10-Letter Words Starting with P

Some race action

Pachytene

Packness

Paddock

Padlock

Adjective (-ic)

Paganise

Paganizer

Paganize

Printer's job

Sequencing of a book's sections

One space to the left, country marking numbers on documents

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

How Spain turns into Sweden briefly without any trouble

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

Litters of the Orient.

Native of old German Empire

German region.

Historical region spread, preserving a language

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Paleness

Palimony

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

Fortifying with fences.

Palliate

Alleviation (of a disease's symptoms)

The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Palmation

Palpation

The state or quality of being paltry.

Biology ()

Panbroil

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

Pancreas

Amid 17, shorten form of an organ

""One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.""

Pandanus

Some apple pies

Deep-dish apple pies.

Apple treats

Paeans of praise.

They would be very different from carping, yes (wordplay)

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Panelling

Sweet loaves on Christmas tables (PA)

Fruity Italian breads

Italian sweet breads

PANGENES pangene

Transmission theory accounting for rotary engines keeping in step

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Strips of land, as in West Virginia.

Long, narrow regions of Texas and Florida

Panicky

PANICULATE

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Pansophy

Pantalone

Outdated men's wear

Disguise not on, as pal in trousers

Baggy trousers gathered at the ankles

Pantheism

Underwear masking characters in theft, we more generally believe

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

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

In some common women's office attire

Sissy

Sissy *

*Sissy

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Not hardcover

""Resembling paper, as in thickness or texture.""

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.""

Paragon

Paralyse

Rendering immobile, as by fear

Like some fear

Making ineffective.

""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.""

Distortion of memory

Illusion of remembering events experienced for the first time.

Two steeds (wordplay)

Two peaks (wordplay)

Supreme rulers

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

Parathion

Partly cooking

Parcel

Perhaps thirst's got them so skinny

Trench maps made of durable old writing material

Old papers mother and father found about church millions

Capable of being forgiven

Cat on island about to be excused

Minor enough to excuse

In a manner admitting of pardon; excusably.

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

Parentage

In a parental manner.

PARENT to act as father or mother

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Parenting

Spent laser (anagram)

Parget

Pargyline

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.""

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

""PARTISAN an adherent of a person, party or cause, also PARTIZAN""

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

""Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.""

Public mockery

Lampoon

Lampoon.

Fares going up on flights (wordplay)

Go by the greens (wordplay)

1 across is not expressly for them

Having to go by Ireland, 'e's perching with them

Hot as Jerusalem, head bandages!

Fiery spirit is swallowed

Eager to hand one over with a note

Pastedown

Pastness

Non-uniform quality

Dish and item of furniture that may be put on list of inventions

Susceptible to certain intellectual property protection

In a solicitous way

In father-like manner

In a fatherly way

One who shows the way forward

Guide through unexplored territory

Subject of a novel by Cooper.

Causing disease

Notice gap in organisation - hospital cuts could cause disease

Route around soldier in charge may carry infectious consequences

Patient

Patinate

""PATINATE to give a patina to, also PATINISE, PATINIZE""

Patinize

Patrician

Irishman on wheels doing guard duty

Pounding beat from loudspeaker system giving offence electronically

Patronage

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Condescends to give support (wordplay)

Supports two boys one dates half-heartedly

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

Treats with condescension.

Russian middle name

Sort of name unusual for Cypriot man

Name derived from forefather

Copying, with "after"

Decorating it with pregnant bats

Asian figwort trees

Fattest man/woman admits desire to eat, but starter's off

Pavilion

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

Bird-like swaggering finds a business in bird-like order

PEAKED peak

Peccancy

Peculate

Common inside crime.

Conjecture becomes embezzlement

Anagram for unpoetical

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Pedicure

Having the shape of a low-pitched gable.

Having a triangular gable.

PEDIMENT a triangular architectural part

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

Pellagrin

Putting at an unfair disadvantage

Penality

Penalize

Penciling

Pencil

Pendency

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Peneplain

Peneplane

Understandable in a way

Accessible.

Clear goal apart from, on review, being bitten by footballer

Things kept secret

Innermost parts

""The frequency, under given environmental conditions, with which a specific phenotype is expressed by those individuals with a specific genotype.""

Penetrant

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Imbues; steeps

Affects deeply

Enters.

Jail cells (wordplay)

A plural of penicillium .

Sir Alexander Fleming discovery of 1928

Fleming's discovery

Sir Alexander Fleming's antibiotic

Insure plan (anagram)

Writer, inward-looking, from Iberia

Sticking out, in a way

Theme of this puzzle

Michigan's Upper and Lower

Penitence

With remorse.

Calligrapher's craft (wordplay)

Calligrapher's vessel (wordplay)

Calligrapher's craft?

Pennoncel

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.penny cress.

European perennial mint.

Mint for a girl and two boys

One of the mints.

One's contribution to a discussion

Unsolicited opinion of little value (wordplay)

Tiny amount won, perhaps, invested in state in Scottish town

Pennywort

Penology

Prison warden

""Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. as, pensionary spies.""

Retired employees

Retired folk.

Some retirees

Pension

Penstemon

Having five sides

Like many stars

Might shape be apt? No, angle wrong

Cult stars

Occult symbols

Writer to stuff in names of magical figures

Pl. pentahedrons or pentahedra (-dr ) A solid having five plane faces.

Verse line of 20 ac feet

Line of verse with five metrical feet

Typical Shakespearean line

Pentangle

Having five haploid sets of chromosomes.

Contest that involves epees and pistols

Its events include fencing and shooting

Five-part athletic event

Like the scale C-D-E-G-A-C

Description of scale that could be found in ancient pot

Places to live the high life (wordplay)

Many of Trump's tops (wordplay)

Confined quarters (wordplay)

Pentoxide

Shut up and check on this bloomer!

Penultima

Vegetable + vegetable = spice

(Of rent) notional

Spray painful area, which is hot

Source of menthol

Sweet flavoured with aromatic oil

Ingredient in many Christmas desserts

Pepperoni

The antecedent of the ferment pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin. propepsin.

Percaline

Perceive

Proportion stated in hundredth parts

Proportion in each 100

Agent's take, typically

99th, for example

Any of the 99 numbered points that divide a set into 100 equal parts

Understanding 'the knowledge'

Softly creep into dances for view

It's said to be reality

Showing acute insight

Percuss

Striking group of musicians (wordplay)

Instruments played by striking

Striking supersonic travelling

Perdition