14-Letter Words Starting with P

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

PACIFISTIC

Paediatrician

Paedomorphism

Pl. pedomorphoses (-s z ) Phylogenetic change in which juvenile characteristics are retained in the adult form of an organism.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the resemblance of adult animals to the young of their ancestors: seen in the evolution of modern man, who shows resemblances to the young stages of australopithecines""

Painlessness

Palatability

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Palatialness

Paleobiology

Fossils

PALEOBOTANIC

Paleobotanist

Paleoecology

(Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) the study of fossil animals and plants in order to deduce their ecology and the environmental conditions in which they lived palaeoecological   adj

The study of the geography of ancient times or ancient epochs.

Of or pertaining to paleography.

The study of the remanent magnetization in rocks.

Person associated with (-ist)

Paleontology

Expert on fossils (US spelling)

One who studies fossils

Student of fossils

Study or science of

Paleozoology

Fossils

Palletization

Pamphleteer

Pl. pancreatectomies Surgical removal of all or part of the pancreas.

Plural or third person singular

Panleukopenia

Pansexuality

Pantisocracy

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

Resembling the butterfly.

""Abbr. HPV Any of various strains of papovavirus that cause warts, especially of the hands, feet, and genitals, with some strains believed to be a causative factor in cancer of the cervix, vagina, and vulva.""

PARABIOTIC

Paradisaical

Paradisiacal

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Parainfluenza

Subjective journalism that uses some of the techniques or license of fiction.

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

Parallelogram

Paramagnetism

PARAMETERIZE

Parametrical

Medium for a medium

Study of strange mental phenomena

English word

PARASITIZE PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parasitology

The scientific study of parasitism.

Paratactical

""The quality or state of being pardonable; as, the pardonableness of sin. as, the pardonableness of sin.""

""PARENCHYMA The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.""

PARENTHESIZE To make a parenthesis of; to include within parenthetical marks.

Engaged in crime, I'm going in devoutly, giving little away

The production of fruit without fertilization.

Participation

Particleboard

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARISE particular

Particularism

Particularist

""PARTICULARIZE To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.""

Particularize

American trailing plant

Passementerie

The state or quality of being passionate.

Passionflower

""A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140° F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained germs or ferments.""

Pastoralness

Pathlessness

Pathobiology

Pathological

Plural of paterfamilias .

Patronization

Peacefulness

""An enzyme found in certain plants, bacteria, and fungi that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pectin to pectic acid and methanol. Also called pectase .""

Pedestrianism

Pelletization

Penicillamine

Penicillinase

Roman Catholic tribunals

American jugs

One sign suppressed by shamefaced prisons

Pentobarbital

See pentobarbital sodium .

Peptidoglycan

Perambulation

Percutaneous

Peregrination

To carry out or do (an action)

Plural or third person singular

Pericarditis

Periodization

Perissodactyl

Permeability

Perpendicular

Perseveration

Personable

Perspicacity

Convincing quality

Pertinacious

""Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets.""

Pestilently.

Petrification

Petrochemical

Pertaining to petrography.

According to petrology.

Illusory series about an atom is a graph

Fantastic dreamlike series of images

Dreamlike sequence

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

Pharmacology

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Drug-related

Pharmacopoeia

Phenmetrazine

Phenobarbital

Sedative for bird that's breached order to put note into singer

Phenological

Phenomenalism

Phenomenalist

Phenothiazine

Phenotypical

Phenylalanine

""A white or light yellow compound, C 19 H 20 N 2 O 2 , formerly used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug in the treatment of arthritis, bursitis, and gout.""

See phenylthiocarbamide .

Philadelphus

Philanthropy

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philological

Phlebography

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

Phonological

Phosphokinase

Phospholipase

Phosphorylase

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phosphorylate

An organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source. Green plants and photosynthetic bacteria are photoautotrophs.

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoengraver

""The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from the photographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture produced by such a process.""

PHOTOGENIC Of or pertaining to photogeny; producing or generating light.

""A method of surveying or map making by photography, used also in determining the height and motions of clouds, sea waves, and the like.""

PHOTOLYTIC

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

Photoreaction

Photosynthate

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.""

Physicalness

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

Physiographer

Physiography

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

The science of diseases to which plants are liable.

Phytoplankter

Phytoplankton

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

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.""

Pluralization

Pneumaticity

Pneumatology

Pneumatophore

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Pococurantism

Podsolization

Podzolization

Poeticalness