12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

English word

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

English word

Potability

Potentiator

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

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

""Lit., previous admission;""

Preannounce

ASSEMBLED assemble

Preassign

Prebendary

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

""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

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.

Precipitant

Precipitate

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

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Plural agent noun

Preconceive

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Elaborate garden pieces going first (wordplay)

Predecessor

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

DESTINING destine

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

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

""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.""

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

Toxic condition that can occur in late pregnancy

Plural noun (-tions)

Preeminence

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

Prefocus

""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

Forms of bigotry

Of or relating to the period before the fall of Adam and Eve.

Prelibation

Preliterate

Plural or third person singular

MEASURING measure

Premeditate

""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

Premoisten

Premonish

Premonition

Premunition

Prenominate

Preparation

Preparative

State of readiness

One of the things Boy Scouts study

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

Prepuberty

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

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

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.""

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

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

Prettiness

Prevaricate

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

Primateship

Primitivism

"Return to nature" group.

Return to nature group.

""The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.""

Printmaking

Prissiness

Prizewinner

Probabilism

Probabilist

PROBATIONER One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice.

Problematic

Proboscidian.

Pertaining to the Proboscidea.

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