11-Letter Words Starting with P

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

PHOTOIONIZE

Photomap

Photometer

""Measurement of the properties of light, especially luminous intensity.""

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

Photophase

Photophore

English word

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOSET to prepare for printing by photographic means

""A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.""

Photostat

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) Botany either of two pigment-containing systems, photosystem I or II, in which the light-dependent chemical reactions of photosynthesis occur in the chloroplasts of plants""

""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

Phycology

""Any of various fungi that resemble algae, including certain molds and mildews.""

""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.

Phylloxera

Phylogeny

(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]

""A cytoplasmic pigment of green plants that absorbs light and regulates dormancy, seed germination, and flowering.""

English word

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaninny

Picaresque

Pickaback

Picketboat

Divers strike supporters surrounding pit

Some thieves

Picosecond

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

Person paid per item produced

Piezometer

Instruments

Assigned rigidly to a role (with a bird)

Fate of some legislative bills

Put aside and ignored.

""PIGEONHOLE A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.""

Puts into small compartments

Classifies

Compartmentalizes.

Pigeonwing

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Piggyback

Pigheaded

Pigsticker

English word

""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

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.

Pilothouse

Pimpmobile

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

PINKISH somewhat pink

Plural or third person singular

Pinspotter

Pinwheel

Piousness

Piperazine

Piperidine

Pipsissewa

PIQUANT having an agreeably sharp taste

Swiveling, in ballet

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitcherful

Pitchfork

A sorry state

Pithiness

Pitiful

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Master endocrine glands

Some glands

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

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.

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.""

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

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

PLASMOLYZE

Plasmolyze

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

Plasticene

Plasticine

PLASTICIZE

PLASTICIZE

Plasticize

Platemaker

Present participle or gerund

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

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.""

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

Liking for games and amusement

Amusing light-hearted quality

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.

Direct votes

Postwar expedients.

Perhaps primarily it is celebs changing events of political nature (wordplay)

See stonefly .

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Person associated with (-ist)

The control by a single gene of several distinct and seemingly unrelated phenotypic effects.

Having full power

Plenteous

In quantity

Plentitude

""The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.""

""Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria. as, the pleomorphic character of bacteria.""

Plesiosaur

PLIABLE easily bent

Plumpness

Pluperfect

Plurality

English word

Plushness

Gram positive balls, often from the lung

Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease

Respiration recorder

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

Clutches, for example

Go klepto in the paperback aisle (wordplay)

Purses

Tool for Penrod

Camper's handy tool

Handy gadget for campers

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

POETICIZE

Poignancy

Traditional Christmas plants

Christmas decorations.

Xmas plants

POINTED point

Without point.

Take a jab in the produce aisle (wordplay)

""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

*Skilled debaters

Delivered strong opinions

Polemicize

Polemonium

She's got the beat

Member of the force

Officer with scattered money from a shark (wordplay)

We compile no rubbish for coppers

They patrol with uneven paces

Made to take sides in government affairs

Made to favour one party or another

Politicise

POLITICIZE

Politicize

Politicker

Pollenizer

Pollinizer

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

Polyandry

CENTRIC situated at the center

Polychaete

CHROMED chrome

Polychrome

""ESTROUS pertaining to estrus, also ESTRAL, OESTRAL, OESTROUS, ESTRUAL""

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polygamize

Polygenes

GENESIS an {origin=n}

Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.

Polygraph

Polyhedron

Polylysine

Polymathy

Polymerase

POLYMERISE

Polymerise

Polymerism

""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.""

Polymerize

Containing many nuclei.

Polyolefin

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

Polyphagy