9-Letter Words Starting with P

One in the lead.

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

Producer of artificial rhythms

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

Packager

Packet

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Packwax

Paddock

Bolted (of gate)

Secured in a way

Secured, as a cellar door

Paeanism

Paganise

Paganise

Paganize

""PAGANIZE to make irreligious, also PAGANISE""

Paganize

The larder contains mature display

Show time in the butler's room

Spectacle taking long time in food store

Made book marks (wordplay)

Like leaves in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"

Adds numbers to, say

Numbers before or after each break

Numbers in a corner, often

Pahoehoe

Spangle or sequin

Isn't commonly included in unusual reply that's artistic, in a way

Painty

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

Pleasing to the taste

Pleasing to the taste buds

Dad left a list that can be tolerated

Palatine

Talked at length

Talked profusely

Chatted idly

How the Sioux see us (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you all (wordplay)

How the Sioux see you (wordplay)

Paleosol

Palestra

Gymnasiums.

Poetic retractions, or maybe poems honoring Python Michael

Recantations.

Fenced in

Raised stakes (wordplay)

Fences of stakes

Strong fences for defence

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

Round armor plate.

Round armor plates.

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

Palliate

With pressure everything I chewed in the end disintegrates and softens

In a palmate manner.

Leaf shapes used decoratively

Tropical trees

A salt of palmitic acid.

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

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

Palterer

Palter

Like 1 cents, as costs go

Like 1, as costs go

Most insignificant.

Pamperer

Mollycoddling sick man with grippe

Waiting-room reading

Small booklets

Publications that are rarely bound to sell

Long, thin cigars

Slim open-ended cigars

Long slender cigars

Pancetta

Panchax

Very widespread diseases

Go-betweens, of a sort

Playing to the base

Catering (to)

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Paneling

Quiz show judges

Game show group

*New Haven alums

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

Heather below window beginning to level part of wall (wordplay)

Spanish cigars.

Italian cake eaten at Christmas

Italian Christmas cake

Italian spiced cake eaten at Christmas

Panfish

Seek change (wordplay)

Region of small change (wordplay)

Northern region of Texas

Panicky

Equipped as a knight of yore.

Equipped for a raid, by the sound of it

Metal suits vessel, then nothing works

Suits of armor

Splendid arrays

One attracted to people of all genders

Potentially attracted to anyone

Into anyone, potentially

Once-modish frills.

Ruffled drawers

Commedia dell'arte character

English word

Readiness to believe in all or many gods

Belief that God is in everyting

Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment

Long job for Spinoza, say

Believer in many gods

Religious type converted in the past

Temples dedicated to all the gods

Extraordinary classes

Pantofle

Silent treatment (wordplay)

I'm top name in performance - Xmas one!

It goes without saying

PANTRY a small storage room

Perhaps re pap for a penguin

Bound not to be hard re pap, perhaps

Maybe Sun to support publication

News casters (wordplay)

Deliverers on bikes

Certain carriers

Lacking printed news

Like the modern computerised office with bare walls (wordplay)

Daily assignment (wordplay)

Dealing with documentation

Clerk's concern.

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

Pappoose

Papyrus

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

Places with no problems

Shangri-La and Eden

Eden and others.

Parados

Seeming contradictions

Nothing wrong in displays - things just seeming to be wrong (wordplay)

Soldier solves about ten logical puzzles, apparently

Paragoge

Served as a model of

Peak rates (anagram)

They don't build love nests

Pet shop birds

Parakite

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Their line is never to go to the meeting

They'll never meet real palls like these

Lines of latitude

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Paralyse

Immobilized

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Paralyze

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)

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Parament

Factor defining limits

Variable disciple, a beast inside

Figure in a math function

Paranoea

Like castle walls

Paraquet

Two locations (wordplay)

Spongers/rubber areas (wordplay)

The Sphinx and the Parthenon (wordplay)

""PARAE a New Zealand fish, also PORAE""

Mine sweeps on ships

Devices used by minesweepers.

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

""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

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

Pardoner

Parecism

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

""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.""

Ornamental plasterwork

Parget

English word

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Idioms

Conferee, as at San Francisco and Ottawa

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

Paroquet

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Parridge

Parroket

Parroter

Containing parsley

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

Golf pros (wordplay)

Those who share

Sharers

Opera-house sections

Theaters' rear seats

Orchestra circles.

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

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

Teamed up (with)

Teamed up with

United in a twosome

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Passado

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

Nisan observances

Jewish holidays

Spring holidays

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Perhaps pall, or a sticky state, perhaps

Father's pallor gets Tess around in it

Pall or in the face of it

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

Pasturer

Most sporadic

Patency

What Edison and Westinghouse were.

Certain inventors

Successful inventors

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Inventors might contact them

Granters of protection

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Any infectious agents

Patience

Patient

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Patinate

Acquires a green film

Acquires a green coating

Patinize

Patinize

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Patness

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Sponsor of a social affair

She'll give you support, but not a press

Monica or Veronica

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Fast-talking comedians.

Sound of rain on the roof

In the style of, with "after"

Argyle, say

That's not made it plain

Paucity