11-Letter Words Starting with P

Pacemaking

Sports See pacemaker .

Evergreen ground cover

Spectacular displays

Pagination

Painful

Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.

Aids for the injured

Some prescriptions

""An agent, such as an analgesic drug, that relieves pain.""

Sorely taking care (wordplay)

Careful old man at home with betting

Done with great care

Natives of Germany.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

Abba solos wow Anna (wordplay)

Subject of Jon Agee's "So Many Dynamos!"

eg Pop, DVD and Abba

As is Cain, a maniac (wordplay)

Like mum and dad (wordplay)

Like 'dad' or 'mum' (wordplay)

PALLETISE

PALLETIZE

Palliation

Beating with excessive rapidity

Rapid irregular heartbeat

Irregular heartbeat

Fluttering.

Biology ()

One way to cook meat

Pancratium

Pancreatin

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

Eulogists

They can beg

They ask for handouts.

They hold tin cups

PANHANDLE The handle of a pan;

Panjandrum

PANTALET long underpants trimmed with ruffles

Pantdress

Worshipping many gods

Pantograph

""PANTOMIME A universal mimic; an actor who assumes many parts; also, any actor.""

Marcel Marceau, for one

Marcel Marceau, famously

Marcel Marceau was voted Most Valuable ..

PANTROPIC

Milquetoasts

Papaverine

Paperbound

Interior decorator, for one.

Interior decorator's hiree

Person who decorates as a profession

The process or craft of making paper.

Jumping from a plane

Paraffin

The order in which a formation of associated minerals is generated.

Geologic formation of minerals in contact

Of the origin of a mineral deposit.

PARALLEL to be extended in the same direction

Paramagnet

Paramnesia

""PARAMOUNT Having the highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; pre\'89minent; as, a paramount duty. as, a paramount duty.""

In a paramount manner.

Paranormal

Going up on-line (wordplay)

Another soaring sport

Doer: "Stimulating!" Spectator: "Risky!"

""PARBUCKLE A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

Parcenary

""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

I hire parson (anagram)

Do I hire parson (wordplay)

Do I hire parson?

Rigsdag, Sejm, etc.

Camels alternatives

A technical name for a pun

Punster's activity

Art of punning

Parsimony

One getting involved in something

One actively involved

Quarter, say, old company factory left out is one to feature (wordplay)

Divided into sections

Divided into segments

Dire trepidation when country is divided

Partition

PARTNER to join with in a common interest

Yacht in a time-share (wordplay)

Nina, to Santa Maria?

Limited group (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Showing no emotion

Frigid

PASSIVATE

PASSIVATE PASSIVE a verb form

The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.

Pastiness

lamb's place

Perhaps Parliament's unwanted interference

Regulatory nature of the father of parliaments abroad

Benevolent despot

Paternity

Portents are confounded by prayer

Prayer that may give one a lift

Bill carries a bird in a lift

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.""

Patination

Relating to descent through the male line

""Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate. as, a patrimonial estate.""

Patrimony

Patroness

PATRONISE

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronymic

Patterning

PATTERN to copy a design

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

""PAUPERIZE To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry. as, to pauperize the peasantry.""

Pavilion

Ones with St. Nick's patronage

Sources of ready cash

Cash source in tight situations

Boy in family flanked by men on board in uncle's business

""One that makes peace, especially by settling disputes.""

""Having an iridescent pearl-like surface, giving a play of lustrous rainbowlike colors; nacreous; pearlaceous.""

Peasantry

The state of being pectinated; that which is pectinated.

Peculation

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

PEDESTAL to provide with an architectural support

Certain artful dodgers

Riders of shank's mare

They won't be taken for a ride

Plural or third person singular

The process of soil formation.

The process of soil formation.

PEDUNCULATE

Discontentment

Irritability

Petulance

Growth of cultivated geranium with heads of pink and opal, planted round lake

PELLETISE

PELLETIZE

Pencilling

Pendentive

Penetrance

Carrying gym bag before class

Keen going on about unruly teen

Sharp exercise needs web classification

""The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.""

""Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun. as, the penetrative sun.""

""Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel'shair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.""

Penicillin

Pl. penicilliums or penicillia (-s l - ) Any of various characteristically bluish-green fungi of the genus Penicillium that grow as molds on decaying fruits and ripening cheese and are used in the production of penicillin and in making cheese.

Petite Linn, a ruer

Relating to repentance

Expressing repentance

Penmanship

Quaker Stater into pungent mints (wordplay)

1/20th of a troy ounce

Unit of twenty-four grains

One twentieth of an ounce troy

Pennyworth

Of or pertaining to penology.

Ones looking at sentences

""Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.as, a pensionable employee.""

PENSIONE a boarding house

Deep thought

Dreamy quality

From high prices to reflection (wordplay)

Pentagonal

""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)

""Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.""

Lines of some sonnets

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

Pentaploid

PENTAPLOID

Pentarchy

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

Peppercorn

""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

Portions

Values on a scale of 0 to 100

Polling stats

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.

Perfection

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

Creep on farm (anagram)

(Actor's) rendering of a role

The giving of a play or concert

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

Of or pertaining to the pericranium.

The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the region around the cranium.

Perinatal

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

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.

Periphyton

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

Permanence

So as to last forever

For good

For good royal chap, hospital department induced good condition

Aromatherapy units

Permethrin

Permission

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

Peroration

""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

Key to puzzle solving, for example

Continuing in spite of difficulty

Soldiering on

Resist changes in coinage with tenacity

Refusal to accept refusal

Doggedness is derived from its presence