9-Letter Words Starting with P

Plowhead

Plowland

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

Something to do with a turkey claiming 'e's least like a chicken (wordplay)

Plumbago

Soundings

Plumbism

Plumelet

Plumeria

Plumiped

Plummy

Fat lot of good that will do one

The holding by one person of two or more offices at once

Cleric who holds more than one benefice at a time - April lust (anagram)

Plushy

PLUSH a fabric with a long pile

Plussage

Poachy

Subtle thieves

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

Podomere

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

Poetiser

Poetise

Poetizer

POGROM to massacre systematically

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

Pokeroot

Purple-berried plants

Made magnetic variable

(Of light waves) vibrating in one plane

Made magnetic Var.

Polarise

Turns a bear white (wordplay)

Sends to separate camps

More than just divides

Argumentative types steam into bars

Disputatious group

Polemize

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

They have their shining hours

Rag-and-brush persons

Unaspirated rubber girls from Poland (wordplay)

Brushing up language, one never gets to start

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Politick

Party people (wordplay)

Candidates, party workers, et al.

Disparaging term for MPs or similar

Comers in the frog pond

Opinion takers

Election predictors.

Trend determiners

Woodsy Owl's PSA targets

They're not green

EPA targets

Pollywog

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

Polonium

Cowards, old style.

Polybrid

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

Polygala

Polygene

They speak many languages

People who know and use several languages

All-round experts brewing malty hops

'Likewise, they have everything (9)'

These know-alls seem to get their sums like parrots

""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.""

Polypide

Polypnea

Polypore

Polypus

Polysome

Polytype

Polyuria

Polyzoan

Like an apple or pear; producing pomes.

Pomander

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

Deliberators

Meditators

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

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.

Populace

Populate

Populism

Defenders of the common man

Champions of the common man

Splinter party voters of 1892.

Porkwood

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.

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portance

Portapak

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

Portico

They're all for hanging in France

Doorway curtains

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

People who've been framed (wordplay)

Sit for a drink over the stair

Mona Lisa et al.

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

Potency

Pothouse

Potlach

Potshard

Pieces discovered on digs

Potstone

Potterer

Stoke-on-Trent area

Beast tucking into food somewhere in the Midlands

China region where river mammal goes into dishes

Pouchy

Poularde

Anti-inflammatory dressings

Cataplasms.

Poultry

Enclosures for cattle.

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

Poverty

Powderer

Having no clout

Ineffectual peers slow to change

Ineffective without electricity

Pozzolan

Businesses of a doctor or lawyer

Quip Part III

Trains through repetition

Perfectly proficient (wordplay)

Carried out or rehearsed

Expert forced to accept work

Puts into use.

Praecipe

Praefect

Praelect

English word

Practical joker Colloq.

Practical joker: Colloq.

Person playing tricks on people

Chevy Chase flops (wordplay)

Clown's repertory

Slapstick stunts

Pratique

They gas snakes after beginning to panic

Nonstop talkers

Young talkers.

People whose word is gospel (wordplay)

They serve up sermons

They deliver on Sunday

Preadapt

Preadmit

Preadopt

Preallot

Openers for documents

Preliminary or preparatory statements

New rep strolls around making introductions

Designate in advance

Hand out in advance

Preaudit

CENSOR to delete a word or passage

Precess

Precess

Precheck

Prechill

Word with prefix pre-

City districts

Policeman circling about in court's grounds

Abstract, see? Just so!

Following summary, see without a doubt

Exactly, without vagueness

Precise

""One who limits, or restrains.""

Precis

Digest is charged with accuracy

Summary I get on accuracy

Exactness on price is variable

Preclean

Preclear

Musical compositions comprising 100 bars

Makes impossible

Some way through introductory pieces, music finally stops

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

CRISIS a crucial turning point

Before the computer age (wordplay)

Cusp error responsible for omen

Something going in advance of another

Lions and tigers and bears

Teardrops shed for hungry animals

Animals that feed on other animals