9-Letter Words Ending in A

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Small Pacific fish used for bait

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

Plymouth muscle car

Predatory fish found in tropical seas

'68 Plymouth with optional Mod Top roof

Type of aria

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

To which 'plant' can allude, possibly

Eurasian plant of the marigold genus

Pot marigold

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

eg Harebell or Scottish bluebell

Genus of bellflowers

Bell flower

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Star-fruit tree

Star fruit

Type of pasta sauce

A sauce for pasta

Bacony pasta dish

A major type of cancer

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Chiasma

Variant of cherimoya .

The disorder a child may wreak!

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

Ancient water clock

Dry places, not right for this to work

Dry places damaged this timekeeper

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Coelom

Cognomen

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

""An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.""

Digests of a sort

Short summaries

Reference works from which man copied wrongly

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

Pl -lae [-ˌliː] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the technical name for pollen basket

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Pl. cuadrillas The group of assistants to the matador in a bullfight.

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Play for real (wordplay)

Program that rings true

'Based on a true story' movie

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

Ecthyma

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Parts of sacs around hearts

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Plural of involucrum .

One oriental male in Walton's isle presenting a bloody problem

After ache is treated intention is to reverse deficiency in blood supply

Blood disorder - a setback for me in Italian island

Tropical flowering tree

Tropical tree with fern-like leaves

Purple-blooming bignonia

Lacunar

Tree housing Sandler (wordplay)

Some kind of nut

Tree or nut

Pl -ia [-ɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the flat ciliated larva of flukes that hatches from the egg and gives rise asexually to other larval forms

English word

Myocardium

Salamis as served at Roman spectacle (wordplay)

Salamis as offered at Roman circus (wordplay)

Naval occasion, said by Ovid to be a good place to meet girls

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

Players with excited roar about 16, say

Boston Pops, for one

Musicians in a pit (wordplay)

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

Three-book Newton work

English word

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

Sarcoma

Logical as imitation stone (wordplay)

Imitation marble is logical as could be

Imitation marble.

Perhaps I can still sparkle

I can still change hint

A tiny bit

Plural of sclerotium .

Scotoma

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Simplex

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

Foreheads

MUCOSA a mucous membrane

Brutal ace found out, put in cell (wordplay)

Rod-shaped cell or structure that bridges a cavity

""Pl. triclinia (- - ) A couch facing three sides of a rectangular table, used by the ancient Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans for reclining at meals.""

Hives not restricted to apiarists

Nettle rash, an itchy skin eruption

Rash result of grasping the nettle (wordplay)

""A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum. as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.""

Shot cavalier infected by Latin disease

Chickenpox