12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

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

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

""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 synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

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

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""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.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

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

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

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

""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.""

""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.""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

English word

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

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE