9 letters beginning with P – “Controversial”
12 letters beginning with S – “Surgical instrument for lacerating or puncturing the skin”
13 letters beginning with V – “Named after a British diplomat, an extreme anti-Nazi attitude”
As ever, many thanks. Funnily enough I tried to persuade my computer of this one but it said there was no such word (in computertalk, of course). I thought that it was all about the pronunciation given that it was an anglification of a Spanish word. At least I was right about that.