10-Letter Words Starting with P

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Picofarad

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

Piecework

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

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Having color

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

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

Purple-tinged flowers

Adjective meaning resembling

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pingrass

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

English word

Piroplasm

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

Pistareen

Pistoleer

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

Pitiful

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Placard

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)

Plaister

Planarian

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

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

Planisher

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

Print-shop employee

Heaping dish

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Key men, in basketball.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Pleasant

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Pleasure

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

Having the property of pleochroism.

Great Mesozoic fossil reptile

Pleurisy

Cutting-edge farm parts

Fate of some Biblical swords

Follow-ups to some sharp points

Plumbery

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

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

Like the surface of the moon

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

Pogromist

Polarise

Opposite conditions

Polarize

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

Politburo

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Pollard

POLLEN to transfer the fertilizing element in a seed plant to

Bee, at times

POLLINIZE

Multicolored

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

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

They don't need to be pressed to put something basic in the posters

They reveal lies in old college charts

Having many faces

With many plane faces

Plane-faced solid

Solid figure that usually has more than six faces

One versed in various 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

Polypary

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

Polywater

Hair styles worn since Louis XV.

High styles

Hairdos

Having appreciable significance

Having weight

Ponderosa

Poniard

Industrial-revolution creations

Poorness

POPULAR something pleasing

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Promote in a way

Unfortunate 24s heard predators at sea

Porcelain

Critters with quills

Defensive rodents

Prickly critters

Hollowness ratios

The quality of being porous.

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.""

Glide through the air

Sliding sound

In music, a slide from one note to another

Portapack

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)

Ominous leaking about camping equipment

Of ominous meaning

Gloomy inside leaky marquee

Service charges

Cruise brochures (wordplay)

Art students' carryalls

Stock holders

Portion

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

Studies of fish caught in organised patrols

Representations

Portrayer

Showing church activity - nothing right in it

Reading with difficulty about Foster's old dog showing

Portress

Portulaca

Owners

""Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.""

Superlative adjective

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Bums

Postform

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

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

Those who prefer suspense (wordplay)

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

English word

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

Pothunter

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

""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

Pourboire

Informal discussion Fr.

Negotiations leading up to a treaty

Informal consultation

Pourpoint

POWDER to reduce to fine dust-like particles

Adjective meaning resembling

Powerboat

My phone battery is completely dead! Tom said...

Might contain live wire (wordplay)

Place for Tyrone (wordplay)

Slam hand: Colloq.

Poxvirus

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)

Praelect

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

Praenomen

""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

Mischievous ones

Bird painter circling round pass

Behavior ()

Most condescending, in a way

Maximally moralizing

Most moralistic member of clergy interrupted by a head

Chapter men adapted for sermon

Preadapt

Preadopt

APPROVE to regard favourably