12-Letter Words Starting with P

Profanation

""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.""

See Professoriate. Professoriate.

In a proficient manner.

Jewelry for the oracle at Delphi (wordplay)

Eclair-like dessert

Eclairs as a sweet

Small filled pastries

In a profligate manner.

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

Like music which depicts something

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

PROJECTION The act of throwing or shooting forward.

Projective

Members of the working class

Working classes.

Grew rapidly in favour, if alerted to change

Grew rapidly in favour of long sentence merited

Multiplied.

Mushrooms and battered tripe for sale

Process of lengthening

Extension in duration

Capes put on after concert by right people

High positions for Sun-follower politicians

Promptitude

Promptness

""PROMULGATE To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.""

""The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. as, the promulgation of the gospel.""

Announcers.

Providing introductory instruction.

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

PROPERTY something owned

Prophetess

Prophethood

A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.

PROPITIATE To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.

The act of appeasing the wrath and conciliating the favor of an offended person; the act of making propitious.

Propitiator

""Having the power to make propitious; pertaining to, or employed in, propitiation; expiatory; as, a propitiatory sacrifice. as, a propitiatory sacrifice.""

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

Corresponding in size

Commensurate

Balanced

Proportion

They get voted on

Theorems to be demonstrated

Schemes put forward for places

She owns a business

Sportier reps at work miss running (wordplay)

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

Prorogation

""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

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

Prosperity

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

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Heroes reduced pain in amoebae, say

Champions new roasting pots

Supporters groan - it stops play

Protective

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Protectory

Proteinuria

Protensive

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Prothrombin

Protocol

History

Protomartyr

Protonation

PROTONEMATA

Protophloem

Protoplanet

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

""; protozoologist , Biology""

Protraction

In a protrusive manner.

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Past tense or past participle

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

In a prudential manner; prudently.

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

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

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

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

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

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

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.

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

(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

Pulchritude

Pullulation

Punctuation

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Some military decorations

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

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Pustulation

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Putrescence

Pyrargyrite

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert