9-Letter Words

Acrodont

Acrolect

Acrolein

Wooden statues with stone extremities

ACRONYM a word formed from initials

Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over

(Of leaves and flowers) developing upwards from the base or point of attachment

Like the arrangement of some flowers in a batch with others

One who hates heights

Athens landmark arise (nonverbal)

Where the Parthenon was built.

Literally, "highest city"

ACROSOME a thin sac at the head of the sperm

Acrosome

Initial readings (wordplay)

NEWS for the four directions, and others

Certain word puzzles

Acrotism

Acrylate

Actinian

Series of radioactive elements

Elements playin' a part on fateful day

Uranium and plutonium, for example

Actinism

Actinium

Actinoid

Made operative

Switched on

Fourth part of play a youth set in motion

Sets in motion.

Stimulates

Vitalizes.

Turn-on (wordplay)

Chemical catalyst

Catalyst

Activism

Ones seeking change

They've got issues

Black Lives Matter demonstrators, for example

Activize

Activize

Bill locks ladies in green room, perhaps

Bill locks performers in theatre maybe

Glamorous Oscar Night parties (wordplay)

It's not a dream

Beingness or existence

State of real existence

Make a reality of

So to be working with figures is risky

Of life-expectancy calculation

Relating to statistical calculation

Risk assessors sign, after a drastic cut

They calculate insurance risks

Insurance company employees

Motivating

Process of making operate

Actuator

""Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc. as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.""

Acutance

Quality of sharp pain

That seems a cunning attribute

Use secant with sharp perceptiveness

""A synthetic purine nucleoside analog, C 8 H 10 N 5 O 3 , derived from guanine and used in the treatment of herpes simplex, herpes zoster, and varicella zoster virus infections.""

Acylate

ACYLATE to introduce acyl into

Adamance

Without backing down

With no sign of caving

In manner unyielding

Adamsite

Of flexible nature.

American with bald pate oddly plastic

Good at fitting in to new circumstances

Panda is to evolve in Darwinian processes

Pusher's activity

Monkey on one's back ("Henry V")

I did act on (anagram)

Maybe this is inhabited

Hard to give up

(Of drug) habit-forming

Habit-forming

New members of the family.

Extra rooms, for example

Extra publishings, by the sound of them

Coloring agents, for example

Substances blended with motor oil

Antiknocks, for example

Ready to be posted, say

Said to be what was on the envelope

So the envelope must be spoken to

Letter-opener (wordplay)

Letter opener (wordplay)

A letter opener (wordplay)

One on a podium, perhaps

Speech-maker

Business machine.

Points of contact (wordplay)

Speaks to, a crowd perhaps

Places where people can be found

Adduct

The act of adducing or bringing forward.

""Adducing, or bringing towards or to something.""

Inner thigh muscles

Certain thigh muscles

Glandular upset ailed an old Democrat

Glandular trouble almost laid one out

Like glandular tissue at back of nose

Adenoma

The 'A' of ATP

The A in ATP

Ability without difficulty

Dud and Pete's singular skill

Savior-faire

Observant quality present in fluid dance

You'd be stuck with that

Sticking ability

Adherend

Followers less certain than Reed's

Tears by poor head's supporters

Supporters of neatherds

Abnormally united tissues

Firm attachments

Epoxy and others.

Sides have reconciled; they form bonds

Glue and rubber cement

Adhibit

Maintaining the heat, key help to intercept agents from the south

Relating to process in which there is no transference of heat

Biological word for a fat-storing cell

Fat cell

Idiot pays criminal for property of 6 23

Fatty nature

Contiguity.

The good in "good riddance"

Modifier of a noun

'Dead' or 'alive'

Do a jig in new building next door

A daughter doing woodwork? Touching

A daughter getting married next door

Closed court at the end of a session

More than recessed

Postponed until another day

Adjudge

By way of addition or adjunct; in connection with.

They alter commercials - right the Queen should appear in them

Fine-tuning

Tending to adjust.

Adjustor

Assistant officer's role

Military officers

Adjuvant

This made a certain share

Will Father get back to me with a certain way to share this out (wordplay)

Can A get made certain to apportion this (wordplay)

Deserving respect and approval

Excellent as Barrie's butler

Deserving of esteem

Liam Brady played like this

Main office (wordplay)

The main men (wordplay)

Headquarters of the British navy.

Madison Avenue undertaking (wordplay)

Guilty plea, say

Commercial assignment (wordplay)

Allowing a girl to enter a sleazy place

Notice the formal letter allowing entry

Tending to concede.

Bouncers, at times

Kind of department at a hospital

Accepting the truth of

Agreement to the truth of entrance

Extraneous ingredient

Say nice things about new tux, creating bit of a stir (wordplay)

Ingredient.

Adnation

Adjective meaning resembling

Able to be taken up

Fit for taking home from the animal shelter

Commercial work on board is such as may be undertaken

Humane Society successes

Social worker's concern.

Votes to accept commercial alternatives

Commercial speech (wordplay)

Love a fair helping of bother (wordplay)

Allowance of fuss and of love (wordplay)

In a worshipping manner

With much love.

One way to gaze

Touch of color, perhaps

Decoration for naval personnel in a spot

Mend a torn dress with decoration

Most skilful at concealing steroid misuse

Adscript

Substance taken up in a lab

A type of tree covered in fruit? It's only on the surface

Like charcoal filter

Capable of deflecting moisture

Capable of producing a film about bears? Don't!

