10-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Create pulp generating innate awareness

Having discernment, clear up pet mess

Lecture app designed by interpretive type

Showing acute insight

Brewed by a torero (wordplay)

Filtered.

Passes through late corpse mysteriously

Prepares coffee

Filters

Where one may find grounds for removal

Coffee-making machine

Coffee machine

Perdition

Brusque, imperious

Dogmatic traveller rising or appearing in hollow

Unable to be challenged, like some commands

PERENNATE

Perennate

Providers of finishing touches

Perfect

Making flawless mint and gin cocktail

For each infection, dropping in is ideal

What "none must hope to find": Pope

High price often reveals excellence

""Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.

Moved to tears (wordplay)

Pierced like a sheet of stamps

Like a sheet of stamps

Makes sure getting the rent will be easy

Gets ready to rip

Goes through safe report that's been amended

A fine speaker? One may be boring

Perfusate

Rock containing olivine

Outward boundaries.

Outer limits

Boundaries

Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Sudden turn of events

Unexpected turn of events, as in a literary work

Unexpected turn of events, especially in a literary work

Peripety

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

""Sessile organisms, such as algae and small crustaceans, that live attached to surfaces projecting from the bottom of a freshwater aquatic environment.""

Periplast

Peristome

Colonnades with elegance surrounded by fairies

""Pl. perithecia (-sh - , -s - ) A small flask-shaped fruiting body in ascomycetous fungi that contains the ascospores.""

Of or pertaining to the peritoneum.

Membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Serous membrane lining abdominal organs

Gut sac where eruption has me bothered

Cause of cold feet (wordplay)

Hard-frozen underpinning of Thule.

Frozen ground ruined farmer's pot

Salon services

Hairdos

Passing into every part of

Spreading throughout

Diffusing through

A mere point about saturation

PERMEATE to spread through

""A topical insecticide, C 21 H 20 CL 2 O 3 , used to treat head lice and nits, scabies, and various species of ticks.""

Permittee

Permitter

Permit

Changeable

Over-particular

Fussily pedantic

Finical

Perorate

An allowance of twisted rope, in a manner of speaking

""(Earth Sciences / Minerals) a yellow, brown, or greyish-black mineral form of calcium titanate with some rare-earth elements, which is used in certain high-temperature ceramic superconductors [named after Count Lev Alekseevich Perovski (1792-1856), Russian statesman]""

How much a cat, say, is to do

Commit (a bad action)

Deviant tart, peeper commit crime

Cause to continue indefinitely

Preserve from extinction.

Cause to be remembered

In this is forever

Time without end

In(de)finite duration

Bewilderment

Complication.

Bewilderment.

Bonus for each is accepted by all

Bonus or fringe benefit

Incidental or casual benefit

Persistently harassed

Tormented

""(tr) to oppress, harass, or maltreat, esp because of race, religion, etc.""

Causes to suffer

Ill-treats

Harasses intrinsically cute Swedish leader

Tyrant for example

Tyrant for example

Tyrant developed our respect

Unrelenting - prettiness (anagram)

Keeping at it

Prettiness that's rendered enduring

Persister

Continuing to exist

The state of being a person; personality.

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personate

One who personates.

Connected (to)

Belonging (to).

What a non sequitur lacks

Relevance

Aptness

Relevance

Pertness

Perturb

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Perverter

Pervert

French "existentialist" types

Glass-half-empty types

Films by spies worried prophets of doom

Pesthouse

Pesticide

Plague - lent pieces (anagram)

Deadly epidemic disease

Fatal epidemic disease

Petalody

Petiolule

PETITE a clothing size for small women

Made a request.

Formally requested.

Collected names

Plaintiff makes appeal to HM

One with a suit may give tip to Ernie

One collecting autographs

Petnap

Converting organic material into fossilised form

Ancient rock engraving

Torero's skin softener (wordplay)

Vaseline makeup

They may be refined

PETROL to supply with petrol (gasoline)

Frilly underskirts

They're worn to give a different aspect to it

Petulance

Querulously

Phagocyte

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Phantasy

Shatter a thespian's illusions

Caprices, fancies

Illusory

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

Help with the harvest (wordplay)

Person filling prescriptions

Dispenser of drugs

PHATIC sharing feelings rather than ideas

See acetophenetidin .

Phenacite

Phenakite

One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

PHENOLATE A compound of phenol analogous to a salt.

Phenolate

Phenotype

PHENOTYPE

Phenytoin

Drunken hack almost lit pile of stamps

Relating to postage stamps

For stamp collectors

Goliath, for example

Opponent of progress.

Person indifferent or hostile to culture

Philter

Employ both midwives taking blood

Being thus makes the GP calm, I fancy

Precarious plight came without emotion

Calm on pitch with game left in the air

Phlegmy

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

Substance once believed to be released in combustion

Mechanical ram restricts hot billet of proposed element

""A kind of mica having generally a peculiar bronzered or copperlike color and a pearly luster. It is a silicate of aluminia, with magnesia, potash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica. Mica.""

Phonation

PHONEME a unit of speech

Phonolite

Certain compounds in DNA

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

Phosphite

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Photoplay

Copies of a sort.

Certain duplicating machines

Pre-laser print copies

Motion ()

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phototube

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Poisonous to plants.

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

""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

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Pigeonite

Having color

Pigment

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Immature component of wing

Young plume

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

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

Pinkish rocks

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

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

Pistareen

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Pistoleer

Pistol

Pitapat

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

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