9-Letter Words Starting with P

Pigstick

Fish and chips cooked with lard

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Steal stream similar silver sham

Cheap (alloy); sham

Steal the stream with an alloy

Pinchbug

Pincheck

They're found among needles

Some Christmas decorations

Forest-floor sights

Having spires

They're tops

Clan possibly hidden among trees and peaks

In places the pub in there is in places right at the top

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Adjective (-ic)

Petty annoyances

Small irritations

Tiny irritations

Pinscher

Piquance

Pirarucu

Reminiscent of Kidd.

Like corporate raiders' behavior

Engaged in pelagic depredation.

Piscary

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Pistache

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Pitchy

Plays to prevent steals

English word

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Full of signs

Posted signs

With notices positioned on each side of a road

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

PLACE to assign to a position

Placebo

Field goal attempt

Gridiron tactic using a tee

That may lead to conversion, to boot

Having no place or office.

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""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.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

Planchet

Expressiveness

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

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

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Pleach

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Plectron

Hand picks (wordplay)

Musical picks.

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Pliancy

Fold.

Plowback

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

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

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

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

Poechore

Banal bit of versification

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

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

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

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

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

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Like nylon, chemically

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

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

Populace

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

Portance

English word

Portico

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

Travel reports (wordplay)

Souvenir shop stock

Gift shop items on a rotating stand

Postcava

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

Regulations pertaining to certain appointments (wordplay)

English word

Job confronts afterwords about set of caps

Postiche

Postsync

Potency

Potlach

Pouchy

Poultice

Anti-inflammatory dressings

Cataplasms.

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

Puts into use.

Praecipe

Praefect

Praelect

Sensible MP with a tragic undoing

Matter-of-fact.

Matter-of-fact

People whose word is gospel (wordplay)

They serve up sermons

They deliver on Sunday

More tediously moralising

More self-righteous support stifles influence

Go on at length and pacify her rages

PREACH to deliver a sermon

Bible-thumping, perhaps

Get to pulp it for to be doing this

Power coming to pulpit activity

Preact

ATOMIC relating to an atom

Of time before appearance of living things

Harry Price to accept rewritten obit: 'Life still to come'

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Suppliant; beseeching.

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Former priest going bald (wordplay)

Coming before Penny again giving way

Coming earlier, quietly going back

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Precent

Choir leader

Queen Anne died despite Johnson's 'most universal genius'

Teacher or principal

Teacher, of old

Teacher

Precess

Precess

Precheck

Prechill

Word with prefix pre-

City districts

Policeman circling about in court's grounds

(Overhang of) steep cliff

Overhanging cliff or rock face

High vertical cliff

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Precise

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Precis

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

Preclean

Preclear

Made impossible in advance.

Made impossible

Ruled out note in introduction to Debussy's first

Musical compositions comprising 100 bars

Makes impossible

Some way through introductory pieces, music finally stops

Covered with down and capable of moving about when hatched. Used of wading birds and domestic fowl.

Boy wonder quality

Of child, state of having knowledge too soon

Development of behaviour in advance of actual age

Precode

COITAL relating to coitus

How frankfurters are typically sold

Like Spam

Parboiled

Precool

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

CRISIS a crucial turning point

Precure

Before the computer age (wordplay)

Cusp error responsible for omen

Something going in advance of another

Living by seizing or taking prey; predatory.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Estimated what would happen

Made a forecast

Used a crystal ball.

Jeane Dixon, for one

Weather man's role.

Someone who foretells events

Preelect

Preenact

Preerect

""EXILIC pertaining to exile, also EXILIAN""

Prefacer

Preceding

Bumpy time (wordplay)

Labor leader (wordplay)

The girl at last is expecting

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Prelacy

LAUNCH to set in motion

Prelect

Premedic

Prentice

They used to be bound to have about ten prices

Engross the mind

Weigh on one's mind

Absorb copper in coppery mould

Most supermarket food is supplied by agent carrying a gun around

Preplace

Preplace

Set costs of articles before retailing

Preprice

Where tots get seasoning (wordplay)

Tots' learning center

Spot for a tot

The awful creep isn't far-seeing

Prophetic spectre in play

Knowing of future events

Prescind

Easy to fold

Prescore

SCREEN to provide with a concealing partition

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

Ordained by authority.

C.P.R. priest clumsily performed by decree

Old-style rule, prior to anything being written down (wordplay)

Choose in advance, as an in-flight meal

Pick beforehand

Imposing personalities

Seance visitors

Like packaged meats, often

Preslice

Futures for verbs, by the sound of them

Secret pen describes affectations

Do they claim falsely to sound like the future parts of the verbs (wordplay)

Very valuable, some say it's hilarious

Highly valued as hilarious (wordplay)

Highly esteemed? That's hilarious!

Pricky