10-Letter Words Starting with P

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Petulance

Querulously

Owners of church seats

PHALANGE any bone of a finger or toe

Phalanger

Waders delayed by Paton (wordplay)

See Phallism. Phallism.

Illusory

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

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

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

Phellogen

Phelonion

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

PHEROMONE

* 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

Tirades delivered after man snaps

Queen Elizabeth's social media uploads (wordplay)

Conservative in battle's making bitter speeches

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

A philosophaster; a philosopher.

Ideology from Berlin (wordplay)

Thinking of Socrates (wordplay)

Pursuit of truth and understanding

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

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""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.""

Utilize yon phallic characters in a sound way

Phonolite

Pl. phonologies The study of speech sounds in language or a language with reference to their distribution and patterning and to tacit rules governing pronunciation.

""The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

Photoplay

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Mustard relish (by Marilynne Robinson)

Select a flower aloud with relish

Pickle with mustard and spices

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Pictorial

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

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Pilgarlic

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

PILLAR to supply with vertical building supports

Pillory

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

Cake or pizza toppings

Exports from San Juan.

Hand grenades, to a G.I.

Pinfold

Pinnacle

Pinwheel

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

Piperonal

English word

Piroplasm

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

Pistoleer

Pistol

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

Technique for making people appear as animations

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Placard

Placation

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

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Simple ditties (wordplay)

Simple ditties?

Ambrosian chants.

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Plaister

Planarian

Planation

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

Planish

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

PLANLESS without a plan

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Plasmagel

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

Plasmasol

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

English word

Members of a construction team.

They leave their coats on the wall

Workers on the surface

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Property of a brain (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Plastisol

Plateau

Sheet perhaps squeegeed

Eating-drinking utensil (wordplay)

Material for eg shop windows

Print-shop employee

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Platoon

Heaping dish

Mammals stay supple after exercising

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Companion in children's games

Companion in childhood

Friend in frolics

Playfield

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Places of amusement.

Theatres for the actors from the D?il and Seanad

Theatres where they now indulge in games of bingo

Key men, in basketball.

QB's talent

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Work steadily, with inner guidance, making earnest entreaty

Pleasance

Pleasant

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Agreeably making a request one at a time

Pleasure

""PLEBEIAN a commoner, also PLEB""

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Plenish

Plenitude

English word

Having the property of pleochroism.

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Pleurisy

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLIANT easily bent

Plication

PLODDING the act of plodding

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

A little money plus good fortune goes to one's head but gives one courage

Spunk

Tough customers

Plumbery

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Plunderer

Spoliative.

Pillaging

PLUNDER to rob by force

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

Pluralism

For them living is not enough

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Pluralize

""Plushier , plushiest Resembling plush in texture.""

State of the wealthy

Wealthy ruling class

Government by the rich

The ruling class

Underground supremo meets Tory turncoats and powerful rich men

Liberal, posh, wearing platinum - with fancy cars to give rich people

Plutonium