12-Letter Words Starting with P

""A place where foodstuffs are processed and packed; as, they came from an apple packinghouse.as, they came from an apple packinghouse.""

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)

Painstaking

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

""Birth 1 . the phase in the development of an organism in which its form and structure pass through the changes undergone in the evolution of the species. 2 . the morphological and structural changes that occur during insect development. Also palingenesia, palingenesy. ; palingenetic,""

China in first phase regeneration

The old man's low-down getting through punishment is reincarnation

""Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. as, a palingenetic process.""

Palynology

Biology ()

""PANTOGRAPH An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.""

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Putting up wall covering

Papermaking

They help keep down correspondence

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""A writer of memoirs of religious persona, as examples of Christian excellence.""

Paradrop

PARAGRAPHER A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Parallel

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

Parasailing

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Partition

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Passacaglia

Passagework

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pathfinding

See pathology .

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

Pathologist

Pawnbroking

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Pedestal

Pelargonium

Pennyweight

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

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

Peregrinate

A salt of permanganic acid.

""PERPETRATE To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. as, to perpetrate a foul deed.""

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Representing in human form

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

Phagocytosie

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

""Time the study of the effects of climate on animal and plant life. ; phenologist, phaenologist, ; phenologic, phaenologic, phenological, phaenological,""

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

They interpret literary texts

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Phlebology

""PHONOGRAM A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.""

One versed or skilled in phonography.

""PHONOGRAPH A character or symbol used to represent a sound, esp. one used in phonography.""

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonologist

Study of light's effect on living organisms

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

One way to reproduce a picture

(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

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

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

Photomap

Composite picture

Photoset

Photostat

English word

""One, such as a speechwriter, who composes memorable or effective phrases.""

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

The branch of botany that deals with algae. Also called algology .

Phycologist

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

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Physiology

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

Pickaback

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

Pigeonholer

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Riding on another's shoulders

Riding on someone else's shoulders

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

""PILGRIMAGE The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life.""

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Placekick

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Plagiarizer

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

Plagioclase

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

""A process for printing from a smooth surface, as lithography or offset.""

Plantigrade

Plasminogen

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

PLASTICIZE

Platemaking

Playwriting

PLEASING the act of pleasing

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

Pneumograph

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

POLAROGRAPH

POLEMICIZE

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

CHROMING a chromium ore

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

POLYMERISE

""POLYMERIZE To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde. polymerize aldehyde.""

Pomegranate

POPULARISE

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

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

Plural or third person singular

Plural of gerund noun

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

English word

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ical)

English word

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Praxeology

Preachify

Preadmit

Preallot

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

Preassign

Precancel

Precensor

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

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

COMPUTING compute

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Specify in advance

DESTINING destine

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

""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.""

DISPOSING dispose

""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.""

FINANCING finance

Prefocus

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

Word with prefix pre-

Preignition

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

Forms of bigotry