12-Letter Words Starting with P

POLEMICIZE

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Poliovirus

Politeness

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Plural or third person singular

Pollination

Plural or third person singular

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

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

Adjective (-ic)

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

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.""

HISTORIC important in history

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.""

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

Polypeptide

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

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.""

Polyploidy

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polysulfide

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

TONALITY a system of tones

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.""

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""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.""

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""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.""

Portcullis

Portliness

Portraitist

Portraiture

Positional

""The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positive, a.""

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Positivity

Positronium

""POSSESSION The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.""

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-tion)

English word

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective meaning resembling

""Of, relating to, or being the time following the establishment of independence in a colony: postcolonial economics.""

English word

Noun (-ery)

One who lived after the flood.

Plural of gerund noun

""(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) happening or existing after an election""

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

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

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

POSTLITERATE

Adjective (-al)

English word

Race-starting lady (wordplay)

Local head in mail service

Handles letters for concubine behind pillar

Adjective (-ic)

Washington newspaper editor (wordplay)

Career at a Washington newspaper (wordplay)

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ic)

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ical)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Posttension

Postulancy

Postulation

Adjective (-al)

Potability

State of possessing latent power

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

Potentiator

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

Praetorship

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

PRANKISH mischievous

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

Praxeology

Preachify

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

Preallot

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

Preassign

Prebendary

Precancel

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

Precedency

Precensor

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Preceptory

""Of or pertaining to pression; as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes. as, the precessional movement of the equinoxes.""

Preciosity

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Precipitant

Brought about

Precipitate

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

PRECISION The quality or state of being precise; exact limitation; exactness; accuracy; strict conformity to a rule or a standard; definiteness.

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

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

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Requirement

Prerequisite

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

DESTINING destine

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

Prediabetic

Looks forward to having the last word in

The last word in forecasts from tight spots

Looks forward to having the last word in pickles

Predication

Predictive

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

""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.""

A previous discovery.

DISPOSING dispose

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

Plural noun (-tions)

Preeminence

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

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.

In earlier life, former partner one's caught in act

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.

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

""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

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.""

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

""INTERVIEW A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President. as, the secretary had an interview with the President.""

Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.

Prelibation

Preliterate

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Premarital

Premarket

Plural or third person singular

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

MEASURING measure