9-Letter Words Starting with P

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Probity

Procaine

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Moved along

Moved forward

How a professional continued to do the sowing (wordplay)

Refined (of food)

Sorted out changing press code

Put something through a series of stages

They make the ways one gets into line

Series of actions geared towards an end

Puts through a procedure

Teacher, or friend of Gilligan

Issuer of legal writs.

Computer hardware item

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Supervised

They make acquisitions for doctors

They get it

Unusually gifted young persons

Early bloomers

Whiz kids

Prodrome

People funding a play

Shumlin, Abbott, Gordon, etc.

Con artists in a 1967 Mel Brooks film

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

""The period immediately before estrus in most female mammals, characterized by development of the endometrium and ovarian follicles.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Sacrilegious types

Avowed

Avows.

Four-time role for Patrick Stewart

Member of an academic faculty

University department head

Proffer

CPAs (wordplay)

Relatives of police sketch artists

Manicurists and tax preparers, by trade (wordplay)

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

Profiter

""Flowing forward,""

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Groups of descendants.

Children and more children

Offspring

Progeria

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Prognose

Go on press trips to get forecasts

No press go abroad for forecasts

Assessments of likely outcomes

Robotic variable

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

Scheme news boss threw out

Plan newsman threw out

Jutted out.

Plan alternative cinema equipment

Slide-showing device

Film-showing machine

""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.""

Prolapse

Prolapse

Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric

In rhetoric, anticipation and answering of objections

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

To deliver a Prologue.

Prologue

Introductions.

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Prolonge

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Promisee

Yellow "evening" flowers

They gave their word

Boxing advocates (wordplay)

Fight arrangers

Lobbyists.

Tending to advance

Certain theatre employes.

They put a word in when required on stage

Prompt

Promulge

Promulge

""The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.""

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

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.""

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

Propend

Propenol

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

Proper

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Those on bended knee

Poppers of the question.

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

""Pl. proptoses (-s z) Forward displacement of an organ, especially an eyeball.""

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

To prorogue.

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

English word

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Prosect

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Prosody

Chances of success, outlooks

Searches for wide views

Looks for gold and hopes for the future

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Prostate

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

Soluble protein.

Protease

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Protegee

Proteide

Protend

Proteose

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Proteus

""Pl. protheses (-s z ) Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn," from Latin spina.""

A credence table; so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Proviso

Provoker

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Prowess

Field that was using the term "social distance" way before it was cool

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Prudence

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

Bluenose specialties.

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

Psoralea

Psoralen

Plural or third person singular

PSYCHOS psycho

English word

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptomaine

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

PUBLIC people as a whole

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

Puckerer

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

From Pook's Hill might 'e phone to give you a few wrinkles (wordplay)

Puddly

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

""Of or pertaining to childbirth; as, a puerperal fever. as, a puerperal fever.""

Birth

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Puggaree

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Pulicide

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

Stop by the side of the road starting to sense some wear

Send forth sprouts

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

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

The quality or state of being pulpy.

""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.""

Pulsejet

Pulsojet

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Pummel

Pummel

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Punchy

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers