10-Letter Words Starting with P

Serving to propel; propelling.

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

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

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.

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

""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

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prosateur

""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

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

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

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

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

Beta carotene, since it can become A

Fortune 500 financial organization

Name on a Boston landmark

Cautious, self-righteous type, oddly not likable

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

English word

""Relating to, resembling, or characteristic of parrots.""

Psoriatic

Trick cyclist's profession (wordplay)

Disordered study, maybe

Frasier's field

Norman Bates' way home (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue (wordplay)

Way to Bellevue?

Psychotic

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.

Publicist

Puckery

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

PULLULATE To germinate; to bud; to multiply abundantly.

Pullulate

Pulmonate

Heartbeats

Beats.

PUNCTATE covered with dots

Punctilio

(Arriving) on time

In a timely manner

Joke act, duet being funny, given marks

Punctuate

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

Puncture

Punditry

Penalty kick is hard, guys admitted

Penalty hit spun men around

Raskolnikov's was admittedly due

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Those pulling the strings

Their jobs may have strings attached

Adjective meaning resembling

Puppetry

Purgation

Purgative

Aunt is prim as a result of this

Strict outlook

Rigid austerity

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

""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.""

Straddles the fence, on issues.

Hedges Slang.

Moves cautiously

Pustulant

""Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.""

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed

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.""

Putschist

Puttyroot

Crossword, for example

Perplexity

Mystification

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

Pyelitis

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

Pyrethrin

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

Pyrethrum

""Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an ironblack or dark steelgray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).""

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Instruments measuring high temperatures.

Any of various thermometers used for measuring high temperatures.

A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

""A bronze-colored mineral, of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of iron, and is remarkable for being attracted by the magnet. Called also magnetic pyrites.magnetic pyrites.""