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Answer for the clue "A period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur ", 10 letters:
prepuberty

Word definitions for prepuberty in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Before puberty.

Usage examples of prepuberty.

I had set up my metamorphosis program so as to maintain primary sexual characteristics at prepuberty while allowing secondary sexual characteristics to develop.

Fourteen cadets, selected for prepuberty voices and features, were dressed as girls, in party clothes provided by farm families.

This would mean that during the time from birth to prepuberty the Small belong temporarily to a different species from that of their elders, a species considered by the Parents to be cruel and savage and, relatively speaking, of low intelligence and diminished sensitivity.