9-Letter Words Starting with P

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

Proper

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Pl. propositi (-t ) The person immediately concerned about or affected by an action.

""A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province.""

Correctness of behaviour

Decency to support one tyre change

Generally accepted behavior

""Pl. proptoses (-s z) Forward displacement of an organ, especially an eyeball.""

""Pl. proptoses (-s z) Forward displacement of an organ, especially an eyeball.""

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

To prorogue.

Fielding, Dickens, etc

English word

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.

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Chances of success, outlooks

Searches for wide views

Looks for gold and hopes for the future

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

Soluble protein.

Protamin

Protease

Shielded from danger

Kept from harm

Alee, at sea

Expert + sleuth + peak

Knight, to a damsel

Guard for Commonwealth head of state

Protegee

Proteide

Protend

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. prothalli (-th l ) or prothallia (-th l - ) A small, flat, delicate structure produced by a germinating spore and bearing sex organs. It is the gametophyte of ferns and some other plants.""

""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.

""Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. as, a prothetic apparatus.""

The first or anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera. Illusts. of Butterfly and Coleoptera.

""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

Botany The primary meristem that gives rise to epidermis. Also called dermatogen .

PROTON a subatomic particle

""The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.""

Protopod

Concept in cosmology

Patent office submission, maybe

Original model - top poetry (anagram)

Experimental working model

Protoxid

PROTOZOA the lowest and simplest of animals

Amoeba, for one

Single-celled organism

Minute life form.

Animalcule

Draws out professional pamphlets

Draws out, extends in duration

Keeps going for brochures

Jutted out

Stuck out

Jutted.

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.""

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Nearby bishop accepts bull

First-class county perhaps against China next

Very near

Neighbourhood

Get along or get upset through concern for closeness

Nearness.

In a cautious way

With penny wisdom.

With discretion.

King David and others

David and Asaph.

David and others

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

Psaltry

Psammite

Psephite

A noncontagious inflammatory skin disease characterized by recurring reddish patches covered with silvery scales.

Itchy cops (anagram)

Like Hannibal Lecter

Out of touch with reality

Grouse - giant pram (anagram)

Canadian game bird

Grouse family bird

English word

Molluscs quietly slithering around doorstep

Extinct winged "lizard"

Ground or pasture for old beast

Ancient flier on quiet Eurostar train

A growth over the cornea

""Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone as, a pterygoid bone""

Ptomaine

Ptyalism

Puberty

Just beginning sexual maturity

Starting to mature

Reaching sexual maturity to find local scene changing at last

One promoting but clip is terrible

Advertising agent

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

Boozer allowed yard plugs (wordplay)

Press reports, write-ups, ballyhoo.

Media 'ink'

Puddly

Childishness, infantile state

Childishness

Old-time fighters

Bare-knuckle fighters

Bareknuckle fighters

Aggressiveness, eagerness to fight

Eagerness to fight

Combativeness

Send forth sprouts

Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead

Swarm

Having breathing organs that act as lungs.

Pulmotor

""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

Pumicite

Punchy

Strict observance of formalities

Minute ceremonial detail

Ceremonious points of etiquette

Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)

Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)

Add marks to text

And that's flat!

No longer got the wind up

Pierced, cut and pruned badly

Tire problems

Make light humor (wordplay)

Joke without malice but with some bite

In a keen manner

Punition

Pupation

He pulls the strings.

A dog always welcomes favourite

Burr Tillstrom, for example

""The act of purging; the act of clearing, cleansing, or putifying, by separating and carrying off impurities, or whatever is superfluous; the evacuation of the bowels.""

Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)

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

Hell on earth

Middle ground

Mental anguish

Claimed (to be)

Signified.

Certain places of business.

Street vendors' setups

Vendors' settings

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

Went off - erupted if disturbed

Rotten

Decays with an offensive smell

The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.

PUTSCH a sudden attempt to overthrow a government

Putterer

Dawdling

PUTTY to fill with a type of cement

Adjective meaning resembling

""An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve. Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf. Called also AdamandEve.""

""A substance resembling, and isomeric with, ordinary camphor, and extracted from the essential oil of feverfew; called also Pyrethrum camphor. Pyrethrum camphor.""

Bonfire temperature's hot beside unusual chrysanth

It's for burning the dead bits of edging in the garden

Fever few connected with new therapy, excluding a drink

Decomposition or transformation of a compound caused by heat.

An instrument used for measuring the expansion of solid bodies by heat.

""The art of measuring degrees of heat, or the expansion of bodies by heat.""

Pyrostat

Pyruvate

I was Monty's missus!, reveals old witch

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