12-Letter Words Starting with P

Disquiet

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

Perversity

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Petiteness

""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)

Plural or third person singular

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

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

Geology ()

The description and classification of rocks.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

Petrologist

Pettifogger

Chicanery

Quibbling

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

(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 ]

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.""

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,""

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

They gather impressions from many lands

Some collectors

Philhellene

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Philosophy

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Phlebology

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

One versed or skilled in phonography.

Phosphatase

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

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

Phosphorite

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

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

Person associated with (-ist)

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

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

One way to reproduce a picture

Past tense or past participle

Photoflash

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

Photograph

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

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

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

PHOTOLYZE

Photometry

Composite picture

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

Photoperiod

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

Photoresist

Photosetter

Photoset

Photosphere

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

PHOTOSTAT

Photosystem

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.

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycomycete

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Phylloclade

Phyllotaxy

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

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Physiology

Phytoalexin

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

See plant hormone .

Phytosterol

Pickaninny

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""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

Pigeonholer

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

Pilocarpine

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

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

Plagiarizer

Plagioclase

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

Plantigrade

Plasmalemma

Plasminogen

Plasmodesma

Plasmogamy

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticity

Plasticizer

Platemaking

Platyrrhine

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

Pleiotropy

Pleochroism

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

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

Pliability

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Pluckiness

Plushiness

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.""

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

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Polarimeter

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

Polariscope

POLEMICIZE

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Poliovirus

Politeness

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

Plural or third person singular

Plural or third person singular

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

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

Adjective (-ic)

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

""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.""