12-Letter Words Starting with P

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.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

Phagocytosie

""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.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

PHENOTYPIC

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

Unfaithful types

Philip and Elizabeth repeatedly meeting southern Lotharios

Flirts

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

They gather impressions from many lands

Some collectors

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

One versed or skilled in phonography.

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonotactic

Phosphatase

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIDE

English word

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

Of or relating to the energy of light.

One way to reproduce a picture

Photoflash

Photograph

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Composite picture

Photomosaic

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Photophobia

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

English word

Phrasemaker

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

Phycocyanin

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

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Phyllotaxy

Physiatrist

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Phytoalexin

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

Pickaback

Pickaninny

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

PICTORIALISE pictorial

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Pilocarpine

English word

English word

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placekick

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

Placidness

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Plagiarizer

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

Plagioclase

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

PLANLESS without a plan

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

Plantigrade

Plasmalemma

Plasminogen

Plasmodesma

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Devoid of pleasure.

Plebeianism

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pliability

Pliantness

Plutocracy

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

Polariscope

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

POLAROGRAPH

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

Pollination

Polyalcohol

Polyanthus

Polycrystal

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

""Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.""

Polysorbate

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

TONALITY a system of tones

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Polyvalence

Pomegranate