12-Letter Words Starting with P

Perspective

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

Exercise and sport in air, running around causing this (wordplay)

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

Disquiet

Perversity

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Petiteness

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

""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.""

The description and classification of rocks.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

Petrologist

Pettifogger

Chicanery

Quibbling

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

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.""

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

Pheneticist

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

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

PHENOTYPIC

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

Unfaithful types

Philip and Elizabeth repeatedly meeting southern Lotharios

Flirts

The royal couple in grand flirtation

Are Phillip and Erin good at flirting (wordplay)

I phone darling, exuding love, naughtily flirting

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

They gather impressions from many lands

Some collectors

Men's club musician (wordplay)

Orchestra's man arranged main orch.

Devoted to music

Philhellene

Of or pertaining to philhellenism.

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

They interpret literary texts

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Philosophy

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

Phlebology

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

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

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

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonologist

Phonotactic

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIDE

English word

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

""Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin and cephalin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule. Also called phosphatide .""

Phosphonium

Phosphorite

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

Study of light's effect on living organisms

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

Of or relating to the energy of light.

Past tense or past participle

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

Photomap

Photometry

Photomosaic

PHOTOOXIDIZE

Photoperiod

Photophobia

Photoresist

Photoset

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

Photostat

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

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

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycocyanin

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

Phycologist

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Phyllotaxy

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

Physiatrist

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

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.

Phytoalexin

The chemistry of plants.

Pickaback

Pickaninny

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

PICTORIALISE pictorial

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

PIECEWORKER piecework

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.""

Pilocarpine

English word

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

Pittosporum

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placekick

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

Placidness

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.

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Plantigrade

Plasminogen

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Plebeianism

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pleiotropy

Pleochroism

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

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""

Pliability

Pliantness

Pluckiness

Plushiness

Plutocracy

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Podophyllin

POETICAL a {poet=n}

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

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

Polariscope

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""