9-Letter Words Starting with P

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

Protamin

Protease

Protegee

Proteide

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. 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.

""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

Protopod

Concept in cosmology

Protoxid

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

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.""

Breadwinners

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

Prowess

Field that was using the term "social distance" way before it was cool

Prudence

Bluenose specialties.

In a nice-Nelly way

In bluenosed fashion

In a Victorian manner

Prunella

Skinless dried fruit

Prunello

Sunday text

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

Lower class compartments with first-class return taking drunken pals back

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

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.

Having a sixth sense

PSYCHOS psycho

Possible aspect of a case history.

Common schizophrenia condition

Mental aberration

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Psyllium

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

They make pins into pints, given time

They have bars

Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

'Biopic strewn with lust, not love' (Advertiser)

Author perhaps reported (wordplay)

Beckham, for instance, has just been

Local is held wrongly, and released

Eg Jonathan Cape or Hamish Hamilton

Bookmaker in bar spilled relish

Budding author's pursuit

Ships blue after redesign issues

Puts out

Issues

Puckerer

In a mischievous manner

Puddly

Puddling

Pudency

Chubbiness, plumpness

Juvenility

Garden insect

Dandelion tufts.

If it comes to blows, they get round to having fun with Gus, perhaps

Puffery

Distension of birds grasping opponents

Puggaree

Pugilism

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

Pulicide

Troop withdrawals

Retreats

Jumpers from Jersey (wordplay)

Sweaters without buttons

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

Pulmotor

The quality or state of being pulpy.

Pulpwood

""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""

Athrob

Vibrant.

How a lion puts a throb like this

Regular throbbing

A throbbing

Washing machine components

Pulsejet

Pulsojet

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

A little cushion or pad

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

Pumicite

Lots of time when it comes to blows for the casks

Punchy

PUNCH to perforate with a type of tool

Tire problems

Furies, in myth

Penalty inflicters, for example

They teach lessons when double entendre is hers

Like tough jobs

Putting a child in timeout, e.g

Imposing a penalty on

Punition

PUNKIN a {pumpkin=n}

Pupation

Pupfish

Pupilage

Puppydom

Legally acquired

Bought

Patron has ship's officer storing tea

Tea break for cashier and buyer

One who buys something

Shopping, including tea bags

Buys tea in bags

Acquires and takes round the tea bags

Certain cattle or canines

No Heinz 57s

Pointers, perhaps

Purfling

Purifier

Not by accident

Intentionally

Deliberately sounding like an American dolphin (wordplay)

Purpose

Having or indicating purpose or design.

Purpurin

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

State of being pursy.

Salad plants

The carrying out (of something)

Carrying out (of policy)

In this of it's carrying out

Sellers of goods

Food sellers

Pushball

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

Promote president to pram

Reportedly pedal president's buggy

Baby transport

Pushdown

Irritating quality

Easy pickin's.

Easy marks

Shipmates of owls.

They won't give you a hard time

They're not so tough

Go gingerly (around)

Move cautiously around the cat's paw!

Hedge 16 (wordplay)

PUSSY a cat

Gone to the bad

Decays with an offensive smell

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Putterer

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Pygmyism

Pylorus

Pyoderma

Pyorrhea

Pyranose

Pyrenoid

Pungent liquids

Pyrolize

Pyrolyse

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

Pyrolyze

Pyronine

Pyrosis

Pyrostat

Pyroxene

Pyruvate

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

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