13-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Premeditator

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

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

""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.""

Prepubescent

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

""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

""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""

Primatology

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

Crudeness of crazy, impressive nit!

Quite simple, with five

Like Stone Age culture

Primitivity

Primogenitor

(Right of) being first-born

State of being the firstborn

Firstborn-inherits system

In the form on manner of a prism; by means of a prism.

Privatdocent

Privatdozent

Privateness

PRIVATIZE PRIVATE a soldier of lower rank

Their living's in a ring

Boxers

Boxing for money

Boxing

Based on chance variation

Probability

Probational

Open to doubt or debate

Difficult; doubtful

Presenting difficulties

Procathedral

Notices penny, then pound astronomical

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

Professorate

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

Professoriat

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

Progesterone

PROGESTOGEN

Forecast disastrous operating cost

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Prophesy, foretell

""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

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.""

Prolificity

Prolongation

Promiscuity

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

Promotive

Promulgation

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

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

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.""

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.

One who lives in a province; a provincial.

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

Provocative

Proximate

Experts on election statistics and voting trends

Plural or third person singular

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

""A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. No longer in scientific use.""

Alfred Adler et al.

Those with the mind to study say this script is flawed

Crazy researcher (wordplay)

Whose patients are laid back? Yes and no

Chap only stays bonkers seeing shrink

""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.

Moving things by mental force

Scientists working in school's pigsty

Q: See title A: "Just one, but it has to really WANT to change"

Psychometric

Psychometry

Psychopathic

Psychopathy

Pertaining to mind and body, as a unit.

(Of illness) caused by mental factors

Of mind and body as a unit.

Treatment of mental disorders

Treatment of mental problems

Treatment of mental ill

PSYCHOTIC

Psychotropic

Psychrometer

Adjective (-ic)

Pteridology

One who is versed in pteridology.

Pteridophyte

Pteridosperm

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

Punctilious

Punctuality

""(Law) to force (someone) to undergo a penalty or sanction, such as imprisonment, fines, death, etc., for some crime or misdemeanour""

Purification

In a puritanical manner.

Lack of courage

Lack of courage, timidity

Putrefaction

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

""A drug, C 12 H 13 ClN 4 , used principally in the prophylactic treatment of malaria.""

Pyrocatechol

PYROLYTIC

Pyromorphite

A salt of pyrophosphoric acid.

Pyrophyllite

Relating to fireworks

Like firework display going off in a holy precinct

Fireworks experts.