13-Letter Words Starting with P

Preservation

Prestigious

TELEVISION

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

Conceitedly

The act of passing by or omitting; omission.

""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.""

Evasive speech or deeds

Evasive behaviour

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Those who are evasive; hedgers

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

Primatology

The branch of zoology that deals with the study of primates.

Primogenitor

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

Privatdocent

Privatdozent

PRIVATIZE PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Based on chance variation

Probability

Probational

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

Proboscidean

Proboscidian

Procarbazine

Procathedral

Processional

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

Notices penny, then pound astronomical

Proconsulate

Proconsulate.

Wait until tomorrow, unnecessarily

Put off due to rain, spectator moved

Put off what should be done now

PROCTOLOGIC

They analysed stool and got scrip

Some MDs

""Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor.""

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

Yielding profit; advantageous or lucrative. See Synonyms at beneficial .

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

Prolongation

Promiscuity

In a promiscuous manner.

(tr) to further or encourage the progress or existence of

Promotive

Promulgation

Capable of being pronounced.

Maybe they fix statement

You or I say binding declaration

I say 'stick' following declaration

The way to say 'delivery'

Delivery panic to ruin mobile working

Way a word is sounded

Propaedeutic

Those pushing information or allegations

Advocates for heathen princess facing saints over time

PROPAGANDIZE

PROPAGANDIZE

Propagandize

In a prophetical manner; by way of prediction.

Prophylactic

Propinquity

Propitiation

Proportional

Corresponding in size

In scale for amount of food consumed

Corresponding in size to something else

Proportion

""Pertaining to, or in the nature of, a proposition; considered as a proposition; as, a propositional sense. as, a propositional sense.""

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.""

Bans

""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

""A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context: "an authentic tour de force of historical writing: part intellectual history, part cultural history, part prosopography" (Josiah Bunting III).""

Prosopopoeia

In a prospective manner.

Prostacyclin

""Any of a group of potent hormonelike substances that are produced in various mammalian tissues, are derived from arachidonic acid, and mediate a wide range of physiological functions, such as control of blood pressure, contraction of smooth muscle, and modulation of inflammation.""

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

Plural or third person singular

Prostatitis

Prostitution

Protactinium

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

History

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.

""A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.""

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province.

To render provincial.

Subject to possible revision, feed friend

Provocative

Proximate

Relating to the study of elections

Experts on election statistics and voting trends

Pseudoallele

Adjective (-ic)

Pseudomonad

PSEUDOMORPH An irregular or deceptive form.

""A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.""

Plural or third person singular

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

Emulate Freud

PSYCHOBABBLE

Psychobabble

""Biology the study of the relations or interrelations between body and mind, especially as exhibited in the nervous system. ; psychobiologist, ; psychobiologic, psychobiological,""

""(used with a sing. or pl. verb) The interaction of various conscious and unconscious mental or emotional processes, especially as they influence personality, behavior, and attitudes.""

Plural or third person singular

""Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection. natural selection.""

""The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior.""

Pl. psychohistories A psychological or psychoanalytic interpretation or study of historical events or persons: the psychohistory of the Nazi era.

Brain

Supposed ability to move objects by mental effort

Moving things by mental force

All in the mind

Affecting the mind

Type of warfare

PSYCHOLOGISE

Psychologise

Psychologism

Scientists working in school's pigsty

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PSYCHOLOGIZE

Psychologize

Psychometric

Psychometry

Psychopathic

Psychopathy

The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

""Pl. psychosurgeries Brain surgery used to treat severe, intractable mental or behavioral disorders.""

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

Psychotropic

Psychrometer

Adjective (-ic)

Thriving at relatively low temperatures. Used of organisms such as bacteria and fungi.

Pteridology

One who is versed in pteridology.

Pteridophyte

Pteridosperm

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

Punctilious

Purification

Purposeless

Purposive

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Weak-spirited - timid

Timid, lacking courage

Putrefaction

An instrument for measuring the direct heating effect of the sun's rays.

Pyridoxamine

Pyrocatechol

PYROLYTIC

Pyromorphite

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

Pyrophyllite

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

Fireworks experts.