11-Letter Words Starting with P

Evergreen ground cover

Packthread

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

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ..

Thomas Paine was voted Most Valuable ...

Publicity agent of yore

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

Importance of an essay (wordplay)

Pet rock, maybe

Heavy desk object

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Paragraph

Writer of news items for newspapers

""PARAGRAPH Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character g., a change of subject; now, the character <?/, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections.""

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

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.

""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""

""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""

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

""In a parochial manner; by the parish, or by parishes.""

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Pasticheur

Pastorship

Patchboard

Patchouly

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.""

Pathology

Mental hospital got specialist doctor

Doctor who specializes in diagnosis

Studier of diseases

Relating to such as Jacob and Abraham

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

Sources of legumes (wordplay)

Yard arms (wordplay)

Paparazzo and others (wordplay)

Same as pedophile.pedophile.

Pedophilia

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Pemphigus

Penmanship

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

""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)

Pentarchy

Competitor in five-sport event

One practicing both running and swimming, maybe

Versatile sportsman leapt the net amazingly

Pentathlon

Peoplehood

Rod deceased, having swallowed yellow chemical

Sit down with expression of surprise having consumed salt

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

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

PERITHECIA

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

Permethrin

Personhood

Petroglyph

The art of writing on stone.

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

""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.

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

Phanerogam

Pl. phantasmata (-m -t ) See phantasm .

Phantasy

Adjective meaning resembling

Self-righteously hypocritical

Pharisaism

They're in the drug business

Drug dispensers

Drug movers

Inflammation of cavity behind mouth and nose

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

Studier of languages

Expert in the structure and development of languages

23 with a stone (wordplay)

Eg, Kant or Plato

One as Socrates, Wittgenstein

Philosophe

One way to wax

Calm in adversity

Unruffled.

Plural or third person singular

Phlebogram

Phlogiston

Phlogopite

Adjective meaning resembling

PHONEMICISE PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

Phoniness

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

They have arms

They hold records

Member of Group 2

""A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.""

Phonology

One versed in phonology.

""(used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.""

""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.

""The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine.""

(min.) A massive variety of apatite.

Relating to one element

Phosphoryl

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

Photoflood

Mathew Brady creations

F as in picture taking (wordplay)

Art of using cameras

Girl Scout interest patch

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Photometer

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

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Photography) a large-scale detailed picture made up of many photographs See also mosaic

Photomural

""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

A dread or intolerance of light.

PHOTOPHOBE

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

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""

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

""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

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phycology

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

""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.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

Phylloxera

Phylogeny

A physician who specializes in physical medicine.

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Gym rat's concern

Cast of one's features

Physiological.

(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

Pictograph

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

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.

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Pigheaded

Pilothouse

Tailors' conveniences

Stuffed accessories

Sewers' conveniences

Chef's concern re chicken dishes

PINKISH somewhat pink

Pinwheel

Major ore of uranium

Brown or black mineral containing radium

Ore of uranium

Pitcherful

Pitchfork

PITCHPOLE

Pithiness

Symbol for something missing

Bookmark, essentially

Temporary wording in a document awaiting final text

Plainchant

Planchette

""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.""

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Platyfish

""Of or designating the New World monkeys, distinguished from the Old World monkeys by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side.""

Theater notables

Dramatists

""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.""