9-Letter Words Starting with P

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Acts the crooked lawyer

Feet of a pig used as food

Comparative adjective or agent noun

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

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

A gradual reduction.

Phaseout

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

Phenetol

PHENE an old name for benzene

Salt of carbolic acid

Phenolic

""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.""

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Philomel

Phoebus

Ones who won't look ashy for long (wordplay)

Unique birds

Ones who look ashy when they wake (wordplay)

Phonate

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Phoney

PHONE to telephone

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Study of speech sounds

Phoronid

Phosgene

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

Phosphid

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

Phosphin

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Phosphor

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Pictorial photograph

English word

Photomap

English word

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

Photopia

Waldo Salt supply

Photoset

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

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

Phyllode

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Phylloid

Phyllome

""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.""

Picador

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

Picloram

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Picoline

Picomole

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Piedfort

Piedmont

Serving with sour cream

Smetana pairing

Polish pockets

English word

Pignolia

Pilewort

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

They held people in ridicule

Exposes to public scorn

Pillow

Pilotage

Piloting

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Olive stuffers

Olive additions

Olive tidbits

PINAFORE a child's apron

Little girl's wardrobe.

Savoy operas get to be so wearing

G. & S. seagoing productions.

They're found among needles

Some Christmas decorations

Forest-floor sights

""A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees. Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.""

Pinewood

Pinfold

Pinion

Pinkroot

Queen of spades and jack of diamonds melds

Adjective (-ic)

Locates with precision

Aims precisely

Locates exactly

Pintado

Blazed a trail

Religious individual before day's begun

Led the way

Piosity

Devotion to a deity? Goodness!

Abbot's attribute

Devotion, godliness

""A white crystalline substance obtained by oxidation of piperic acid, and regarded as a complex aldehyde.""

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

See babesia .

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

Piscator

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

Pishogue

Pisiform

Pisolite

""Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.""

Nutty Professor's choice (wordplay)

Nut - it is a chop (anagram)

Nut's broken as I chop it

Wild Bill Hickok, notably

PISTOLE a former European gold coin

Pistol

American Gothic implement

Tool for moving hay

Farmer's tool.

Plays to prevent steals

English word

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

PIVOT to turn on a shaft or rod

PIVOTAL critically important

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

Placebo

Monks' open country airs!

Medieval style of church music

Chant a simple ditty

Geologic process of erosion

Quantity of freight

What a Boeing 747 can hold

What a 747 can hold

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Planform

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Planosol

A state of cytoplasm that is more liquid than plasmagel.

""Pl. plasmodia (-d - ) A multinucleate mass of cytoplasm formed by the aggregation of a number of amoeboid cells, as that characteristic of the vegetative phase of the slime molds.""

Plasmoid

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plastron

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

Platoon

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Playdown

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Recreation places

Nursery areas

Plectron

Pledgeor

In rich supply

Fruitful.

Abundant

Foreign imports and others

Redundancies

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

Excessively abundant

Pleuston

Like network; complicated.

Fold.

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

Plumbago

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.

N as in lung problem (wordplay)

Aureomycin chases it.

Inflammation of the lung

Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

Poachy

Subtle thieves

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Pocket

Finally check third of bomb shelters, after officer returns with scars

PODIA podium

Podomere

""PODZOL an infertile soil, also PODSOL""

Poechore

Bad versifier; operettas (anagram)

Operettas ruined by his dire lyrics

Writer of contemptible verse

Dickinson and Plath, for example

Millay and Dickinson

Dickinson and Millay

Banal bit of versification

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Poetiser

Poetise

Poetizer

Poetize

Pogrom

POGROM to massacre systematically

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