10-Letter Words Starting with P

Personate

One who personates.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Personnel

For every warmish season one's wrapped up, might one be so (wordplay)

Ones trying to sway

Ones urging and arranging pressure about the commercial

Persuade

School of thought

Conviction of Janeites

With which 1 convinced

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Pertness

Perturb

Pervasion

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Perverter

Pervert

Pessimism

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Pesthouse

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Petulance

Querulously

Owners of church seats

Phagocyte

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

A plant that produces seeds.

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Pharmacy

Ring round hospital, terribly angry, relating to top of gullet

Phasedown

A layer of green parenchimatous cells formed on the inner side of the phellogen.

Phellogen

Phelonion

""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

Phenakite

Phenazine

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenoxide

Phenytoin

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

* It's not some guy's name

Puts it about a bit

*Plays around (4 & 6)

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Philter

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

A branch of anatomy which treats of the veins.

Employ both midwives taking blood

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

PHONEME a unit of speech

Phonolite

Certain compounds in DNA

Phosphene

Phosphide

Phosphine

Phosphite

Phosphore

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photolyse

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Motion ()

Phototube

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Picaroon

Pickeer

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

PIDGINIZE

Pidginize

Piecework

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Pigeonite

""A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.""

Having color

Pigment

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

PILLAR to supply with vertical building supports

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Purple-tinged flowers

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

Pinchbeck

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Cake or pizza toppings

Exports from San Juan.

Hand grenades, to a G.I.

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pingrass

Pinkness

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Pinwheel

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

Pipefish

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

Pinkish rocks

Pipiness

Evergreen herb

North American plant of the wintergreen family

Piquancy

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

Pistareen

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Pistoleer

Pitapat

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Pixiness

Makes the extra point in football

Gridiron events.

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Placental

The quality or state of being placid.

Plagiary

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Plaintext

Plaister

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Planeload

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

PLANGENT resounding loudly

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Planisher

PLANLESS without a plan

Plasmagel