10-Letter Words Starting with P

Propretor

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Propylene

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosect

Prosector

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""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.""

Proselyte

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Looked for something to claim

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Prosper

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Shows subservience

Protamine

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Bodyguards

Shields.

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Protend

Drawn out; extended.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

Lab staff (wordplay)

People holding signs, say

Walkout stagers

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Protestor

Protocol

Protoderm

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Botany A stele that forms a solid core of xylem encased by phloem.

English word

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Adjective (-ic)

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Proustite

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Provides cattle with food

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Proverb

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Provirus

Provolone

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Psalmody

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Field for Gallup or Roper

Study how to elect good holy popes (wordplay)

Making cross a subject in this study (wordplay)

""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

English word

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Pterygoid

Very minutely downy.

Teenage years

PUBLICISE

Publicise

PUBLICIZE

Publicize

""The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. as, the publicness of a sale.""

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Puckery

Puerilism

Birth

Puissance

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

Pulverize

Striking assorted elements of plum mingle

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

Punditry

Pungency

Puniness

Likely to incur fines, say

Time-honored, in a way (wordplay)

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Pupillage

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Adjective meaning resembling

Puppetry

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

Arabian horses, for example

Pureness

Purgative

Purloiner

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

Pursuance

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

Purulence

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

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

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

Putrefy

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Pyelitis

English word

Pyrethrin

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

Pyrethrum

""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.""

Pyrology

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyzer

Instruments measuring high temperatures.

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""