12-Letter Words Starting with P

Pachysandra

""The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.""

Pacificator

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

Adjective (-ic)

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

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.""

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.""

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

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

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Word play; punning.

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

Passacaglia

Patchiness

Pathetical

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

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

Patriarchy

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

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.

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.""

Pennycress

Pentazocine

""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.""

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Perchlorate

Percipience

Percipient

Percolation

Percussive

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

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

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.

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Peripatetic

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

PERITRICH

Permanency

Pernicious

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

Persistence

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

Perspective

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

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

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

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.""

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

Pheneticist

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

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

PHENOTYPIC

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

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

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

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonotactic

PHOSPHATIDE

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

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

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Past tense or past participle

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Past tense or past participle

Motion ()

Photomosaic

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

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

Phycocyanin

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

Phycologist

Phycomycete

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

Pickaback

Pickaninny

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""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.""

Video communication device

PIECEWORKER piecework

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Pilocarpine

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

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

""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.""

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

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleochroism

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""

Pluckiness

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.""

""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.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

POETICAL a {poet=n}

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