12-Letter Words Starting with P

Polariscope

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

POLEMICIZE

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

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

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Polyalcohol

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

Polycrystal

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

Adjective (-ic)

HISTORIC important in history

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

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

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Polyvalence

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.""

PORCELAIN Purslain.

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

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

Portcullis

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

English word

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective meaning resembling

Plural or third person singular

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

Superlative adjective

English word

(Of research) done after a second degree

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

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ical)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Postulancy

Adjective (-al)

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Preachify

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

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

Precedency

Precensor

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Preceptory

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

Preciosity

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

""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.""

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

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

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

Requirement

Prerequisite

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Predecessor

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

Predictive

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

""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.""

A previous discovery.

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

Plural noun (-tions)

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

Preeminence

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

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

Preoccupy

PACKAGING package

Prepotency

Preprocess

Preprocess

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

PRESCHOOLER preschool

Prescreen

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

Preselect

Preselect

SENTENCED sentence

Presentence

Presidency

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

""The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.""

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

""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.""

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

Procession

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

Proclivity

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

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Proctology

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

Proctorship

Procuration

Acquisitions

""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.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

In a proficient manner.

Profligacy

Like music which depicts something

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Projective

In plentiful fashion

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Pronounced

Pronucleus

Providing introductory instruction.

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

Prosobranch

Prosodical

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Protective

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Protectory

English word

Protocol

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

Protraction

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Provenience

In a provincial manner.

Provocateur