9-Letter Words Starting with P

Pronate

Faulty foot posture

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

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.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Propine

Propone

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

Pl. propositi (-t ) The person immediately concerned about or affected by an action.

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

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

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

Prosaism

Fielding, Dickens, etc

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

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

Prosody

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Of or pertaining to the prostate gland.

Pl. prostomia (-m - ) The portion of the head in earthworms and other annelids that is situated anterior to the mouth.

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Proteide

""Pl. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

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

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

""Any of a group of eukaryotic organisms belonging to the kingdom Protista according to some widely used modern taxonomic systems. The protists include a variety of unicellular, coenocytic, colonial, and multicellular organisms, such as the protozoans, slime molds, brown algae, and red algae.""

Protoxid

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

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Provide

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Proviso

Nose contains no sun protection? It's temporary

Conditional

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

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

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

Bluenose specialties.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

The quality or state of being prurient.

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

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

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

Psilocin

Plural or third person singular

Cause of scaling

Target of some shampoos

Dermarest target

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Having a sixth sense

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Psyllium

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

A growth over the cornea

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

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Puberty

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

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

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

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

Puckery

Lemon squeeze (wordplay)

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

In a mischievous manner

Puddly

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

In a puerile manner; childishly.

Juvenility

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Birth

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Pulicide

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.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

A little cushion or pad

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Pummel

Punchy

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Punition

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Pupation

Pupfish

Pupilage

State of student turning up sack

Being at school and turning up to plunder

Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward.

Adjective meaning resembling

Purfling

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Purifier

Removing contaminants

Decontaminating

Like Poe's "Letter"

Stole or embezzled

Open lurid assortment that's stolen

Cleaner hides meat from thief

Cleaner hiding joint she's stolen

""An antibiotic, C 22 H 29 N 7 O 5 , obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces alboniger, that is used experimentally as an inhibitor of protein synthesis.""

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purpurin

PURRING the sound of a contented cat

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

State of being pursy.

Purvey

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Irritating quality

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Dawdling

Adjective meaning resembling

PYCNIDIA pycnidium

A spore-bearing organ in some fungi

Pygmyism

Like a Ponzi scheme

Pointed down to square

From three sides, pointed at monument to Albert

Pyramid

Pyrenoid

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Pungent liquids

""An aldehyde, C 8 H 9 NO 3 , one of several active forms of pyridoxine, important in amino acid synthesis.""

""Producing heat; said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.""

Pyrolize

Pyrolize

""PYROLYSE to decompose by heating, also PYROLIZE, PYROLISE, PYROLYZE""

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

""A substance resembling gun cotton in composition and properties, but distinct in that it is more highly nitrified and is soluble in alcohol, ether, etc.; called also pyroxyle. pyroxyle.""