12-Letter Words Containing P

Putting at risk

JEOPARDIZE To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.

Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence.

Producer of motion pictures (wordplay)

Constantly changing pattern

Optical pattern-making toy

""Pl -ties (Medicine / Surgery) plastic surgery of the cornea, esp involving corneal grafting keratoplastic   adj KINAESTHESIA (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Physiology) the sensation by which bodily position, weight, muscle tension, and movement are perceived Also called muscle sense [from New Latin, from Greek kinein to move + aesthesia ]""

Kinetoplast

Kinetoscope

He can't help helping himself

Lifter of habit

Magpie trained to peck animal

Kleptomania

Kneecapping

Kymography

""LAMPLIGHTER One who, or that which, lights a lamp; esp., a person who lights street lamps.""

Lampoonery

Landscapist

Laparoscope

""LAPAROSCOPE A slender endoscope, containing fiber-optic viewing capability and miniature surgical devices, which can be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall, allowing a surgeon to perform minor surgery with minimal damage to the abdominal muscles.""

Laparotomy

""An instrument, consisting of an arrangement of two mirrors, for reflecting light upon the larynx, and for examining its image.""

The art of using the laryngoscope; investigations made with the laryngoscope.

Silly chap at leisure caught out in poet's office

New York bus driver's activity

Cold-blooded children's play activity (wordplay)

Such reptiles chewed up chairs

Leopardess

Sort of insect to upset people, darn it!

Butterfly, for example

Butterfly or moth

Leprosarium

""Pl. leptocephali (-l ) One of the small, flat, transparent larvae of eels and certain other fishes, characterized by a long, narrow head.""

Leukoplakia

Plural or third person singular

The formation or production of white blood cells.

The formation or production of white blood cells.

The compiling of dictionaries

The compilation of dictionaries

Writing and compiling of dictionaries

Lickspittle

Lifemanship

Swift people (wordplay)

Swift race (wordplay)

Residents of imaginary country

Limpidness

Lipoprotein

Liposuction

The people who listen to a radio program or station.

Lithograph

Type of printer

Of metal or stone surface printing

Lithosphere

""LITHOSPHERE The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere.""

A device that pulverizes kidney stones and gallstones by passing shock waves through a water-filled tub in which the patient sits.

An instrument for triturating the stone in the bladder; a lithotrite.

Livetrap

Lack of symmetry

Asymmetry

They get the message out powerfully - these can affect one hearing things!

Lumpectomy

Adjective (-ic)

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biochemistry) other names for prolactin

Luteotropin

Lymphoblast

""A description of the lymphatic vessels, their origin and uses.""

LYMPHOMA a type of {tumour=n}

LYOPHILISE same as lyophilize.lyophilize.

Lyophilizer

""LYOPHILIZE to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials.""

Having long wings.

Madreporian

Madreporite

""An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.""

The outer boundary of the magnetosphere.

MALAPERT an impudent person

Mozart was a child progeny, etc.

'Select words so ingeniously misapplied'

"Mozart was a child progeny," etc.

Malapropist

Malposition

Malpractice

MAMMOGRAPH

Managership

""MANIPULATE To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus. as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.""

Osteopath's method

Osteopath's technique

Osteopathic technique

Inclined to control others

Machiavellian as a physiotherapist (wordplay)

Unscrupulously controlling

Manipulator

Of or pertaining to manipulation.

Mantelpiece

Marketplace

Skill with rifle, crossbow etc

Skill in hitting a target

Skill in shooting

""Nautical A pointed metal spike, used to separate strands of rope or wire in splicing.""

Marlinspike

Marshalship

Owner scraps works of art

Best work in epic art seems different

*Works worth framing

Meatpacking

Megaproject

Melanophore

Meprobamate

English word

Mesomorphy

MESOPHYLL

Messiahship

""An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings.""

""The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.""

Undergo drastic change

Develop into another form

Change completely

Like a figure of speech

Symbolic of something else

Figurative

A cheat simply becomes abstruse

Very abstract.

""Pl. metencephala (-l ) The anterior part of the embryonic hindbrain, which gives rise to the cerebellum and pons.""

