11-Letter Words Starting with P

Pacemaking

Leaders in their fields

Cutting-edge people

Leaders of the pack

Sports See pacemaker .

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)

Spectacular displays

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

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".

Palatalize

Natives of Germany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

""An ancient manner of writing; ancient writings, collectively; as, Punic paleography. as, Punic paleography.""

Palimpsest

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

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

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

'The Walking Dead' (wordplay)

The Walking Dead (wordplay)

Some funeral attendees

PALLETISE

Palletizer

PALLETIZE

Palliative

Palmerworm

Palmistry

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

Pancreatin

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Worshipping many gods

Papaverine

Like dime novels

Paperboard

Paperbound

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Papermaker

The process or craft of making paper.

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Drumming staples

Paradrop

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

Paragraph

Writer of news items for newspapers

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

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

The quality or state of being parallel.

Parallel

Paramagnet

Paramecium

Of EMS treatment

PARAMETRIZE

Paramnesia

Reworded while keeping meaning

Rewrote as script in adaptation for RADA, perhaps

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

One who paraphrases.

Shortens a sentence, say

Waste not and want not

Expresses in different words.

Paraplegia

Paraplegic

PARASITISE

Parasitise

PARASITIZE

Parasitize

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

High military figure (wordplay)

A jumper that rides up!

Jumpy guy (wordplay)

Parcenary

""Of, pertaining to, or consisting of, parenchyma.""

Parenchyma

They enclose explanatory phrases

They keep groups together

Qualifying phrases.

Inset phrase, maybe

Princeton Review subj

Something in brackets

Of inserted comment.

In brackets

Like the end of this clue (in terms of punctuation)

Parenthood

""Body, Human , Perception""

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARFOCAL having lenses that correspond

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

Parotitis

Parquetry

Parsimony

Take part (in activity)

Be involved (in)

Be involved

Potentially dangling verb forms

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

In a partitive manner.

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Corridors with awkward gaps, as we say

Corridors, e.g

Corridors, for example

""A portion of a musical composition that permits a performer to make a display of technique, especially in the rapid execution of scales and arpeggios, and that has little thematic or structural importance to the whole: The concerto contained brilliant passagework for the soloist.""

Showing no emotion

Frigid

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Passivity

Pasteboard

Pastellist

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Like much yogurt and apple juice

Dairy apparatus.

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

Pastiness

lamb's place

Patchouly

Having the form of a patella.

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Benevolent despot

Paternity

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

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

Pathology

Fancy bakeshop items

Mushy peas I resist in shops

Patriciate

Relating to descent through the male line

Patrimony

Patroness

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

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

Peckerwood

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

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

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Psycho and others

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

PELLETISE

Pelletizer

PELLETIZE

Pellitory

Pelycosaur

Pemphigus

Pencilling

Pendentive

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.""

Penicillin

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

Of or pertaining to penology.

Ones looking at sentences

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

PENSIONE a boarding house

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

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