9-Letter Words Starting with P

Purpose of a conciliatory gesture

Calming (baby)

Appeasing

Packager

Shipping-room activity

Boxes, wrapping, etc

Wrapping or container

Packet

Paddling

Pagandom

Paganise

Paganise

Paganism

Paganist

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

Pagurian

They are hung in an art museum

Sniping at terrible pieces of art

Pasting in a variety of works of art

Palpate

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

Palter

Mollycoddling sick man with grippe

Landing a plane trickily

Playing to the base

Catering (to)

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Paneling

Ornamental wood strips.

Wallpaper alternative: Brit.

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

Action prone to causing oil spills (wordplay)

World's most trafficked mammals

Scaly anteaters

Certain anteaters

Gripped by terror

Acting rashly through fear

Out of control, giving office assistant whipping

20 cents (wordplay)

Measures equivalent to 20 cents (wordplay)

Shining examples

Paragoge

Served as a model of

Block of words soldier attached to chart

Group of sentences

Short news item.

Deposition summarizer, perhaps

Lawyer wannabe, maybe

Erin Brockovich, for one

Parasang

Parawing

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Excusing fellow getting hooked by edge of nail

Excusing

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

Ornamental plasterwork

Parget

English word

Letting ride, as at the track

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

Sending up

Sending up staff involved in handing over wages

Burlesquing

Parridge

Mindlessly repeating

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Pastor

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Pasture

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Any infectious agents

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Sound of rain on the roof

Pauper

Paygrade

Pectize

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

PEDIGREE a line of ancestors

Purebred dogs' ancestries

Family trees

AKC concerns

Adjective (-ic)

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

Pegboard

Granite

Loose dressing gowns

Apres-bain gowns

Gowns that are rarely worn out

Pellagra

One who is afficted with pellagra.

Pellet

Pelter

""A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body.""

Penance

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

Penlight

Structures like one on the Potomac.

Five-sided shapes

Okra cross sections, e.g

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Charming figure gives writer confusion

Symbol with power to cause complications

Five-pointed star

Seasoning pungently

Peptize

Perdure

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

Peregrin

Perfume

Perfuse

Peril

Missile one's invested in going west

Bloody cold!

Blasted freezing!

Forswearing.

Permute

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Pervade

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Acts the crooked lawyer

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

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Infantry formations

Pan has leg to remodel - and parts of fingers

Toes*

Links to esophagi

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Philabeg

Philibeg

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Philtre

Phlegmy

Phonate

Phoney

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Study of speech sounds

Phosgene

Pictorial photograph

Wordings

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

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Pickax

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Picogram

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Forming mental images of

PIDGIN a mixed language

Serving with sour cream

Smetana pairing

Polish pockets

English word

Pigfish

Sties

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

Colorful

Pignolia

Pigstick

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Pilfer

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

Huns, for example

Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer

The medicine is gettint too old, so it's robbery

It's robbery when the medicine is getting too old

Pillar

Pillow

Pilotage

Piloting

Pinchbug

Pinion

Pinken

Pipet

Pishogue

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

PITYING pity

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

Braids

Expressiveness

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

Planking

Exercises in logistics.

Planting

""A jellylike state of cytoplasm, characteristically occurring in the pseudopod of the amoeba.""

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Pleach

Earnest requests

Entreaties

Pledgeor

Plighter

Plight

Plottage

Plougher

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Plumbago

Soundings

Plussage

Pocket

Poetise

Poetize

Pogrom

POGROM to massacre systematically

Keen emotion

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Contamination or opining so anyhow

Of course that may be the death of you

Playful pig soon in contamination

Poleax

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

Pollen

Comers in the frog pond

Contaminating

Pollywog

Polygala

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Polygene

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

They speak many languages

People who know and use several languages

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

""A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.""

Station administration (wordplay)

Detective's device

Storyteller (wordplay)