13-Letter Words Starting with P

English word

To utter platitudes or truisms.

Banal adult tips bandied about in Open University

Banal

See flatworm .

Quality of being plausible.

Playfulness

Playwright

""PLENITUDE The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power. as, the plenitude of space or power.""

Plenteous

Plentiful

Pliableness

The act of pluralizing.

Pneumatical

Geology ()

One of the Pneumonophora.

Pl. pneumonectomies also pneumectomies Surgical removal of all or part of a lung.

Plural or third person singular

Pneumonitis

Carelessness; apathy; indifference.

""PODSOLIZE PODSOL an infertile soil, also PODZOL""

""PODZOLIZE PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Pogonophoran

Pointedness

POINTILLISTE

The state of an unashamed pencil - quite useless

Futility that is demonstrated by blunt type

Futility that's experienced by total losers

Polarization

Poltroonery

BUTADIENE a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.C4H6; -- it is used as a monomer unit in making synthetic rubbers.

Synthetic resin

Polycentrism

Inflected form of CISTRONIC Inflected form of CISTRON a segment of DNA

Polyembryonate.

Polyethylene

Polyphonous

""PROPYLENE A colorless gaseous hydrocarbon (C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene. C3H6) of the ethylene series, having a garlic odor. It occurs in coal gas, and is produced artificially in various ways. Called also propene.""

Polysyndeton

Polyurethane

Pompousness

The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

""PONTIFICATE The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.""

Pontificator

Baked like potter's lay; applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

Porcelainize

Adjective meaning resembling

""Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.as, porcelaneous shells.""

Pornographer

Pornography

Porphyropsin

Possessed

Postcranial

English word

Postdiluvian

Adjective (-al)

Following the embryonic stage of development.

Noun (-ence)

POSTEMERGENCE

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Style of New York's Sony Building

Literature genre

Late 20th-century style of art and literature

Late 20th-century artist

Impostor tends to be represented as artist

Abstract painter's mood wanting a way that describes later works (wordplay)

They're so off-putting!

Delays leading to rescheduling

Starting gate assignments

English word

Noun (-sion)

English word

Posttension

Emily's massage (wordplay)

""POSTULATION The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Potableness

Potentiation

Sound control evident as forceful goddess ran into HM

Rheostat

Powerless

Same as Practicality. Practicality.

Practitioner

Prayerful

Preachiness

""ADAPTATION The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.""

Preadmission

Young lad one treated with respect

Young European about to do Cologne

""ANESTHETIC Same as An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.An\'91sthesia, An\'91sthetic.""

ANNOUNCING announce

CANCELLING cancel

Aimed at averting danger

Rainy? Cape tour gets rearranged, just in case

The office of a precentor.

Precipitance

With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner.

""PRECIPITATE Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war. as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.""

Rain, snow, hail? Hurry!

Undue rushing from rain, perhaps

Hurry in rain, perhaps

Preciseness

Precisionist

Preclearance

Precognition

COMBUSTION The state of burning.

""COMMITMENT The act of commiting, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison.""

CONCEIVING conceive

Opinion formed beforehand

Bias

Preconcert

Precondition

CONVENTION The act of coming together; the state of being together; union; coalition.

""CONVICTION The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.""

Inflected form of DESIGNATED Inflected form of DESIGNATE Designated; appointed; chosen.

Predesignate

Inflected form of DESTINATED Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Predestinate

""One who predestinates, or foreordains.""

Decided in advance

Set in advance

Ordained

""DETERMINER One who, or that which, determines or decides.""

Predetermine

DIGESTIONS digestion

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

Prednisolone

Predominance

Mainly; prominent lady (anagram)

In the main

For the most part

Predominate

In control.

The act or state of predominating; ascendency; predominance.

""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.""

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

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

FORMATIONS formation

FORMATTING format

""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

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

1-16 seed tournament games, for example

Introductory steps.

In a preliminary manner.

Premature

MEDITATING meditate

Prelude to murder, often

Forethought

Almost cure it in paved area with some necessary forethought

""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.

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.

Winning, before bands break into song

Taking gang in critical setting

Crucial to keep gang looking good

Preoccupation; prior possession.

Preprocess

""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

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

Prepubescent

PURCHASING purchase

Prequalify

""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

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

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

Office of republic's leader

Presignify

Prespecify

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

Preventative

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

Prickliness

Crudeness of crazy, impressive nit!

Primogenitor

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

College head's office

Privatdocent

Privatdozent