12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

(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

""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.""

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

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

Your florist (wordplay)

Popular houseplant

London pride variety including first house plant

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Blood and Blood Vessels ()

""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.""

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

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.

""(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""

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

One way to reproduce a picture

Photograph

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Photometry

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

Photoperiod

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

Photoresist

Photosetter

Photosphere

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

The tendency of growing plant organs to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.heliotropism.

English word

Phrasemaker

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

Comparative adjective or agent noun

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phylactery

Physiatrist

""PHYSIOCRAT One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order.""

""The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography.""

Phytochrome

See plant hormone .

Phytosterol

PICKEREL a freshwater fish

""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.""

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

PICTORIALISE pictorial

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

PIECEWORKER piecework

Pigeonholer

""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

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

Pittosporum

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

Copying letter from Greece will limit delay occurring

""PLAGIARIST One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.""

Plagiarizer

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

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

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

Plantigrade

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticizer

Platyrrhine

Playwriting

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

Devoid of pleasure.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleinairism

Pleinairist

Pleiotropy

Pleochroism

""The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism. dimorphism and trimorphism.""

""The infective larva of some tapeworms, characterized by its solid elongated body.""

Plutocracy

Pneumograph

Lung problem

""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.""

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

Polariscope

""Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations. as, polariscopic observations.""

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

POLAROGRAPH

Party under cover (wordplay)

Person taking out insurance

Person with insurance

Poliovirus

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

CHROMING a chromium ore

Polycrystal

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""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.""

POLYGRAPHER polygraph

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

""Pl. polyhedroses (-s z) Any of several diseases of insect larvae, caused by infestation with polyhedral virus particles.""

HISTORIC important in history

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.""

Same as Pleomorphism. Pleomorphism.

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Polysorbate

Polystyrene

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Pomegranate

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""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.""

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.""

Portcullis

Portentous

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

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.""

Portraitist

Portraiture

Positronium

Noun (-tion)

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Noun (-ery)

(Of research) done after a second degree

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

""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)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

Adjective (-al)

POSTLITERATE

Race-starting lady (wordplay)

Local head in mail service

Handles letters for concubine behind pillar

Adjective (-ic)

Immediately after a meal

Occurring after a meal

After dinner

Adjective (-ic)

Adjective (-ical)

English word

Potentiator

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

Praetorship

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIC One skilled in affairs.

PRAGMATIST One who is pragmatic.

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

PRANKISH mischievous

""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

Preachify

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preadmit

Preallot

AMPLIFIER One who or that which amplifies.

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

APPROVING approve