11-Letter Words Starting with P

Painful

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

Pancratium

Flower that's a riot of color (wordplay)

Hell with a devil inside (wordplay)

Chaos and confusion

Panjandrum

Paperbound

Pl. papovaviruses Any of a group of DNA-containing viruses that are associated with or cause papillomas or polyomas in animals.

Jumping from a plane

Military drop-out

Specially trained fighter.

This jumper rides up

Paramecium

""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.

""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.""

Parquetry

Information in a scriptural form

Carl and Rita up for a romp - suspect initially these might get taken down

Unfortunately curtail rap at beginning of single: here's the details

President - coherent in speech or bitty (wordplay)

Parturient

Birth

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Satirical forays, by John Williams? But not for soundtracks

Lampoons.

Subjected (milk) to sterilisation by heating

No more increase in mounting expected in sterile state

Applies heat treatment to generate true asepsis

Like much yogurt and apple juice

Dairy apparatus.

Prevents fermentation

Pasticheur

lamb's place

Patchouly

Quality of a spare tire holder (wordplay)

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

Peaceful

Peculation

Unusual feature or habit

Unusual characteristic

Idiosyncrasy

In a pecuniary manner; as regards money.

Pediculate

Insects

Insects

Pedicurist

PEDUNCULATE

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

Pelycosaur

Pemphigus

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.

""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.""

Like the letter Y

Next-to-last

Nearly last, team let up in scrummaging

Penurious

It has 'amble' and 'ramble' inside

It has "amble" and "ramble" within

It has "amble" and "ramble" inside

Percussion

Perfumery

Careless or cursory

Just going through the motions

Done as a formality only

The double baglike fold of serous membrane which incloses the heart.

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

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

Peripatus

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

Peritoneum

Possible ordering (of a number of items)

From importunate version of variation

Change of order

All the time

Give a treat to Fido and Fluffy

For a change, play lute all the time

Caused to continue

Perpetuate

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Special privileges.

Fringe benefits

Tips

Persecutee

""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.""

Tyrannical people

""PERSECUTOR One who persecutes, or harasses.""

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque.

That may be persuaded.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Persuasion

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

Pertussis

""Pestbearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies. as, pestiferous bodies.""

Petrolatum

Petulancy

""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.""

Relating to one element

Photomural

English word

Picaresque

Strikingly beautiful (view)

Imagines Spanish that becomes attractive

Paintings that in Paris are pretty

PICTURIZE To picture.

Pilothouse

Tailors' conveniences

Stuffed accessories

Sewers' conveniences

Piousness

PIQUANT having an agreeably sharp taste

Swiveling, in ballet

Feeding or subsisting on fish.

Pitcherful

A sorry state

Pitiful

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

""Any of various evergreen shrubs or plants of the genus Pittosporum, native to the warmer regions of the Old World and grown as ornamental or hedge plants in the southern United States and Pacific coastal states.""

Master endocrine glands

Some glands

Space perhaps, to see stars (wordplay)

Where stars gather (wordplay)

Place known to screen stars

Resembling silver plate; said of certain architectural ornaments.

Platterful

Liking for games and amusement

Amusing light-hearted quality

Playground

A blur, a sleep, awfully nice

Such as gives enjoyment

Delightful

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

Plenteous

In quantity

Plentitude

Plesiosaur

Plumpness

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

Plushness

Deriving power from wealth

Rich and strong

Powerful and wealthy

Gram positive balls, often from the lung

Bacteria which cause a particular lung disease

Respiration recorder

Plural or third person singular

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

Indifferent, Italian-style

Final word of 2003: "an indifferent person"

Final word of 2003: 'an indifferent person'

""A genus of herbs of the Barberry family, having large palmately lobed peltate leaves and solitary flower. There are two species, the American Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi. Podohyllum peltatum, or May apple, the Himalayan P. Emodi.""

Poisonous

Polemonium

Poor lady, sun-tanned, with several husbands

Having several husbands or male mates at a time

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

Containing many nuclei.

Polyonomous.

Potentially happy soul about to become open-mouthed

Same as Polyphonic. Polyphonic.

""SULFIDE a sulfur compound, also SULFID, SULPHID, SULPHIDE""

Pompadour

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

In a ponderous manner.

POPULARISE

Popularise

Made likeable to the general public

One making a subject accessible*

Popularize

Population

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

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.

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

English word

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Postulator

Pothunting

Pourparler

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Very strong bridge hands

Juggernauts

Fireballs

Praemunire

Praesidium

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

To announce beforehand.

CALCULUS a branch of mathematics

Preventative measures

Sensible safeguards

Measures taken in advance to minimise risks

Dangerously high or steep

Dangerously steep

Steep - hasty

Preclusion

COMPUTED compute

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Precompute

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Offices of French administrators

Political districts.

FIGURING figure

FOCUSING focus

Prefocus

Prefocus

Decision made before hearing evidence

Harmful, detrimental

Detrimental

Biasing

LUNCHEON a midday meal

Prelusive

Before the due time

Before time

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""The quality or state of being premature; early, or untimely, ripeness; as, the prematurity of genius. as, the prematurity of genius.""

MEASURED measure

Premeasure

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.

Prenumber

Totally engrossed (by an idea)

Produce epic novel, when lost in thought

Totally engrossed

Preoccupy

PUBERTAL of puberty

Prepunch

PURCHASE to {buy=v}

REQUIRED require

Prerequire

""SCHEDULE to plan, also SCEDULE""

SHRUNKEN shrink

Like an airliner's cabin

Forced to eat apple, not entirely taken aback, as coerced

Pressurise

Like airplane cabins

PRESSURIZE

Pressurize

""PRESTIGE charm, magic or glamour in the eyes of other people""

Group's ties I treated as impressive

Having glamour and influence

Having high status

Confidently; arrogantly.

Possibly uppermost in arrogance

Strong probability.

Supposition - impertinence