Some emissions reducers

Adsorb

Adularia

Dug around a Latin - praise be!

Worshipful

Lauding

Very high regard

Sycophant's specialty

High praise for an adult I love to tease

Prays from them, by the sound of it

Obsequious group

Big fans

Excessively flattering

When almost grown-up, a politician is flattering

Sycophantic

Who later rued straying (wordplay)

Durer tale (anagram)

One's business affairs (wordplay)

Minor goal (wordplay)

A step above the minors (wordplay)

Supposedly mature years

Adjective meaning resembling

Maturity

Foreshadow a silent tear, perhaps

Indicate a silent speed (wordplay)

Outline from an unintelligent judge

Advancer

Lending is increasing

Moving forward like army

Moving forward, as troops

Service commercial vehicle, say, at back

Edge of the tennis court (wordplay)

Head start, say

Advect

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

ADVECT to transport by the flow of a fluid

Accidental.

Commercial gamble (wordplay)

Per this perhaps it's exciting

New account on Madison Avenue (wordplay)

Kind of clause

Of a class of words.

Type of phrase

Antagonist or opponent

Satan (with "the").

One's not 4U

I write jingles

Harmfully notice poetry lay hollow

In a way, against advertising jingles

State of misfortune or affliction

Something to rise above

(State of) misfortune

Attentive, heedful

The Reverend Father returns to his temporary quarters

Referring to incidentally

The Reverend Father is back for a little tea with gin

Throw out pitches (wordplay)

Promote (a product)

Push kin (wordplay)

{advertise=v}

To be recommended

Worthy of recommendation

Expedient to be recommended

Adverb

After careful consideration

Days lived surprisingly sensibly

After careful deliberation

Pled in support

Stood up for Dublin supporter from the start

Recommended

Recommends Scottish silks, perhaps

Goes to bat (for)

Promoters of Scottish silks

ADVOCATE to plead in favour of

Advowson

Adynamia

Giant flightless bird once found in Madagascar

Aequorin

Oxygen-supplying procedures

One living the high life (wordplay)

Turn up (wordplay)

Man on the flying trapeze

Aerify

Doing stunts with airplanes

Of stunt flying

One in novel boat race having high jinks

The use of atmospheric drag rather than onboard thrusters to reduce the velocity of a satellite or spacecraft.

Heathrow, for one

Bumper edition of The Waves (wordplay)

By the sound of it, a plain place

Aeroduct

Aerodyne

For a couple of eagles, backing up lubricates wings

Aerogram

Meteorites (E, not H)

Stony bodies from outer space.

Stony meteorites

Stony meteorites

Density determining instrument

Gas-density gauge

Gizmo that measures gas properties

Balloonists or airmen

They go up and down

Balloon pilots, for example

Upper-atmosphere studier

""The study of the upper atmosphere, especially of regions of ionized gas.""

Gatwick banker (wordplay)

The Spitfire, for one

British flyer (wordplay)

Soaring business (wordplay)

Opera case (anagram)

One industry above the rest (wordplay)

Dirigibles, balloons, etc.

Balloons

Comic teases the arty types

Lovers of the beautiful.

Gallery regulars

Concerned with beauty

Organizing principle of beauty

Of pleasing appearance

Four in a car sleep when it's warm

I've a taste for change and will spend the summer in bed

The science or philosophy of causation

Affecter

Touching the emotions

Putting it on

Having an impact on the emotions

Feeling of fondness

Feeling of strong liking

Admiration of affectation from the army

Tending to affect; affecting.

Afferent

Promised to go into a union

Betrothed

Engaged

Affiance

Written declaration made under oath

Written declaration on oath

Matter for a notary public

Attach (to an organisation)

Team up with FIFA et al: one fouled

In trouble if I left AA as associate

Affirmer

Saying yes to

AFFIX to {attach=v}

Noun (-ment)

Sick, day after botched facelift

Caused pain to

Diseased; suffering

Well, that gets one off

Well, it's got off this

A guard contracts sickness in profusion

Affluence.

Affluent

Providing a fine crossing

Having enough money to bear the expense

24 down is what you might have been this, as you might say

Afforest

Affrayer

Affray

""A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.""

Affright

A fine figurehead ends oddly insulted

Offended by disrespect.

Offended one FBI operative about political group

Baptisms of fire, at the start USA's in round

Poison produced by food moulds; oxtail fan (anagram)

Raised above (wordplay)

Being the one previously mentioned

The one previously mentioned

Road to recovery

Need for recovering patients

Support to customer following a purchase

Unlooked-for ending

Surprise blow following affair thought ended.

Ship area behind the bridge house

Later, adorn part of ship

Dress following of stern queen in area behind bridge

Bursting, flow with great warm feeling

Light once the actual source has gone

Light in the sky post sunset

Medium access (wordplay)

Post-death existence

Heaven or hell., for example

When to study physics?

When to study physics (wordplay)

Consequences (of an event)

Last to be following the majority

Right at the back, yet wanting the lion's share

Perhaps I am never in time like this

On following no following amend, perhaps

Am finished before it starts (wordplay)

'That's of late, it seems (5,4)'

Future