10-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Technique for making people appear as animations

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Placation

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Placental

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Plaister

Planation

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

PLANGENT resounding loudly

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

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

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

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Property of a brain (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Plastisol

Plateau

Sheet perhaps squeegeed

Eating-drinking utensil (wordplay)

Material for eg shop windows

Print-shop employee

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Platoon

Heaping dish

Mammals stay supple after exercising

Performing on stage

Pretending

Mountain climbing and sailing not hard, so unconvincing performance

Toys.

Coward, for one

Wilbur, get in the game!

Shaw or Pinter, among others

Pleasant

Appeal to holy one missing nicely

In a warm, friendly manner

In an enjoyable manner

Comment on a nice case of rivalry

Nearly past appalling joke

That dress suits you, for example

Vote to lead the French into new cities

Commoner is to call for vote

Important vote.

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

Plenitude

English word

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

Supple quality initially put at risk

PLIANT easily bent

Plication

Falling straight down

Dropping abruptly.

Had been, say, very well done

The 'more than past' tense

Tense with 'had' and past participle

For them living is not enough

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

Plutonium

POCKET to place in a pouch sewed into a garment

Try reading this!

One at a woman's side (wordplay)

Steal a novel (wordplay)

Quantities that can be carried on you

Quantities that can be carried

POCKETS pocket

Podiatry

Corny guy (wordplay)

Treater of foot disorders

Authority on foot faults

Writers of doggerel

Those who sample US poet are versifiers

Rhymesters

In a poetic manner.

Poeticism

POETICIZE

Poeticize

Pogromist

In a way such as to evoke sadness or regret

Leaves for the holidays (wordplay)

Plant isn't opiate, sadly

Plant petition as ordered

Pointelle

Opposite conditions

One drawn to controversy

Politburo

Good manners

Social asset

Civility

Politesse

Pork source (wordplay)

Wooer of voters

Butler or Hall.

Take part in discussion of government with police? Is it in order (wordplay)

Turn red or blue, say (wordplay)

Make an issue of

Endless voting one expressed approval of - and tried to secure votes (wordplay)

POLITICK to engage in {politics=n}

Politico

Fertilized, botanically speaking.

Fertilised (flowers)

(Of flower) fertilised

Helps out at the orchard

Bee, at times

Smoke, waste chemicals, etc.

Pollution

Polyantha

Flower youth plans to develop

College haunts put out of order: a bloomer (wordplay)

Having more than one atom in the molecule; consisting of several atoms.

""Any of various annelid worms of the class Polychaeta, including mostly marine worms such as the lugworm, and characterized by fleshy paired appendages tipped with bristles on each body segment.""

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

DACTYL a certain poetic rhythm pattern

Some versatile materials

Leisure suit fabrics

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

He has more than one rib

One with multiple spouses

One has an excess of trouble and strife

One versed in various learning.

Pertaining to polymathy; acquainted with many branches of learning.

Polyptych

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

Polyteny

Belief in more than one god

Worship of more than one god

Imply ethos is wrong with this sort of belief

Adherent of widespread religious belief

Polythene

Multivalent.

Polywater

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

Like many stump speeches

Of the Pope

Arrogant; haughty

Pontifex

PONYTAIL a hair-style

Kind of contest.

Reason for some votes

Amount of fame

Populate

Modern type of "explosion."

No pilau pot dish for all the people

We, the people

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Hollowness ratios

""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

Relating to disposition

Like rankings

Put in proper place.

Put in place

Put one by one in pots I'd prepared

Okay by me!

"Okay by me!"

Misguided love is pity, really

Positive

It's a sure thing

Philosophy recognising only the logically provable

Logical philosopher

Positiveness.

Ironically, the least likely way someone would say "most likely"

Superlative adjective

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Like the U.S. after 1865

After the war

Model receiving complaint to consider retiring after hostilities ended

Like someone smoking in bed, stereotypically

Plural or third person singular

Plural noun or verb form

Social activity on a military base (wordplay)

POSTDEBATE

Bums

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

Postfix

English word

Postform

English word

Posthaste

Like new work from writer, now late

They guide the coach's team after taking number one with pride

Rider of leading horse drawing carriage

Rider on a carriage horse.

One riding coach horse

English word

English word

Cancelled in a way

Official in charge of sorts (wordplay)

Kind of general (wordplay)

Man of letters (wordplay)

Present participle or gerund

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)

How off-putting!

Rescheduling, points out beset by stink

English word

Job writing to a finish (wordplay)

Last part of some emails

Afterthought to a letter

So one's past playing - now (wordplay)

When sports awards are given, usually

Elway was there in '97 and '98

English word

Postsync

A person submitting a request or application; a petitioner.

Postulant

Order to breeder coming round after time assumed

Assumed (something) as the basis for reasoning

Suggested all the letters from university disposed of by department

Assumes position tardily in America

Mathematic suppositions

""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.""

Fit to drink.

Potassium

Describing the anatomy of a stove?

With a protruding stomach

Paunchy Petty Officer billeted out

Unwanted overhangs

Culinary pulp fiction (wordplay)

Literary quickies

Hacks products

The act of producing an artistic work of poor quality

Emperors and such

V. I. P.'s in London.

High-muck-a-mucks

Potential

Make powerful

Flower a.k.a. cinquefoil

P, as in these roses

Mighty harmful, a plant

Pothunter

Tries to score, perhaps, in pursuit of trophies

Potlatch

Norhtwestern ceremonial festivals

Festivals of Chinook Indians.

Potometer

Mixtures of unrelated objects

Mishmashes

Poulterer

Poultice

""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