12-Letter Words Starting with P

Pachysandra

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

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

Plural or third person singular

""(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)

PAINLESS without pain

Painstaking

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

PALATALIZE To palatize.

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

Fossils

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

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.""

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.

PANTOTHENATE

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Putting up wall covering

Paperiness

Papermaking

Paradrop

When your carriage returned this normally indicated it

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Parallel

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

Paralyzing

Weakly attracted by poles

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

Paranormal

""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.""

Parasailing

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

English word

Parenteral

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

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).""

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

Sharers.

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

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

PASTEURISE

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

""PASTORALE A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 68 or 128 time.""

Regions suitable for grazing

Patchiness

Paternalism

Paternalist

Paternoster

Characterized by originality and innovation; pioneering.

Pathfinding

PATHLESS having no path

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Pawnbroking

Tranquillity

United Nations speciality

Security Council function

The Blue Berets' remit

Peacemaking

Peakedness

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

In a pedantic manner.

Pedestal

A physician who specializes in pediatrics.

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

""A device for measuring the penetrating power of radiation, especially x-rays.""

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

Pennycress

Pennyweight

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

Pensionary

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Pentathlete

Pentazocine

Pentlandite

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""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.""

Percipience

Percipient

Percolation

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

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

Peregrinate

Perennation

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Adjective (-al)

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

PERILOUS dangerous

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.

Peritoneal

Permanency

A salt of permanganic acid.

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

""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.""

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

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

Exotic Persia trip? No sweat

Broken tip? Repair's no sweat

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

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

Disquiet

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

""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.""

Plural or third person singular

""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.""

Quibbling

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

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,""

Male - no, males - with exterior that's friendly to a remarkable extent

PHENOTYPIC

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

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

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

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

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

One versed or skilled in phonography.

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

Of or pertaining to phonology.

Phonologist

Phonotactic

Phosphonium

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.

One way to reproduce a picture

Past tense or past participle