12-Letter Words Starting with P

Procession

Proclivity

""The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.""

Procreation

Proctodaeum

Proctology

Profession of "Assman," in a "Seinfeld" episode

Proctorship

Procuration

Acquisitions

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

Profanation

Expert - one paid in sport etc

Experienced person if also retrained

Pair of sea lions poorly trained

""PROFESSOR One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.""

Characteristic of an academic

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

Eclair-like dessert

Eclairs as a sweet

Small filled pastries

Profligacy

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

""A steroid hormone, C 21 H 30 O 2 , secreted by the corpus luteum of the ovary and by the placenta, that acts to prepare the uterus for implantation of the fertilized ovum, to maintain pregnancy, and to promote development of the mammary glands.""

Progestogen

Proglottid

Prognathism

Programming

Progression

Progressive

They aim to stop the selling of alcohol, for instance, in bars

Members of the working class

Working classes.

Mushrooms and battered tripe for sale

The quality or state of being prolific; fruitfulness; prolificacy.

Capes put on after concert by right people

High positions for Sun-follower politicians

Promptitude

Promptness

Announcers.

Pronephros

Pronucleus

Ones who tell you when your slip is showing (wordplay)

They use first impressions to eradicate wrong types

Ungodly type found in dig with first spin doctor

Heathen princess embraced by racing driver and spin doctor

Major promoter of Druid is after professional director who's a winner

Propagation

Propensity

Properness

PROPERTY something owned

Prophetess

Prophethood

Propitiator

Support the object with promise to pay underhand as a good sign (wordplay)

They get voted on

Theorems to be demonstrated

Schemes put forward for places

Propranolol

She owns a business

Sportier reps at work miss running (wordplay)

Owner given support tries altering outside of residence, somewhat cut off

Prorogation

Prosauropod

""The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription. as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

Tried to convert

Proselytise

Proselytism

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

One who proselytes.

Proselytize

Prosobranch

Prosodical

""A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification.personification, but is more extensive in its signification.""

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

Prosperity

In a affluent and successful manner

A prostaglandin produced in the walls of blood vessels that acts as a vasodilator and inhibits platelet aggregation.

Prosthetist

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

Prostitutor

Prostration

Heroes reduced pain in amoebae, say

Champions new roasting pots

Supporters groan - it stops play

Protectory

Proteinuria

Protensive

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Prothallus

Prothrombin

History

Protomartyr

Protonation

Protophloem

Protoplanet

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

Protraction

In a protrusive manner.

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

Provisional

Provisional.

PROVISIONER provision

Provision

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

Psephology

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

English word

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Pseudomonad

Pseudomorph

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

""Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. as, a pseudonymous work.""

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Lady protects terrible old creatures

In replay, clatters dopy old wingers

Lady Prescott transported some flying reptiles!

Publication

Publicness

Pugnacious

Pulchritude

Pullulation

Pumpkinseed

Punchinello

Punctuation

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PURBLIND partially blind

Purificator

Puristical

Some military decorations

The uppers a girl (let alone GI) is thrilled by

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Pustulation

Putrescence

Pyrargyrite

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert