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.""

PANTOTHENATE

""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.""

""PARAMETER A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, surface, etc., from others of the same kind or family.""

Anything used to destroy parasites.

English word

To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

""The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.""

Having a pearly luster or gloss.

Least expensive music-maker (wordplay)

Small fipple flute

Simple wind instrument

A polypeptide composed of five amino acids.

Excitement must follow for each, maybe

Maybe gained through hazardous activity

Maybe, old style.

""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.""

A salt of permanganic acid.

""A crystalline compound, C 21 H 26 ClN 3 OS, used as a tranquilizer especially in the treatment of psychosis and to prevent or alleviate nausea and vomiting.""

A divorce application

It may get you through a divorce

Tenacity, doggedness

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a tree or shrub that bears its perennating buds more than 25 cm above the level of the soil [from Greek phanero- visible + -phyte ]

""A complex hydrocarbon, C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence. C14H10, found in coal tar, and obtained as a white crystalline substance with a bluish fluorescence.""

""An adrenergic blocking agent, C 17 H 19 N 3 O, used especially in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma.""

Reason about deep and fundamental issues

Speculate superficially

To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

(Chemistry) a cathode that undergoes or is used for photoemission

""(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) (tr) to set (type matter) by photocomposition photocomposer   n""

One way to reproduce a picture

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

PHOTOLYZE

Composite picture

PHOTOOXIDIZE

A deep-rooted plant that obtains water from a permanent ground supply or from the water table.

See plant hormone .

""PICTORIAL Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.""

Video communication device

Fish culture. See under Fish. Fish.

""POLITICAL Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.""

DISPERSE to {scatter=v}

""ETHYLENE a flammable gas, also ETHENE""

RIBOSOME a particle composed of protein and RNA

Word of more than three sounds

Word with several linguistic units

Word, possibly Excel or PowerPoint, for certain applications

Your elephant (anag-) synthetic resin

PORCELAIN Purslain.

Adjective meaning resembling

English word

Adjective (-ive)

POSTEXERCISE

Noun (-ure)

Noun (-ure)

Candidate for a Ph.D., say

Person studying after obtaining a degree

Continuing student

POSTLITERATE

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

""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.

""CLEARANCE The act of clearing; as, to make a through clearance. as, to make a through clearance.""

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

DEPARTURE Division; separation; putting away.

Specify in advance

Foreordain.

'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!

""DISCHARGE To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. as, to discharge a vessel.""

""A synthetic steroid, C 21 H 28 O 5 , similar to hydrocortisone and used in various compounds as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antiallergic drug.""

Worried Cameron pined for mastery

Superior influence

Ascendancy

""EMERGENCE The act of rising out of a fluid, or coming forth from envelopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance.""

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

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

Word with prefix pre-

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

Eton prepared to change rule

New order required, prepare to end rule

Something that is required in advance

Student's concern.

Something required as a prior condition

""A presbytery; also, presbytership.""

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.""

Something preventing decay

It delays or prevents deterioration

Additive prolonging food life

""STERILIZE To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.""

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

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

""A potent antineoplastic drug, C 12 H 19 N 3 O, used primarily to treat advanced Hodgkin's disease.""

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

""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.""

""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.""

Like computers, robots, etc

Able to be put into computer language

Capable of being instructed in advance to perform task

PROPAGANDIZE

""A nonnarcotic analgesic drug, C 22 H 29 NO 2 .""

Forbidding; condemnatory

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

English word

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

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGIZE

""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.""

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

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

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

""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.""