15-Letter Words Starting with P

Painterliness

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

Palatalization

Paleomagnetism

Paleomagnetist

Of fossil lore

Paleontologist

Palynological

Pantheistical

PANTISOCRATIC Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

Pantisocratist

Paradoxical

PARAGENETIC

Parajournalism

Paralinguistic

PARAMETRIZE

Paranormality

Pararosaniline

Parasitization

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

""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

PEACEABLENESS peaceable

Pectinesterase

PENDULOUSNESS The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.

Penetrability

Pentobarbitone

PENURIOUSNESS penurious

""PERFECTIONIST One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.""

The quality or state of being perfunctory.

PERMANENTNESS permanent

Permissible

How this word fits in

A. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.

PERSONALIZE To make personal.

How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.

"How gracious, how benign, is Solitude."

Bringing to life

Perspicuous

PERVASIVENESS pervasive

PERVERTEDNESS perverted

Pestiferous

These may cause screams in dreams

Pharisaical

(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.""

Phenobarbitone

Lab acidity indicator

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

Relating to observable facts

Phenomenology

Classifier of facts or experiences

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.""

""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

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 .""

Phosphoprotein

Ignis fatuus, for example

Cold emitted light

Light emitted without burning or heat

PHOSPHORYLATE

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

Pl. photoconductivities Electrical conductivity affected by exposure to light.

PHOTOELECTRON

Photoengraving

Noun (-tion)

Photofinishing

Photoinduction

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

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

Photooxidation

Photoproduct

Photoreception

PHOTOREDUCTION photoreducte

PHOTOSENSITIZE

PHOTOSENSITIZE

Photosensitize

PHOTOSYNTHESIZE

Phrasemonger

Phthalocyanine

PHYTOPATHOGEN

PHYTOPLANKTON

PICTORIALNESS pictorial

Constable landscape feature

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.

PLENTEOUSNESS plenteous

PLENTIFULNESS plentiful

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

Pneumonectomy

POINTLESSNESS pointless

Politicization

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

Polymerisation

Polymerization

Polynucleotide

DIET FOOD CLAIM (wordplay)

Like some fat

Fat parrot talking with extra capacity

PONDEROUSNESS The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Popularization

Plural noun or verb form

Adjective (-al)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Noun (-tion)

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Noun (-tion)

Postproduction

Noun (-tion)

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

Noun (-tion)

POWERLESSNESS powerless

Practicable

PRACTICALNESS Same as Practicality. Practicality.

PRAYERFULNESS prayerful

Preadolescence

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

Precipitinogen

Acrophobiac's dread

Sheer quality of valuable mine included on cape

Impetuosity

Put into the required shape beforehand

Predestinarian

Predestination

Plural noun (-tions)

Predevelopment

Predisposition

Preestablish

Things made earlier than absolutely necessary

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

IMPLANTATION The act or process of implantating.

Preinterview

Prejudicial

Educational foundation (wordplay)

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

Premanufacture

MATURENESSES matureness

Premillenarian

Premillennial

""MODIFICATION The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.""

""NOTIFICATION The act of notifying, or giving notice; the act of making known; especially, the act of giving official notice or information to the public or to individuals, corporations, companies, or societies, by words, by writing, or by other means.""

Plural or third person singular

Preponderancy

Preponderation

Prepositional

PRESIDENTIAL Presiding or watching over.

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""

Prepublication

Conference requirement, often

Plural (-ists)

Smart quality of gift fit to go on head

Green Park is, in part

Pressurization

Prestigious

Presupposition

SYNAPTICALLY synaptical

Snob's attitude

Pomposity, self-importance

Valuable wine for Conservative head shows pomposity

Pretermination

In a manner differing from normal

Extraordinarily.

Mysteriously retreat, run away in friendly surrounds

Prettification

PRIMITIVENESS The quality or state of being primitive; conformity to primitive style or practice.

Prioritization

Off-putting (wordplay)

Retirement benefit

Hanging back.

Theme of this puzzle, finally

Thief of time.

Start of a slacker's quip

Off-putting sorts (wordplay)

Devotees of tomorrow

Competence of experts

Skill not displayed by amateur

Expertise is disguised with prim aloofness

""PROFESSIONAL Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct. as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.""