12-Letter Words Starting with P

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

State of possessing latent power

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Physiological effect in nerve impulses; in-patient, too (anagram)

Potentiator

A realistic matter

Professional person, esp. doctor

One involved in medicine, such as a GP

Part in erotic play for skilled operator

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

""A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; -- called also the inverted mordente.inverted mordente.""

Preadmit

Preallot

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

PRECENTOR A leader of a choir; a directing singer.

Of or pertaining to a preceptor.

Preceptory

Preciosity

""Capable of being precipitated, or cast to the bottom, as a substance in solution. See Precipitate, n. (Chem.) Precipitate, n. (Chem.)""

The quality of being precipitant.

""The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate; headlong hurry; excessive or rash haste in resolving, forming an opinion, or executing a purpose; precipitation; as, the precipitancy of youth.as, the precipitancy of youth.""

Precipitant

Brought about

Precipitate

""One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness.""

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

Relative of ESP

Foreknowledge

""COGNITIVE Knowing, or apprehending by the understanding; as, cognitive power. as, cognitive power.""

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand.

Requirement

Prerequisite

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

DESTINING destine

'Fix' cat maybe owning ginger and white fur

Decide in advance colour in favourite kind of fur

Peter swallows type of wine that's the pits - he should work it out in advance!

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

Predictive

Predigest

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.

Preference (for something)

Special liking or preference

Penchant of the French in anticipation

DOMINATED dominate

Is the strongest element

Is most prominent, but badly impersonated

Prevails

ECLAMPTIC

Plural noun (-tions)

In particular, before reaching August with the second half of July

Preemptive

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

Create a perfect bra with current design

Build in sections and lay a fibre carpet

Manufacture sections to be easily transported

Privileged parking requiring references

Discriminating in favour of one side

Alpine ferret running better

An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

FORMATTED format

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

""Being such that attack, seizure, or capture is possible; vulnerable or assailable: a pregnable fortress.""

""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

INDUCTION The act or process of inducting or bringing in; introduction; entrance; beginning; commencement.

""INTERVIEW A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President. as, the secretary had an interview with the President.""

Forms of bigotry

Prelibation

Preliterate

""MALIGNANT Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.""

Premarital

Premarket

Thought out beforehand

Planned in advance

Planned beforehand

Premeditate

Inflected form of MEDITATOR Inflected form of MEDITATE to consider thoughtfully

""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.""

MIGRATION The act of migrating.

Premoisten

Premonition

Premunition

NOMINATED nominate

Prenominate

Prenotify

Before going to theatre and before dramatic work, takes half of sedative

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Preparation

Preparative

Important trend on paper is different

Pert, and prone perhaps to appear more important

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

Preportion

Regarding round behind etc...

Stop our peers' recreation? Outrageous!

Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous!

Ludicrous poser upset or disturbed

Prepotency

Prepuberty

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

Preregister

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

""Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege.""

Prerogative

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

Presbyterian.

Denomination that is best in prayer?

Priest nearby prepared member of church

Priest nearby built church

Presbytery

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

Relating to a head of state

Leader's power, dealing with occupation

Conjure up Palestine rid of Arafat (wordplay)

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

""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

Presweeten

Pretension

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

""TREATMENT The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.""

Prettiness

Avoided coming to the point

Prevaricate

One who prevaricates.

Prevenient

That which prevents; incorrectly used instead of preventive. preventive.

In a preventive manner.

The quality or state of being priestly.

Primateship

Primitivism

"Return to nature" group.

Return to nature group.

To reign terribly following Victorian old ancestor

Victorian old chap conversely including one's forefather

CEO from City loses head in Monaco

State such as Wales

Liechtenstein or Monacompany

Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives.

Printmaking

PRIORITIZE

""In the universities of Germany and some other European countries, a licensed teacher or lecturer having no share in the university government and dependent upon fees for remuneration.""

English word

Cruising in a privateer.

Any game show contestant (wordplay)

Clay, for one.

Professional athlete.

Probabilist

Relating to a trial period

Such a testing period building an airport by 1st October

Reformed Tory a pain around nick, describing testing on release

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

Problematic

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a church serving as a cathedral

Announcement from the Roman Capitol

Signal event of Jan. 1, 1863.

Official public declaration

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

""PRODUCTION The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness. as, the production of commodities, of a witness.""

Productive

Lower work-rate perhaps as a consequence of dropping routine from activity

It's a measure of how hard people are working to tidy up Victor Rock