9-Letter Words Starting with P

Lone rider's spare, perhaps

Beast of burden

Drudge turns out hack prose

Palestra

PALLET a bed or mattress or straw

I get cuddled by girl in light bed

Just the thing, if you want to hit the hay

Sounds like a friendly sort of fool, but that's just for lying

Where china's buried for German nobleman

Comrades meeting important count

Count on friends being serious

""Covered with, or bearing, papill\'91; resembling papill\'91; papillate; papillar; papillary.""

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

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

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

""PELLET to hit with small, rounded masses""

Penny has to be keen about old apartment

Start to write you right on top

He puts one out flat

An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of peptides into amino acids.

PERFUSE to diffuse through or over

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

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

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Type of mathematical function

Clothes line (wordplay)

Line of suits (wordplay)

Fabric - insert pip (anagram)

""A kind of clay slate, carved by the Indians into tobacco pipes. Cf. Catlinite. Catlinite.""

Not too much of a stretch

Seemingly worthy of acceptance

False but sounding true

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Sane place (anagram)

Nice bit of a garden

Garden in an estate

Sword in peacetime.

Cutting blade of a kind.

Biblical exchange for sword

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Chop in for this for a pole (wordplay)

Chopin piece of sole piano variation

Leo, 15, played dance piece

""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.""

Part 4 of remark

Place for the down-and-out, once

Home for the indigent

Postcava

He stops at break promptly!

He stops at break very speedily!

Quick to pass the buck (wordplay)

Assume as axiom

Let sap out in order to claim something

Lay down rough pale stout

Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure

Word with prefix pre-

CREASE to make a wrinkle in

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

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}

Designating a type of close-fitting beltless dress

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

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

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

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

Power of car, not new, in red

Rough seas in cup competition with jumps

Power: Poetic.

""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.""

Reduce to dust (S, not Z)

Grind to powder

Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier

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