11-Letter Words Starting with P

Items of bed linen

They touch your hair at night

Linen closet items

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system. Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

Piperazine

Pipsissewa

PIQUANT having an agreeably sharp taste

Piratical

Concerning fishing

Fishy

Pitapat

Master endocrine glands

Some glands

Pixilation

The quality or state of being placable or appeasable; placable disposition.

Placating

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Placekick

Upright man (wordplay)

Any top-25 NFL career scoring leader

He knows how to score extra points

Placeless

Placidity

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

Plagiarise

Plagiarism

Cheating types can crush a gal's spirit

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Prose appropriator

Plagiarize

A general term used of any triclinic feldspar. See the Note under Feldspar. Feldspar.

Plainchant

Plainness

Candid in flyer (wordplay)

Easy to understand

Blunt and candid

Plaintive

Plaister

Planarity

Planchette

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Astronomy ()

Plangency

Planimeter

An instrument that measures the area of a plane figure as a mechanically coupled pointer traverses the perimeter of the figure.

""The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour.""

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Once-common Georgia sights

Farms with banana trees

Large farms that were often established as pioneers moved farther west

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

Plasmagene

See cell membrane .

PLASMIN an {enzyme=n}

Pl. plasmodesmata (-m -t ) or plasmodesmas also plasmodesms A strand of cytoplasm that passes through openings in cell walls and connects the protoplasts of adjacent living plant cells.

Plasmolyse

Plasmolysie

""Pl. plasmolyses (-s z ) Shrinkage or contraction of the protoplasm away from the wall of a living plant or bacterial cell, caused by loss of water through osmosis.""

PLASMOLYZE

Plasmolyze

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

In a plastic manner.

Plasticene

Plasticine

PLASTICIZE

PLASTICIZE

Plasticize

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platterful

Platyfish

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

A. A literary work written for performance on the stage; a drama.

Playacting

Dad (about 50) shows signs of age, circumventing loud mates

Liking for games and amusement

Amusing light-hearted quality

Playground

Playmaking

Theater notables

Dramatists

The writing of plays.

Pleasant

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

The quality or state of being plebeian.

See stonefly .

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

Plesiosaur

PLIABLE easily bent

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Plurality

PLURALIZE To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

Respiration recorder

Pockmark

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

Podiatrist

Poignancy

Traditional Christmas plants

Christmas decorations.

Xmas plants

""An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray.""

The art or process of measuring the polarization of light.

""An instrument consisting essentially of a polarizer and an analyzer, used for polarizing light, and analyzing its properties.""

Susceptible of polarization.

Polemical

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

With reference to government.

Careful not to cause offence to the disadvantaged

In old college, use of computers one term, as parties are organised

More of a quote by William E. Simon

People in smoke-filled rooms

Ins and outs

POLLINATE Pollinose.

Country where flowers are fertilized (wordplay)

Flower fertilisation

What bees help to accomplish by flying from flower to flower

Bees are these, for instance, when they travel from plant to plant

ALCOHOL a flammable liquid

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

Polychaete

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

POLYDACTYL

Polydipsia

Polygamist

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygamize

Polygonal

Polygraph

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polymathy

Polymerase

Polynomial

Containing many nuclei.

Polyphagia

Polyphagy

Potentially happy soul about to become open-mouthed

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Polytonal

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Pompadour

Pontifical

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

POPULARISE

Popularise

Made likeable to the general public

One making a subject accessible*

Popularize

Population

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

Easily carried quality

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind the cranium.

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Superlative adjective

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Present participle or gerund

Adjective (-al)

Postmark

Postmaster

Postnatal

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

English word

Postseason

""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.""

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Postulator

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

Present participle or gerund

The quality of being drinkable.

Mightily

Latently.

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentiate

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentilla

Potlatch

Pourparler

Feasible

Realistic

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Praelect

Praemunire

Praesidium

Praetorian

""An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Pratincole

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preachify

ACHINESS the state of being {achy=adj}

Preaching

Tiresome sermons

Preadapt

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Preadmit

Preadopt

Saved for future use

To announce beforehand.

APPROVED approve

Preapprove