12-Letter Words Containing P

Extemporal

EXTEMPORISE

Extemporise

Spoke on the spur of the moment.

One who extemporizes.

Extemporize

""A sense organ, such as the ear, that receives and responds to stimuli originating from outside the body.""

Extirpation

Originating or occurring outside the liver.

Predicted from known data

Extended by inference from known data

Extrapolate

EXTRAPOLATE

Fellowship

Fetoprotein

Fingerpick

They may get a dusting

Handy aids to solving crime

Handy means of identification

Fireproof

Flameproof

Flameproof

Any of a group of enzymes containing flavin bound to protein and acting as dehydrogenation catalysts in biological reactions.

""A system of printing on a rotary press employing water-based ink, used especially for printing on plastic, paper, or cardboard.""

Pliant states

See photofluorography .

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

Fluoroscope

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

""A derivative of phenothiazine, C 22 H 26 F 3 N 3 OS, used for the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.""

The act or condition of following a leader; adherence: "It was not a crisis of leadership. It was a crisis of followership" (Christian Science Monitor).

Foremanship

Forespeak

Frankpledge

Picture at beginning of book

Illustration in book of head one's cut

Illustration facing a book's title page

Gallinipper

""An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.""

Potter's Field!

Art of scoring points

Contests + guy + boat

Gametophore

Gametophyte

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Gastroscope

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Generalship

A person of good breeding; a lady or a gentleman.

Of the earth.

An earth scientist

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

Being under high pressure within the earth.

Glasspaper

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

English word

Any of a group of conjugated proteins having a carbohydrate as the nonprotein component.

Acting on or stimulating the gonads: a gonadotropic hormone.

""A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland and placenta, which stimulates the gonads and controls reproductive activity.""

Googolplex

Tittle-tattler

Good spoonerism made up about leader of group, a tattler

From Kennon to Long, in Louisiana.

Cries of relief after impressive directions from young relatives

Massive yearly payments for old people

Close ancestors

What were Russell and Anna Huxtable on "The Cosby Show" (wordplay)

GRAPHITIZE

Graphology

He will take you by your hand

Handwriting studier

One asking for your hand before getting to know you

GRASPING grasp

Certain military aircraft.

Fabled fritterers

Mixed drinks

As in pre-stage make-up (wordplay)

Heard Greece decorates to hide face

Greenkeeper

He makes sure the rough isn't too rough

One who uses a stimpmeter

Golf course maintenance person

Groupuscule

Grumpiness

Paper's joint responsibility

Responsibility for safety of daily transport

Mixed a drug in a vessel, as responsibility for ward

Young vagabonds

""One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.""

One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Pl. hagiographies Biography of saints.

Quibbler (2 words)

One disputing cowboy shirt retail price, at first

Quibbler

Haloperidol

Handicapper

Putting at a disadvantage

Horse racing activity

Handyperson

A happenstance.

Chance expression of disgust about change involving co-star of Oliver!

Fellow writer getting caught out by attitude that wasn't planned

Writer bumping into ten chaps, a peculiar coincidence

Haptoglobin

Instruments for Scarlatti

Ridiculous extremes disco and rap: doubly hard to play instruments

German rabbit stew

Rabbit stew

Hebephrenia

Hebephrenic

Hectograph

Hedgehopper

Hedgehop

Helicopter

Heliograph

Of or pertaining to heliography or a heliograph; made by heliography.

""The phenomenon of turning toward the light, seen in many leaves and flowers.""

A person who steers a ship.

Feeling of being unable to manage

Inability to defend oneself

Noun denoting doctrine or practice

Hemophiliac

Hemoprotein

Abnormal enlargement of the liver.

English word

Having dissimilar leaves on one plant.

Heteroploid

HETEROPLOID

Heterotroph

HETEROTROPH

Hexaploidy

Type of writing

Of or relating to hierophants or their teachings.

Hippieness

Oppo hams it up (anagram)

Large semi-aquatic mammal

Large African mammal frequenting rivers

HOLOGRAPHER holograph

Holography

Holograph

""Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.""

HOMEOMORPH

Homeopathy

Same as Homomorphy. Homomorphy.

Homopolymer

Nectar-feeding bird

Feeling of despair

Despondency

Despair

Hopscotch

Skill in riding

Well up with it

Hampshire son trained in skilled riding

HORSEPLAYER horseplay

Flogged by a stock-holder (wordplay)

Thrashed

HORSEWHIP A whip for horses.

In where they tend to get you out

Hospitalise

""HOSPITALIZE To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.""

Hospitalize

Hotchpotch

They clean up after clerics and footballer in bars

They clean up after clerics in family castle on riverside at the centre

Accommodate the last lines of defence for those cleaning up after the clergy

Maid's profession

Oikologist's study

Money set aside for domestic costs

Take in rope for craftsman

Job that involves ladder climbing

Man with a ladder

Houseparent

Houseperson

""A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.""

""One skilled in the hydrography; one who surveys, or draws maps or charts of, the sea, lakes, or other waters, with the adjacent shores; one who describes the sea or other waters.""

HYDROGRAPH

Adjective (-ic)

Hydropathy

Hydrophobia

""HYDROPLANE A plane, or any of a number of planes, projecting from the hull of a submarine boat, which by being elevated or depressed cause the boat, when going ahead, to sink or rise, after the manner of an a\'89roplane.""

Hydrosphere

HYDROSPHERE The aqueous vapor of the entire atmosphere.

Use of water in a medical treatment

New trophy ready, supporting hospital's remedial treatment

A tendency towards moisture.

HYGROPHILE

One of the Hymenoptera.

Same as hymenopteran.hymenopteran.

Hypabyssal

Minute edited from chirpy daytime broadcast is source of internal discomfort

They pray corruptly to frame detectives with one internal complaint

Hyperactive

AROUSAL the act of {arousing=v}

Belonging to the hyperbola; having the nature of the hyperbola.

Hyperbolist

HYPERBOLIZE To speak or write with exaggeration.

Hyperbolize

Hyperboloid

Hyperborean

Hypercapnia

CHARGED charge

Hypercharge

COMPLEX to make complicated

CORRECT to make {right=adj}

Hypercritic

ENDEMIC an endemial disease

EXCITED excite

Hyperextend

INTENSE existing in a high degree

KINESES kinesis

""Body, Human a condition of the body in which muscular movement is abnormally agitated. ; hyperkinetic ,""

Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm.

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

""LIPEMIA excessive fat in the blood, also LIPAEMIA""

Adjective (-ic)

There's my park being redeveloped for big stores

Hypermnesia

MUTABLE capable of change

OSTOSES ostosis

OSTOSIS the formation of bone

Pl. hyperostoses (-s z) Excessive or abnormal thickening or growth of bone tissue.

Hyperphagia

Hyperplasia

Of or pertaining to hyperplasia.

""A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.""

REACTOR one who {reacts=v}

REALISM concern with fact or reality

REALIST one who is concerned with fact or reality

Hypersthene

""Composed of, or containing, hypersthene.""

SURFACE to apply an outer layer to

High blood pressure

Increased pressure to overstate numbers in crime genre comeback

Having abnormally high blood pressure.

High body temperature

THERMIC pertaining to heat

""THYROID a ductless gland in the neck, also THYREOID""

TROPHIC pertaining to nutrition

TYPICAL representative of the species

Hyphenation

Under treatment (wordplay)

Treatment aimed at recovering suppressed memories

Happy then, or poorly, youth's beginning course of treatment

HYPNOTIC a sleep-inducing drug