robinson)

Select a flower aloud with relish

Pickle with mustard and spices

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Pickaback

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Pickaroon

Pickeer

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

Select underwear, say, for those eating out