10-Letter Words Starting with P

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Some race action

Elephants and rhinos

Camp's in trouble with herd, ending with frisky elephants (wordplay)

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

PACIFIC {peaceful=adj}

Palimony

Simple taps (anagram); a manuscript

Reworked parchment

Reused parchment

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Palladium

Palmation

""Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.""

PALMETTO a tropical tree

Palmitate

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Pantheism

Put oneself in a box, maybe

Expressed with only gestures

Christmas entertainments, in England.

Silently acts out

Emulates M. Marceau.

Of wordless expression

Rubbish for parodying, like some theatrical entertainment

The process or craft of making paper.

Papilloma

""A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formul\'91; a formal fallacy, or pseudosyllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.""

""A substance exhibiting paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.paramagnetism, i.e. a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it.""

Microscopic element (wordplay)

It's something in the water

Kind of protozoan

Dr. Salk and Dr. Spock (wordplay)

Two physicians (wordplay)

People who rush into danger

Team with spare over taking runs, boundaries

A charge concealed by fiddling preset boundaries

Limits

""Mathematics a. A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form, especially such a constant in the equation of a curve or surface that can be varied to represent a family of curves or surfaces.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paramylum

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

One of the lateral appendages of an annelid; called also foot tubercle. foot tubercle.

It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

""The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

Alert MP in a reshuffle here (wordplay)

Fox trapped by mother owls (wordplay)

Harold Wilson's milieu

Prepared with a certain Italian cheese

King of Italian cheese

""Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. man, mankind, manhood, etc.""

Like a sudden outburst

Passivism

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Pauperism

They may cut the checks or call the shots

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Post-treaty periods

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Step counters

Pegmatite

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite. as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.""

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Penstemon

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Penultima

Peperomia

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

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

Perilymph

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.""

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Peristome

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Quality we seek in peace.

Stickiness, perhaps

Indefinite existence

""The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature.""

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Noun (-age)

Wrong "impression" (wordplay)

How astronauts are paid (wordplay)

Wrong 'impression' (wordplay)

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Changeable

""A cell organelle containing enzymes, such as catalase and oxidase, that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide.""

Yellow-orange Japanese fruits

How mattress salespeople are paid (wordplay)

Pessimism

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

See Phallism. Phallism.

A plant that produces seeds.

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""The notions, doctrines, and conduct of the Pharisees, as a sect.""

Pharmacy

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

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

Extraordinary - help one man (anagram)

Out of this world

Exceptionally good

Phenomena

It's directly perceivable

Men on phone about an amazing spectacle

Exceptional person

PHEROMONE

Substances used by entomologists in special traps

Substances released by animals that influence other members of the same species

""A tracing (with the sphygmograph) of the movements of a vein, or of the venous pulse.""

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

PHONEME a unit of speech

Phonogram

Photogram

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

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

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

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Pictogram

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Having color

Pigment

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

Purple-tinged flowers

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

English word

Piroplasm

English word

English word

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

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

Print-shop employee

Key men, in basketball.

QB's talent

Plumbery

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Plumpen

Pluralism

Plutonium

Pneumonia

Like the surface of the moon

Poeticism

Pogromist

One drawn to controversy

Engage in controversy

Polemize

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

Polyamide

Polyamine

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

Multicolored

""The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.""

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.

Over matey (wordplay)

Having more than one wife or husband

(adj.) able to play multiple opponents at the same time (said of chess)

Polygonum

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

""Any of various enzymes, such as DNA polymerase, RNA polymerase, or reverse transcriptase, that catalyze the formation of polynucleotides of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of DNA or RNA as a template.""

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.""

Polymorph

Polymyxin

In math, the sum of a number of terms

Mathematical expression

One with a degree in mathematics (wordplay)

""RHYTHM a pattern of recurrence, also RHYTHMUS""

Polysemy

POLYSEME a word with more than one meaning

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Beating

Pomology

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

""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.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Adjective (-ic)

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Postform

Like new work from writer, now late

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

In a late 20th-century style

Like some criticism

Of late twentieth century arts style

Obit for a Washington paper (wordplay)

One's passed in this exam

After passing examination

After an important delivery

Afterbirth? You need support - mat, possibly

Potassium

Potometer

""Pl -trymen , -terers 1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) Also called chicken farmer a person who rears domestic fowls, esp chickens, for their eggs or meat""

POULTRY farmyard fowls collectively

Practicum

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