9-Letter Words Starting with P

Moll lisps about footwear

Ships' load lines.

Load-lines on vessels.

Pliotron

Books may have a few of them

Novels' main stories

Threads for a screenwriter

Plottage

Plotty

Plougher

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Plowback

Plowhead

Plowland

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

Something to do with a turkey claiming 'e's least like a chicken (wordplay)

Plumbago

Soundings

Plumbism

Plumelet

Plumeria

Plumiped

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plummy

Plumpen

Fat lot of good that will do one

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

At the place under the hospital he's fond of the sack

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once

Cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time - April lust (anagram)

Numerousness

Make sibilant, perhaps

Plushy

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Plussage

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Plutonic.

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Poachy

Subtle thieves

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Pocket

Finally check third of bomb shelters, after officer returns with scars

PODIA podium

Podomere

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Poechore

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

Dickinson and Plath, for example

Millay and Dickinson

Dickinson and Millay

Banal bit of versification

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Poetiser

Poetise

Poetizer

Poetize

Pogrom

POGROM to massacre systematically

Keen emotion

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

English word

Pointy

It's futile being blunt (wordplay)

Blunt to no purpose (wordplay)

Serving no purpose

Blighters binding one boy in tight ropes

Some Borgias

Contamination or opining so anyhow

Of course that may be the death of you

Playful pig soon in contamination

Toxic soup I soon blended

Very nasty soup I soon replaced

Like some snakes

Juicy, blackish fruit

Pokeroot

Purple-berried plants

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Polarise

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Turns a bear white (wordplay)

Sends to separate camps

More than just divides

Poleax

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Argumentative types steam into bars

Disputatious group

Polemize

Polemize

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Force units (wordplay)

Officers of the law

Guard them all by force

They have their shining hours

Rag-and-brush persons

Unaspirated rubber girls from Poland (wordplay)

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

Reform Libor? Up to executive committee

Communist decision-makers

Soviet Communist Party group

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Politick

Party people (wordplay)

Candidates, party workers, et al.

Disparaging term for MPs or similar

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

Pollen

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

""A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.""

Comers in the frog pond

Opinion takers

Election predictors.

Trend determiners

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Woodsy Owl's PSA targets

They're not green

EPA targets

Contaminating

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Pollywog

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

Polonium

Cowards, old style.

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

English word

English word

Polybrid

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

Polygala

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Polygene

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

They speak many languages

People who know and use several languages

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

""A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.""

Station administration (wordplay)

Detective's device

Storyteller (wordplay)

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

All-round experts brewing malty hops

'Likewise, they have everything (9)'

These know-alls seem to get their sums like parrots

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

Like nylon, chemically

""A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph. Allomorph.""

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

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

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

Pomander

Thumping.

Pommel

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

Deliberators

Meditators

In a thoughtful mood.

Weighing in thought.

Ireland with so little water? Gee, it makes you think!

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

Slow and laborious

Heavy and slow-moving

Graceless rouelaxed in pool on Sunday

Pondweed

Poniard

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Hangouts for sharks (and marks)

Where shooting's done

Hangouts for hustlers

Banking facilities (wordplay)

Certain game locales

The Hustler sets

Poolside

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Poortith

Beau Brummells

Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle)

Beau Brummells.

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

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.""

Populace

Among the people

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Populate

Populism

Defenders of the common man

Champions of the common man

Splinter party voters of 1892.

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Porkwood

""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.""

Flipper's kin.

Intentions of a Bronx speaker to catch dolphins (wordplay)

You'll find them in the sea or balance them in the postscript

Gruel, etc.

Child's bowl.

Child's bowl

Small dish for Spanish campanologist

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portage

Portance

English word

Portapak

Portable.

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Porter

Stock pile (wordplay)

Case of drink (oil of rum)

Financial holdings (see first letters)

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

Portico

They're all for hanging in France

Doorway curtains

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

People who've been framed (wordplay)

Sit for a drink over the stair

Mona Lisa et al.

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