12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Pacificator

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

Paddlefish

""(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)

""(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""

PAINLESS without pain

Painstaking

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

Pleasant-tasting quality

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Fossils

Fossils

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

A writer of palindromes.

""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.""

Palliative

Pallidness

Palpitation

Paltriness

Palynology

Biology ()

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

Inflammation of the pancreas.

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

British warehouse or van

Removal van

Furniture van

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

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

Marcel Marceau and others.

Putting up wall covering

Paperiness

Papermaking

They help keep down correspondence

Papyrology

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

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

Fall Guys

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

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

Paradrop

""Body, Human , Perception""

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

Parallelism

Parallel

""The act or process of paralyzing, or the state of being paralyzed.""

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

Paramedical

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

PARAMETRIZE

Parametrize

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

""PARANOIC one affected with paranoia, also PARANOID""

""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.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Parasailing

Anything used to destroy parasites.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

""PARATACTIC Of pertaining to, or characterized by, parataxis.""

Parathyroid

Paratyphoid

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Paresthesia

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

Mass society (wordplay)

They mass for Mass

French city by Rhone is desperate for churchgoers

""Any of a group of nervous disorders similar to Parkinson's disease, marked by muscular rigidity, tremor, and impaired motor control and often having a specific cause, such as the use of certain drugs or frequent exposure to toxic chemicals. Also called Parkinson's syndrome .""

""A degenerative nervous disorder occurring mostly in persons older than 60 years, characterized in advanced stages by rhythmic muscular tremors, especially in the hands, and by rigidity of movement, a drooping posture, slow speech, and a masklike facial expression; the term designates a set of symptoms, and the underlying disease causing these symptoms is most commonly Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).Parkinson's disease. Parkinsonism results from a deficiency in the neurotransmitter dopamine caused by degeneration of the cells producing that agent. It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa (3-hydroxy-L-tyrosine).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Partiality

Sharers.

Joined in quietly and looked forward to knight becoming king

Takes part (in)

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Factionalism making old weapons trendy

Favouring craft in mixed Spanish and Greek character heading west

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Some businesses

Businesses that go with the navy (wordplay)

Parturition

Parvovirus

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Passacaglia

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

Patchiness

Paternalism

Paternalist

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pathetical

Pathfinding

See pathology .

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

Pathologist

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Patriarchy

Pawnbroking

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

Pejorative

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pennyweight

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

Pensionary

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Pentazocine

Pentlandite

""PERCEPTION The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.""

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Percipience

Percipient

Percolation

Percussive

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

Peregrinate

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Perennation

Perestroika

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

""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.""

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Inflammation of the pericardium.

Adjective (-al)

Pl. perichondria (-dr - ) The fibrous membrane of connective tissue covering the surface of cartilage except at the endings of joints.

PERILOUS dangerous

From time to time.

Study of punctuation marks (wordplay)

Field of study for a bridge maker (wordplay)

Opted to work with incisor, as part of dentistry

Specialized tooth care pro

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

Peripatetic

Peripheral

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

Peritoneal

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permanency

The quality or state of being permeable.

In a permissive manner.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

""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.""

Commission for distribution of dog food

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

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuity

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

Perplexity

Persecution

Persistence

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

PERSONALISE

Makes for you an espresso, one left to stir

Personalism

Personalist

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

Personalty

Personation

Personifier

Representing in human form

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.