12-Letter Words Starting with P

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Positivity

Positronium

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

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-tion)

English word

Adjective (-ical)

Adjective meaning resembling

Plural or third person singular

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

Superlative adjective

English word

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Noun (-ery)

One who lived after the flood.

(Of research) done after a second degree

Type of study after getting an advanced degree (2 words)

Plural of gerund noun

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

""The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority. as, posteriority of time, or of an event; opposed to priority.""

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

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

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

Adjective (-al)

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

POSTLITERATE

Adjective (-al)

English word

Race-starting lady (wordplay)

Local head in mail service

Handles letters for concubine behind pillar

Adjective (-al)

Adjective (-ic)

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)

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

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ic)

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ical)

Situated behind or occurring after a synapse: postsynaptic neurons.

Posttension

Postulancy

Postulation

Adjective (-al)

English word

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Potability

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

Praetorship

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

Praxeology

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preallot

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

APPROVING approve

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

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

Precensor

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Preceptory

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

Preciosity

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

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

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

In a precocious manner.

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

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

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

Requirement

Prerequisite

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Predecessor

Predication

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

A previous discovery.

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.""

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)

Prefocus

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Word with prefix pre-

HISTORIAN A writer of history; a chronicler; an annalist.

Prehistory

Preignition

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

Prelibation

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

Premodify

Premoisten

Premonish

Premonition

Premunition

NOMINATED nominate

Prenominate

Prenotify

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

Preoccupy

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

Preordain

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Preparation

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...

Having a fixed idea

Having mind set on something second-hand apparently

Prepossess

Stop our peers' recreation? Outrageous!

Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous!

Ludicrous poser upset or disturbed

Prepotency

Preprocess

Preprocess

Inflected form of PROCESSOR Inflected form of PROCESS to treat or prepare by a special method

Preprogram

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

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

Prerogative

PRESCHOOLER preschool

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Preselect

Nearest point at sea for the launch

Illustrated formal talk

Formal act of giving

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Presumption

Arrogant PM to pursue crazy American

Assuming too much

Impertinently bold

SUPPOSING suppose

Pretension

One who prevaricates.

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

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

At the beginning; under the first order of things; originally.

PRIORITIZE

""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

Probabilism

Probabilist

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.

Problematic

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

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

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Procedural

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

Proclivity

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

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Proctology

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

Proctorship

Procuration

Acquisitions

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

""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.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock

Profanation

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

Characteristic of an academic

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

In a proficient manner.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

Eclair-like dessert

Eclairs as a sweet

Small filled pastries

Profligacy

In a profligate manner.

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

Proglottid