9-Letter Words Starting with P

One in the lead.

Are pack, perhaps, keeping me back? Certainly not!

Producer of artificial rhythms

Pachadom

Pachalic

Pachinko

Pachouli

Hippo, say (wordplay)

Rhino or hippo, say (wordplay)

Elephant, hippo etc

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

Kid quieters

Pacifism

They don't like to strike

They don't believe in fighting

People refusing to fight

Purpose of a conciliatory gesture

Calming (baby)

Appeasing

Packager

Shipping-room activity

Boxes, wrapping, etc

Wrapping or container

English word

Packet

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Packsack

Packwax

Paddock

Bolted (of gate)

Secured in a way

Secured, as a cellar door

How the Sioux see us (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you all (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you (wordplay)

Landing a plane trickily

Pancetta

Panchax

Very widespread diseases

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Panicky

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

Random mating within a breeding population.

All-round (view)

Type of camera

Like a scenic view

Having an affinity for or indiscriminately affecting many kinds of tissue: pantropic viruses.

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

Like a curve or allegory

Like a type of curve

Expressed allegorically.

Parachor

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

One looking for signs of life (wordplay)

One seeking signs of life (wordplay)

Ambulatory staff (wordplay)

Delusional one

Person suffering from delusions of persecution

Sufferer from desusions of grandeur or persecution

Paranoic

Isaac trip badly, hanging on (wordplay)

Mean like one mite, almost (wordplay)

How like a sucker not to be independent!

""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.""

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Allotted, British style

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Joint heirs Law.

Parchesi

Parchisi

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

Parecism

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

""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.""

Idioms

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

Pashalic

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Patency

Patience

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Paucity

Paunchy

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

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

PEACE to be or become silent

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Peacock

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

Peasecod

In a peccant manner.

Peccary

Cheeses made from ewes' milk

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

Comblike

Pectize

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedicure

Jobs in a digital workplace (wordplay)

Treatments for some nails

Foot treatments

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Peduncle

A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.

Pellicle

Pemmican

Penance

Strong likings, predilections

Predilections, strong likings

Inclinations to write church music

Penciler

""The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture. as, delicate penciling in a picture.""

Drew with graphite

Sorrow for one's sins

Sorry for one and ten in pennies

That's a sorry state

""A small pennon, flag, or streamer borne on a lance.""

Penoncel

Sluices or floodgates.

Floodgates

Tarot suit

Occult stars

Esoteric symbols

Pentarch

Government by five persons

Penuchle

Penuckle

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

Got it

Sensed

Seer, of a sort

Becomes aware of

Reads epic verse out

Reads

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

Percuss

Percuss

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Perfect

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Perfecto

Pericarp

Pericope

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Like a green gem or olivine.

Perisarc

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Petechia

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

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

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

""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.""

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

PHENE an old name for benzene

Phenolic

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

One who is phrenetic.

Phthisic

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

Physic

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

Picador

English word

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

Things of very small value

Choose one of the players for the ride

One way to shoulder the job of team selection

Act as a football selector - see this in celebration after goal (wordplay)

Pickadil

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Pickax

Pickeer

Fresh-water fish

They're a striking group

Striking figures

Strikers would be the same at Lord's, taking credit for pressure

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Pickwick

Picloram

Picnic

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Picoline

Picomole

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Forming mental images of

To picture.

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Type of mathematical function

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Fruit wrappers of sorts

They should be flaky

Empty shells in the kitchen

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)