9-Letter Words Starting with P

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Palestra

State tree of Ariz.

Palpebra

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

A boy in a dish that holds stationery

Container for writing materials, such as fancy stationery

Drop cloth (wordplay)

Fall necessity (wordplay)

What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)

""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

English word

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Impoverish.

Make a big entrance, say

Bore to babble about English goal

Force way through, into

Shadows created during an eclipse

Shadowy places

PERBORATE

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

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

Smollett's Mr. Pickle

Kind of falcon

Ripe green bananas doing for bird

PERENNATE

Prepare a dotted line, perhaps

Hold forth about origin of fast puncture

Make holes in, as for ease of tearing

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

Pericope

Thin layer of plant tissue

Submarine's eye (wordplay)

Sub's eye (wordplay)

View provider on a U-boat

""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

Like an aquifer

Whip mainly blames peer for letting things through

Diffusable

Tavern owner, for example

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)

Celebrity being mature!

Celebrity calls for each lad to get on

Man of distinction.

Play a part on stage

Use another's vote in Esperanto

Pretend to be someone else in Esperanto

Spread exciting VIP as ever

Widely-spread

Spreading throughout

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Morning star

To picture.

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)

Dancer's twirl

Rapid spin in ballet

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Make sibilant, perhaps

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Pressure or hound a shark

Voracious shark splintered bargepole

Shark traps Rex Black in river with bird

A real sharpie (wordplay)

Featured creature (five letters)

Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood

Portable.

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Gratuity, to Gregoire

Tip at a boite

15 per cent of the check

BATTLE to {fight=v}

Word with prefix pre-

(Overhang of) steep cliff

Overhanging cliff or rock face

High vertical cliff

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

To define beforehand.

Part of a sentence.

Imply or connote

Part of the sentence given to a subject

Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number

Consider beforehand

Foreshadow

""To freeze beforehand, pa t PREFROZE, pa p PREFROZEN""

""Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort. as, a pregnable fort.""

Disadvantage recorded with pride

Influence (someone's) opinion in advance

Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'

Group of clergymen

Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.

Before the normal time

Born too soon

Born before full term

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Advise use of (medicine)

What the 6 down may do before the writer

Recommended a course in physics

Receiver now at ease, they say

Recipient at a fete

Oscar winner, for example

STRIKE to {hit=v}

In grammar, the past tense

Tripe eater dropping a faulty 3

Expressing past time.

VIABLE capable of living

I merit VIP treatment! Simple!

Early - simple - crude

Early in development

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

As a rule it has the main sound

Rule the head of the school declared

Fundamental truth - moral rule

Fit to be published

In good taste

O.K. for publication.

Dispossess the people of power? Current duty is to enter revolt

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Exploratory

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

To deliver a Prologue.

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Tending to advance

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

To prorogue.

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

Work in court, perhaps

Subject to trial.

Bring criminal action against

Convert badly-made polyester

Convert polyester shifts

Make converts.

Driver brought before judge is lying

Face down platforms in private

Prone to lying

Soluble protein.

PROTON a subatomic particle

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

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

Like a certain wolf (Utah)

Cheese for a hero (wordplay)

Deli sandwich filler

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)

Unhealthy interest in sexual matters

Morbid interest in sex etc

English word

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

Grind into dust

Demolish

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience

Having or indicating purpose or design.

""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Bodily Functions