9-Letter Words Starting with P

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Succinctness.

In double-bottomed baked goods, dilute concentrated substance

Inadequate footling amounts of money

Meager wages

Petty allowances

PITYING pity

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

Unpretentious quality

Simplicity

The headland at the end of the flat land is without much beauty

Flat dweller (wordplay)

Jimmy Carter, say, as a fellow on the level

Western ranger

Nickname of Auburn's eleven

Conestoga wagon users.

Blackfoot or Arapaho tribes, for example

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Braids

Scheme laid down by heretic, a sort of worm

Planaria

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Expressiveness

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

Planish

""One who, or that which, planishes.""

Hammers metal to smoothness

Planking

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Exercises in logistics.

Planosol

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Plastron

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Platinum

Platoon

Playdown

Playland

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Pleach

Earnest requests

Entreaties

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Common people of ancient Rome.

Regular folks, to a snob

Members of lower classes as in ancient Rome

Plectron

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

Pleuston

Pliancy

Fold.

Plight

Pliotron

Books may have a few of them

Novels' main stories

Threads for a screenwriter

Spring task in Iowa

Breaking and turning over earth

Breaking and turning soil

Plowland

Soundings

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

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Plutonic.

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Pocket

Poetise

Poetize

Pogrom

Keen emotion

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Tree with showy flowers

Showy, scarlet flower

Showy tree

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

English word

Pointy

It's futile being blunt (wordplay)

Blunt to no purpose (wordplay)

Serving no purpose

Blighters binding one boy in tight ropes

Some Borgias

Contamination or opining so anyhow

Of course that may be the death of you

Playful pig soon in contamination

Toxic soup I soon blended

Very nasty soup I soon replaced

Like some snakes

Poleax

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

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

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.""

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Contaminating

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

Polonium

Cowards, old style.

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

Polygene

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

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

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.

""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)

Polypnea

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

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

Polyzoan

Pomander

Thumping.

Deliberators

Meditators

In a thoughtful mood.

Weighing in thought.

Ireland with so little water? Gee, it makes you think!

Ranch in "Bonanza"

Tall pine tree of North America

The Cartwrights' spread

Slow and laborious

Heavy and slow-moving

Graceless rouelaxed in pool on Sunday

Pondweed

Poniard

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Beau Brummells

Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle)

Beau Brummells.

Aware of 8 down (wordplay)

Golden church in flatlands of China

Fine white ceramic

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

Child's bowl.

Child's bowl

Small dish for Spanish campanologist

Portage

Portance

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Porter

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Change them to repose (wordplay)

Place them with it, one among the spoons

Places or ways of regarding things

PET scan particles

Elementary antiparticles

Antimatter bits

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

In period after birth

Kind of pediatric care

Immediately after birth

What an off-putting way to have behaved!

Put off, but not deterred (wordplay)

Put off, but not deterred

One who postpones.

Holds over to another time

Puts off till another time

Puts back mail criminal opens

Postsync

Candidate for admission put on last in error

Send poor aunt to accommodate Liberal candidate

One seeking admission into a religious order

For letters you phone for an attitude

The position is, stick at it before you phone

The attitude is to put it in the letter box before you phone to me

Drinks or drafts

Drinks of liquor

King Edward, perhaps non-smoker, but consuming one, or more than one drink

Potency

Monarch or dictator

Ruler had meal behind shelter by river

Head accepts old, big top chief

It's currently latent

Latent qualities that may develop

Something to live up to

Pother

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

Potstone

Fiddling around with work on the wheel, perhaps

Making progress unhurriedly - like Harry (wordplay)

Enclosures for cattle.

POURING the act of pouring

""A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.""

Powder

Powwow

""Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.""

Pozzolan

Roman citizen's first name

Roman first name.

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

With idle talk; with loquacity.

Little talk sounds so loose

Talking too much

There's little talk of the piano sounding as if there's something loose in it

Bible-thumping, perhaps

Get to pulp it for to be doing this

Power coming to pulpit activity

Preact

Anticipating battle

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

Prebake

""Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. as, a prebendal priest or stall.""

CANCEL to {annul=v}

Previous instance (as justification)

Relevant earlier case in law

A court may set one

Former priest going bald (wordplay)

Coming before Penny again giving way

Coming earlier, quietly going back

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Precent

Choir leader

Queen Anne died despite Johnson's 'most universal genius'

City districts

Policeman circling about in court's grounds

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Precis

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

Preclean

Precode

Precure

Antecedent to

Perhaps coming before not being a vegetarian

Making an appointment in advance may be the death of one

The preying of one animal on another

Plundering pirate on day-shift

Sounds like praying that isn't prayer

To define beforehand.

Like an aperitif

Preenact

Preceding

Prefade

Prefile

Prefire