9-Letter Words Starting with P

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Playdown

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Playland

Queued-up songs

Deejays consult them

Custom-made iPod compilations

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Recreation places

Nursery areas

Toddler's wardrobe

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Playtime

Pleach

Like some court cases

Earnest requests

Entreaties

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Pleasure

Companions of palaces

Pales with a ruse with a twist for fun

The joys of shifting super ales

PLEAT to fold in an even manner

Common people of ancient Rome.

Regular folks, to a snob

Members of lower classes as in ancient Rome

Plectron

Hand picks (wordplay)

Musical picks.

Pledgeor

Plenish

Plenish

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

In rich supply

Fruitful.

Abundant

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

Foreign imports and others

Redundancies

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

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.""

Pleuston

Like network; complicated.

Pliancy

Fold.

Plighter

Plight

Prepared some pills for those training perhaps

Moll lisps about footwear

Ships' load lines.

Load-lines on vessels.

Pliotron

Books may have a few of them

Novels' main stories

Threads for a screenwriter

Plottage

Plotty

Plougher

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Plowback

Plowhead

Plowland

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

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

Plumbago

Soundings

Plumbism

Plumelet

Plumeria

Plumiped

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plummy

Plumpen

Fat lot of good that will do one

Place controlled by editor laid waste

Grabbed stuff from page with Labour led by himself

Sacked

One who benefits from a sacking (wordplay)

At the place under the hospital he's fond of the sack

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once

Cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time - April lust (anagram)

Numerousness

Make sibilant, perhaps

Plushy

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Plussage

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Plutonic.

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

English word

It's futile being blunt (wordplay)

Blunt to no purpose (wordplay)

Serving no purpose

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Polarise

Caused sharp divisions

In two distinct camps

Split into two camps

Turns a bear white (wordplay)

Sends to separate camps

More than just divides

Poleax

Tending to cause an argument

Controversial mineral left under post

I call poem terribly controversial

Argumentative types steam into bars

Disputatious group

Polemize

Polemize

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

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

They have their shining hours

Rag-and-brush persons

Unaspirated rubber girls from Poland (wordplay)

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

Reform Libor? Up to executive committee

Communist decision-makers

Soviet Communist Party group

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

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

Fat European straddling Germany, having lost crown

Pollen

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

""A coherent mass of pollen, as in the milkweed and most orchids.""

Comers in the frog pond

Opinion takers

Election predictors.

Trend determiners

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Woodsy Owl's PSA targets

They're not green

EPA targets

Contaminating

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Pollywog

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

Polonium

Cowards, old style.

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

English word

English word

Polybrid

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

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)

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

All-round experts brewing malty hops

'Likewise, they have everything (9)'

These know-alls seem to get their sums like parrots

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

Like nylon, chemically

""A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph. Allomorph.""

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

""Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Polypide

""POLYPE an animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPIDE""

Polypnea

Polypore

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

Polypus

Polysome

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

Polytype

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

Polyuria

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Polyzoan

Thumping.

Pommel

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Hangouts for sharks (and marks)

Where shooting's done

Hangouts for hustlers

Banking facilities (wordplay)

Certain game locales

The Hustler sets

Poolside

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

Populace

Among the people

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Populate

Populism

Defenders of the common man

Champions of the common man

Splinter party voters of 1892.

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Stock pile (wordplay)

Case of drink (oil of rum)

Financial holdings (see first letters)

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

Possible

""Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.""

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

English word

Items for some fences

Preparation for some fences

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Church service closers

Concluding pieces

Final strains in furious duel between Poles

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

Adjective (-al)

Candidate for admission put on last in error

Send poor aunt to accommodate Liberal candidate

One seeking admission into a religious order

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Potboil

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Potlach

Poularde

He's game to supply you

Dealer in fowl

Leo and Rupert nobbled dealer in game

Poultice

Anti-inflammatory dressings

Cataplasms.