9-Letter Words Starting with P

Slightly eccentric

Bewitched: Colloq.

Bewitched Colloq.

Abbr. pizz. Played by plucking rather than bowing the strings.

To be plucked with the fingers (music)

To be plucked (musical)

In music, to be played by plucking

Appeasers.

Mediators

Acting conciliatory

A plc giant in trouble needs calming down

Calming

Appeasement

Act of making cool programme about jazz player I love

PLACATE to conciliate

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

Employment bureau's business.

Employment agency's task.

Task for a personnel officer

""Pl. placentas or placentae (-t ) a. A membranous vascular organ that develops in female mammals during pregnancy, lining the uterine wall and partially enveloping the fetus, to which it is attached by the umbilical cord. Following birth, the placenta is expelled.""

Like a category of mammals

Placenta

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

It's calm to have the plural of being like 3 down

Calmness

I will enter factory with former partner first to translate unencoded writing

You can read this statement of grievance from former time

Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice.

Simple argument has one going to court!

Action man (wordplay)

Person bringing legal action

A pint vile, disgusting? That's sad

Sounding sad and mournful

Some complain Tiverton's miserable

Plaister

Braids

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Geologic process of erosion

Planchet

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Ceres, for one

Smallish celestial body

Ceres, Pallas or Vesta

Plankter

Wood-weight units (wordplay)

Capable of being planted; fit to be planted.

Relative of 7D ingredient

Bananas' kin

Bananas' cousins

Planting

Plantlet

Perhaps bushy Scotsman's gear turns up when shaver comes round

""One, such as a horticulturist, who collects or grows plants.""

PLANTS plant

Plashy

""PLASMA the liquid part of the blood, also PLASM""

Drunk (as a ceiling or wall may be)

Very drunk (colloq.)

Drunk, ready to be painted (wordplay)

Art repels crude artisan

User of Keene's cement

Worker in stuccompany

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

Spoil salt when stirring in resinous liquid

Plastron

Plastrum

Stopped increasing

Leveled off

Buffet quantities

Generous servings.

Important parts of blood.

Certain cell fragments

Coagulant bodies in the blood

Adjective meaning resembling

Plateful

Stands for manifestos

Factory with no name makes shoes

Kind of stages or political policies

Protect from tarnish, in a way

Coat with a valuable metal

Platinum

Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"

'Time heals all wounds,' for example

Commonplace remark, banal or trite

Platoon

PLATY a small tropical fish

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Queued-up songs

Deejays consult them

Custom-made iPod compilations

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Toddler's wardrobe

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Playtime

PLEAT to fold in an even manner

Plectron

Hand picks (wordplay)

Musical picks.

Eden lit up (anagram)

More-than-adequate supply

Literary sort of abundance or fullness

In rich supply

Fruitful.

Abundant

Existing in great number or quantity

More than enough to fill up ten skips

Great spinning, fill up net

Huge amounts

Superfluities

Large numbers of appeals needing god's intervention

Excessively abundant

""Inflammation of the pleura, usually occurring as a complication of a disease such as pneumonia, accompanied by accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity, chills, fever, and painful breathing and coughing.""

Pleuston

Fold.

Plighter

Plight

Pliotron

Books may have a few of them

Novels' main stories

Threads for a screenwriter

Plottage

Plotty

Most like Alger's Ragged Dick

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

Plumelet

Dropped sharply

Sounded, fathomed.

Declined precipitously

Plummy

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

Numerousness

Plushy

Cousin of Croesus.

Person who derives power from wealth

Wealthy person of influence

Plutonic.

Element named for a planet

Element number 94, formed from U. 238.

Radioactive element isolated in 1940.

Using air (or a similar gas)

Kind of drill or tire

Type of tire.

Poachy

Subtle thieves

A few handfuls (wordplay)

Oft-quoted quantity of rye

Fuddled Kelt with cup of rye in rhyme

Pocket

PODIA podium

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

POETIC pertaining to {poetry=n}

Poetiser

Poetise

Poetizer

Poetize

POGROM to massacre systematically

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

English word

Pointy

It's futile being blunt (wordplay)

Blunt to no purpose (wordplay)

Serving no purpose

Pokeroot

Argumentative types steam into bars

Disputatious group

Centers of attraction.

Guiding principles

Reform Libor? Up to executive committee

Communist decision-makers

Soviet Communist Party group

Decorousness shown by two girls, say

Epistle so badly writen reveals courtesy

Emily Post's specialty

Getting into the party spirit (wordplay)

Like some platforms

Having to do with government.

Politick

Party people (wordplay)

Candidates, party workers, et al.

Disparaging term for MPs or similar

What bees do

Fertilize, in a way

Be work for the busy bee

Opinion takers

Election predictors.

Trend determiners

Acid rain component

EPA concern

Air impurity

Woodsy Owl's PSA targets

They're not green

EPA targets

Contaminating

Smog, for example

12 across would have none of it

The 9 across of 25 down

POLLUTE to make unclean or impure

Cowards, old style.

English word

English word

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

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

The knowledge of many arts and sciences; variety of learning.

A work consisting of four or more painted or carved panels that are hinged together.

Packaging material - telephony (anagram)

Plastic switch needed for telephony

A lightweight thermoplastic

Using more than one key

Of music, using two or more keys simultaneously

Polytype

Polytechnic type almost in charge of many subdivisions

""WATER to sprinkle with a transparent, odourless, tasteless liquid""

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Poortith

""Of or pertaining to the ham; in the region of the ham, or behind the knee joint; as, the popliteal space. as, the popliteal space.""

Filled up tape with old broadcast

Like urban regions

Having inhabitants

Populate

Defenders of the common man

Champions of the common man

Splinter party voters of 1892.

Certain typewriters and TV sets

Many modern gadgets

Stop blare of such radios

Portage

Portance

English word

Portapak

Portable.

That foretold that the wine was finished

As has been warned, the wine's finished

Left on board, finished forecast

Work of the carriers on safari

Drink time - get the carriage

Carrying charge.

Porter

Stock pile (wordplay)

Case of drink (oil of rum)

Financial holdings (see first letters)

What submarines lack

You see the sea through them

Ship's windows

Portico

They're all for hanging in France

Doorway curtains

Doled (out)

Controlled on a plate

Most corpulent.

Superlatively stout

Most fat

People who've been framed (wordplay)

Sit for a drink over the stair

Mona Lisa et al.

Beam in doorway needed painting

Ray is in the doorway of study

New, royal part in artistic delineation

Depicted in predatory way

Described as predatory, in odd way

Represented dramatically

Artist needs beer to have inner spark

Actor, for example

Artist wants Guinness maybe when eating fish

Popular name of rose moss.

Succulent herb of the purslane family

Plant of the purslane family

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

""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