10-Letter Words Starting P & Ending A

• animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels

• the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems

• An excessive appetite for food

• The eating of many different types of food

• any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries

• a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45

• excessive thirst (as in cases of diabetes or kidney dysfunction)

• any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila

• An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.