Areas in insets

Primatial line (wordplay)

Relating to a city

'50s U.K.-built Nash & Hudson model

Microampere

""A small, sometimes microscopic capsule designed to release its contents when broken by pressure, dissolved, or melted.""

MICROCEPHAL

Micrograph

Of or pertaining to micrography.

""The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.""

""(used with a sing. verb) The physics of molecular, atomic, nuclear, and subnuclear systems.""

A very small pipette used in microinjection.

(Electronics & Computer Science / Computer Science) Computing a sequence of microinstructions that controls the operation of an arithmetic and logic unit so that machine code instructions are executed

Microscopy

""One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.""

Microsphere

""MICROSPORE One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore. Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.""

Milliampere

Mimeograph

Minesweeper

The activity of detecting and disposing of marine mines.

Electronic development of the 1960's

Small digital electronic device

Laptop, for example

Characters such as Moliere's Alceste

Man-haters

Is smart phone designed for antisocial types (wordplay)

Having a dislike of humankind

Disliking all mankind

Right! I can stop him, with manipulation, having a hatred of mankind

APPRAISAL A valuation by an authorized person; an appraisement.

Get the wrong idea

Get the wrong idea about tailored denim perhaps

Opens manacles in stockade to take prisoner by mistake

Miscaption

COMPUTING compute

Misdevelop

""EMPHASIZE To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase. as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.""

Misemploy

Take the wrong way, as writing

Take the wrong way

Understand incorrectly

PACKAGING package

PERCEIVED perceive

Misperceive

""The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.""

Misposition

Misprogram

Say "cachet" as "ca-CHET," say

Say wrongly

Timid people, covering second part of speech, don't sound right

Misreport

Perhaps spin doctor Premier's dispatched

Give a false account of (something)

Give false account of

Misspelling

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Monitorship

(Chemistry) Chem (of a colloidal system) having particles of similar size

Monograph

""Chemistry Having only one form, as one crystal form.""

Amongst others, I snog nth sloven with oomph

""Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin. polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.""

Monopodial

MONOPOLISE

Likely to control a market

Monopolizer

""MONOPOLIZE To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land. as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.""

Adjective (-ic)

Having one neural synapse.

Monoterpene

""Pl. morphallaxes (-l k s z) The regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters.""

""Pl. morphallaxes (-l k s z) The regeneration of a body part by means of structural or cellular reorganization with only limited production of new cells, observed primarily in invertebrate organisms, such as certain lobsters.""

Morphology

One who is versed in the science of morphology.

Form ()

MOTHPROOFER mothproof

Mothproof

Mountaintop

I needed a few pointers, and I was...

'I needed a few pointers, and I was...'

Mucopeptide

Mucoprotein

Involving many sections

Noun (-ure)

MULTIPLEXER multiplex

Multiplex

Multiplexor

The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. See Note under Multiplication. multiplier. See Note under Multiplication.

Host put illicit rum with my round

Large number or variety

Great variety

Word with prefix multi-

Word with prefix multi-

Having many prongs.

Serving many functions

Adaptable, versatile

Plural or third person singular

District with cup in Italy? I'm excited

""To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry.as, a municipalized industry.""

Instrumental prowess - Pisa is Munich (anagram)

Skill in performance showing player is with it

Members of Scottish Chamber perhaps happening to show ability

Mycophagist

""Any of numerous parasitic, pathogenic microorganisms of the genus Mycoplasma that lack a true cell wall, are gram-negative, and need sterols such as cholesterol for growth. In humans, one species is a primary cause of nonbacterial pneumonia. Also called pleuropneumonia-like organism .""

Myelopathy

An organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant.

A composer of fables.

Naphthalene

Naprapathy

Narcolepsy

Narcoleptic

NATUROPATH

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan. Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

Sexual pervert in police car, terribly hard to keep in

Necrophilia

NECROPHILE

""NECROPOLIS A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.""

Needlepoint

Negrophobia

Nephelinite

NEPHELINITE

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

An apparatus used to measure the size and concentration of particles in a liquid by analysis of light scattered by the liquid.

Nephrology

Kidney doctor

English port with nothing doing for renal expert