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.""

Members of the figwort family

Artist's tools

What had P. Rubens at his disposal (wordplay)

Pandemonium

PANSEXUAL

Fall Guys

""The set of nonphonemic properties of speech, such as speaking tempo, vocal pitch, and intonational contours, that can be used to communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning.""

Penny-pinching

Tight-fisted

Cheese-paring

(In)temperate advice, part 3

Very careful with clay, oddly

In a marked way

Smoke, essentially

Parturition

Parvovirus

Anemone with bell-shaped purple flowers

PASQUINADE A lampoon or satirical writing.

PASTEURISE

Pasteurizer

PASTEURIZE To subject to pasteurization.

Regions suitable for grazing

Peaceful

Tranquillity

Adjective (-ous)

""Having a peduncle; growing on a peduncle; as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.as, a pedunculate flower; a pedunculate eye, as in a lobster.""

Pelargonium

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""PERAMBULATE To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.""

Perambulate

Carriage for one on patrol

Baby carrier (usually abbreviated)

Baby's transport

Perceptual

Percussive

""Medicine Passed, done, or effected through the skin.""

In a perfidious manner.

PERFUSION The act of perfusing.

PERILOUS dangerous

Pl. perionychia (- - ) The border of epidermal tissue surrounding a fingernail or toenail.

PERITRICH

Perjurious

Permutation

Pernicious

""PERPETUATE To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize.""

Perhaps how vets are paid out in a settlement shows endurance

Perpetuator

Perpetuity

Persecution

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Purposeful precautions I put in place

Disquiet

""The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. as, the perviousness of glass.""

Top of plant needs shade - uphill struggle for 24 21

One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine.

Phosphonium

PHOSPHORUS The morning star; Phosphor.

An electric current produced by illumination of a photoelectric material.

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

Past tense or past participle

Of or relating to a nuclear reaction induced by photons.

The product of a photochemical reaction.

PHOTOREDUCE

Photoreduce

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

""Pl. picornaviruses Any of a group of very small viruses, including the enteroviruses and the rhinoviruses, that infect animals and consist of RNA surrounded by an icosahedral protein shell.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

Pittosporum

They show the sky from atrium constructed in aircraft

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

Something worthy of praise.

Devoid of pleasure.

Pluckiness

Plushiness

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.""

""Pl. pneumococci (-k k s , -k k ) A nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium (Streptococcus pneumoniae) that is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia, associated with meningitis and other infectious diseases.""

""A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.""

Pneumograph

Lung problem

Podophyllum

Poliovirus

Polyanthus

""Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. as, a polymorphous author.""

NEURITIS inflammation of a nerve

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

Botany Arranged in two or more series or rows.

Polysulfide

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

POPULARISE

Popularity

Popularizer

""POPULARIZE To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. as, to popularize philosophy.""

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

POPULOUS containing many inhabitants

""A hard, white, translucent ceramic made by firing a pure clay and then glazing it with variously colored fusible materials; china.""

Porousness

Portcullis

Portentous

Steaks in beer supplied by pubs

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.""

Portraiture

Positronium

Superlative adjective

One who lived after the flood.

Adjective (-ive)

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

How Wolfe's "The Hills Beyond" was published

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ical)

Postulancy

Postulation

""An elementary substance, one of the constituents of didymium; so called from the green color of its salts. Symbol Ps. Atomic weight 143.6.""

ANNOUNCED announce

Preannounce

""CANCEROUS Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer; as, a cancerous growth.as, a cancerous growth.""

Unpredictably but properly entertaining start to rowboat race at sea

The quality or state of being precious; costliness; dearness.

Preclusive

In a precocious manner.

Plural agent noun

COMPUTING compute

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Prefocus

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

""INAUGURAL Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises. as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.""

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

Forms of bigotry

MEASURING measure

""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.""

Premunition

Prenumber

""The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land. as, the preoccupancy of wild land.""

Preoccupy

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Stop our peers' recreation? Outrageous!

Report spouse in trouble? Ridiculous!

Ludicrous poser upset or disturbed

Prepuberty

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

PURCHASED purchase

Prepurchase

QUALIFIED qualify

Prequalify

REQUIRING require

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

SCHEDULED schedule

Preschedule

SLAUGHTER The act of killing.

PRESSURE to apply force to

PRESSURISE

Pressurizer

PRESSURIZE

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

Presumption

Arrogant PM to pursue crazy American

Assuming too much

Impertinently bold

SUPPOSING suppose

The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

PRIDEFUL full of pride

Procedural

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

Proctodaeum

Procuration

Acquisitions

""Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. as, prodigiously great.""

""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

The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.

Profundity

PROLOGUIZE

Promptitude

""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.

Pronounced

Pronucleus

Providing introductory instruction.

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

Prosauropod

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Prosecution

To look for gold entails outline plans

Manifestos showing promises about employment

In a affluent and successful manner

""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

""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 .""

Proteinuria

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

In a protrusive manner.

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Past tense or past participle

Provocateur

In a prudential manner; prudently.

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

English word