12-Letter Words Starting with P

ARRANGING arrange

ASSEMBLED assemble

Preassign

Prebendary

""BREAKFAST The first meal in the day, or that which is eaten at the first meal.""

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.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

Precedency

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.

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

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

Brought about

Precipitate

""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.

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

Preclusive

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.

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Predecessor

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

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!

Prediabetic

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

Predictive

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

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

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

ECLAMPTIC

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

Preemptive

ESTABLISH To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

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.

FORMATTED format

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

""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.

Prehistory

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

Preliterate

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

Premarital

Premarket

Plural or third person singular

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxill\'91; intermaxillary.

MEASURING measure

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premeditate

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

""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.""

Offices of government leaders, on top of everything else, carrying passengers

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

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

Preordain

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

PACKAGING package

Preparation

Preparative

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...

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

Preppiness

Preprocess

Preprocess

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

Preprogram

Prepuberty

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

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

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

Preregister

""REHEARSAL The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.""

REQUIRING require

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

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

Prerogative

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Presbyterian.

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

Presbytery

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

PRESCHOOLER preschool

Prescreen

What a doctor may write

Something with which to obtain drugs

Medicine authorised by doctor

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

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

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

Preshrink

Presidency

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SIGNIFIED signify

Presignify

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

SPECIFIED specify

Prespecify

PRESSURE to apply force to

PRESSURISE

Pressurizer

PRESSURIZE

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

Prestress

STRUCTURE The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

Presumption

Arrogant PM to pursue crazy American

Assuming too much

Impertinently bold

SUPPOSING suppose

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

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

Prettiness

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

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