11-Letter Words Starting with P

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

""(Medicine / Pharmacology) a drug used to treat protozoal infections, esp pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in patients with AIDS""

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

""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.

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Penurious

""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.""

Peppiness

Pepsinogen

Capable of being perceived; perceptible.

PERCEIVE to become aware of through the senses

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

Acute insight

Percipient

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

Gradual filtration

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

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

Perfumery

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

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

Special privileges.

Fringe benefits

Tips

""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.""

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.

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.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Persuasion

Stubbornness

Pertinence

Pertinent

Pertussis

Pervasive

Perversion

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

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.""

PHALLIC pertaining to a {phallus=n}

Phallicism

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

Phenacaine

Phenacetin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenocopy

Phenology

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

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.""

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.""

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.

Pl. photocopies A photographic or xerographic reproduction.

Today's mimeograph

Piece of office gear

Office machine

Photocopy

Photodiode

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOLYZE

""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

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

A dread or intolerance of light.

PHOTOPHOBE

Person associated with (-ist)

PHOTOSTAT

Motion ()

(Of plant) turning towards light

Seeking the light

A blue phycobilin occurring especially in the cells of cyanobacteria.

Phycology

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

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

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]

Pianissimo

Tap for noise playing these

Keyboard instruments

Picaninny

Picaresque