11-Letter Words Starting with P

""The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party.""

""To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Proseminar

Addictions to the commonplace

Looking for gold

Likely to happen in the future

Searchers whose views include people from the ranks

Plural or third person singular

Artificial body parts

(Branch of surgery concerned with) artificial body parts

(used with a sing. verb) The branch of medicine or surgery that deals with the production and application of artificial body parts.

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

Prostitute

Protectant

Protection

""Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. as, protectoral power.""

""PROTECT to shield from harm, attack or injury""

Proteinase

The presence of excessive amounts of protein in the urine.

Proteolyse

Process undertaken by enzymes to make amino acids

""Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.""

In England, dissenters

Hard-working colonists marching for political reasons (wordplay)

""Pl. prothoraxes or prothoraces (-thôr -s z , -th r -) The anterior division of the thorax of an insect, bearing the first pair of legs.""

Prothorax

Protocol

""Pl. protonemata (-n m -t , -n m -) The green filamentous growth that arises from spore germination in liverworts and mosses and eventually gives rise to a mature gametophyte.""

The first formed phloem that differentiates from the procambium.

(Astronomy) a planet in its early stages of evolution by the process of accretion

Protostele

PROTOSTELE

Protostome

Protoxylem

""Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.""

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Protreptic

""Capable of being thrust outward, as the proboscis of many insects.""

Sticking up for a potato insect (wordplay)

Proud diatribe in favour of the Underground

Bulging

Ownership histories

""Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; -- used esp. in the fine arts and in arch\'91ology; as, the provenience of a patera.as, the provenience of a patera.""

Providence

In a provident manner.

Supplied with food.

Provision

An agent provocateur.

Deliberately causing annoyance

Tending to excite expert on case

Designed to cause anger or arousal

""In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately.""

Proximity

Elsie Dinsmore's forte.

Easily offended nature

Pruriency

PRUSSIANISE

PRUSSIANIZE

Pseudocoel

""Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, mostly aerobic flagellated bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonad, commonly found in soil, water, and decaying matter and including some plant and animal pathogens.""

Pl. pseudomonades (-m n -d z ) See pseudomonad .

An irregular or deceptive form.

""PSEUDOPOD Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.""

Cell projections whose name literally means "false feet"

Psilophyte

Psittacine

Plural or third person singular

Pervasive in the '60s

New word in hip talk.

With exotic colour pattern, (drug-induced, maybe)

Vividly colourful

Originating in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. Used of certain disorders.

""The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.""

Pteranodon

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Late Jurassic flyer

Extinct flying reptile

Flier of long ago

Pubescence

Publicity

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

PUCKISH {impish=adj}

Pudginess

Puerility

Puffiness

Pugnacity

A term meaning physical beauty

Physical beauty

Comeliness

Pulpiness

PULVERISE

Pulverizer

""PULVERIZE To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued. as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.""

""Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.""

Throwaway from a Halloween carving

Small sunfish

Halloween morsel

Boxin' 'owdydo has a pantomime character

Absurd character

Buffoon with hook nose could be swimming up Loch Linnhe

Sanctions, e.g

Penalties

Punkiness

On the market

Purgatory

Military order initiated by Washington.

Award for the courageous

US bravery award

Purported

Having no aim or goal

Without an aim

Without aim

Purposive

Pursiness

Purtenance

Purveyance

PUSHFUL {pushy=adj}

Pushiness

Moved with stealth: Slang.

Moved with stealth Slang.

Moved warily around, or a punny description of this puzzle's theme

Wary one

Decay, rottenness

Decay

""Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances. as, putrescible substances.""

Putrescine

Putridity

Puzzlement

Pycnometer

Pyranoside

""Ruby silver; dark red silver ore. It is a sulphide of antimony and silver, occurring in rhombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.""

Pyrethroid

Pyridoxine

Pyrimidine

Pyrolusite

Pyrolysate

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyzate

Pyromancy

Pyrometry

Related to fireworks

Holiday display adjective

Relating to fireworks

Pyroxenite

PYROXENITE A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.

Pyroxenoid

Pyrrhotite

Pythoness