9-Letter Words Containing Y

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Polypide

""POLYPE an animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPIDE""

Polypnea

Polypore

A work consisting of four or more painted or carved panels that are hinged together.

Polypus

Polysome

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

Polytype

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Polyuria

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Polyzoan

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Beau Brummells

Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle)

Beau Brummells.

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

Among the people

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

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

Postsync

POURING the act of pouring

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Speaking up (wordplay)

Very devout

Devout

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Suppliant; beseeching.

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Preying on others

Given to plundering.

Falsely portrayed as being rapacious

Like introductions

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

MODIFY to alter slightly

NOTIFY to {inform=v}

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

Prepay

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

span>Minister from cabinet

Church elder

Church minister

Shortly, by way of a gift, perhaps

By and by, by way of a gift (wordplay)

In the near future

Adorning (with "up")

Gussying up

Fairly goodlooking.

Pretype

The quality or state of being primal.

Chiefly, in the first place

Chiefly, for the most part

In the first place, mainly

Not in public.

Trip round museum and cathedral in secret (wordplay)

Serving for trial; probationary.

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Wordiness

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

The quality or state of being prurient.

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Having a sixth sense

PSYCHOS psycho

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Psyllium

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptyalism

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

In a mischievous manner

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Puppydom

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

Adjective meaning resembling

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

Purvey

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pygmyism

Pylorus

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

Pyrolyse

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Pyrolyze

""PYROLYZE to decompose by heating, also PYROLISE, PYROLIZE, PYROLYSE""

Pyrolyze

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Pyrostat

Pyroxene

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""

Pyruvate

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)

""To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed. as, to be quadruply recompensed.""

Removing stone from pit

Extracting from an open surface excavation

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

Late '50s Liverpool group, with "The"

Old Beatles number written after Queen proposal to drop intro

Four times per year

Four times a year

Literary magazine, often

Quayside

RACKING the act of racking

In a brilliant fashion

In brilliant fashion

In a radiate manner; with radiation or divergence from a center.

How an extremist acts

In an extreme way

Kind of field

Go daily or change medical treatment

X-ray science

Branch of medical science

RAFFISH {flashy=adj}

Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish.

Rallying

Rallyist

Dividing into branches

With exuberance.

Liberal in party man trashed without restraint

Man and pal try to mess about in unrestrained fashion

Rottenness I'd found in a new big town after end of summer

In a ranting manner.

Rarefy

Rarify

That makes one bold

Knavish conduct

Mischievous behavior

Disapprove? Blow it!

Sound of disapproval

Rude rebuff from 2 in the garden

In a hoarse manner

Customer of a public utility

One called upon to face a local charge

Contributor to local council funds

Gnawing on, like a rodent (wordplay)

Validating (a treaty)

Making officially valid

Our saucy shot framing lecturer in a way that's harsh

RAUNCH to tear away

Prepared in advance

Not built to order

Study lunatic among solvers off the peg

ANALYZE to subject to analysis

Rebody

Making one join the underground again

CERTIFY to declare as true

Reconvey

Recopy

Refusal to attend Church of England services when it was required by law

Conserving types

Using the same materials again

Environmentalist's activity

Eco-friendly activity

Redefy

Redeny

Sends back out, as troops

DISPLAY to put on show

REDUCE to {lessen=v}

Hires again

Reenjoy

Communal room for meals

Communal dining room

Monastic dining hall

Send more supplies to the troops

Further strengthen defence on right - Everton's front two score, if included

""REFUTE to prove to be false or erroneous, also REBUT""

At equally spaced intervals

Every four years, for example

At fixed intervals

Add water to (a dried substance)

Drink after a race, say

Down a sports drink, say

RELATED relate

RELAXED relax

Bearing

RELIANT showing reliance

Display case for holy artifacts

Receptacle for keepsakes or souvenirs

Receptacle for keepsakes of saints

""LIQUEFY to make or become liquid, also LIQUIFY""

Putting right (an undesirable situation)

Engineers longing for repair job (wordplay)

Putting right

""MOVABLY so as to be capable of being moved, also MOVEABLY""