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 muscle tone.

Small Pacific fish used for bait

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

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

Plural of argumentum .

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Type of aria

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

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

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Chiasma

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

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

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Diploma

Ecthyma

Empyema

""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.""

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

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

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

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

English word

English word

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

English word

""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.""

English word

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Region of one country claimed by another

English word

English word

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

English word

Vocal runs

See midgut .

Gun collection

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

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

Myeloma

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

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

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

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

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.

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

Same as Penult. Penult.

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.

Apparition

Land in ancient Palestine

English word

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

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

""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

Rhizoma

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

Sarcoma

Perhaps I can still sparkle

I can still change hint

A tiny bit

Plural of sclerotium .

Scotoma

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.

Foreheads

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

Non-motile male gametes in red seaweeds

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

Grounds for raising a harlot's vehicle

Underlying (rock) layers

Foundation underneath the layers

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

Big, hairy spider

Hairy creepy-crawly

Spider is natural at spinning

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

More-southern brasserie (wordplay)

Where to get a Pisa pizza (wordplay)

Fare for Italians to get here (wordplay)

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

""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.""