13-Letter Words Starting with P

Predicative

DIGESTIONS digestion

PREDILECTION A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.

Plural or third person singular

Prednisolone

Predominance

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

In control.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

Preeclampsia

""EMPLOYMENT The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.""

ENROLLMENT The act of enrolling; registration.

Preexistence

""EXPERIMENT Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.""

Easily erected on a building site

Ready to be assembled on site

Made for easy assembly

Prefabricate

The quality or state of being preferable; preferableness.

""The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.""

Showing by prefiguration.

""The act of prefiguring; prefiguration; also, that which is prefigured.""

FORMATIONS formation

FORMATTING format

FORMULATED reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Preformulate

""GANGLIONIC Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia or ganglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord. as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns of the spinal cord.""

Pregnenolone

Prehistorian

""HISTORICAL Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.as, an historical poem; the historic page.""

Plural noun (-tions)

""INDUSTRIAL Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights.""

Preinterview

Prejudicial

1-16 seed tournament games, for example

Introductory steps.

In a preliminary manner.

Premature

Prematurity

MEDITATING meditate

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

""MEDITATIVE Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.""

Premeditator

""Inflected form of MENOPAUSAL Inflected form of MENOPAUSE The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change. Change of life, under Change.""

"", Previous to the millennium.""

Premoisten

Premonitory

NOMINATING nominate

The act of prenominating; privilege of being named first.

Something totally dominating the mind

Concentration before calling

Absorption, engrossment

ORDAINMENT Ordination.

The act of foreordaining: previous determination.

By way of preparation.

Preparatory

An excess in number or quantity

The lion's share

Quality of being greater in number

""The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.""

Inflected form of PONDERATED Inflected form of PONDERATE To consider; to ponder.

Preponderate

Preportion

Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.

Prepositive

Winning, before bands break into song

Taking gang in critical setting

Crucial to keep gang looking good

Preoccupation; prior possession.

Preprocess

Preprocessor

""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.""

Preprogram

Planned in advance

""PUBESCENCE The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.""

Prepubescent

PURCHASING purchase

Prequalify

Preregister

Preparatory classes

""RETIREMENT The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. as, the retirement of an officer.""

""REVOLUTION The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc. as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc.""

SANCTIFIED sanctify

Presbyterate

Presbyterial

SCHEDULING schedule

""SCIENTIFIC Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations. as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.""

Pharmacist's concerns

SELECTIONS selection

Perhaps forgiving 36 across

Introductory givings

Introductions are so made or they're given

SENTENCING sentence

Now I'm sent these warnings

They're foreseeing

Future feelings

Presentness

Preservation

They keep naughty verses private

They'll keep getting into jams

""SETTLEMENT The act of setting, or the state of being settled.""

Office of republic's leader

Presignify

Prespecify

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

Presterilize

Prestigious

STRUCTURED Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

Prestructure

""By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably.""

Presweeten

TELEVISION

One's no good after foolish vanity in stretching before cast

Conceitedly

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

PRETERMIT To pass by; to omit; to disregard.

Out of the ordinary.

Beyond what is normal

Extraordinary and unexplainable

""TOURNAMENT A mock fight, or warlike game, formerly in great favor, in which a number of combatants were engaged, as an exhibition of their address and bravery; hence, figuratively, a real battle.""

Stain looseners on washday

UNIVERSITY The universe; the whole.

""PREVARICATE To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. as, he prevaricates in his statement.""

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

Adjusted pro rata invoice knocking off one zero causes quibbling

Those who are evasive; hedgers

Preventative

""Inflected form of VOCATIONAL Inflected form of VOCATION one's profession, business or occupation""

Prickliness

Primatology

Crudeness of crazy, impressive nit!

Primitivity

Primogenitor

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Privatdocent

Privatdozent

Privateness

Their living's in a ring

Boxers

Boxing for money

Boxing

Probability

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

Proboscidean

Procarbazine

Procathedral

Processional

A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession. Procession.

Proconsulate

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

Prodigality

Profaneness

Tour-ready players

Opposite of amateurs

Experts changing order of pair of lessons

Professorate

""The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.""

Professoriat

Chair (at university)

Chair for shoppers is broken

An office chair

Proficiency

Profuseness

Progesterone

PROGESTOGEN

Forecast disastrous operating cost

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Prophesy, foretell

Programmable

""Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.""

Progressive

Political ideology advocating reform

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

""PROGRESSIVE Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde. as, progressive motion or course; opposed to retrograde.""

Prohibitive

He's reel handy

Movie theater employee

Theater worker

""Books a preliminary remark or introduction, as to a speech; the foreword to a book or treatise. ; prolegomenary, prolegomenous,""

In a proleptical manner.

Multiplying rapidly

How the professional life is reckoning to be spreading around

Increase (of nuclear weapons)

Increase in numbers opposing euthanasia quotient

Anti-abortion or anti-reproduction is spreading

""PROLIFERATE To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly.""

Prolificacy

Prolificity

Promiscuity

Promotive

Capable of being pronounced.

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

Propaedeutic

PROPAGANDIZE

PROPAGANDIZE

Propagandize

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

Propinquity

Corresponding in size

In scale for amount of food consumed

Corresponding in size to something else

Backing arranged, having acted as solicitor

Propoxyphene

Proprietary

Possessive

""A sensory receptor, found chiefly in muscles, tendons, joints, and the inner ear, that detects the motion or position of the body or a limb by responding to stimuli arising within the organism.""

""PROSECUTOR One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business.""

PROSELYTISE

Proselytizer

""PROSELYTIZE To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte.""

Brain

Prosopopoeia

In a prospective manner.

Pl. prostatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.

Plural or third person singular

Prostatitis

Import-tariff policy

Shielding from foreign competition

Charge is made initially for shielding home industry

Designed to safeguard domestic trade

Import opponent

Protectorate

Position of, eg, a regent

Protectress

Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid.

Proteoglycan

Favouring trial on it as fresh objections

Asseverations

Protogalaxy

A language that is the recorded or hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages. Also called Ursprache .

Protonotary

Prototrophy

Lumps of old potato, say, in capers

Lumps of old potato surrounded by capers

Protuberant

Pl. proventriculi (-l ) The division of the stomach in birds that secretes digestive enzymes and passes food from the crop to the gizzard.