14-Letter Words Starting with P

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

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

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

Resembling the butterfly.

Parainfluenza

A prism whose bases are parallelograms.

Parallelogram

Paramagnetism

PARAMETERIZE

Parametrical

English word

Parasitology

""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.

The production of fruit without fertilization.

Particleboard

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARISE particular

""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

Plural of paterfamilias .

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

""The quality or state of being perceptible; as, the perceptibility of light or color. as, the perceptibility of light or color.""

Acuity

Perceptivity

Percussionist

Percussive

Percutaneous

Peregrination

Permit response? Unusual for dogmatism

The quality or state of being perfectible.

Perfectionism

In respect of its being transformed, they demand the best

Perfective

Perfectivity

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.

To carry out or do (an action)

Plural or third person singular

Pericarditis

Perilousness

Periodization

Study or science of

Perissodactyl

Peritrichous

Permeability

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

Licence for every letter head

Lenience, indulgence

Liberal policy for each point added to message

Permittivity

Pernicious

Perpendicular

Perseveration

Personable

Perspicacity

Convincing quality

Pertinacious

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

Perverseness

Perviousness

Pestilently.

Petrification

Petrochemical

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

Pertaining to petrography.

According to petrology.

Pettifoggery

Drug, hemp, crucial at a bash

Relating to prescribed drugs

Relating to medicinal drugs

Pharmacology

Drug-related

Pharmacopoeia

Phencyclidine

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.""

Phenylephrine

See phenylthiocarbamide .

Philadelphus

Philanthropy

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philhellenism

Philhellenist

Philosophizer

Phlebography

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

Phosphokinase

Phospholipase

""Any of a group of proteins, such as casein, containing chemically bound phosphoric acid.""

Giving off light

Glowing in the dark

Giving off a cold light

PHOSPHORESCE To shine as phosphorus; to be phosphorescent; to emit a phosphoric light.

Plural or third person singular

Phosphorylase

PHOSPHORYLATE

Phosphorylate

Photobiology

""The branch of chemistry which relates to the effect of light in producing chemical changes, as in photography.""

Photocomposer

Photodetector

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoelectron

Photoemission

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.""

Photofinisher

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

Photogeology

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) the study and identification of geological phenomena using aerial photographs

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

Adjective (-ive)

Adjective (-ive)

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

Physiographer

Physiography

Physostigmine

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytopathogen

Phytoplankter

Picornavirus

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.""

Plastoquinone

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

PLATITUDINIZE To utter platitudes or truisms.

Platitudinize