11-Letter Words Starting with P

Evergreen ground cover

Burdens for Grand Canyon mules

Packthread

Paddleball

One hanging around a lifeguard tower

Dog... / Star...

Dog ... / Star ...

Some are shaped like swans

Treatment of children's diseases

Treatment possibly practised involving origins of infant ailments (wordplay)

Produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate as "y"; or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate as "ch" in "chin" or "j" in "gin".

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Panjandrum

Pantdress

Like dime novels

Paperboard

Paperbound

Paraboloid

Drumming staples

Paradisiacal.

Apparently self-contradictory

(Apparently) self-contradictory

Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory

Paradrop

Paragraph

A polymeric modification of aldehyde obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Parallel

Of EMS treatment

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

Grammatically analysed, keeping Mrs Behn's name in other words

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

Parasitoid

""Of, relating to, or obtained from the parathyroid glands: a parathyroid extract.""

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

Parenthood

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Pasteboard

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Like much yogurt and apple juice

lamb's place

Patchboard

Nissan S.U.V.s... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

Allied air raiders' guides to accurate bombing.

Nissan S.U.V.s ... or, diverged: Emotional appeal

""One that discovers a new course or way, especially through or into unexplored regions.""

I called cops out for minor offences

Minor sins

Slight offenses

Peckerwood

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

Insects

Insects

Pedicurist

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDOLOGIC

Pedologist

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

PEDUNCULATE

Pendentive

""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)

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

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

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

Peoplehood

Of or pertaining to pericardium; situated around the heart.

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

Groups of igneous rocks

""PERIDOTITE An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite (peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.""

Magazines laid so price may be seen

Monthly magazines, for example

Many are mailed out monthly

""The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants. as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.""

Relating to tissues around teeth

Relating to a branch of dentistry

Like gum disease

Peroxidase

""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.""

Caused to continue

Perplexed

Personhood

Stood for

Embodied

That may be persuaded.

Perverted

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

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

Phelloderm

Womanized

Womaniser turning her plain red!

Man of affairs (wordplay)

Source of the quote, with "The"

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

Plural or third person singular

See phospholipid .

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Photodiode

Photoflood

Photomap

""The duration of an organism's daily exposure to light, considered especially with regard to the effect of the exposure on growth and development.""

English word

Photostat

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

Pickaback

Picosecond

PIDGINIZE

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

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.""

Piperidine

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitchfork

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Placekick

Placidity

A prig ladies foolishly copied in a bad way

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

Pertaining to a planetoid.

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

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.

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

Playground

Plentitude

Podiatrist

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances. Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

PODZOLIZE

POINTED point

Poisonwood

Delivered strong opinions

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

POLITICIZE

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

CHROMED chrome

POLYDACTYL

Polydipsia

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polyhedron

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

""PEPTIDE a combination of amino acids, also PEPTID""

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Pompadour

In a ponderous manner.

POPULARISE

Made likeable to the general public

Possessed

English word

Present participle or gerund

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Present participle or gerund

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Praesidium

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

Preadapt

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Preadmit

Preadopt

Saved for future use

APPROVED approve

ARRANGED arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precedence

Precensor

COMPUTED compute

Predacity

DECEASED decease

Predecease

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

DEFINING define

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Fates

DIABETES a metabolic disorder

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

Predicable

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

Adjective in a linguistics class

Affirmative; positive.

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Statements about the future

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

Predispose

Prednisone

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

Predrill

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}