10-Letter Words Starting with P

Capable of being appeased

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

A pacifist.pacifist.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

""A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatulashaped snout. Called also duckbilled cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.""

Painful

Paraffin

""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.""

Parfleche

Parflesh

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

""PEACEFUL undisturbed, calm""

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.""

Deceitful, untrustworthy

Outwardly devout, nameless friend turned treacherous

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

They all have a part of this

Actors for each previous scene, initially

Actors in theatre promoted previous show at first

Rendering half of period building

On with pet irritant: member of circus in much reduced circumstances

Perfusate

Perfusion

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Light-hearted banter

Pale griefs (anagram) - flippancy

Chaff by itself to ingest if idle

Converting organic material into fossilised form

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Picofarad

Pikestaff

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinfold

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Pipefish

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

Pitiful

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Heaping dish

Companion in children's games

Companion in childhood

Friend in frolics

Playfield

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Postfix

English word

Postform

English word

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

DEFINED define

Predefine

Prefab

""FASCIST a supporter of fascism, also FASCISTA""

District in Japan

Office of Paris police chief.

District under a governor

A better choice

More desirable

Better

Rather

Liking for one thing over another

Choice (of A rather than B)

Liking for one thing more than another

Promotion before commotion

Promotion to higher office

Preliminary excitement at promotion (wordplay)

Preferrer

Liking (something) better

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefigure

FINANCE to supply the money for

Prefocus

Prefocus

Preformat

Preform

Prefrank

Prefreeze

""Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes.""

QUALIFY to be eligible after having the necessary requirements

Full of presages; ominous.

Presift

Indicate future setting of gins, if in quarry

SPECIFY to state in detail

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

""-fies , -fying , -fied (tr) to make pretty, esp in a trivial fashion; embellish prettification   n""

Prettify

PRIDEFUL full of pride

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

Top-ranking teachers

So, press for change in the universities

Campus group

Tendering for public relations, initially

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

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

Profusion

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Putrefy