12-Letter Words Starting with P

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

Predominance.

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

Plural noun (-tions)

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

Preeminence

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

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

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.""

Word with prefix pre-

""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.

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.""

Forms of bigotry

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

Prelibation

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

Premarket

MEASURING measure

""MENSTRUAL Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place. as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.""

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

Premodify

Premoisten

Premonish

Premonition

Premunition

NOMINATED nominate

Prenominate

Prenotify

Prenumber

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Preoccupy

Preordain

PACKAGING package

Preparation

State of readiness

One of the things Boy Scouts study

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

Preportion

Regarding round behind etc...

Prepotency

Preppiness

Parking on local trail around Everest's starting point is not fully developed

""RECESSION The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.""

REQUIRING require

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

Prescreen

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Preselect

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

""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.""

SENTENCED sentence

Presentence

An intuitive feeling

Ready to embrace New Age foreboding

Now it holds men in premonition of evil

Presentment

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Preshrink

Presidency

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SIGNIFIED signify

Presignify

PRESSURISE

PRESSURIZE

Prestress

Presumption

SUPPOSING suppose

Presweeten

Pretension

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

Prettiness

Prevenient

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

In a preventive manner.

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

Prevision

PRIDEFUL full of pride

The quality or state of being priestly.

PRIGGISH marked by priggism

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

""The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.""

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Printmaking

PRIORITIZE

Prissiness

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Cruising in a privateer.

Prizewinner

The best in show champion taking first place

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

PROBATIONER One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

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

Hymn with a line that comes after parade

Hymn used during entry or exit in church

Paid arranger perhaps to accept key change to create moving hymn

Procession

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

Procreation

Procuration

Acquisitions

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Profanation

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

In a proficient manner.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 2 , secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, that acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized ovum, to maintain pregnancy, and to promote development of the mammary glands.""

Progestogen

Prognathism

Programming

Progression

They aim to stop the selling of alcohol, for instance, in bars

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Introduction of expert cricket side's to sign on

Introduction from The Go-Between (worker and diplomat)

Introduction in favour of educational toy followed by fellows accepting negative

Members of the working class

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

PROLOGUIZE

Process of lengthening

Extension in duration

Capes put on after concert by right people

High positions for Sun-follower politicians

Promptness

""PROMULGATE To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.""

""The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. as, the promulgation of the gospel.""

Pronephros

In a pronominal manner<?/ with the nature or office of a pronoun; as a pronoun.

Pronounced

Pronucleus

Study ace (wordplay)

Checking printed text for errors

The Royals' employee checking passage

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

PROPAGANDIZE

Propagation

Propensity

Properness

PROPITIATE To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

Proportion

They get voted on

Theorems to be demonstrated

Schemes put forward for places

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Propranolol

Prorogation

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

Prosecution

Prosobranch

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

Prostration

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Heroes reduced pain in amoebae, say

Champions new roasting pots

Supporters groan - it stops play

Proteinuria

Protensive

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Prothrombin

Protocol

Protonation

PROTONEMATA

Protoplanet

Protraction

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

In a provincial manner.

Provisional

Provisional.

PROVISIONER provision

Provision

Provocation

In a prudential manner; prudently.

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

Pseudomonad

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

""Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. as, a pseudonymous work.""

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

Publication

Publicness

Pugnacious

Pullulation

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Pumpkinseed