9-Letter Words Starting with P

Plaister

Braids

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Planaria

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

Planish

""One who, or that which, planishes.""

Hammers metal to smoothness

Planking

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Exercises in logistics.

Planosol

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Plashy

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

""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.""

Plasmoid

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plastron

Plastrum

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Important parts of blood.

Certain cell fragments

Coagulant bodies in the blood

Adjective meaning resembling

Plateful

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Platinum

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Platoon

PLATY a small tropical fish

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Playdown

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Playland

Queued-up songs

Deejays consult them

Custom-made iPod compilations

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Recreation places

Nursery areas

Toddler's wardrobe

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Playtime

Pleach

Like some court cases

Earnest requests

Entreaties

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Pleasure

Companions of palaces

Pales with a ruse with a twist for fun

The joys of shifting super ales

PLEAT to fold in an even manner

Common people of ancient Rome.

Regular folks, to a snob

Members of lower classes as in ancient Rome

Foreign imports and others

Redundancies

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

Pliancy

Fold.

Plottage

Plowback

Plowhead

Plowland

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Plumbago

Plumeria

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

Plussage

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Plutonic.

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

Poachy

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

PODIA podium

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

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

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

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

Member of the Garda, say

Male cop in bust (wordplay)

One keeping the beat (wordplay)

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

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

Polygala

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

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.

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.""

Polypnea

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

Polyuria

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

Polyzoan

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

Pomander

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

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

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 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

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

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

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portage

Portance

English word

Portapak

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

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

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

""Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.""

Travel reports (wordplay)

Souvenir shop stock

Gift shop items on a rotating stand

Postcava

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

English word

Followed in time.

Like some checks

Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques

Occurs later than (another event)

Fruits for a mail carrier (wordplay)

Follows in time

Job confronts afterwords about set of caps

English word

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Postheat

Mailing-date indicators

Official cancellations

Certain cancellations.

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

Adjective (-al)

Candidate for admission put on last in error

Send poor aunt to accommodate Liberal candidate

One seeking admission into a religious order

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Silvery-white metallic element

Its symbol is K

Mineral in bananas

Drinks or drafts

Drinks of liquor

King Edward, perhaps non-smoker, but consuming one, or more than one drink

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Potlach

Potshard

Poularde

Enclosures for cattle.

Racing that really makes waves!

Swell racing (wordplay)

Fast vessel for racing or leisure

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

Pozzolan

Pragmatic, hard-nosed

Applied, being sensible

Did not turn out as intended

Skilled (US spelling)

Ran through charge over action by writer

Met with the band

""One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts.""

Businesses of a doctor or lawyer

Quip Part III

Trains through repetition

Type of course work undertaken to supplement academic studies

Perfectly proficient (wordplay)

Carried out or rehearsed

Expert forced to accept work