12-Letter Words Starting with P

Pachysandra

Paddleboard

Paddlefish

Plural or third person singular

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) sexual reproduction in an animal that retains its larval features See also neoteny paedogenetic   [ˌpiːdəʊdʒəˈnɛtɪk] , paedogenic adj PAEDOMORPHIC (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""

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""

A writer of palindromes.

Pallidness

Pandemonium

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

""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

Paraldehyde

Paramedical

PARAMETRIZE

Anything used to destroy parasites.

Parathyroid

Paratyphoid

PARFOCALIZE

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Regions suitable for grazing

Pathfinding

Peakedness

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

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.""

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

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.""

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

In a perfidious manner.

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

Specialized tooth care pro

PERSEVERATE

PERSONALISE

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

PHAGOCYTIZE

PHAGOCYTOSE

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

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIDE

English word

PHOSPHATIZE

""Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin and cephalin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule. Also called phosphatide .""

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

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Past tense or past participle

Photograph

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

PHOTOOXIDIZE

Photoperiod

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

PHOTOSTAT

Phylloclade

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

Pitchblende

Placeholder

Placidness

Plantigrade

Plasmodesma

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

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

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

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

Polypeptide

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

Polyploidy

Polysulfide

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

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

English word

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Noun (-ery)

One who lived after the flood.

(Of research) done after a second degree

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

Plural of gerund noun

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

Adjective (-al)

English word

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

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

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

ANNOUNCED announce

ASSEMBLED assemble

Prebendary

CANCELLED cancel

Precedency

Brought about

CONCEIVED conceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

Requirement

Prerequisite

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Predecessor

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

DESTINING destine

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

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

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

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.

DISPOSING dispose

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

FORMATTED format

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

Forms of bigotry

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premeditate

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

Premodify

Premoisten

NOMINATED nominate

Preordain

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

Preportion

Having a fixed idea

Having mind set on something second-hand apparently

Preprocess

Preprogram

PURCHASED purchase

QUALIFIED qualify

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

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

SENTENCED sentence

Presidency

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SIGNIFIED signify

SPECIFIED specify

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Avoided coming to the point

PRIDEFUL full of pride

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

""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

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

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

Procedural

Procession

Proctodaeum

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

""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

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

Proglottid

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Promptitude

Pronounced

Ones who tell you when your slip is showing (wordplay)

They use first impressions to eradicate wrong types

Study ace (wordplay)

Checking printed text for errors

The Royals' employee checking passage

Providing introductory instruction.

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

PROPAGANDIZE

Prophethood

Proportion

Prosauropod