12-Letter Words Starting with P

Palliative

Parvovirus

Passivation

Pejorative

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

Perceptive

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

Percussive

In a perfective manner.

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

""Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.""

In a permissive manner.

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

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

PERSEVERATE

Perseverate

PERSPECTIVE Of or pertaining to the science of vision; optical.

Perspective

Convincingly repulsive, say, after makeover

Contrary manner

Deviant quality

Exercise reading lines before head creates obstinacy

Perversity

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

One way to reproduce a picture

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

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

""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.""

Steal kitchen tools (wordplay)

Make off with some kitchenware (wordplay)

Poliovirus

Polyvalence

""The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positive, a.""

POSITIVIST A believer in positivism.

Positivity

In a possessive manner.

Noun (-ery)

One who lived after the flood.

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-al)

""Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter.""

Adjective (-al)

English word

APPROVING approve

Preclusive

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

CONCEIVED conceive

Preconceive

Predictive

A previous discovery.

Preemptive

""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.""

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

Inflected form of OVULATORY Inflected form of OVULATE to produce ova

Preparative

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

Prerogative

Relating to the imposition of a rule or method

""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.""

Keeping quiet, with some little doubt

Keeping quiet when having doubt

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

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 previous; priority or antecedence in time.

""VISIONARY Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.""

Prevision

Primitivism

"Return to nature" group.

Return to nature group.

""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.

Proclivity

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

Progressive

Projective

Forbidding; condemnatory

Protective

Protensive

In a protrusive manner.

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

In a provincial manner.

Provisional

Provisional.

PROVISIONER provision

Provision

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

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

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

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