10-Letter Words Starting with P

Implants for Gerry's 24

Certain runners.

Heart helpers

Conductor on the run (wordplay)

One leading during a race

Horse that shows the way

Elephants and rhinos

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

Large animals whose taxonomic order is obsolete

Packboard

They bear heavy burdens, so include supporting frames in case (wordplay)

A strong two-ply or three-ply twine for sewing or tying packages or bundles.

A patricide (anagram)

I act with a pride, running round, dealing with sick children

Paganizer

Painful

Morphine, for example

One shouldn't feel hurt when it's used

Aspirin, for instance

Oil producer (wordplay)

Painter's purchase (2 words)

Hardware-store buy

Paintwork

English word

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Tuna roll or a nut, perhaps (wordplay)

E.g. mum, dad

Friend on the airstrip, madam (wordplay)

One carrying a coffin

One approaching a hearse

Principal lamenter may be seen as such

PALLETIZE

Palliator

""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.""

Green-trunked shrubs

Palsgrave

The state or quality of being paltry.

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.""

Paeans of praise.

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

Eulogies.

Eulogist

Freestone ring wearer (wordplay)

Chef, at times (wordplay)

Help ran, and upset cook (wordplay)

Pompous self-important official

Cousin of a Pooh-Bah.

A pompous official.

Electric-locomotive trolley

One gets power from above

Framework of rods used for copying drawing, plans, etc

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

Certain best sellers.

Their readers get support in the press

They're bound to be re pap

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

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

The process or craft of making paper.

Paperwork

Papeterie

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

""Joining the uniting of two individual organisms or animals anatomically and physiologically, under either experimental or natural conditions. ; parabiotic,""

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Two water slides (wordplay)

Drop cloths (wordplay)

Two waterfalls (wordplay)

""PARACHUTE A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.""

Drum roll, as soldier meets con

Syncopated drumbeats

Basic drumming sequence - dip a ladder (anagram)

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

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

Two charts (wordplay)

Bar chart and scatter diagram

New ones are usually indented

Attorney's aides

Parallax

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

""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.""

Paralyse

Paralytic

Paralyzer

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.""

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

Paranoiac

Suffering mental delusions

Beyond scientific understanding

Beyond scientific explanation

Like "X-Files" cases

Paranymph

Say a new way

Put in other words

A rash paper upset state, in other words

PARAPH to {initial=v}

""A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants.""

""Complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord.""

Blame taken by feeble soldier about having immobilised lower section

PARAPODIA

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

""Of, relating to, or involving a form of reproduction in which recombination of genes from different individuals occurs without meiosis and fertilization, as in some fungi.""

English word

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

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

Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Like fleas and ticks

""Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathion

Two scout groups (wordplay)

Unit of infantry soldiers

Soldiers to be dropped by parachute

Partly cooking

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parbuckle

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.

Paregoric

""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)

Parfleche

Parflesh

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

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

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

Like a sudden outburst

PARQUET to cover a floor with an inlaid design

Parrakeet

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli?

Hero on the Rue de Rivoli (wordplay)

Parricide

Parritch

Ministers' homes

Leaves to cover crime in church buildings

Beeper calls about torching residences near churches

It's not all bias

Unfair bias

Special liking

Non-finite form of a verb

Form of a verb used as a modifier

Adjectival form of verb

End of the comment

Special piano at a joint

Definite pressure at or near a joint

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

Office cubicle dividers

Room dividers

Separating walls

Joining forces

Dozen given by a true love (wordplay)

"Pear tree" Christmas carol birds

Pear tree Christmas carol birds

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

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

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

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

To be on the safe side, make the land revert to grass, by the sound of it

Too quick to see (wordplay)

Too quick to see?

Remove germs from, in a way

(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a person who creates or performs pastiches

Cantatas on rural themes.

Compositions with rural themes

History/brewed beverages

In a pastoral or rural manner.

Clergyman's terms

Late talks for groups of clergymen

Fathers' offices

History/vessel choice (wordplay)

Pasturage

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

Patchwork

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.

Are its pies cooked well (wordplay)

Are its pies fresh (wordplay)

Are its pies 'fantastique' (wordplay)

Chefs in a bakery

Top men in power meeting a horrible rich star

Social organisation by male descent

Mist Napoleon disseminated, disguising thoughts of Plotinus

Patrician

Aristocracy

Aristocracy.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

Oedipus and others

Quislings

Support for one's country

Strong support for one's country

Love of country.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patroller

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

Pauperism

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pauperize

Seller of small chess pieces (wordplay)

He sells chess pieces (wordplay)

Steiger film (with "The")

They may cut the checks or call the shots

Indian pipe smoker (wordplay)

Indian pipe smoker?

Keep camera rolling for arbitrator

Peacocky

Pearlash

Tube to get the pulse going (wordplay)

Prankster's weapon

Boy's weapon

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Peculator

Oddly

Now it is a reworking of Heart of Darkness

Nitpicks

Peddlery

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Train speed pathetically slow (wordplay)

One on foot (Wordsworth)

Dull figure in subway (wordplay)

Dr. Spock's field

Branch of medicine

Hospital department

Variant of pediatrician .

Pedicure

Person who treats corns, bunions etc

Step counters

Of the stalk of a solitary flower

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

Pellagrin

""Pertaining to, or affected with, or attendant on, pellagra; as, pellagrous insanity.as, pellagrous insanity.""

PELLETIZE

A large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail; of the Permian or late Paleozoic in Europe and North America.

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)