9-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Juicy, blackish fruit

Pokeroot

Purple-berried plants

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

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

Pomander

Thumping.

Pommel

Not for the catwalk, our hairstyle

18th century women's hairstyle

Display a grim hairstyle? Hardly

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

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

Hangouts for sharks (and marks)

Where shooting's done

Hangouts for hustlers

Banking facilities (wordplay)

Certain game locales

The Hustler sets

Poolside

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Poortith

Beau Brummells

Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle)

Beau Brummells.

""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.""

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

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

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Porkwood

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

""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.""

Flipper's kin.

Intentions of a Bronx speaker to catch dolphins (wordplay)

You'll find them in the sea or balance them in the postscript

Gruel, etc.

Child's bowl.

Child's bowl

Small dish for Spanish campanologist

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portage

Portance

English word

Portapak

Portable.

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Porter

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

Portico

They're all for hanging in France

Doorway curtains

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

People who've been framed (wordplay)

Sit for a drink over the stair

Mona Lisa et al.

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

Change them to repose (wordplay)

Place them with it, one among the spoons

Places or ways of regarding things

Positive

Good things I have in premises

River, one in West Country town - yes, yes, yes!

Assume it's true that there's nothing negative over the saint of Cornwall

PET scan particles

Elementary antiparticles

Antimatter bits

Taken over ownership (wordplay)

Owned - by evil spirit (wordplay)

Victimized by bad spelling (wordplay)

Has hold of

It can be a relief

Has and holds

Might one have an alternative (wordplay)

One's one of the haves

One of the haves

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.""

Where collections are made following fights

Travel reports (wordplay)

Souvenir shop stock

Gift shop items on a rotating stand

Postcava

POSTCAVA a vein in higher vertebrates

Regulations pertaining to certain appointments (wordplay)

English word

Followed in time.

Like some checks

Pale, old-fashioned bankers write this on cheques

Occurs later than (another event)

Fruits for a mail carrier (wordplay)

Follows in time

Toward the back

Silly tries let in by inadequate back

Later in time.

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations

Job confronts afterwords about set of caps

English word

Appended

Postfix

Postform

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Postheat

Items for some fences

Preparation for some fences

Postiche

Guide who rides a coach horse.

Rider of near-side coach horse

After one beast goes rider when there is no coachman

Postique

Church service closers

Concluding pieces

Final strains in furious duel between Poles

Mailing-date indicators

Official cancellations

Certain cancellations.

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

Posttest

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

Posturer

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

Silvery-white metallic element

Its symbol is K

Mineral in bananas

Drinks or drafts

Drinks of liquor

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

Potboil

Stoner's pulp fiction (wordplay)

Book hastily written for gain

Hack's novel

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

Pothouse

Person interested in winning prizes

Vainglorious competitor uses drug - horse (wordplay)

Potlach

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an apparatus that measures the rate of water uptake by a plant or plant part [from Latin pōtāre to drink + -meter ]

Mixed bag - rip up root (anagram)

Dried petals for scent

Tip or pour out a fragrant mixture

Potshard

Pieces discovered on digs

Potstone