9-Letter Words Ending in A

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

Small Pacific fish used for bait

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

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.""

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Genus of parasitic worms

""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.""

""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

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

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

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

""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

Ecthyma

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

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

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

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

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

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

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

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Passage of urine mingled with blood.

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Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Body harm I'll do (wordplay)

Garden flower - garden hay (anagram)

Shrub - garden hay (anagram)

Handy gear (anagram) - shrub

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Blood and Blood Vessels

Hypermetropia.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Condition marked by overexcitability

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Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

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

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

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

""(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

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

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

Apparition

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Land in ancient Palestine

Suff. ; see collodion .]

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Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

Rhizoma

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

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

""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.""