12-Letter Words Starting with P

Pleasant-tasting quality

One of Thomas Jefferson's pursuits

Earth science that studies fossils

Palliative

PANSEXUAL

""A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.""

Aim IRA partly devised for one of its members

(Member) of organised armed civilian combat group

Member of armed anti-government organisation

PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parenteral

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

With great ardour

With great emotion

Pathetical

See pathology .

In a pedantic manner.

Pejorative

An American can!

Intern a type I fancy, here (wordplay)

Correctional institution for criminals

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Perceptive

The quality or state of being perceptive; power of perception.

Perceptual

Percipient

In a peremptory manner; absolutely; positively.

In a perfective manner.

""PERFECTIVE Tending or conducing to make perfect, or to bring to perfection; usually followed by of. of.""

English word

Peritoneal

The quality or state of being permeable.

Pl. permittivities A measure of the ability of a material to resist the formation of an electric field within it.

With great tenacity.

In a tenacious manner

Incessantly; resolutely

Insight into and understanding of things

Astute intelligence

Shrewdness

""Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, the perspiratory ducts. as, the perspiratory ducts.""

Chicanery

Love of mankind

Promotion of others' welfare

The donating of money to good causes

In a phonetic manner.

Study of light's effect on living organisms

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

PHYLETIC pertaining to {phylesis=n}

English word

In a Platonic manner.

Something worthy of praise.

Of or pertaining to plebiscite.

""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.""

TONALITY a system of tones

In a pontifical manner.

Portentous

Positional

English word

Noun (-ery)

""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.""

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

English word

State of possessing latent power

A realistic matter

Why a report is strangely admirable

Deserving of approval

A showery trip rearranged? That's commendable

""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.""

Predictive

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

Preemptive

""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.""

Premarital

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Prevenient

In a preventive manner.

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.

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

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

In a proficient manner.

In a profligate manner.

Projective

""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)

Protective

Protensive

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

History

""; protozoologist , Biology""

In a protrusive manner.

In a prudential manner; prudently.

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

Hygrometry.

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

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