11-Letter Words Starting with P

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.

Pentstemon

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Penurious

Peoplehood

Pepperbox

Peppercorn

Pungent plant

""Of, containing, or resembling pepper; sharp or pungent in flavor.""

Breath-freshening candies

Oil-yielding herbs

Pungent plants.

""PEPPERMINT An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.""

Peppertree

Peppiness

Pepsinogen

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

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps

Tangible

PERCEPT something that is perceived

One's ways of conceiving things

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

Acute insight

Percipient

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

Gradual filtration

Once-popular coffee makers

Percussion

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

""Capable of becoming, or being made, perfect.""

Perfection

Perfective

The quality or state of being perfect; perfection.

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

Perfumery

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

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.

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.""

Perinatal

""The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma. Epineurium, and Neurilemma.""

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

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

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the periosteum.

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

Surrounding spaces

Periphrase

Use of circumlocution

Circumlocutory speech

Roundabout expression

Periphyton

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

""An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification.""

Peritoneum

Plural or third person singular

Is it not ripe for treatment (wordplay)

To inspire it might result in inflammation

Complaint malevolent being has to protest about

Periwinkle

Perkiness

Permafrost

Permanence

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permethrin

Permillage

Allowable

Allowed

PERMISSIBLE That may be permitted; allowable; admissible.

Permission

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

Perovskite

Peroxidase

PEROXISOME

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.""

Perplexed

Special privileges.

Fringe benefits

Tips

Persecutee

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Oppression involves putting tube into each part

Ill-treatment on for example religious grounds

""PERSECUTE To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship.""

Tyrannical people

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

Continue action after stimulus ceases (psychology)

Keep on

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Persiflage

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence

""The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality; hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy.""

Antonym for "unconcerned"

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

Personhood

Stood for

Embodied

One who personifies.

Personify

Frame of mind

View; technique for drawing 3-D objects

Point of view

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Persuasion

Stubbornness

Pertinence

Pertinent

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

Pertussis

Pervasive

Perversion

Perverted

Presuming the worst

Looking on the black side

Fearing the worst

""Pestbearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. as, pestiferous bodies.""

Pestilence

In a pestilent manner; mischievously; destructively.

Supplicatory; making a petition.

Redress seekers

Folk making request? No respite, it could possibly appear

Change.org activity

Pleading.

Pleading

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

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

Petrolatum

Petrology

One versed in the study of rocks.

Wearing an underskirt

Pettifog

One who quibbles over trifles

One who quibbles

Picayune lawyer.

Pettiness

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

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.

Phanerogam

Adjective meaning resembling

Phelloderm

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocopy

Phenocryst

Phenology

Sports prodigies

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

""A friend of Greece, or of the Greeks; a philhellenist.""

I insist help is required to reform such vulgar people

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

Philology

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Philosophe

Plural or third person singular

Phlebogram

Phlogopite

Adjective meaning resembling

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Phoniness

Phonology

""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.

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.