10-Letter Words Starting with P

Industrial "Me-firsts."

Before one draws prime concerns

What's important

PRIORITIZE

Priorship

A polyhedron all of whose vertices lie in one of two parallel planes.

""Having the form of a prismoid; as, prismoidal solids. as, prismoidal solids.""

""Prissier , prissiest Excessively or affectedly prim and proper.""

PRISTINE {unspoilt=adj}

Navy patrol planes.

Result of solitary sorrow

Maritime harassers

Conditions of indigence

PRIVATISE

Privatise

Privatism

Privative

PRIVATIZE

Privatize

It's my pleasure to deliver pig chops

Having special rights

Pedant admitting awful editor must be indulged

They're not enjoyed by everyone

Special rights

Exclusive rights

A bout to remember (wordplay)

Boxing match (2 words)

Pro boxing match

Probation

""A uricosuric drug, C 13 H 19 NO 4 S, derived from benzoic acid and used chiefly in the treatment of gout.""

PROCAMBIA

The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated.

Variant of prokaryote .

Of the rules

Following the rules

Record Paul removed of method of conducting business

Reproduces new ways to get things done

Courses of action

Parliamentary methods.

On-going course of action

A larval stage of certain tapeworms that typically develops in the body cavity of a copepod.

Part of C.P.U.

For a change for the better, advancing in formation

It's just one thing after the other!

March parade (wordplay)

March in support of home rule

Chip ingredients (wordplay)

Canneries, for example

Announced more placid rambling

Declared publicly

Heralded

One who proclaims.

Proclitic

Tendency for Gap to stock large one for adult

Predilection

Proconsul

Brought forth

Begat

SIREd

Brings into being

One producing young

Progenitor

Zoology Having a pattern or coloration adapted for natural camouflage.

Pl. proctodea (-d ) or proctodeums also proctodaea (-d ) or proctodaeums An inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm that develops into part of the anal passage.

Rear area (wordplay)

Looking up passages in love diary, month before: snoop around

Of a student official

Of a professor's procurator

Proctor

""Lying down, or on the face; prone.""

One paid, possibly responsive to treatment on offer (wordplay)

Lawyer (in Scotland)

Agent for clergyman reduced men

Scottish lawyer

Irresponsibly makes professional sneer against friend

Lavishly.

Colossal reminder soldier was in debt

Profoundly amazing

Incredible

Disease and Illness ()

""Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended.""

Stage play, for one

Making exotic crouton dip

... making boozy crouton dip

Fertile for channel four ending live

Yielding results

Tailed setter carrying gun (model 4E) - it's efficient

Proenzyme

What the don does be doing in the way of declaration (wordplay)

Job announcement (wordplay)

Occupation; declaration (of belief)

Religious belief in vocation

Top-ranking teachers

So, press for change in the universities

Campus group

Tendering for public relations, initially

Able to make money on nice make-up

Do well without turning nice and skilful

Competent, thoroughly qualified

Lucrative for female, I suggest

Cost-effective

Academic, one sitting on the board making money

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Ones jacking up prices, maybe

Overcharges during a crisis

Parasites of a sort.

Without gain.

PROFIT to gain an advantage or benefit

Reckless extravagance

Losing grip of late, being extravagant

Tip a golfer gave to prodigal

Extravagant tip a golfer developed

A paid athlete has to go down deeper

In a profound manner.

Don't purify murky depth

For amusement, take time in amateur handicraft in depth

Profusion

Father, for good measure, organised riot

Originator, as of a musical style

One standing in for man or father

These are important for differentiation of endometrium

Proglottis.

""One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.""

Prognose

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Programer

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Fed the computer.

Writer of computer code

Scott Adams job before "Dilbert"

Computer coder

Lists of bouts favouring lightweights

Presumably wanting pounds set aside for schemes

Supporting metric units for series of measures

Took steps

Covered ground

Got somewhere

Advances steadily

Given initial publicity, more than one horrible female advances

Out of bounds

Against the rules

Spoken, not aloud

""A single-chain polypeptide that is the precursor of insulin, converted into insulin by enzymatic action.""

Boulder, for a catapult

Spitball, for example

Bullet, shell or rocket.

Project

Bump kin (wordplay)

Estimate of future possibilities

Certain linear transformation

PROJECT to extend outward

Projector

""An organism of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryotae), comprising the bacteria and cyanobacteria, characterized by the absence of a distinct, membrane-bound nucleus or membrane-bound organelles, and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes. Also called moneran .""

Prolactin

Prolamine

Prolapse

One who speaks for another.

PROLOGIZE To deliver a Prologue.

Prologize

Prologue

""PROLOGUE to preface, also PROLOG""

Prolonger

Continuing desire to follow master

Expert sportsman with desire keeping going

Prolusion

Took a leisurely walk

Strolled on the boardwalk

Royal Albert Hall regular

Walker - concert goer

Square dancer, at times

Walks made person fit

Square dance maneuvers.

