10-Letter Words Starting with P

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

Matchmaker's supply

Number 15, Venus anadyomene

Element used in making matches

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

PHOTIC pertaining to light

Photocell

Sensor in a CD player

See flashbulb .

Light used by pro cameramen

Liable to be shot (wordplay)

Pretty as a picture (wordplay)

Welcome adjective for screen hopefuls.

Photogram

Get shot of stuff (wordplay)

For which one might sit still (wordplay)

A snappy album from Ringo Starr

Photolyse

Photolysie

""Decaying the breakdown of matter or materials under the influence of light. ; photolytic , adj . Light ()""

PHOTOLYZE

Photolyze

Photomask

""An instrument for measuring the intensity of light, or, more especially, for comparing the relative intensities of different lights, or their relative illuminating power.""

That branch of science which treats of the measurement of the intensity of light.

A greatly enlarged photograph or series of photographs placed on a wall especially as decoration.

English word

A form of endoscope using an electric light.

Photoplay

Copies of a sort.

Certain duplicating machines

Pre-laser print copies

Motion ()

Motion ()

Rendering the skin susceptible to damage by light. Used of certain medications and cosmetics.

Phototube

Study of skull bumps.

Skull-centered pseudoscience

Would-be science of mental faculties

Phrensy

Of or pertaining to phthisis; affected with phthisis; wasting; consumptive.

Small leather box containing Hebrew texts on vellum

Amulet

Phylaxis

Phylesis

Phyllary

""A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.""

PHYLLO very thin pastry dough

Bug that destroyed wines worldwide

Vine's lethal enemy

Insect similar to the greenfly that is destructive to vines

Materially, in the body

In a bodily manner

Its the art of healing friend manually

AMA members

They made the atom bomb.

The Curies, for example

Physic

""The science which treats of the phenomena of living organisms; the study of the processes incidental to, and characteristic of, life.""

Poisonous to plants.

Pl. pianissimos A part of a composition played very softly or quietly.

Very soft (music)

Yapper keeps so very quiet!

Very quiet shopping centre (wordplay)

Harpsichord's kin

A grand may be a profit one makes

For this Chopin wrote two volumes

Rascally nurses in a state of vexation

Like tales of rogues

Like Don Quixote

Picaroon

""Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. as, a picayunish business.""

Mustard relish (by Marilynne Robinson)

Select a flower aloud with relish

Pickle with mustard and spices

Pete the Piper

*Solo player in "The Stars and Stripes Forever"

Pickaback

""A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.""

Pickaroon

Pickeer

English word

Artful Dodger (wordplay)

Strikers going round pit take a dip

Light-fingered sneak

Pickthank

Select underwear, say, for those eating out

Alfresco enjoyment

Gets a bite lying on the grass with a royal garden party host (wordplay)

Picofarad

Endoscopic shot in very little time

Short time

""A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.""

Pictogram

Ancient UK resident put circle on diagram as a symbol

He came from the North and put ring on diagram as a symbol

Pictorial

PICTURIZE To picture.

Picturize

PIDGINIZE

Pidginize

Piecework

Unpleasant clyping about that is reported at first as like a knife going in

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Avian compartment (wordplay)

Lay aside indefinitely.

Shelve, as legislation.

Pigeonite

""A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.""

Hauls truck trailers on freight cars

Treats for children.

Having color

Pigment

Pigstick

Gluttons on watch for boar-hunter

Boar hunter takes the filth to heart

Perhaps Babe's heart goes to hunter of boar

Pikestaff

Plural or third person singular

PILFER to {steal=v}

Pilferage

Pilgarlic

One more tragedy, say, from Shakespeare

Trip from drug - mostly horrid time

Religious traveller's journey

PILLAR to supply with vertical building supports

Pillory

Divorce lawyer's suit (wordplay)

Divorce lawyer's suit?

Holding down its job

Pilosity

Navigator's place

Very good having miss to entertain you in ship's compartment

Unwilling to intervene in very good English ship's structure

Purple-tinged flowers

*Tricked-out car

Spot, carrying gangsters, one flashy vehicle

Adjective meaning resembling

Pinchbeck

Silas Marner, say

Miserly one, or reversed, what he does

A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does

Bowler's margin of comfort (wordplay)

Etui's cousin (wordplay)

Backup digits for the ATM (wordplay)

Cake or pizza toppings

Exports from San Juan.

