14-Letter Words Starting with P

It is due to army chaps becoming thick-skinned

PACIFISTIC

Paediatrician

Palatability

PALATALIZE To palatize.

Palatialness

Fossils

PALEOBOTANIC

Paleobotanist

(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 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

Fossils

Palletization

Pamphleteer

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

Plural or third person singular

Pansexuality

Pantisocracy

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

PARABIOTIC

PARADOXICAL Of the nature of a paradox.

Of or relating to paralanguage or its study.

Paramagnetism

PARAMETERIZE

Parametrical

PARASITIZE PARASITE an organism that lives and feeds on another

Parasitology

The scientific study of parasitism.

Paratactical

""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.

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.

""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

""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

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

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

To carry out or do (an action)

Plural or third person singular

Pericarditis

Periodization

Study or science of

Perissodactyl

Peritrichous

Permeability

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

Permittivity

Perseveration

Perspicacity

Pertinacious

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

Pestilently.

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

Drugs expert parking at a grim school in turmoil

Phenmetrazine

Phenobarbital

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

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.

PHILATELIC Of or pertaining to philately.

Philhellenist

Tight girdles might lace up without flapping

""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

Adjective (-ic)

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.

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

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 ()

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

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

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

Plural or third person singular

Pneumothorax

Pococurantism

Podsolization

Podzolization

Poeticalness