12-Letter Words Starting with P

In a pontifical manner.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificate

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

Portraitist

Portraiture

Positional

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

Noun (-tion)

English word

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective meaning resembling

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

English word

English word

One who lived after the flood.

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

POSTLITERATE

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ical)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Postulancy

Postulation

Adjective (-al)

English word

Potability

State of possessing latent power

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

Potentiator

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

Praetorship

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

PRANKISH mischievous

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

Praxeology

Preachify

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

Preallot

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

ASSEMBLED assemble

Preassign

Prebendary

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

Precancel

CANCELLED cancel

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Precipitant

Brought about

Precipitate

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

Prediabetic

Looks forward to having the last word in

The last word in forecasts from tight spots

Looks forward to having the last word in pickles

Predication

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

ESTABLISH To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

FINANCING finance

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.

Prelibation

Preliterate

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Premarital

Premarket

Plural or third person singular

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

MEASURING measure

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premeditate

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

NOMINATED nominate

Prenominate

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Preordain

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

PACKAGING package

Preparation

Preparative

State of readiness

One of the things Boy Scouts study

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

Preprogram

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

Prerogative

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Presbyterian.

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

Primateship

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Printmaking

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Cruising in a privateer.

Probabilism

Probabilist

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

PROBATIONER One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

Problematic

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Procedural

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Procuration

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Profanation

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

Characteristic of an academic

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

Profligacy

In a profligate manner.

Prognathism

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

Like music which depicts something

Programming

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Members of the working class

Working classes.