14-Letter Words Starting with P

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

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""

PALATALIZE To palatize.

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

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

Panleukopenia

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

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

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

Parallelogram

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.

""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.""

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

The production of fruit without fertilization.

Participation

Particleboard

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

Pathobiology

Pathological

Patronization

Pelletization

Pentobarbital

See pentobarbital sodium .

Peptidoglycan

Perambulation

Percussionist

Percutaneous

Peregrination

Permit response? Unusual for dogmatism

Perfectionism

In respect of its being transformed, they demand the best

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy.

To carry out or do (an action)

Perilousness

Periodization

Study or science of

Perissodactyl

Peritrichous

Pernicious

Perseveration

Personable

Pertinacious

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

Perviousness

Petrification

Petrochemical

The chemistry of petroleum and its derivatives.

Pertaining to petrography.

According to petrology.

Pettifoggery

Illusory series about an atom is a graph

Fantastic dreamlike series of images

Dreamlike sequence

A short campaign organised with many special effects (wordplay)

Pharmacology

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Drug-related

Pharmacopoeia

Phenobarbital

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

Phenological

Phenomenalism

Phenomenalist

Phenothiazine

Phenotypical

""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 .

Philanthropy

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

Philological

PHILOSOPHISE

Philosophizer

""PHILOSOPHIZE To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.""

Phlebography

Phonological

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

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-ic)

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.

Photobiology

Person associated with (-ist)

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

Photochromism

Photocomposer

PHOTOCOMPOSE

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

The act or business of developing camera films and printing photographs for customers.

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.""

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

PHOTOLYTIC

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ive)

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

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.

Astronomy ()

Planetologist

PLASTICIZE PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Plastoquinone

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

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

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