Ballroom marches

Radioactive lanthanide element, atomic no 61

Element supporting me, I'm thus not entirely unfortunate

Precipice or peak

Highly visibility or importance

Something that sticks out

Like an IOU

IOU "note"

and 13: Written undertaking to pay a sum of money

Historic Utah rail site

Bluff new Conservative after hype

Head aware of blocking party line

PROMOTE to help forward

Actions taken to increase sales

Production script of a play

Stage manager's script

Direct programme that's read on stage but not to the audience

Punctuality

After school dance, PTA detailed head's punctuality

Make known officially.

Broadcast of pet glamour model

Announce Portugal's heaving with 'em

Promulge

Pronation

PRONATOR a forearm or forelimb muscle

Of or pertaining to the pronephros.

""Pl. pronephroi (-roi) or pronephra (-r ) A kidneylike organ, being either part of the most anterior pair of three pairs of organs in a vertebrate embryo, disappearing early in the embryonic development of higher vertebrates, but functioning as a kidney in some simple vertebrates, such as the lamprey.""

Black Hills beasts

Resembling a part of speech

Containing he, she or it, for example

Containing he, she or it, e.g

Said to be plainly evident

It's said to be obvious

Strong spoke

Spelling bee official

Articulates

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum.

Scans for errors

Looks over the galleys

Looks for trouble, in a way

Proofroom

""Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.""

A socially correct goose (wordplay)

Artificial intelligence (wordplay)

A socially correct goose?

Broadcast supporting the old man not allowed out

Multiplied.

Spreads, as ideas

Increases number of articles on stage, including gemstone

Decorous reptile

Breeder supplying mock croc, auditors find? On the contrary!

Diffuser

Propagule

Agent that sets off a rocket.

Launching-pad fuel

Fuel Rover's last foreign car in factory

Serving to propel; propelling.

Sell proper pants (those supporting choppers?)

Driving (something) forward

Driving forward

Propellor

Propend

Inclination; tendency

Inclination

Proclivity

Properdin

The quality of being proper.

Owning buildings and land

Having grounds, nosed around, nothing fresh

NAMA for one is in favour of representative sent back tied

Correct wear for the stage (wordplay)

Correct neckwear (wordplay)

That's right. Bonds and real estate

Prophecy

Was nosy about work he has told about in advance

A prophet.

Forecasts

Sibyl oppress the unorthodox (wordplay)

Title for Anna Luke 236

Title for Anna: Luke 2:36

A salt of propionic acid.

Appease, as a god

Marketing drug, maintaining it will induce goodwill

Pacify.

Of good omen

Promising support with Italian debts on paper

Promising support, promises to support it

A cytoplasmic organelle from which a plastid develops.

Propolis

The ayes

Advocates

Part voting aye (wordplay)

Fit for serving

Supporting part share

PROPOSE to put forward for consideration or acceptance

Maybe anti-euro newspaperman is put forward

Set forth.

Beaten by argument in favour of being put forward

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket?

One who sets forth with a quid in his pocket (wordplay)

""An ancient Roman official, appointed to be the chief administrator of a province after serving his term of office as praetor.""

Propretor

Owner (of a business)

Titleholder is Perot, prior to change

Name on the door, often

Force of a rocket.

Forward drive of the jet.

Push blend of US pop and Lion King (short version)

""Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging.""

Pl. propylaea (-l ) An entrance or vestibule to a temple or group of buildings. Also called propylon .

Propylene

Proportionate divisions

PROROGATE To prorogue.

Prorogate

Prorogue

Prosateur

Mourns epic broadcast in part of theatre

Front part of stage

Theater arch

""Pl. prosciutti (-t ) or prosciuttos An aged, dry-cured, spiced Italian ham that is usually sliced thin and served without cooking.""

Ham in cooking pot? Scour it!

Raw cured Italian ham

Ham actor, losing lead, is put off love

Abridged Plain Words copy editor outlawed

Forbidden

""One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.""

Bans kid in tricky process

Outlaws supporting teachers of traditional law

Forbids

Prosect

Prosector

Tried to find passage of writing on charming daughter

Does D. A. duty

Somehow secures top wages

Practises and secures top spin

Ken Starr, for one

One who conducts case against defendant

One with something to prove

""PROSELYTE A new convert especially a convert to some religion or religious sect, or to some particular opinion, system, or party; thus, a Gentile converted to Judaism, or a pagan converted to Christianity, is a proselyte. proselyte.""

Proselyte

""A course of study for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in a college or university, conducted in the manner of a seminar.""

Prosimian

Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.

Bards

Looked for something to claim

He's disclaimed (wordplay)

One with a miner role (wordplay)

49er, for example

Security account (wordplay)

Outline the view taken over America

Outline plan for approval

Prosper

Part 3 of our quotation

In a way, property is wealth

M.'s word for future generations

Rich American follows Shakespearean

Affluent Italian duke meets American

In the CHIPs

PROSTATE a gland in male mammals

""Pl. prostheses (-s z) An artificial device used to replace a missing body part, such as a limb, tooth, eye, or heart valve.""

Pirate ship stores wooden leg perhaps

Product of an arms factory (wordplay)

Sister hops about on artificial leg, say

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Somebody who gets screwed at work (wordplay)

PROSTOMIA