13-Letter Words Containing P

The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.

Accepting

Supporting musical line

Dancing cancan with tempo I'm backing

Backing account, criticise one in remark

ACCOMPLISHER One who accomplishes.

Accomplish

Pain reliever and fever reducer

""Botany Capable of being divided into equal halves along any diameter, as the flowers of the rose or tulip; radially symmetrical.""

Needle-worker found in practice

Therapist involved in sharp practice (wordplay)

Needle therapist

Adaptedness

German dog in fine French spa, barking

Agamospermy

""Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an allelomorph.""

Allelopathy

Allomorphism

Having two or more complete sets of chromosomes derived from different species.

ALLOTYPIC

Alphabetizer

""ALPHABETIZE To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. as, to alphabetize a list of words.""

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Certain character set... and a hint to translating this week's final answer

""A theophylline derivative, C 16 H 24 N 10 O 4 , used as a bronchodilator in the treatment of bronchial asthma, emphysema, and bronchitis.""

""A tricyclic antidepressant drug, C 20 H 23""

Amorphous

Amphibology

Amphictyony

Amphidiploid

AMPHIDIPLOID

Amphiploidy

""Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides.""

Colosseum and others

AMPHITHEATRE

Means of making sound louder

Increasing of signals

Augmentation

Analphabetic

ANALPHABETE

Anaphorical

Reducing sexual desire

(Drug) tending to diminish sexual desire

(Of a drug) lowering sexual urges - Rio's a handicap (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Anchorperson

Anencephaly

Angiography

Angioplasty

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

A condition in which the refractive power of one eye differs from that of the other.

Anisotropism

""The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl- in monosyllable.-syl- in monosyllable.""

""A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color.""

Originating in human activity

""Measurement of the height and other dimensions of human beings, especially at different ages, or in different races, occupations, etc.""

English word

Man eaters; cannibals.

The eating of human flesh; cannibalism.

""Knowledge of the nature of man; hence, human wisdom.""

APARTHEID segregation by race; -- a term used in South Africa.

ANTICIPATE To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

Anticipation

""CORPORATE Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. as, a corporate town.""

Same as Antepileptic. Antepileptic.

Plural noun (-isms)

Inflected form of PARASITIC Inflected form of PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Antiparticle

Land-mine type

Like certain weapons sent in plane or distributed some other way

PESTICIDE

Antiphonary

Plural or third person singular

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

""POLLUTION The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.""

Plural agent noun (-ors)

Inflected form of PSYCHOTIC Inflected form of PSYCHO a mentally unstable person

Drug that helps to stay fit!

Aortography

""Concern or solicitude respecting some thing o<?/<?/vent, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.""

Apatosaurus

Without a regular schedule

Exciting venereal desire; stimulating the desire for sexual gratification.

Specialists in worker management

Bee-keepers

Of the final catastrophe

Apocalyptism

Apocalyptist

Apodictical

Apomictical

APOSTROPHISE

Apostrophise

APOSTROPHIZE To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize

APOTHEOSIZE To exalt to the dignity of a deity; to declare to be a god; to deify; to glorify.

""An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication.""

""After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man. as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.""

Apperception

Relevance, appropriateness

Relevance of a very quiet pupil I initially chose with skill

Applicative

Appoggiatura

""APPORTION To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments. as, to apportion undivided rights; to apportion time among various employments.""

Process of sharing out

Allocation

Appraisement

Appreciation

Capable of being grasped

Capable of being comprehended

APPREHENSIBLE Capable of being apprehended or conceived.

Cop's uncertainties (wordplay)

Suitably, properly

Aptly

APPROPRIATE Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Taking without permission of the owner

Annexation

Secretary's mounting support, helping to arrest one making embezzlement

""Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act. as, an appropriative act.""

Appropriator

Roughly apply a mixer to batter

More or less

Circa

APPROXIMATE Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.

Fairly close estimate

It's roughly right

Rough estimate

Approaching; approximate.

Appurtenance

Aptitudinal

Jurassic fossil bird

Extinct primitive bird

An old bird's cheaper to X-ray, surprisingly!

Canterbury or York, for example

High church office

Senior church post

Archipelago

Arsenopyrite

Arsphenamine

A systematic description of the arteries.

Arthropathy

Arthroscopy

ASPERGILL

ASPERGILL

Asphyxiation

""An academic position that carries a stipend and usually involves part-time teaching or research, given to a qualified graduate student.""

""The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.""

""The lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.""

Relating to the nature of stars

Attorneyship

Atypicality

The Henry Ford story (wordplay)

Carfax report (wordplay)

One's own Life (wordplay)

Autocephaly

""Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.""

Automorphism

Having more than two sets of chromosomes all derived from the same species.

Avoirdupois

Azathioprine

Just one on tandem is doing this making U-turn

A virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

BACTERIOPHAGE a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.phage in laboratory jargon.

Baroreceptor

Basidiospore

Benzoapyrene

Benzophenone

Certain scholarly person

Academic press worker

Compiler of a list of books on a particular subject or by a single author

Like the study of books

Bibliopegist

Bibliophily

Love of books.

Bibliopolist

""Remedies the therapeutic use of reading material in the treatment of nervous diseases. ; bibliotherapist , n . ; bibliotherapeutic ,""

""The property of being biologically compatible by not producing a toxic, injurious, or immunological response in living tissue: As a result of its strength and biocompatibility, the material is often used in medical devices.""

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

The study of the geographic distribution of organisms.

Biophysicist

BIPARTISAN

Bipropellant

In a blasphemous manner.

A basal body in certain flagellated protozoans that consists of a minute mass of chromatin embedded in the cytoplasm at the base of the flagellum.

Spasmodic winking caused by the involuntary contraction of an eyelid muscle.

BOOTSTRAP

""An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.""

BRACHYCEPHAL

Having short wings.

Brinkmanship

Diplomatic maneuvering

""An ergot alkaloid, C 32 H 40 BrN 5 O 5 , that slows dopamine turnover and inhibits prolactin secretion and is used to treat Parkinson's disease and to retard the growth of various pituitary tumors.""

Bronchoscope

BRONCHOSCOPE

Bronchospasm

Irritating self-assertiveness

Obtrusive state

""Any of a group of neuroleptic drugs, such as haloperidol, administered in the treatment of acute psychotic episodes, schizophrenia, and other psychiatric disorders.""

""CACOGRAPHIC Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.""

Cacophonous

Calligrapher

Calligraphy

Decorative writer

Does he practise strokes in particular waves (wordplay)

Producer of decorative writing a spiral glitch ruined

Like a loud brass band that's out of practice

They film the concert footage

Campanology

A belly boy (wordplay)

Belle (wordplay)

One skilled in bell ringing

Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor.

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Microbiology) a rod-shaped bacterium that causes infections in cattle and man. Unpasteurized milk infected with campylobacter is a common cause of gastroenteritis [from Greek kampulos bent + bacter ( ium )]

Capableness

Roomy quality

Capacitation

Capercaillie

Capercailzie

Capillarity

Capitulation

""The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.""

Cardinalship

""Of or pertaining to, or produced by, a cardiograph.""

Cardiopathy

Outsiders in the political arena

Opportunists, possibly, those grasping Persians

Opportunists

CARPETBAGGER An adventurer; a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865)< used now for any politician moving to a new location to take advantage of more favorable chances for election>.

CARPETBAG A portable bag for travelers; so called because originally made of carpet.

Map makers

They may need to get the political landscape mapped out afresh

Cartography

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; opposed to the doctrine of uniformism. uniformism.

One who holds the theory or catastrophism.

Centripetal

""Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development.""

Head