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""

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

Of or pertaining to paleography.

Pamphleteer

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

Plural or third person singular

Pantisocracy

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

""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

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

Plural of paterfamilias .

Patronization

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

Pedestrianism

Roman Catholic tribunals

American jugs

One sign suppressed by shamefaced prisons

Pentobarbital

See pentobarbital sodium .

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

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)

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

Phenylephrine

See phenylthiocarbamide .

Philanthropy

Carnegie or Nobel

Giver to good causes

He loves man

PHILANTHROPE A philanthropist.

Philosophizer

Phlebography

""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.

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

Photochromism

Photocomposer

Photodetector

Photoelectron

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

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

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

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

Phraseologist

Phycoerythrin

Physiographer

Physiography

Chemistry in its relation to vegetable bodies; vegetable chemistry.

The geographical distribution of plants.

Phytoplankter

Picornavirus

PICTORIALIZE

Picturization

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.

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.""

PLAYWRIGHTING playwright

Agreeable; gratifying.

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

Pneumatophore

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Pococurantism

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.Homoiothermal.

Abstract noun (-ity)

Polarography

ACRYLAMIDE

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

Polypropylene

Carbohydrate such as starch or insulin

Carbohydrate found in cold chips a year after cooking

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

PORCELAINIZE

Portentous

English word

Noun (-sion)

Posteriority

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-ence)

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

""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)

The office of postmaster.

Postmistress

Postmodernism

Postmodernist

Work done on film after recording has finished

Dead

COMMUNITY

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.