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.""

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

A tree, the common mesquite

Blindness

""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radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

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.""

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

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

Type of aria

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

""(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 ]""

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.""

The disorder a child may wreak!

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

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

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.""

""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.""

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.

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Diploma

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

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

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

""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.""

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

English word

English word

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Plural of involucrum .

Spicy Creole dish

Mardi Gras meal

One-pot New Orleans dish

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

""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

""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 .""

Dance similar to fandango

Spanish dance similar to the fandango

Spanish dance

English word

Vocal runs

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

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

Gun collection

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

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

English word

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.

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.

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

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

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

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

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

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.""

English word

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Temple entrances

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

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

Mexican plant.

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 .

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

""A volcanic area or vent which yields only sulphur vapors, steam, and the like. It represents the stages of the volcanic activity.""

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

Lamb Kabobs

""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.""

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

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.""

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