10-Letter Words Starting with P

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Poppyhead

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

POSTDEBATE

Postform

Cancelled in a way

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Postsync

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Potlatch

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Adjective meaning resembling

Praelect

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a variant spelling of presidium PRESSWOMAN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRESSWOMEN (esp Brit: = reporter ) → Zeitungsfrau f , → Pressefrau f (Typ) → Druckerin f PRIMAQUINE (Medicine / Pharmacology) a synthetic drug used in the treatment of malaria. Formula: C 15 H 21 N 3 O [from prima-, from Latin prīmus first + quin ( olin ) e ]""

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Canon's turn to enter form of prayer

Brandy peer is offering drunken clergyman

Clergyman with prayer designed to catch crook

Prebind

Prebless

The order to be observed by protocol

Pecking-order right

Superiority in rank.

""The act or state of preceding or going before in order of time; priority; as, one event has precedence of another.as, one event has precedence of another.""

Relevant earlier cases, in law

Cases in point

Such examples end respect for revision

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

Counteracting in advance

CREASED crease

Like the lion variable

Living on prey.

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

Go before (wordplay)

Pass away before this and stop at last

Die before

DEFINED define

Predefine

Fate of perhaps 3 estimated in hunger

Foreordain

Foreordain

It was bound to happen in designing replica bed

Detective rings the German back on line - is that only to be expected (wordplay)

May be confirmed by investigator hiding revolutionary with lead

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Affirms what may be said of subjects

They're grammatically red, I see, in the heads

before one can place a lot of detectives back here,they become verbal

Predict

Weatherman's job.

*'Here's what I think'll happen...'

*"Here's what I think'll happen..."

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Afterthought about new director they declare in advance!

Predigest

Render susceptible

Make susceptible

Incline? Correct prop round south-east side

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 26 O 5 , similar to cortisone that is used as an antiallergic and immunosuppressive drug and as an anti-inflammatory agent in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.""

Predrill

Preedit

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Prefrank

HOLIDAY to take a vacation

Early primate

Prejudger

Prejudge

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Jury selection issues

Prelimit

Designating a certain course of study

Type of course for aspiring doctors

Type of college course.

Premold

Determines in advance

Drunk, orders a nip and decides things irrevocably

Destines

Bought before the official release

PREPARED prepare

Intentional

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

Top position

Pressure leading to post in hospital in top office

VIPs' private parking (wordplay)

Tyler and Taylor.

Johnson and Johnson.

Of or pertaining to a garrison; having a garrison.

Presidium

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

By presumption.

'Money Talk' band

Money Talk band

Chrissie Hynde's make believe rockers

Acting quietly, get dinner served

Claiming that the last of it's lasting

Role-playing before acting like shepherd

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

Prewrap

PRIDEFUL full of pride

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Proper men ring first

Existing from the start of time

From the beginning of time

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Territories for royal heirs

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

Printhead

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

On-going course of action

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

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.

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

Disease and Illness ()

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Proglottis.

Fed the computer.

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Propend

Properdin

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Bards

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protend

Protocol

Protoderm

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

Provides cattle with food

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Psalmody

""An internal body cavity of some primitive invertebrates, similar to a coelom but lacking a mesodermal lining.""

What writers sometimes assume (wordplay)

Elia and O. Henry, for example

Names that are not one's original names

Pseudopod

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Pterygoid

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punditry

Hound minorities (wordplay)

PURBLIND partially blind

Arabian horses, for example

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

One of the Pycnogonida.

Pyramid

English word

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyridoxal

""A pyridine derivative, C 18 H 11 NO 3 , occurring especially in cereals, yeast, liver, and fish and serving as a coenzyme in amino acid synthesis. Also called vitamin B 6 .""

""A single-ringed, crystalline organic base, C 4 H 4 N 2 , that forms uracil, cytosine, or thymine and is the parent compound of many drugs, including the barbiturates.""

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks