9-Letter Words Ending in A

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

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

Blindness

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Lack of muscle tone.

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

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

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

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

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

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

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Lake like a ... they say like a guitar

Triangular-bodied instrument

Mandolin's cousin

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

Genus of parasitic worms

English word

English word

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

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.

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 ]""

""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!

""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.

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.

Cognomen

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

Digests of a sort

Short summaries

Reference works from which man copied wrongly

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

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

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

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.

Diploma

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

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

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.

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

""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

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

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

Exodontics.

Fibroma

""Pl -ture [-ˈtʊəreɪ] (Music, other) Music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer [Italian: a blossoming]""

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

See yaws .

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

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

Damaging parts of accusations

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

English word

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Body harm I'll do (wordplay)

""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.""

Blood and Blood Vessels

Hypermetropia.

Condition marked by overexcitability

English word

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Plural of involucrum .

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

Lacunar

This is On the Beach - long song about dictator

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Tree housing Sandler (wordplay)

Some kind of nut

Tree or nut

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

Vocal runs

Gun collection

A limit arbitrarily imposed on IRA fixed weapons collection (wordplay)

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

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

Obsession with one thing

Obsession with a single subject

Overconcentration on one theme.

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

Myocardium

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

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

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.

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

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.

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

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.

Land in ancient Palestine

Suff. ; see collodion .]

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

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

English word

Prenomen

Proper pair treated a first-time mother

Pl. primordia (-d - ) An organ or a part in its most rudimentary form or stage of development.

Three-book Newton work

English word

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

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

Birth

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Tropical Asian parasitic leafless plant

Plant with a large malodorous bloom

Plant smelling of carrion; flies afar (anagram)

Tropical tree or shrub, the powdered root of which yields valuable drugs

Dogbane

Rhizoma

American growth perhaps irked Cuba

I back rude movement producing bloomer

Mexican plant.

Turn-of-the-century health resorts

Hospitals for recuperation

Supply AA with rations in clinics

Long-term care facilities

Hospitals for recuperation

Places for mending

Institutions providing rest for invalids

Organising a loan isn't a bloomer

Fragrant Mediterranean shrub related to camomile

Chicle-yielding evergreen

Chicle source.

Tropical tree

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 .

Term of address to a Portuguese girl

Lisbon miss

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

Thousand-sesterce amounts

Anc. Roman units of value.

Sickle cell anemia or sickle cell trait.

Miss Italy (wordplay)

Miss cue on air - sorry!

Young lady from Rome (wordplay)

Simplex

Representations (of someone/something)

Kind of light chemical is raising images

Curve on mineral is coming up in images

Foreheads

""A crisp, puffy, deep-fried pastry often served with honey or syrup.""

Lamb Kabobs

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

Freshwater algae genus

Freshwater algae

""Pl. sporangia (-j - ) A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, as in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns. Also called spore case .""

""Pl. sudatoria (-tôr - , -t r - ) A hot-air room used for sweat baths. Also called sudatory .""

Range of a part, vocally

Range of a vocal part

A vocal part's range

More-southern brasserie (wordplay)

Where to get a Pisa pizza (wordplay)

Fare for Italians to get here (wordplay)

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

Disease transmitted by the deer fly

Hives not restricted to apiarists

Nettle rash, an itchy skin eruption

Rash result of grasping the nettle (wordplay)

""Overactivity or irritability of the vagus nerve, adversely affecting function of the blood vessels, stomach, and muscles.""

Shot cavalier infected by Latin disease

Chickenpox