12-Letter Words Starting with P

Phonemicist

Phonetician

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.

Person associated with (-ist)

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

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Photoflash

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Photometry

Photomosaic

Photoperiod

Photophobia

Photoreduce

Photoresist

Photosetter

Photoset

Photosphere

Of or pertaining to the photosphere.

Photostat

PHOTOSTAT

Photosystem

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

Phrenology

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycocyanin

Phycologist

Phycomycete

Phylactery

Phylloclade

Phyllotaxy

Physiatrist

Physicalism

Physicalist

PHYSICAL a medical examination of the body

""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.""

Pl. physiognomies a. The art of judging human character from facial features.

""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.""

Physiology

One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student of the properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs and tissues.

Phytoalexin

The chemistry of plants.

Phytochrome

""Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal. as, a phytophagous animal.""

Phytosterol

Pickaninny

""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.""

""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

PIECEWORKER piecework

Pigeonholer

Pilocarpine

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

Pittosporum

Placeholder

PLACEKICKER placekick

Placidness

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

Plagioclase

Iowa farmer's get-up (wordplay)

Iowa farmer's get-up?

Police outfit pins the local criminal

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

Any of innumerable small bodies thought to have orbited the sun during the formation of the planets.

Planisphere

Of or pertaining to a planisphere.

PLANLESS without a plan

Plantigrade

Plasmalemma

Plasminogen

Plasmodesma

Plasmogamy

PLASMOLYZE

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

PLEASING the act of pleasing

Devoid of pleasure.

Plebeianism

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.""

Pliability

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Pluckiness

Plushiness

Plutocracy

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Podophyllin

Podophyllum

POETICAL a {poet=n}

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

Polarimeter

Polariscope

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

Poliovirus

Politeness

POLITICISE

Plural or third person singular

Pollination

Plural or third person singular

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

Polyalcohol

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polychromy

Polycrystal

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

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

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

Polypeptide

""Consisting of, or having, several or many separate petals; as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant. as, a polypetalous corolla, flower, or plant.""

Polyploidy

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Polysorbate

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polystyrene

Polysulfide

Describing paragraph or sentence but not word (wordplay)

Like the word you need to write but not the words in the clue

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

SYNAPTIC pertaining to {synapsis=n}

""A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton. asyndeton.""

The science of the mechanic arts.

THEISTIC pertaining to a {theist=n}

Polyvalence

Pomegranate

Pontificate

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

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

Portraitist

Portraiture

Positional

""The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positive, a.""

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