14-Letter Words Starting with P

PHOTOOXIDIZE

PHOTOPERIOD

Photoreaction

""The detection, absorption, and use of light, as for vision in animals or phototropism and photosynthesis in plants.""

""A nerve ending, cell, or group of cells specialized to sense or receive light.""

Photoreceptor

Photoreducte

Responding to light

PHOTOSENSITIZE

Photosynthate

Plural or third person singular

Process by which plants trap light energy

Pictures, strangely shiny, set in process that gives everything more life

The posy this son arranged, showing what plants can do

The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.

Of or pertaining to phraseology; consisting of a peculiar form of words.

Phraseologist

""Any of several stable, light-fast, blue or green organic pigments derived from the basic compound (C 6 H 4 C 2 N) 4 N 4 and used in enamels, printing inks, linoleum, and plastics.""

Phycoerythrin

Physicalness

Of or pertaining to physiognomy; according with the principles of physiognomy.

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

Botany ()

Picornavirus

PICTORIALIZE

Picturization

Pidginization

Pinealectomy

PINEALECTOMIZE

An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Java in 1891 and originally designated Pithecanthropus erectus because it was thought to represent a species evolutionarily between apes and humans. Pithecanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.

Pitiableness

Pitilessness

Astronomy ()

Planetologist

Planlessness

Plural or third person singular

""A process in which plasma is taken from donated blood and the remaining components, mostly red blood cells, are returned to the donor.""

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Plastoquinone

A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Platitudinize

Platyhelminth

Plausibility

PLAYWRIGHTING playwright

Pleasantness

Pleasingness

Agreeable; gratifying.

In a pleonastic manner.

Plethysmogram

""An instrument for determining and registering the variations in the size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence the variations in the amount of blood in the limb.""

Plotlessness

Pluralization

Pneumaticity

Pneumatology

Pneumatophore

""A disease of the lungs, such as asbestosis or silicosis, caused by long-continued inhalation of especially mineral or metallic dust.""

Disease caused by habitually inhaling coal-dust

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Pococurantism

Podsolization

Podzolization

Poeticalness

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Polarography

POLITICALIZE

POLITICIZE POLITIC {shrewd=adj}

ACRYLAMIDE

Polybutadiene

Polycarbonate

POLYDISPERSE

Polyembryony

POLYMERISE POLYMER a complex chemical compound

The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.

Polymorphous

Plural or third person singular

Polyneuritis

NUCLEOTIDE a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.DNA or RNA.

Inflected form of PHONICALLY Inflected form of PHONIC pertaining to the nature of sound

Polypropylene

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

""Of or pertaining to polytheism; characterized by polytheism; professing or advocating polytheism; as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.as, polytheistic worship; a polytheistic author, or nation.""

Polytonality

Pontification

""The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.""

Populousness

PORCELAINIZE

Portentous

Positiveness

Possession

Possessive

English word

Noun (-tion)

Person associated with (-ist)

POSTCOLLEGE

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Plural or third person singular

Noun (-sion)

Posteriority

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-ence)

Posterior or distal to a ganglion.

""POSTGRADUATE Of, pertaining to, or designating, the studies pursued after graduation, esp., after receiving the bachelor's degree at a college; graduate.""

Posthumous

""Of or relating to a period in the development of an economy or nation in which the relative importance of manufacturing lessens and that of services, information, and research grows.""

Noun (-tion)

English word

The office of postmaster.

Of or occurring in the time following menopause.

Happening or existing after the millennium.

Postmistress

Postmodernism

Postmodernist

Of or pertaining to postposition.

Postpositive

Work done on film after recording has finished

Plural noun or verb form

Dead

COMMUNITY

Posttension

Potentiality

Potentiometer

An instrument for measuring an unknown voltage by comparison to a standard voltage.

The quality or state of being practicable; practicableness; feasibility.

Practicality

In a praiseworthy manner.

Prankishness

Preadaptation

Some youth misbehaving peers concealed

Preadolescent

Word with prefix pre-

ARRANGEMENT The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

Plural (-ists)

Precarious

Precentorship

Preceptorship

Preciousness

Precipitancy

Precipitation

PRECIPITIN

Cherished quality about one child, initially, showing early development

Precombustion

Uninformed ideas about procreation

Precondition

Preconscious

Preconscious

""CONSONANTAL , <?/. Of the nature of a consonant; pertaining to consonants.""

Preconstruct

Plural noun (-tions)

Preconviction

Predaceous

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

""Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy. as, the predestinarian controversy.""

Inflected form of DESTINATING Inflected form of DESTINATE Destined.

Fixed fate

Doctrine that God has ordained future events

Perdition's neat solution for those so chosen (wordplay)

Predestinator

Predeterminer

Inflected form of DETERMINING Inflected form of DETERMINE To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

DEVALUATION

""DEVELOPMENT The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an image upon a photographic plate; gradual advancement or growth through a series of progressive changes; also, the result of developing, or a developed state.""

Quality offering few surprises

Prediscovery

Inclination (to behave in certain ways)

Prior inclination (towards something)

A tendency (to do something)

Predominancy

Predomination

Plural noun (-ments)

Plural noun (-ments)

Preestablish

Preestablish

Plural noun (-ments)

""Inflected form of FABRICATING Inflected form of FABRICATE To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.""

""FABRICATION The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.""

Preferential

Prefiguration

Prefigurement

""Inflected form of FORMULATING Inflected form of FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Pregnability

Prehensility

Preinterview

""MANUFACTURE The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.""

Premaxillary

Deep matter idly represented, but in a planned way

Premeditation

Premenstrual

""MILLENARIAN Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.""

Prenomination

Preoccupancy

Distracting worries prior to taking jobs

""OPERATIONAL of or pertaining to operations; as, operational procedure.as, operational procedure.""

Preoperative

Preordainment