12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Pacificator

Paddlefish

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Pathfinding

Peaceful

Tranquillity

In a perfective manner.

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

In a perfidious manner.

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

English word

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Personifier

Representing in human form

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

Pettifogger

Chicanery

Quibbling

Photoflash

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Polysulfide

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.""

(Sociology) a person who believes in or advocates any of the ideas that have developed from the feminist movement

Noun (-ure)

Preachify

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Premodify

Prenotify

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

SIGNIFIED signify

Presignify

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

Profanation

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

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Mushrooms and battered tripe for sale

In plentiful fashion

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

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

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""