11-Letter Words Starting with P

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Prose appropriator

Plagiarize

Plaister

Planarity

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

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.""

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

Animal that walks on the soles of its feet

""Government by planters; planters, collectively.""

Plastering

Decorative interior mouldings

PLASTICIZE

Platemaker

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

Platterful

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

Playground

Theater notables

Dramatists

The writing of plays.

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

""PLEASURE to give enjoyment or satisfaction to, also PLEASE""

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.

""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

Pluperfect

PLURALIST A clerk or clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

Plurality

PLURALIZE To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.

English word

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

Respiration recorder

Pockmark

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

Podiatrist

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.

Politicker

Pollenizer

Bees are these, for instance, when they travel from plant to plant

Pollinizer

1982 film with a clown doll attack (#4)

Evidence of a reviving spirit (wordplay)

They're here!

Cowardice; want of spirit; pusillanimity.

Polyandry

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

CENTRIC situated at the center

CHROMED chrome

Polychrome

CRYSTAL a transparent mineral

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

Polygraph

""GRAPHIC a painting, print, illustration or diagram""

Polyhedron

Polyhistor

HYDROXY containing hydroxyl

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

Polymorphous.

Containing many nuclei.

Polyrhythm

SORBATE a sorbed substance

Light synthetic resin

Synthetic resin used in packing

Moulded synthetic material

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Pompadour

In a ponderous manner.

POPULARISE

Popularise

Made likeable to the general public

One making a subject accessible*

Popularize

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Easily carried quality

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Nonsharing

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

English word

Situated behind the cranium.

English word

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

Posterity

Postform

Superlative adjective

Adjective (-al)

Postmark

Postmaster

Spiritless examinations (wordplay)

Stiff examinations (wordplay)

Nonmusical encores

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

English word

English word

Addendums

Postulator

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Pottering

Pourparler

Very strong bridge hands

Juggernauts

Fireballs

Powerless

Feasible

Realistic

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Praelect

Praemunire

Praesidium

Praetorian

""An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Pratincole

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preachify

ACHINESS the state of being {achy=adj}

Preaching

Tiresome sermons

Preadapt

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Preadmit

Preadopt

Saved for future use

To announce beforehand.

APPROVED approve

Preapprove

ARRANGED arrange

Reps rang re a change in schedules

Preassign

Preaver

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Prebless

CALCULUS a branch of mathematics

Precancel

Preventative measures

Sensible safeguards

Measures taken in advance to minimise risks

Precedence

Precensor

Precession

Precheck

Prechill

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

Precipitin

Dangerously high or steep

Dangerously steep

Steep - hasty

PRECISE sharply and clearly defined or stated

Preclean

Preclear

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

Preclusion

Precocity

Plural or third person singular

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

COMPUTED compute

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Precompute

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

Preconcert

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

CREASING crease

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

Predacity

DECEASED decease

Predecease

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

DEFINING define

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Fates

DIABETES a metabolic disorder

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

Predicable

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

Adjective in a linguistics class

Affirmative; positive.

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Statements about the future

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

Predispose

Prednisone

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling