12-Letter Words Starting with P

Categorizing, perhaps unfairly

Assigning to a specific place

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Placeholder

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Platyrrhine

Pleochroism

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

Plushiness

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

""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.""

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

POLAROGRAPH

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Polyalcohol

Polyanthus

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

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

Adjective (-ic)

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

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

""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.""

HISTORIC important in history

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

""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.""

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

Adjective (-al)

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ic)

English word

English word

Praetorship

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

PRANKISH mischievous

Preachify

""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.""

ESTABLISH To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

""PREHENSILE Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.""

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Prehistory

Offices of government leaders, on top of everything else, carrying passengers

Premonish

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

""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.""

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

PRESCHOOLER preschool

Preshrink

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

Primateship

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

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

Proctorship

Prognathism

They aim to stop the selling of alcohol, for instance, in bars

Pronephros

Prophetess

Prophethood

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

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

Prosobranch

Prosthetist

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Prothrombin

History

Protophloem

PROTOTROPH

Past tense or past participle

Psephology

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

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

Pseudomorph

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

Pulchritude

Punchinello

Some military decorations

The uppers a girl (let alone GI) is thrilled by

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

Having the head full of confused notions.

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert