11-Letter Words Starting with P

""VALENCE a chemical bond, also VALENCY""

Fruit (literally, seeded apple)

Large globular fruit

Fruit whose name means "seedy apple"

Of or pertaining to pomology.

Pomologist

Pompadour

Pomposity

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

In a ponderous manner.

Pontifical

Speak pompously in an office in Rome

Express one's opinions pompously

Express opinions pompously

POPULARISE

Popularise

Made likeable to the general public

One making a subject accessible*

Popularize

Population

""Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.""

""Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively finegrained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.""

Easily carried quality

Meaty brewery (wordplay)

Person carrying home piece of beef

Type of steak

Nonsharing

A case of smog, say

Blend of two words

Word such as "bromance"

Painter of people

Artist's special quality is stifled by drink

Painter left by one stopping another that's run ahead

Producing pictures of people

You may sit for it

Gilbert Stuart specialty

Aligning

Locating

Positivism

Positivist

A short-lived association of an electron and a positron bound together in a configuration resembling the hydrogen atom.

Possessed

Judith Michael best seller

They're all yours

Money, etc.

They express ownership

Future prospect

Contingency

Likelihood

Adjective (-ic)

English word

English word

Situated behind the cranium.

English word

Present participle or gerund

""Subsequently in time; also, behind in position.""

Posterity

Postform

""Formed or occurring after the last glacial epoch of the Pleistocene period, or at a locality within the area of Pleistocene glaciation after the final disappearance of the glacier from the locality.""

Superlative adjective

POSTHOLE a hole dug to hold a fence post

Postillion

Present participle or gerund

Adjective (-al)

Postmark

Postmaster

Spiritless examinations (wordplay)

Stiff examinations (wordplay)

Nonmusical encores

Postnatal

""Being or happening after marriage; as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife. as, a postnuptial settlement on a wife.""

""Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles. as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles.""

POSTPONE to put off to a future time

English word

English word

Addendums

Postseason

Postsync

Noun (-sion)

""POSTULATE Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as selfevident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.""

""The act of postulating, or that which is postulated; assumption; solicitation; suit; cause.""

Postulator

Designating a consonant or consonantal sound directly following a vowel.

Present participle or gerund

The quality of being drinkable.

Mightily

Latently.

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentiate

POTENTIATE To render active or potent.

Potentilla

Pothunting

Potlatch

Potshot

Pottering

Pourparler

""POUSSETTE A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.""

Very strong bridge hands

Juggernauts

Fireballs

Powerless

Feasible

Realistic

""PRACTICE to train or drill in order to acquire skill, also PRACTISE""

To all intents and purposes

Praelect

Praemunire

Praesidium

Praetorian

""An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic, ranking below but having approximately the same functions as a consul.""

Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

Pragmatism

Mat rigs past realists

"Mat rigs past" realists

Ones asking "What are we going to do about the glass being only half full?"

Pratincole

Prattling

How some handle tough situations

How some approach big decisions

""-fies , -fying , -fied (intr) Informal to preach or moralize in a tedious manner preachifying   n""

Preachify

ACHINESS the state of being {achy=adj}

Preaching

Tiresome sermons

Preadapt

ADAPTIVE able to be adapted

Preadmit

Preadopt

Saved for future use

To announce beforehand.

APPROVED approve

Preapprove

ARRANGED arrange

Reps rang re a change in schedules

Preassign

Preaver

BIBLICAL pertaining to the bible

BIOLOGIC a drug obtained from an organic source

Prebless

CALCULUS a branch of mathematics

Precancel

Preventative measures

Sensible safeguards

Measures taken in advance to minimise risks

Precedence

Precensor

Precession

Precheck

Prechill

""Falling or rushing headlong; rushing swiftly, violently, or recklessly; moving precipitately.""

Reckless fling (wordplay)

Cause (an event to happen)

Headlong plunge (wordplay)

Precipitin

Dangerously high or steep

Dangerously steep

Steep - hasty

PRECISE sharply and clearly defined or stated

Preclean

Preclear

CLINICAL pertaining to a {clinic=n}

Preclusion

Precocity

Plural or third person singular

COLONIAL a citizen of a colony

COMPUTED compute

COMPUTER a machine that computes automatically

Precompute

""To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.""

Preconcert

CONQUEST the act of {conquering=v}

CREASING crease

CRITICAL {crucial=adj}

Predacity

DECEASED decease

Predecease

Person in post before the current holder

One there before

Jobholder before the present one

DEFINING define

DELIVERY the act of {delivering=v}

Like Oedipus' marriage

Foreordained.

Foreordained

Fates

DIABETES a metabolic disorder

DIABETIC one who has diabetes

Predicable

Fine how-do-you-do

Spot decrepit man wandering about

Last word forecast about scrape

""PREDICATE To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow. as, to predicate whiteness of snow.""

Grammatical construction that could make editor panic

Adjective in a linguistics class

Affirmative; positive.

Hardly full of surprises

Only to be expected

Unlike the distant future

PREDICT to {foretell=v}

Statements about the future

Predigest

Made susceptible to.

Despise drop, roughly inclined

Favourably inclined before Di's modelled

Predispose

Prednisone

DOCTORAL pertaining to a doctor

Rescue (ship) from loss

Providing the main element

Before celebration Amin changed new parliament's last ruling

Hold the advantage

Be the strongest element

Exert the strongest power

Predrill

DYNASTIC pertaining to a {dynasty=n}

Preelect

ELECTION the act of {electing=v}

ELECTRIC something charged by electricity

EMERGENT a type of aquatic plant

State of supremity

Position above all others

Superiority.

Preemption

Preenact

Preerect

Prior

Preexist

Plural (-ists)

""PREFECTURE The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence.""

Offices of French administrators

Political districts.

Kinks perhaps, pop's first characters

First choices.

First choices

Preferment

FIGURING figure

FINANCED finance

Prefinance

FOCUSING focus

Prefocus

Prefocus

Prefrank

Prefreeze

FRESHMAN a first-year student

Word with prefix pre-

Prefrontal

They come before deliveries

Word with prefix pre-

HEADACHE a pain inside the head

Prehension

Short price I misread is out of date

Very old or out of date

Before written records