9-Letter Words Starting with P

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Spangle or sequin

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

A salt of palmitic acid.

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

Might one beat this in hearts (wordplay)

Beat a friend hollow and scoffed

'Hole in the roof' makes you shake

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Commedia dell'arte character

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

""To cover with papill\'91; to take the form of a papilla, or of papill\'91.""

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Fish wrapper

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

English word

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy...

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Granite

A nearly flat land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion.

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

PERBORATE

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

PERENNATE

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Pericope

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Resembling a leaf

Petechia

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Salt of carbolic acid

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Fruit that might go off (wordplay)

Fruit that may go off (wordplay)

Fruit (tree and fruit!)

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

Adjective meaning resembling

PLACATE to conciliate

PLACE to assign to a position

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

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

Adjective meaning resembling

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Like some court cases

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Make sibilant, perhaps

Keen emotion

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

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

""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.""

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

BATTLE to {fight=v}

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Group of clergymen

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

VIABLE capable of living

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

To prorogue.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out