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.""

""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.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

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

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

""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.""

""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.""

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

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

PHOTOOXIDIZE

""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

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

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

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

POSTLITERATE

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

""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.

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

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

'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!

""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 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

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

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

PROPAGANDIZE

Forbidding; condemnatory

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

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

""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.""

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

""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.""