10-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Panbroil

Cardboard; pasteboard.

Not hardcover

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.""

Paraffin

Was analogous to

Was similar to

Followed a similar course

Like fleas and ticks

""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.""

Mum and Dad are in such a state!

Robin's role as a father (wordplay)

End of question

Paper-towel tube material

Business-card paper stock

Defeat those running the company? Just the ticket!

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

Went regularly but aspired not to change

Was customer treated scornfully (wordplay)

Frequented

Gave one's trade to.

Condescended

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

Plantation in the musical 'Mame'

Plantation in the musical "Mame"

Treated badly at prison, sank in

Gained a share of

Got through prison, badly treated

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

PERENNATE

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

PERIWIG a wig

Persistently harassed

Tormented

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

""The state or condition of being a person, especially having those qualities that confer distinct individuality: "finding her own personhood as a campus activist" (Walter Shapiro).""

Picaroon

PICTURIZE To picture.

Pinprick

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Plaister

Outdoor place for fun and games

24s here, getting freedom crushed

Theatre (wordplay)

Like men, women and children

Made multiple

Like the surface of the moon

Postform

Cancelled in a way

Praelect

Preadapt

Preadopt

Preaver

Prebless

Precheck

Prechill

Preclean

Preclear

CREASED crease

DEFINED define

Affirmed the qualities of

Foretold about one that made affirmation

Declared that one preyed around, I see

Predrill

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

Lived before

Before number 500 had been foreshadowed

Prefocus

Prefrank

Early primate

Before month half over, Democrat killed racist (wordplay)

Before getting squeezed round back of cupboard, leaning to one side

Biased

Prelimit

Bought before the official release

Intentional

Preprint

Prepunch

Prescind

Wrote an Rx for

Dictated before writer died

""A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.""

Imprinted beforehand.

Pretrain

Pretreat

Pretrim

Having excess embellishment in various colours holds installer up

Prewrap

White-collar profession (wordplay)

Ministers hoped riots had dispersed

Group of fathers

Upright in the school office (wordplay)

Honorable

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

PRIVATISE

PRIVATIZE

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Proglottis.

Fed the computer.

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

""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.""

Looked for something to claim

French author not superior, chided and laid low

Protocol

PROTONATE

Lengthened out

Dragged out

Lengthened

PULVERISE

Comminuted

Boxing commission (wordplay)

Magazine's policy makers (wordplay)

Gaming device of yore

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

PYROXENE any of a group of minerals common in igneous rocks