9-Letter Words Starting with P

Pauldron

Paunchy

Pauper

Penury

Impoverish.

Paygrade

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pearmain

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

Peccary

Cheeses made from ewes' milk

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Pedalfer

Foot keyboards

Pederast

Athenian relationship custom

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedicure

Jobs in a digital workplace (wordplay)

Treatments for some nails

Foot treatments

PEDIGREE a line of ancestors

Purebred dogs' ancestries

Family trees

AKC concerns

Pedlary

Pedlery

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

Ladies of the lords

Titled ladies

Titled ladies.

Pegboard

Loose dressing gowns

Apres-bain gowns

Gowns that are rarely worn out

Pelerine

Pellagra

One who is afficted with pellagra.

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Pelorus

Pelter

Penciler

Keen physical education entrant, perhaps

Sharp, acute insect

Piercing, sharp

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Receptacle on a desk, perhaps

Calligrapher's need

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

Perhaps one ripens as retiree (wordplay)

Late worker (wordplay)

Old Chelsea player, perhaps

Magician's symbol

Write name on stuff which is mystical

Pagan term translated as magic symbol

Pentarch

Government by five persons

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

PENUMBRA a partial shadow

Penumbra

Poor writer on novel losing head

Extremely poor

Rising charge with record debts getting close

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

Peperoni

Spice holder

Turret or another object with a similar shape

Pepperer

Seasoning pungently

Hard, spicy beef and pork sausage

Spicy sausage: condiment on top of it

Sausage Evita got in burst pipe

Peptizer

PERBORATE

""A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.""

Got it

Sensed

Seer, of a sort

Becomes aware of

Reads epic verse out

Reads

Fish develop acne, maybe once!

Maybe (to dream? - Hamlet)

Maybe roosting for fowl, perhaps

Filter - to replace (anagram)

Filter, as coffee

Brew, in a way

Percuss

Percuss

Hell or ruin

There's no tripe I'd ruin like this

Reckless ode I print producing ruin

Perdure

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

Peregrin

English word

PERENNATE

Lily, for one

Lasting a long time

Daffodil or tulip, for example

Pereopod

First-and-second track options

Long-odds track bets

High-payout wagers

Got better and better at

Brought to an ideal state.

Made complete and faultless, say technique

Perfect

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Perfecto

Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.

Perfidy

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

Did mod prefer rocker (wordplay)

Put on knitted jumper for media

Danced on TikTok, for example

A retired actor (wordplay)

Salesman turns up with past actor

One putting on an act

Some Chanel employees

They make scents

Obsession source (wordplay)

Art of scent-making

Be livid when probing drink's source of aroma

Perfume

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Perfuse

The act of perfusing.

Perhaps

Perianth

Periblem

Pericarp

Pericope

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Periderm

Like a green gem or olivine.

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

Peril

Perilune

""The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.""

Outer limits (wordplay)

Prime tree (anagram)

Place for a fence, perhaps

""Pl. perimysia (-m zh - , -m z - ) The sheath of connective tissue enveloping bundles of muscle fibers.""

Around the time of birth

Pain alert issued around the delivery time

Periodid

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

""A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.""

Line acting as a boundary

Surrounding region

Outer limits

Same as Periblast. Periblast.

Peripter

Perisarc

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

Missile one's invested in going west

Bloody cold!

Blasted freezing!

""The fringe of teeth around the orifice of the capsule of mosses. It consists of 4, 8, 16, 32, or 64 teeth, and may be either single or double.""

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.

Liars of a kind.

Liars on the stand

Perjury

Forswearing.

Betty Boop quality

Spark

Coiffure that will endure (wordplay)

Standing wave (wordplay)

Every artist embraces New Wave of sorts

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Permease

Spread into every part of

Spread through

Diffused through

Seeps through.

Diffuses

Allowed, gave consent

It's been let

Authorised instruction to Edward, the hairdresser (wordplay)

Tavern owner, for example

One who permits.

Permute

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Spoke at length.

Spoke at length

Declaimed

Speaks at length.

Harangues.

Discourses

Peroxide

Peroxide

""PEROXIDE a bleaching agent, also PEROXID""

Perpend

Continuous (motion impossible!)

Like a sort of check on patterned board

Never ending or changing

In a quandary

Mystify writer at sea

In puzzlement

Exercises, then watches different second throws

Puzzles.

Baffles

Harry? In essence, delightful!

Turn into a martyr, perhaps

8 in itself quaintly pleasing

Keep at it, like Percy Holmes (wordplay)

Continue (against odds)

Serve peer (anagram)

Small orange fruit

Ebony family fruit

Fruit of the ebony family

Refused to stop

Spider set out and kept on going

Pressed it agitatedly and wouldn't stop

PERSIST to continue resolutely

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Back-of-magazine feature

Certain classifieds

Newspaper items

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Group of workers.

Members of staff

Office staff, for example

Utilized a sauna

Formed beads, in a way

Didn't stay dry

Sweats it (wordplay)

Gives off liquid through points

Indicates deception, in a way

Induced by argument.

Twisted someone's arm, metaphorically

Twisted someone's arm

One convincing; gun

Induces, prevails upon

Convinces through reasoning

Brings around

Was applicable (to something)

Was relevant (to)

Belonged, but need a trip away ...

To the point

Fitting metal bearings in fresh cover

To the point

Prude Bert when changed became agitated

Not pleased

Agitated Rupert wrecked place of retirement

Whooping cough

Pervader

Pervade

""The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the whole extent of a thing.""

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Pervert

One who perverts (a person or thing).

Pessary

They're annoying

Nags

Making a nuisance of oneself

Annoying ringing sound around compound

Annoying constantly

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Scares stiff

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pewterer

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

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

PHARE a lighthouse

Scholarly sect of yore

Group attacked by John the Baptist

Opponents of the Sadducees.

Links to esophagi

Pharynx

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Philter

Philtre

Phlegmy

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

Phoronid

Morning star

Phosphor

Pictorial photograph

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

Wordings

Phratry