10-Letter Words Starting with P

Engaging in idle chatter

Talking profusely

Pain-relieving - a vital pile (anagram)

Providing relief, but not a cure

Aimed at relief of suffering

Green-trunked shrubs

Palsgrave

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

""Pl. parvoviruses Any of a group of small viruses that contain DNA in an icosahedral protein shell and cause disease in many vertebrates, especially mammals such as dogs and cattle.""

PASSIVATE

Passivate

Passivism

Passivist

Pavilion

A disparaging word, such as poetaster.

Politically incorrect, in a way

Expressing contempt or disapproval

The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola.

Perceiver

Perceive

Observant look about Catholic woman virtually in retreat

Operated by striking

Of significant impact

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

PERMEATE to spread through

Liberal by letter (wordplay)

A girl I have that's free with favours

Not doing much disciplining

""(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]""

Kept at it, no matter what

A golfer, once embarrassed, struggled on

Carried on with exercises - runs cut

Soldiers on a hard section

Persists in a pursuit

Steadfastly continues

Very convincing, as an argument

Providing sound reasoning

Supervise a review that is influential

Pervasion

Missing ace, player with serve moves awkwardly

Work steadily without reserve, possibly in a pig-headed way

Kinkiness for every type

Aberrant behavior in each account

For every translation contains something irregular

Wilfully contrary nature

Priest very disposed to obstinacy

Tending to pervert.

Perverter

Pervert

Plural or third person singular

""Pl. polioviruses An enterovirus, separable into three serotypes, that is the causative agent of poliomyelitis.""

Multivalent.

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.

Unwilling to share

Case in grammar.

Desiring to retain what one owns

Poxvirus

APPROVE to regard favourably

Preaver

""Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts; didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures. as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.""

Eliminating beforehand

Like signs

Made to appear naff when using it (wordplay)

and 9: Suggestive input that might make a molecule out of a molehill (wordplay)

Of a certain bridge bid.

Getting in first, angry peer with aim to get power for old

""HARVEST to gather in a crop, also HAIRST""

Drowning preventers (with "life")

Those keeping safe the president, including one who waits

Canners

SERVICE to {repair=v}

Before starting a tennis game (wordplay)

Keeping safe

Parking, reversing badly, generating a jam

Like some winds and opinions

Two priests sick, but gaining strength

Most general.

New place never achieves popularity

Superiority, of a sort

New place never offers currency

Prevalent

Anticipatory.

Preventer

Before sounding off (wordplay)

It's better than cure, they say

It follows fire

Action said to be better than cure

Dental floss, for one

Like a checkup

Type of medicine

Previewer

Preview

In days gone by cleric would enter in holy manner

Before your lips curled masking suspicions of extortion and vice

Hitherto

Prevision

VOCALIC a vowel sound

In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.

Moses, Rousseau et al.

Painters like Grandma Moses.

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

PRIVATIZE

Privatize

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

They're not enjoyed by everyone

Special rights

Exclusive rights

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

PROJECT to extend outward

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

Defensive vet to price order

Designating a type of tariff.

Kind of custody

Drawn out; extended.

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

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

Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable.

PULVERISE

Pulverise

Comminuted

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

Pulverize

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Purgative

""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.""

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

PUTATIVE supposed or reputed