12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Preportion

Regarding round behind etc...

Having a fixed idea

Having mind set on something second-hand apparently

Prepossess

Stop our peers' recreation? Outrageous!

Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous!

Ludicrous poser upset or disturbed

Prepotency

Preppiness

Preprocess

Preprocess

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

Preprogram

Prepuberty

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

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

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

Preregister

""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.""

REQUIRING require

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

""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

Presbytery

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

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.""

SENTENCED sentence

Presentence

An intuitive feeling

Ready to embrace New Age foreboding

Now it holds men in premonition of evil

Presentment

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

Preshrink

Presidency

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SIGNIFIED signify

Presignify

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

PRESSURE to apply force to

PRESSURISE

Pressurizer

PRESSURIZE

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Prestress

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

Presumption

Arrogant PM to pursue crazy American

Assuming too much

Impertinently bold

SUPPOSING suppose

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

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

Prettiness

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

Prevenient

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

In a preventive manner.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

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

Prevision

PRIDEFUL full of pride

The quality or state of being priestly.

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Primateship

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

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

Prissiness

""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.

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

Prizewinner

The best in show champion taking first place

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

Problematic

Proboscidian.

""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

Proclivity

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

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Proctology

Acquisitions

Productive

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.

In a proficient manner.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

Eclair-like dessert

Eclairs as a sweet

Small filled pastries

Profligacy

In a profligate manner.

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

Profundity

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 2 , secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, that acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized ovum, to maintain pregnancy, and to promote development of the mammary glands.""

Progestogen

Proglottid

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

Progression

Progressive

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Projective

Introduction of expert cricket side's to sign on

Introduction from The Go-Between (worker and diplomat)

Introduction in favour of educational toy followed by fellows accepting negative

Members of the working class

Working classes.

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Mushrooms and battered tripe for sale

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

Capes put on after concert by right people

High positions for Sun-follower politicians

Promptitude

Promptness

Pronephros

Pronounced

Pronucleus

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.

PROPAGANDIZE

Propensity

Properness

PROPERTY something owned

Prophetess

Prophethood

Proportion

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

She owns a business

Sportier reps at work miss running (wordplay)

Owner given support tries altering outside of residence, somewhat cut off

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

Tried to convert

Proselytise

Proselytism

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

One who proselytes.

Proselytize

""A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.personification, but is more extensive in its signification.""

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

Prosperity

In a affluent and successful manner

Prosthetist

Protective

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Protectory

Proteinuria

Protensive

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Prothallus

PROTONEMATA

Protophloem

Protoplanet

In a protrusive manner.

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Past tense or past participle

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

PROVISIONER provision

Provocateur

Provocative

In a prudential manner; prudently.

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

Psephology

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

English word

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Pseudomonad

Pseudomorph