12-Letter Words Containing A

Biology ()

Pamphleteer

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Marcel Marceau and others.

PANTOTHENATE

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Putting up wall covering

Paperiness

Papermaking

They help keep down correspondence

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

Fall Guys

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Paradrop

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARAGRAPHER A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Paraldehyde

Parallelism

Parallel

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

Paranormal

Paraphraser

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Parasailing

Anything used to destroy parasites.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

English word

Parathyroid

Contenders for the high jump

Paratyphoid

Parenteral

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Paresthesia

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Mass society (wordplay)

They mass for Mass

French city by Rhone is desperate for churchgoers

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Partiality

Sharers.

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

Takes part (in)

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Factionalism making old weapons trendy

Favouring craft in mixed Spanish and Greek character heading west

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Some businesses

Businesses that go with the navy (wordplay)

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Passacaglia

Passagework

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

""PASTORALE A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 68 or 128 time.""

Regions suitable for grazing

Patchiness

Paternalism

Paternalist

Paternoster

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pathetical

Pathfinding

PATHLESS having no path

See pathology .

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

Pathologist

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Patriarchy

Pawnbroking

Peaceful

Tranquillity

It's calm at most ends of the pitch, as they separate those causing trouble

Those calming things down in 21 across working in the zoo

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Peakedness

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pejorative

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pensionary

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Pentathlete

Pentazocine

Pentlandite

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Perceptual

Perchlorate

Percolation

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

""PEREGRINATE To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.""

Peregrinate

Perennation

Perestroika

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

Inflammation of the pericardium.

Adjective (-al)

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

From time to time.

Peripatetic

Peripheral

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

Peritoneal

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

The quality or state of being permeable.

Permutation

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

Commission for distribution of dog food

People carrying out harmful acts

Culprits

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

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

PERSEVERATE

Perseverate

PERSONALISE

Makes for you an espresso, one left to stir

Personalism

Personalist

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

Personalty

Personation

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Disquiet

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

Geology ()

The description and classification of rocks.