15-Letter Words Starting with P

Painterliness

PALATABLENESS The quality or state of being agreeable to the taste; relish; acceptableness.

Palatalization

PALEOBIOLOGIC

Paleobiologist

PALEOECOLOGIC

Paleoecologist

Adjective (-ic)

Paleomagnetism

Paleomagnetist

Of fossil lore

Paleontologist

Fossils

Paleozoologist

Palynological

Pantheistical

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

Pantisocratist

Paradoxical

PARAGENETIC

Parajournalism

Paralinguistic

Six-sided prisms

PARAMETRIZE

Paramyxovirus

Paranormality

Pararosaniline

Parasexuality

Parasitization

PARASITOLOGIC

Parasitologist

""Of, relating to, or affecting the parasympathetic nervous system: parasympathetic activity; parasympathetic agents.""

In brackets

Play the clarinet randomly as a diversion

Work ethic following a payment matey's pocketed (thus?)

Ruler like Robert (wordplay)

Roundhead, in British history

Sam Rayburn, for example

Parthenocarpy

Means to reproduce (small melon), but raise temperature, hospital!

Sort of reproduction in earphones gets distorted

Quietly distributing another book of the Bible that describes the Virgin Birth

Conception of retro music followed by old rock group

Relating to unfertilised reproduction

""PARTICIPATION The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. as, a participation in joy or sorrows.""

PARTICULARISE particular

PARTICULARIST One who holds to particularism.

Details

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

Pasteurization

Patentability

Pathogenicity

In both senses also called physiopathology . The functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury.

PEACEABLENESS peaceable

Pectinesterase

Penetrability

Pentobarbitone

Perdurability

In an itinerant fashion

Perishability

PERMANENTNESS permanent

How this word fits in

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

With great insight

With discernment

PERVASIVENESS pervasive

Pessimistical

These may cause screams in dreams

Pharisaical

Drugs capitals are much busted

Medicinal drugs

Manufactured drugs

(used with a sing. verb) The study of the action or effects of drugs on living organisms.

Pharmacognosy

The branch of pharmacology that deals with drugs in their crude or natural state and with medicinal herbs or other plants.

""(used with a sing. verb) The process by which a drug is absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated by the body.""

Concerning drugs

Reportedly cultivate a green when dropping head of drug science

Pharmacologist

Pl. pharmacotherapies Treatment of disease through the use of drugs.

Phenobarbitone

Lab acidity indicator

C20H14O4 (and a key substance in this puzzle's theme)

Relating to observable facts

Phenylbutazone

""Abbr. PKU A genetic disorder in which the body lacks the enzyme necessary to metabolize phenylalanine to tyrosine. Left untreated, the disorder can cause brain damage and progressive mental retardation as a result of the accumulation of phenylalanine and its breakdown products.""

Phenylthiourea

Kind of twisting hill path on Capri

Patrons of a sort

Literally, lovers of mankind

Benevolent people

Philanthropoid

In a manner befitting Socrates one loyal Polish chap's not acting rashly

A graphic record of heart sounds and murmurs that is produced by a phonocardiograph.

PHONOGRAMIC

PHOSPHATIZE PHOSPHATE A salt of phosphoric acid.

""An organic compound, C 4 H 10 N 3 O 5 P, found in muscle tissue and capable of storing and providing energy for muscular contraction. Also called creatine phosphate .""

PHOSPHORYLATE

""PHOSPHORYLATE PHOSPHORYL The radical PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds. PO, regarded as the typical nucleus of certain compounds.""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Photoautotroph

PHOTOBIOLOGIC

Photochemical

Capable of being chemically broken down by light: photodegradable plastic.

PHOTODISSOCIATE

PHOTODUPLICATE

Photoduplicate

Photoengraving

Noun (-tion)

PHOTOGEOLOGIC

""The process of making maps or scale drawings from photographs, especially aerial photographs.""

PHOTOIONIZE

Special type of reporting

Picture book theory used by the press

News in which pictures play a more important role than text

One on the staff of Life

... on a Braille magazine staff (wordplay)

One who produces pictures for stories in the press

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

""Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.""

PHOTOMETRIC

An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph. Microphotograph.

Photooxidation

PHOTOTACTIC

""Telegraphy by means of light, as by the heliograph or the photophone. Also, less properly, telephotography.""

PHOTOTROPIC Same as Heliotropic. Heliotropic.

Phrasemonger

Phthalocyanine

""Involving the principles of both physics and chemistry; dependent on, or produced by, the joint action of physical and chemical agencies.""

Of or pertaining to physiography.

In a physiological manner.

See pathophysiology .

Physiotherapy

Helper of the sick

One who treats by massage and exercise

Occupational doctor

Phytochemical

PHYTOFLAGELLATE

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

The study of the geographic distribution of plants. Also called geobotany .

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PICTORIALNESS pictorial

PIGHEADEDNESS pigheaded

PINEALECTOMIZE

Pinealectomize

PINHEADEDNESS pinheaded

PINOCYTOTIC

Fossil hominid discovered in Java in 1891-2

Thin chap, posture bent, forerunner of Man (wordplay)

Old man in mine, he is unable to regularly take hard work

One with a limited wardrobe (wordplay)

Police-squad member

Member of the force.

Investigators of a kind.

Undercover detectives

Detectives

Plainspoken

PLAINTIVENESS plaintive

Planimetrical

Plasticization

Platinocyanide

Lover of the 1 put initial A and R in the wrong place

Heavy on the bromides

How a cliche may come across

PLATYHELMINTH

PLAUSIBLENESS Quality of being plausible.

Pleasurable

Delegate with full power

What's my line: #3

Robert Murphy, on occasion.

Plethysmograph

""The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.""

""Inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, esp. a kind of contagions and fatal lung plague of cattle.""

PLURALISTIC

Plutocratical

Politicization

Polyacrylamide

""CRYSTALLINE Consisting, or made, of crystal.""

Polymerisation

Polymerization

POLYMORPHIC Polymorphous.

Polysaccharide

DIET FOOD CLAIM (wordplay)

Like some fat

Fat parrot talking with extra capacity

Popularization

Plural noun or verb form

*Like the 'Hunger Games' trilogy

*Like the "Hunger Games" trilogy

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-tion)

Adjective (-ic)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Postmastership

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Postoperative

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

English word

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

Noun (-tion)

Practicable

PRACTICALNESS Same as Practicality. Practicality.

PRAYERFULNESS prayerful

Preadolescence

""AGRICULTURAL Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.""

Things made before the wedding

""CANCELLATION The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself. as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.""

The quality or state of being precipitant; precipitation.

Precipitate

Predestinarian

Predestination

Plural noun (-tions)

Preestablish

Things made earlier than absolutely necessary

Preferability

Prefigurative

PREFORMATION An old theory of the pre\'89xistence of germs. Cf. Embo&icir;tement. Embo&icir;tement.

Prehistorical

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

Prejudicial

Educational foundation (wordplay)

MANUFACTURED Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.hand-made.

Premanufacture

MATURENESSES matureness

Premillenarian

Premillennial