Hand grenades, to a G.I.

Immature component of wing

Young plume

Pinfold

Pingrass

Pinkness

Pinnacle

""Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.""

Zeroed in on

Located exactly

Precisely found

Pinprick

They re right up your alley!

Equipment found in an alley

Bowling machines

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Clothes lines (wordplay)

Holy spinster going out in formal suits

Features on Yankee uniforms

Pinwheel

Opening up (new terrain)

The winning of the West

Boone's forte

Pipefish

Conveying, as oil, gas, etc.

""A colorless crystalline compound, C 4 H 10 N 2 , used as a hardener for epoxy resins, an antihistamine, and an anthelmintic.""

""An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine. C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine.""

Piperonal

Pinkish rocks

Pipiness

Evergreen herb

North American plant of the wintergreen family

Piquancy

English word

Piroplasm

Took a spin, arranging trip with short detour around Spain

Spins in ballet shoes

Ballet turns

Twirls rake, with mine about set to go west

As it is, chop bananas and nuts

Green members of the cashew family

Nuts - this is a cop out

Pistareen

Having a pistil or pistils; usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

Pistoleer

Pistol

Pitapat

The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Hurl tableware (wordplay)

Fling some silverware (wordplay)

Throws sharply (wordplay)

PITCHPOLE

Pitchpole

English word

English word

Pitiful

Without mercy

Cruelly

""Pl. pityriases (-s z ) Any of various skin diseases of humans and animals, characterized by epidermal shedding of flaky scales.""

""A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles.""

Technique for making people appear as animations

Behaving as if mentally unbalanced; very eccentric.

Pixiness

Placard

Placation

Makes the extra point in football

Gridiron events.

Wimbledon aces

Spot workers and a fair amount of drunks with temporary jobs

Placental

The quality or state of being placid.

Plagiary

Cheat by copying; agile pairs (anagram)

Copy for piano: after lapse of time I get up

Appropriate force restraining prisoner, immediately aggro starts

Copying top lass reflected in refractor

Stealing someone else's work

Bad copying

Copier, of sorts

Stealer of others' work

Literary pirate

Make an unauthorized copy (wordplay)

Appropriate words

Take a page from someone's book (wordplay)

Music popular when having tea in factory

It's unaccompanied in church

Singing a little way into the factory

Simple ditties (wordplay)

Simple ditties?

Ambrosian chants.

Plaintext

Simple lovers' quarrels (wordplay)

They charge others, even pets

Simple arguments

Plaister

Planarian

Planation

Writing device used in seances

Seance prop

Mysteriously cheap model lent to mysterious board

Planeload

Hayden, Fels, Adler, etc.

Places to see the stars

Places for star gazers

Adjective meaning resembling

Kuiper belt objects, for example

All around the world

All over the world

PLANGENT resounding loudly

""An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.""

Planisher

Planish

PLANKTON the minute animal and plant life of a body of water

PLANLESS without a plan

Tara, for one.

Growing business (wordplay)

Twelve Oaks, for example

Plasmagel

""A self-replicating hereditary structure thought to exist in cytoplasm and function in a manner analogous to, but independent of, chromosomal genes.""

Plasmasol

Thread of protoplasm connecting cells

""A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of am\'d2boid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.""

""Fusion of two or more cells or protoplasts without fusion of the nuclei, as occurs in higher terrestrial fungi.""

English word

Members of a construction team.

They leave their coats on the wall

Workers on the surface

A last stage in housebuilding

Wall job

Wall coat

English word

Material for play school artists

Modelling clay

Would it take its place in modelling (wordplay)

Property of a brain (wordplay)

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLASTID a structure in plant cells

Plastisol

Plateau

Sheet perhaps squeegeed

Eating-drinking utensil (wordplay)

Material for eg shop windows

Print-shop employee

PLATINIZE To cover or combine with platinum.

Platinize

Contents of commonplace book (wordplay)

Cook stipulated chestnuts

Soothing words

Platoon

Heaping dish

Mammals stay supple after exercising