10-Letter Words Starting with P

Pogromist

Poignance

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Poinciana

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Pointelle

Oops! Now I must be off, having lobbied erratically for 5's book

Pokiness

Polarise

Opposite conditions

Polarize

One drawn to controversy

Engage in controversy

Polemize

""A genus of gamopetalous perennial herbs, including the Jacob's ladder and the Greek valerian.""

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Politburo

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Politesse

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

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

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Politico

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Plural or third person singular

See hay fever .

Pollution

Dances seen at carnivals

Noted Chopin compositions

Slow-tempo dances.

Polyamide

Polyamine

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

Hospital able to treat wide variety of diseases

CYCLIC moving in complete circles

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive thirst

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

Multiple-marriage customs

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygony

Polygyny

One versed in various learning.

LYSINE an amino acid

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

POLYMER a complex chemical compound

""The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.""

""To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""OLEFIN an alkene, also OLEFINE""

Polypary

""Food and Nutrition Pathology. excessive appetite or excessive eating. Disease and Illness the tendency to eat a wide variety of food. ; polyphagist , ; polyphagic,""

PHASIC relating to a phase

Having a multiplicity of sounds.

Polyploid

PLOIDY the number of chromosomes in a cell

Polypody

Polysemy

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Beating

Pomology

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Poniard

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

PONYTAIL a hair-style

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

Hollowness ratios

Porphyria

Porphyry

Porphyrin

Bowls for babies.

They're the ones that press the bell for bowls at last

""Pl. portamenti (-t ) or portamentos A smooth uninterrupted glide in passing from one tone to another, especially with the voice or a bowed stringed instrument.""

Keep behind this gate (wordplay)

Defensive grating in medieval castles

Wine reduction process is grating

Warning that drink is coming to an end

Signalling opening and finishing

Indicating in advance demise of harbour (wordplay)

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Portion

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positive

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Logical philosopher

Positiveness.

Posology

Having groups of friends, sign off

Having power over gangs, turn informer

Having power over Eoin speaking in Gulf

In this behaving, perhaps

Devilish control (wordplay)

Exorcist's concern

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Adjective (-ic)

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

Bums

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

Postfix

English word

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

Present participle or gerund

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

English word

Fit to drink.

Potassium

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poultice

Pourboire

Pourpoint

Adjective meaning resembling

Poxvirus

POZZOLAN a finely divided material used to make cement

Hands-on tests

Practicer

Acting the doctor or lawyer

Practicum

Engaged in (a profession)

Currently engaged in training

Hopelessly aspiring to be seen around court, working as a lawyer (wordplay)

""The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.""

""Pl. praenomens or praenomina (-n m -n , -n m -) A first or given name.""

""(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 ]""

""PRAETOR an ancient Roman magistrate, also PRETOR""

Like a Roman emperor's bodyguard

Magistrate's to arrange reparation

Julius Caesar, once

Pragmatic

William James' philosophy.

Whatever gets the job done philosophy

Practical approach

One with realistic approach

A doer, not a dreamer

Practical type

PRANKISH mischievous

Bird painter circling round pass

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Preassign

Prebill

Prebind

Preboil

Prebook

CALCULI calculus

Not yet decayed? It's uncertain

Dodgy poseur with car, I fancy

Insecure favourite embraces a king

Precast

Safeguard cast on a picture

Run a poetic struggle for The Backstop (wordplay)

Sensible step

Precent

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Precess

Regular change in direction of an axis

Prechill

Fastidious attitude of one city poser

Over-refinement in words generating icy riposte

Fastidious over-refinement affecting one epic story

Precious

User policy designed in a valuable way

Dearly.

Faces

An antibody that reacts with a specific soluble antigen to produce a precipitate.

Precisian

Niceties

Counteracting in advance

""The act of precluding, or the state of being precluded; a shutting out.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like a smart child

Mature beyond years

Developing earlier than normal

Parboiling

Precool

Precut

Like lions, affected outside protected area, finally

Predation

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