12-Letter Words Starting with P

Pachysandra

Pacificator

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

Paddleboard

Paddlefish

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""

PAINLESS without pain

Painstaking

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

PALATIAL resembling a {palace=n}

A writer of palindromes.

""Birth 1 . the phase in the development of an organism in which its form and structure pass through the changes undergone in the evolution of the species. 2 . the morphological and structural changes that occur during insect development. Also palingenesia, palingenesy. ; palingenetic,""

China in first phase regeneration

The old man's low-down getting through punishment is reincarnation

Pallidness

Palpitation

Paltriness

Palynology

Biology ()

Pamphleteer

Inflammation of the pancreas.

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

Marcel Marceau and others.

Workers who have free range, perhaps

Wall-covering workers

Some interior decorating handypersons

Paperiness

Papermaking

They help keep down correspondence

Papyrology

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

Fall Guys

""Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness.""

""Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic.""

""Body, Human , Perception""

PARAGRAPHER A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist.

Paraldehyde

Parallelism

Paramedical

Parametrize

Paraphraser

""PARAPHRASE A restatement of a text, passage, or work, expressing the meaning of the original in another form, generally for the sake of its clearer and fuller exposition; a setting forth the signification of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; opposed to metaphrase. metaphrase.""

PARAPHRAST A paraphraser.

Parasailing

Anything used to destroy parasites.

PARASITISE

PARASITIZE

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parathyroid

Contenders for the high jump

Paratyphoid

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Paresthesia

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

Partiality

Sharers.

Takes part (in)

Smoke, essentially

Factionalism making old weapons trendy

Favouring craft in mixed Spanish and Greek character heading west

PARTITIONER partition

An advocate of partitioning a country.

Some businesses

Businesses that go with the navy (wordplay)

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

Passacaglia

Passagework

With great ardour

With great emotion

Passivation

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Pastoralism

Pastoralist

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

Regions suitable for grazing

Patchiness

Paternalism

Paternalist

Paternoster

Pathfinding

PATHLESS having no path

PATHOGENES pathogene

Pathogeny.

Pathologist

Patriarchy

Pawnbroking

Peaceful

Tranquillity

It's calm at most ends of the pitch, as they separate those causing trouble

Those calming things down in 21 across working in the zoo

Peacemaking

Peakedness

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Trivial offenses

Minor indiscretions

Half-heartedly called police about son's minor indiscretions

Adjective (-ous)

Pectination

Pedestal

Pelargonium

Penetration

Pennycress

Pennyweight

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

Pensionary

Five-faced figures

Pentamidine

Pentathlete

Pentazocine

Pentlandite

Perambulate

Perchlorate

Percipience

Percolation

Percussive

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

Peregrinate

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

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

Inflammation of the pericardium.

PERILOUS dangerous

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

Peripatetic

""PERIPHRASE The use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; a roundabout, or indirect, way of speaking; circumlocution.""

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permanency

In a permissive manner.

Permutation

Pernicious

People carrying out harmful acts

Culprits

Perpetuator

Perpetuity

Perplexity

Persecution

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

PERSEVERATE

Perseverate

Persistence

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

PERSONALISE

Makes for you an espresso, one left to stir

Personalism

Personalist

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

Personalize

Personalty

Personation

Personifier

Representing in human form

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Perspective

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

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.""

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Pertinency

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

Perversity

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

Causing infectious diseases

A little snipe playing up causing trouble

Petiteness

Well-earned revenue (wordplay)

Plural or third person singular

""The branch of petrology that deals with the origin of rocks, especially igneous rocks.""

Petrologist

Pettifogger

Phagocytize

PHAGOCYTOSE

Phagocytose

Phagocytosie

Pheneticist

PHENOCRYST One of the prominent embedded crystals of a porphyry.

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

Unfaithful types

Philip and Elizabeth repeatedly meeting southern Lotharios

Flirts

They gather impressions from many lands

Some collectors

Philhellene

Lack of culture

Indifference to culture and the arts

Smug conventionality

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

They interpret literary texts

They think better of The Wise Men perhaps

Philosophy

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

Phlebology

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.