12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Pacificator

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

Paddleboard

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)

""(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""

Fossils

Fossils

The branch of ecology that deals with the interaction between ancient organisms and their environment.

One skilled in paleography; a paleographist.

""The study and scholarly interpretation of earlier, especially ancient, writing and forms of writing.""

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Fossils

A writer of palindromes.

Palpitation

Palynology

Biology ()

Kind of film that gets romantic chap excited

See cholecystokinin .

See aplastic anemia .

Pandemonium

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

Papyrology

""Past the study of papyrus manuscripts. ; papyrologist , ; papyrological ,""

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.""

Paradrop

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

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

Paranormal

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

English word

Parathyroid

Contenders for the high jump

Paratyphoid

PARFOCALIZE

Parfocalize

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).""

Small-mindedness

Lamia's Orphic new version betrays narrow outlook

Paronomasia

Word play; punning.

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

""One who participates, or shares with another; a partaker.""

PARTITIONER partition

Partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

Passagework

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

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

Paternoster

See pathology .

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Relating to or exhibiting disease

(adj.) adept at doing mazes

Relating to a disease

Pathologist

Pawnbroking

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

Pejorative

Pelargonium

The act of punishing.

Penetration

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

Pensionary

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Five-faced figures

Pentazocine

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

""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.""

Perchlorate

Percolation

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

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

Perennation

Perestroika

In a perfidious manner.

They help when one is in a tearing hurry

Operations that mean forceps are designed to clamp top of retina

""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.""

English word

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

From time to time.

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

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERORATION The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.""

Commission for distribution of dog food

People carrying out harmful acts

Culprits

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

Persecution

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)

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Disquiet

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

""The process of petrifying, or changing into stone; conversion of any organic matter (animal or vegetable) into stone, or a substance of stony hardness.""

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

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.""

Geology ()

The description and classification of rocks.

Of or pertaining to petrology.

Petrologist

Pettifogger

Chicanery

Quibbling

PHAGOCYTIZE

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

Phagocytosie

""PHAGOCYTE A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

(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 ]

Non-PC study of drugs (wordplay)

The science or study of drugs

The science or study of drugstore drugs

American dopes lie on the sheets in this

Stock of drugs

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.""

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

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

PHILOLOGIC Of or pertaining to philology.

They interpret literary texts

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Philosophy

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

Phlebology

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

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

Phosphatase

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIDE

English word

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

""Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin and cephalin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule. Also called phosphatide .""

Phosphonium

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Phosphorite

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.