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.

Adenoma

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

Small Pacific fish used for bait

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

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

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

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

Plural of argumentum .

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

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

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

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.

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

Coelom

""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

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

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

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

""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

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Empyema

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Variant of entamoeba .

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

Parts of sacs around hearts

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exodontics.

See yaws .

""The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.external genitalia; the genitals.""

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

The burning in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Burning"

""A light open-necked cotton shirt, often with large pockets and pleats down the front, that is typically worn outside the pants.""

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

English word

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

English word

English word

Garden flower - garden hay (anagram)

Shrub - garden hay (anagram)

Handy gear (anagram) - shrub

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Blood and Blood Vessels

Hypermetropia.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Region of one country claimed by another

English word

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

Young adult novels (wordplay)

Children's books

The Brontes' Glass Town Confederacy stories, for example

English word

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Dance similar to fandango

Spanish dance similar to the fandango

Spanish dance

Large animals of a region

Vocal runs

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

See midgut .

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

Myeloma

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

Liking for new things

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Aspirin target, maybe

Pain in the neck, perhaps

Broken rule again leads to complaint

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

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)

Pl. osmeteria (-tîr - ) An eversible glandular sac on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that secretes an unpleasant-smelling substance to ward off predators.

Benign swellings

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""Pl. perimysia (-m zh - , -m z - ) The sheath of connective tissue enveloping bundles of muscle fibers.""

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

English word

Prenomen

Temple entrances

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Birth

Tropical Asian parasitic leafless plant

Plant with a large malodorous bloom

Plant smelling of carrion; flies afar (anagram)

Votes put to country generally 9)

Whistler earned potential votes

Submissions to popular vote

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

Plural of sclerotium .

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

Pl. sententiae (-sh - ) An adage or aphorism.

Plural of sequestrum .

Thousand-sesterce amounts

Anc. Roman units of value.

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

Pl. stomodea also stomodaea (-d ) The anterior or oral portion of the alimentary canal of an embryo.

Second bungee-jumping artist from the lower orders

Bear genus could be broken down into these groups

Turbo-charged old Chevy (wordplay)

Fabulous deli delicacy (wordplay)

Great old Chevy (wordplay)

""A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. as, th' army, for the army.""

Range of a part, vocally

Range of a vocal part

A vocal part's range

Brutal ace found out, put in cell (wordplay)

Rod-shaped cell or structure that bridges a cavity

""Pl. treponemata (-m -t ) or treponemas Any of a group of spirochetes of the genus Treponema, including those that cause syphilis, pinta, and yaws.""

Disease transmitted by the deer fly

""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