9-Letter Words Starting with P

Propenol

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.

Proper

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Propine

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Propone

Offers of marriage

Season-ending events on "The Bachelor"

They're made for girls

Those on bended knee

Poppers of the question.

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.

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

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

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

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

To prorogue.

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

Prosaism

Fielding, Dickens, etc

English word

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Prosect

""One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist.""

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

""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

Chances of success, outlooks

Searches for wide views

Looks for gold and hopes for the future

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

Prostate

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.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Architectural features of poor housing received by the lower classes

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Protease

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Protegee

Proteide

Protend

Proteose

Held a sit-in, maybe

Uttered words of dissent

Registered dissent or objection

Person in a sit-in, say

Member of the mob (wordplay)

SAT administrator, by trade (wordplay)

Placard carrier, maybe

Member of the mob (wordplay)

One who disagrees Var.

Proteus

""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.""

""Pl. protheses (-s z ) Linguistics The addition of a phoneme or syllable at the beginning of a word, as in Spanish espina, "thorn," from Latin spina.""

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

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

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

""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.""

Diplomat's concerns

Correct conduct code

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Protopod

Concept in cosmology

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Protoxid

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

In favor of rudest new projects

Orders put out for projects

Puts order into projects

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

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

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

Provoker

Stimulating (a reaction)

Ruler in a Utah city (wordplay)

Pest's activity

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Prowess

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.

Prunello

Sunday text

Pen name - use my pond (anagram)

Lewis Carroll, for one

S as in pen name (wordplay)

Bunch of phony dolphins (wordplay)

Psilocin

Psoralea

Psoralen

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.

PSYCHOS psycho

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

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

Ptomaine

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

Stop by the side of the road starting to sense some wear

To do with lungs

(adj.) pertaining to sleeping cars

Of or affecting the lungs

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

Pulpwood

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Pulsojet

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Punition

Pupation

Puppydom

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

All in the family (wordplay)

Of unmixed ancestry

Virus-free serum

""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.""

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

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.""

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Pushdown

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

Pylorus

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

""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

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

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

Pyrolyze

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

Pyrolyze

Divination by fire.

Year sitting in weird company making study of fire signs (wordplay)

A burning passion (wordplay)

Lighting problem (wordplay)

Burning desire (wordplay)

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Pyrostat

Pyroxene

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.""

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

How used she to snake her way into the priesthood (wordplay)