11-Letter Words Starting with P

Pavilion

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

Peaceful

Friction-reducing agent

One enforcing a truce

*One placed between warring parties

Peacemaker

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

Peacocky

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

Peasantry

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Relating to teaching

Formal and haughty

Like many principles of the Montessori method

Pederasty

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Pedestal

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Pediatrist

Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.

Pediculate

PEDOLOGIC

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

PEDUNCULATE

Psycho and others

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

Pelycosaur

Penetrance

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

Of or pertaining to penology.

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

Pentagonal

""Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure. as, a pentahedral figure.""

Five-sided solid figure

Solid figure with five plane faces

Five-faced solid figure - near the pond (anagram)

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Having a valence of five; said of certain atoms and radicals.

""A synthetic narcotic drug, C 19 H 27 NO, used as an analgesic, often in place of morphine.""

A yellowish-brown nickel iron sulfide that is the principal ore of nickel.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Pungent plant

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

Portions

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

""PERCOLATE To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.""

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Before smile, spread out and wander

Wander around

Voyage here and there as green pirate at sea

PERENNATE

PERENNATE

In a perennial manner.

Reform policy (in Soviet Union)

Gorbachev's reform policy

Soviet economic program begun in '88

PERFORATE To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of.

Ace in the hole (wordplay)

It's useful to those in a tearing hurry

Holes picked in closing remarks about French leader

Perforator

""Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.""

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Perinatal

Magazines laid so price may be seen

Monthly magazines, for example

Many are mailed out monthly

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Moving from place to place.

Itinerant with epic trip ate wildly

Travelling in your job

Peripatus

Plot reversals in novel

Keyboard, monitor, mouse and other devices

Periphrase

Use of circumlocution

Circumlocutory speech

Roundabout expression

Some refrigerator contents

They won't keep his beer pals in order

Grocery items

Bodily Functions

Process accompanying digestion

Alimentary motion

""Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement. as, peristaltic movement.""

Of or pertaining to a peristome.

PERITHECIA

Permafrost

Permanence

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permillage

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

Peroxidase

PEROXISOME

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Carries out, as an immoral action

Committer (of a crime)

One committing (a bad deed)

One committing (an offence)

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Caused to continue

Perpetuate

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Persiflage

Make one's own series on lap dancing

Make specific to an individual

Individually tailor

Subjectivity

""PERSONALISE PERSONAL a brief, private notice in a newspaper""

Somebody from Interpol, say (wordplay)

Somebody from Interpol, say

Factor in chemistry

Monogram, maybe

Acting a part.

Act of mimicry

PERSONATE To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Personator

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Persuasion

Stubbornness

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Pervasive

Supplicatory; making a petition.

""(Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) money, paid in dollars, earned by a country for the exporting of petroleum""

The art of writing on stone.

Petrolatum

Wearing an underskirt

Petulancy

""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.""

English word

An association or community organized on the plan of Fourier. See Fourierism. Fourierism.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

Phanerogam

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

Self-righteously hypocritical

Pharisaism

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

Philately

Post historian (wordplay)

F.D.R.'s favorite avocation.

FIRST-day cover collector

""Pl. philodendrons or philodendra (-dr ) Any of various climbing tropical American plants of the genus Philodendron, many of which are cultivated as houseplants.""

Phlebogram

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""Any of numerous enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of esters of phosphoric acid and are important in the absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides, and phospholipids and in the calcification of bone.""

See phospholipid .

PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

Photomap

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

Photomural

Photophase

A dread or intolerance of light.

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Choice of words

Manner in which words are used

Her apology's clumsy, in a manner of speaking

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

""A flattened, photosynthetic branch or stem that resembles or performs the function of a leaf, as in certain cacti.""

Pl. phyllotaxies also phyllotaxes The arrangement of leaves on a stem.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Phylloxera

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany any of a group of substances produced by plants that inhibit the growth of pathogenic fungi that infect them [from phyto- + Greek alexein to ward off]

Pianissimo

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaninny

Picaresque

Picaroon

Piccalilli

Pickaback

Picketboat

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pictorial

Piggyback

Pigheaded

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilgrimage