15-Letter Words Starting with P

Painterliness

Adjective (-ic)

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

Pectinesterase

Penetrability

Pentobarbitone

PENURIOUSNESS penurious

Perdurability

""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.

In an itinerant fashion

Perishability

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

With great insight

With discernment

Perspicuous

PERVASIVENESS pervasive

PERVERTEDNESS perverted

Pestiferous

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

""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

""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.""

PHOSPHORYLATE

Photoautotroph

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

PHOTOELECTRON

Photoengraving

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

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.

PHOTOMETRIC

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

An electronic sensing device used to detect electromagnetic energy of a wide range of frequencies and intensity levels.

Photoperiodism

Photoproduct

Photoreception

PHOTOREDUCTION photoreducte

PHOTOSENSITIZE

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

PHOTOTROPIC Same as Heliotropic. Heliotropic.

PHOTOTYPESET

Phrasemonger

Of or pertaining to physiography.

Physiotherapy

Helper of the sick

One who treats by massage and exercise

Occupational doctor

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

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

PICTORIALNESS pictorial

Constable landscape feature

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

Planimetrical

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

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

Polyacrylamide

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

""ELECTROLYTE A compound decomposable, or subjected to decomposition, by an electric current.""

Polymerisation

Polymerization

POLYMORPHIC Polymorphous.

Polysaccharide

DIET FOOD CLAIM (wordplay)

Like some fat

Fat parrot talking with extra capacity

PONDEROUSNESS The quality or state of being ponderous; ponderosity.

Popularization

Noun (-ure)

Adjective (-ic)

Noun (-tion)

Postmastership

Of or relating to postmillennialism.

Postoperative

Postproduction

English word

Occurring after or as a consequence of blood transfusion.

POWERLESSNESS powerless

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

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

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.

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

Shell-game operator, for one

Thurston or Mulholland

Trickster realises God is tripartite

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

In a dubious way

In a way fraught with trouble

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.""

Profitability

""PROGNOSTICATE To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. as, to prognosticate evil.""

Seer's forte

Weatherman's job

Seer's utterance

Expert and lay climber's link keeping pet Number 4 in prophetic style

Nostradamus et al.

; Chiefly British Variant of program .