12-Letter Words Starting with P

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

They interpret literary texts

Phlebotomy

One who practiced phlebotomy.

Phonemicist

In a phonetic manner.

Phonetician

Phonologist

Phonotactic

Phosphatase

Phosphatide

PHOSPHATIDE

English word

PHOSPHATIZE

Phosphatize

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

Phosphorite

""Pertaining to phosphorite; resembling, or of the nature of, phosphorite.""

Study of light's effect on living organisms

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

Person associated with (-ist)

""(Physics / General Physics) (of glass) changing colour with the intensity of incident light, used, for example, in sunglasses that darken as the sunlight becomes brighter""

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

Forgers take a picture of policeman on kind of rise

Reproducing (page)

Reproducing (papers)

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

Of or relating to the energy of light.

One way to reproduce a picture

Past tense or past participle

Photoflash

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

Photograph

Snappy guy (wordplay)

One will put you in the picture

Job taking snaps

Exact (of memory)

Like a retentive memory

Pictured accurately in detail

""A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.""

Past tense or past participle

PHOTOIONIZE

Photoionize

Plural or third person singular

Motion ()

Motion ()

PHOTOLYZE

Photomap

Photometry

Composite picture

Photomosaic

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

PHOTOOXIDIZE

Photoperiod

Photophobia

""(Chemistry) a polymeric material that is sensitive to light: used in printing plates, microfilms, etc.""

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

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.

""Capable of producing a voltage when exposed to radiant energy, especially light.""

English word

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

Old scientist treated English troop

Worried girls to phone head examiner

Skull expert.

Phycologist

Phycomycete

Phylactery

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

Phyllotaxy

""Relating to phylogenesis, or the race history of a type of organism.""

Physiatrist

Physicalist

""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.""

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

See plant hormone .

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

Phytosterol

PICTOGRAPH A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.

""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

""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.""

Video communication device

Mate pointing out blemish (wordplay)

Natural colouring

Sow farmers get on at it in end for colour tissue

English word

English word

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pitchblende

Some fieldwork producing monarchist spiel (wordplay)

Persuasive speech of royalist working on a farm (wordplay)

PITIABLE {pitiful=adj}

PITILESS without pity

Pittosporum

""The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. as, the placentation of mammals.""

""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.""

Having the longer axis inclined away from the vertical line.

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.

Plantigrade

Sheet used as covering on indoor walls

Material for inner walls

Lining for interior walls

Plasterwork

Plasticity

Plasticizer

PLASTICIZE

English word

Platemaking

""PLATITUDE The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.""

In a Platonic manner.

Platyrrhine

Something worthy of praise.

Playwriting

Sweetness from Pats leanness

Polite, agreeable, remarks

Agreeable remarks

Small talk on amazing sale in food stores

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

Plecopteran

Pleinairist

Pleiotropy

Pliability

Pliantness

PLOTLESS {planless=adj}

Plutocracy

""The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds. as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.""

""The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1. Pneumatics, 1.""

Lung problem

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

POETICAL a {poet=n}

""An organism, such as a fish or reptile, having a body temperature that varies with the temperature of its surroundings; an ectotherm.""

Pointillism

Pointillist

Person associated with (-ist)

Polarimeter

An instrument used to measure the rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized light passing through an optical structure or sample.

""The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.""

Politeness

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

POLITICISE

POLITICIZE

Pollination

Things that go bump in the night

Noisy ghosts.

Let priests go to remove mischievous spirits

Polyanthus

CENTRISM a moderate political philosophy

Polycrystal

A condition marked by an abnormally large number of red blood cells in the circulatory system.

Adjective (-ic)

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

Polyglotism

POLYGLOTT

POLYGRAPH An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.

HISTORIC important in history

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

Polypeptide

PEPTIDIC pertaining to {peptide=n}

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

""Pertaining to, or characterized by, descent from more than one root form, or from many different root forms; polygenetic; opposed to monophyletic. monophyletic.""

Of music, using more than one apparent time signature simultaneously

Polysorbate

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polystyrene

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}

TONALITY a system of tones

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

Pomegranate

In a pontifical manner.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificate

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Popularity

POPULATION The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Portcullis

Portentous

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

Portliness

Traveling bags

Chap splits drinks with us - bags of them

""Pl. portmanteaus or portmanteaux (-t z, -t z ) A large leather suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments.""

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

Noun (-tion)

English word

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)