12-Letter Words Starting with P

Prosthetist

""PROSTITUTE To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire.""

The 'oldest profession'

Game Italian's behind French driver, twisting in and out

Prostitutor

Prostration

""Symbol Pa A rare, extremely toxic, radioactive element chemically similar to uranium, having 13 known isotopes, the most common of which is protactinium 231 with a half-life of 32,480 years. Atomic number 91; melting point 1,230°C; specific gravity 15.37; valence 4, 5. See Table at element .""

Heroes reduced pain in amoebae, say

Champions new roasting pots

Supporters groan - it stops play

Protective

State controlled by another

State looked after by another

Commonwealth period

Protectory

Proteinuria

Protensive

English word

Toper sloshed, post complaint

Emphatic declaration

Complaint in favour of Victoria perhaps taking note

Badly harm optional poem before marriage

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it (wordplay)

Possibly no marital hop would be complete without it

A song in celebration of a marriage.

Prothallus

Pl. prothonotaries also protonotaries The principal clerk in certain courts of law.

Prothrombin

Protocol

History

Protomartyr

Protonation

PROTONEMATA

Protophloem

Protoplanet

Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.

PROTOTROPH

*Like Disneyland, vis-a-vis theme parks

""; protozoologist , Biology""

Protraction

In a protrusive manner.

Outward bulge - not cupbearer (anagram)

Something sticking out

Bump or lump

Past tense or past participle

PROVABLE able to be proved

Provenience

In the style of a gnome (wordplay)

Dog restrained by lead, one friend famously

Lucky devil on a trip abroad

Unexpectedly fortunate (as if arranged by God)

Very opportune

In a provincial manner.

Provisional

Provisional.

PROVISIONER provision

Provision

Provocateur

Provocation

Provocative

In a prudential manner; prudently.

PRUSSIANISE

Prussianise

PRUSSIANIZE

Prussianize

Psephology

FiveThirtyEight fellow, perhaps

MORI man perhaps dashed Government hopes, its poll showing eclipse of Left

English word

See false pregnancy .

See false pregnancy .

Pseudomonad

Pseudomorph

Redirection of debts - 25, about: it's in Araucaria's very nature

""Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. as, a pseudonymous work.""

""Of or pertaining to a pseudopod, or to pseudopodia. See Illust. of Heliozoa. Illust. of Heliozoa.""

Same as Pseudopod. Pseudopod.

""Of, relating to, or being random numbers generated by a definite, nonrandom computational process.""

Psychedelia

Psychedelic

Psychiatry

Breakdown expert (wordplay)

Carl Jung, perhaps

Treater of mental disorders

Affecting the mind or mental processes. Used of a drug.

Shrink rap (wordplay)

Some self-help spoutings, say

BS from Alfred Hitchcock (wordplay)

Psychodrama

Psychograph

Madman ogles head of institution oddly, displaying mental attitudes

PSYCHOLOGISE

PSYCHOLOGISE

Freud, for one

Scoop slightly (anagram) - Freud, say

Jung, for instance.

PSYCHOLOGIZE

Measuring mental processes

Pathologically violent and antisocial

Like some Freudian stages

Party at the Bates Motel (wordplay)

Type of drug affecting mental state

""An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.""

Hygrometry.

""Any of various vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.""

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (Earth Sciences / Palaeontology) any extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the group Pteridospermae Also called seed fern [from Greek pteris a fern + -sperm ]

Lady protects terrible old creatures

In replay, clatters dopy old wingers

Lady Prescott transported some flying reptiles!

Publication

Publicness

Pugnacious

Pulchritude

Pullulation

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.

Coarse dark ryebread

German coarse rye bread

Coarse dark rye bread

Pumpkinseed

Punchinello

Punctuation

PUNITIVE inflicting punishment

PURBLIND partially blind

Removal of contaminants

Process of cleansing

Ritual cleansing

Purificator

Serving or tending to purify; purificative.

Puristical

Some military decorations

The uppers a girl (let alone GI) is thrilled by

Oldest awards still given to United States military members

Purposeful

PUSSYFOOTER pussyfoot

Pussyfoot

Pustulation

Process of rotting

""Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. as, the putrefactive smell or process.""

Putrescence

Having the head full of confused notions.

Pyrargyrite

""A crystalline amine, C 8 H 12 N 2 O 2 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in protein metabolism.""

(Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for catechol QUARTERLIGHT (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Brit a small pivoted window in the door of a car for ventilation

""Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receiving electric polarity when heated.""

""PYROGENIC Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Causing criminal damage, a rail company at fault

""Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.""

""A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.""

Things that flare

Make light of playing with fire

Firework display

Fireworks expert