10-Letter Words Starting with P

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Propagule

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

Sell proper pants (those supporting choppers?)

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Propellor

Propend

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Correct wear for the stage (wordplay)

Correct neckwear (wordplay)

That's right. Bonds and real estate

Prophecy

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A prophet.

Forecasts

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Propolis

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Propretor

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prorogue

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Ham in cooking pot? Scour it!

Raw cured Italian ham

Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosect

Prosector

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Proselyte

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Prosimian

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Bards

Looked for something to claim

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Prosper

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

PROSTOMIA

That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth.

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Shows subservience

Protamine

One that protects: applied a protectant to the raw wood.

Guardian's job

Body guard, for example

Bribe Johnny Cash

Rotten cop I fancy extorting money

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Bodyguards

Shields.

""PROTECTOR One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.""

""An endopeptidase, such as pepsin, trypsin, or papain.""

Protend

Drawn out; extended.

Calvinist, for one

Lutheran, for example

Lutheran, e.g

Lab staff (wordplay)

People holding signs, say

Walkout stagers

What objectionable behaviour!

Yes to school accountability!

Having a sit-in, maybe

Protestor

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc. Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\'94phoric generation of ferns, etc.""

Protistan

Protocol

Protoderm

Early ancestor (wordplay)

PROTONATE

Protonate

""PROTONEMA The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Living part of a cell

First psalm, translated, provides the basis for life

Basis of life found in most of apple roots scattered on motorway

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

Protostar

Botany A stele that forms a solid core of xylem encased by phloem.

English word

Having the same metabolic capabilities and nutritional requirements as the wild type parent strain: prototrophic bacteria.

Constituting a pattern.

Some mock-ups

Preludes to mass production

Originals.

""PROTOTYPE An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype.""

The first formed xylem that differentiates from the procambium.

Protozoan

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

Yes to farm aid!

Like John Deere (wordplay)

Angling gear (wordplay)

Adjective (-ic)

Sticking out from the surroundings

Sticking out for guide leader on organised round trip

""The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.""

""Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. as, protrusive motion.""

Proustite

Roots of a new start in part of France

Source of article dividing French region

Source of year abroad in French region

Provides cattle with food

Well-known document Blair modified

Commonly spoken of

Notorious document Blair modified

Proverb

Supply niece that is missing fortune

Roger Williams founded it: 1636

Start of a quip

Lacking a big city outlook

Unsophisticated, narrow-minded; regional

Hardly cosmopolitan

Provirus

Golf instructor's dreams (wordplay)

Like Jeane Dixon (wordplay)

Golf instructor's dreams?

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Provolone

On or toward a proximal part; proximad.

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

Prurience

PRURIENT having lustful thoughts or desires

Pruritus

Ancient stringed instruments

Ancient instruments.

Let's aspire to play historical instruments

Third division of a ruminant's stomach

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Birds mating rasp bizarrely

So Messrs Grouse wound Mr Stag with pain

Birds of northern regions.

Old reptile flying near to pond

Winged crested dinosaur; pardon note (anagram)

Pteridine

Pterosaur

Pterygium

Pterygoid

Very minutely downy.

Men of the book world.

Penguin and others

Puckery

Puerilism

Birth

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

""One who, or that which, pulverizes.""

Pulverize

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

""One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.""

Puncture

Punditry

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Puppetry

PURBLIND partially blind

Sounds of contentment about course for consumers

'R up up before going after after for the byre, by the sound of it (10)'

Arabian horses, for example

Pureness

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

Purloiner

Purloin

Puromycin

Claiming to make the sound of a hooter or small bell (wordplay)

Not to be denied

Determined to achieve a goal

Intentional

Pursuance

""A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively. pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.""

""That which pertains or belongs to something; esp., the heard, liver, and lungs of an animal.""

Purulence

The act or process of providing or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management.

Carriers available for small charges

Carriers taking issue with egg on one sent into cleaners

Putrefy

Decaying, rotting

Rotting

""A colorless, foul-smelling ptomaine, NH 2 (CH 2 ) 4 NH 2 , produced in decaying animal tissue by the decarboxylation of ornithine.""

Puttyroot

A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.

Thorny plant with small fruit clusters

Thorny evergreen shrub related to the hawthorn

Thorny evergreen shrub with white flowers and bright red or yellow berries

Pyramid

English word

Pyrethrin

""Any of several synthetic compounds similar to pyrethrin, used as an insecticide.""

Pyrethrum

Pyridoxal