10-Letter Words Starting with P

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

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Trembled

Quivered

Panbroil

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

In some common women's office attire

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

""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.""

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

""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.""

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

PASSIVATE

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Pedestal

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

""The condition of being a people or one of a people: "As symbols go, few are as national and sectarian as the menorah. It is the symbol of Jewish peoplehood" (Charles Krauthammer).""

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

PERIWIG a wig

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""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).""

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Phantasy

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

PHOTOLYZE

Picaroon

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

PICTURIZE To picture.

PIDGINIZE

Pigstick

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

Pinwheel

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Pitapat

PITCHPOLE

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Plaister

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Like the surface of the moon

PODZOLIZE

POETICIZE

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Postform

Cancelled in a way

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.""

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASED crease

DEFINED define

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Predrill

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Prefrank

Early primate

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

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

Biased

Prelimit

Bought before the official release

Intentional

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

""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.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

Prewrap

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

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.""

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

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

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

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

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

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.""

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protocol

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

PUBLICISE

PUBLICIZE

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

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

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

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks