12-Letter Words Starting with P

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

Photomap

Composite picture

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Photoset

Photostat

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycocyanin

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

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

Phytoalexin

See plant hormone .

Pickaback

Pickaninny

""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.""

Video communication device

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

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

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

PLAGIARIZE To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

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.

PLANLESS without a plan

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

Plantigrade

Plasminogen

PLASMOLYZE

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

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Plebeianism

Plecopteran

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Pluckiness

Plushiness

""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.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Podophyllin

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""Any of various wormlike marine invertebrates of the phylum Pogonophora that grow in upright chitin tubes, usually at depths greater than 100 meters (330 feet), have tentacles attached to the head region, and lack a digestive system.""

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

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

POLEMICIZE

Politeness

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Plural or third person singular

Pollination

Plural or third person singular

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

CHROMING a chromium ore

""The production of two or more embryos in one seed, due either to the existence and fertilization of more than one embryonic sac or to the origination of embryos outside of the embryonic sac.""

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

POLYGAMIZE To practice polygamy; to marry several wives.

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.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

PHENOLIC a synthetic resin

Polystyrene

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

The science of the mechanic arts.

TONALITY a system of tones

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Polyvalence

Pomegranate

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

""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.

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

PORCELAIN Purslain.

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

""Sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal.""

""Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing. as, pornographic writing.""

Porousness

""A purple pigment similar to rhodopsin, found in the rods of the retinas of freshwater fishes and certain frogs.""

Portentous

Portliness

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

Positional

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

Positronium

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

Noun (-tion)

English word

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

Superlative adjective

English word

English word

One who lived after the flood.

Plural of gerund noun

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

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

Adjective (-ic)

English word

Adjective (-al)

A shift to a later time

Playful knockers spread over page one? Time for delay

Deferment

Washington newspaper editor (wordplay)

Career at a Washington newspaper (wordplay)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ic)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Posttension

Postulancy

Postulation

Adjective (-al)

State of possessing latent power

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

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

Potentiator

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

PRANKISH mischievous

Preachify

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

Preallot

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

APPROVING approve

ARRANGING arrange

Preassign

Prebendary

Precancel

CANCELLED cancel

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Precedency

Precensor

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

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

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

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

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

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

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

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

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!

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

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

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.""