9-Letter Words Starting with P

Hippo, say (wordplay)

Rhino or hippo, say (wordplay)

Elephant, hippo etc

""The third stage of the prophase of meiosis, the stage in which the pairing of homologous chromosomes has been completed.""

Purpose of a conciliatory gesture

Calming (baby)

Appeasing

Paduasoy

The larder contains mature display

Show time in the butler's room

Spectacle taking long time in food store

It's hurtful in a way to give father it in full

When Father is home entirely it's in a 23 across way

Isn't commonly included in unusual reply that's artistic, in a way

In a palatable manner.

PALATAL the bone of the palate

In a palmate manner.

Reading between the lines!

Handyman's work (wordplay)

Method of fortune-telling

Awfully pricey nag gaining high praise

Public and elaborate eulogy

Praise excited gay prince

Action prone to causing oil spills (wordplay)

English word

PANTRY a small storage room

News casters (wordplay)

Deliverers on bikes

Certain carriers

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papill\'91; bearing, or covered with, papill\'91; papillose.""

Papyrus

Unable to move

Deprived of the power of movement

Deprived of movement

Paralyse

Loss of the ability to move

That will keep the lays still in Paris

Inability to act/function

Drunk (informal)

Drunk city batsman quietly uplifted

Smashed CIA, partly struggling

Immobilized

""PARALYZE to render incapable of movement, also PARALYSE""

Paralyze

""A substance resembling starch, found in the green frothy scum formed on the surface of stagnant water.""

Bridesmaid, in ancient Greece

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

English word

Letting ride, as at the track

Conferee, as at San Francisco and Ottawa

Doing a deal, say

Engaged in talks

Negotiating during a truce

PARLOUS dangerous

Sending up

Sending up staff involved in handing over wages

Burlesquing

Sudden outbursts

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

Containing parsley

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

I have a bit of a friend around - just a bit

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

""A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.""

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Legacy from which one gets a cut - 25 quid, about

Twenty-five pounds? Therein lies a slim sort of inheritance

Heritage

Squash varieties

Some squash

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Paygrade

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

PEACE to be or become silent

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

In a peccant manner.

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Athenian relationship custom

Model veils hype in a petulant way

With ill temper

Around six, he yelps about in a petulant way

A marine or freshwater mollusk having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together; a member of the Pelecypoda.

""The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort. Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.""

Plant that's almost value for money (wordplay)

In a pensive manner.

Government by five persons

How Nadia balanced on the beam

In an ideal way

Completely and without qualification

Obsession source (wordplay)

Art of scent-making

Be livid when probing drink's source of aroma

Thin layer of plant tissue

""Pl. perikarya (-k r - ) The cell body of a neuron, containing the nucleus and organelles.""

""The fluid which surrounds the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear, and separates it from the walls of the chambers in which the labyrinth lies.""

""Pl. perimysia (-m zh - , -m z - ) The sheath of connective tissue enveloping bundles of muscle fibers.""

Line acting as a boundary

Surrounding region

Outer limits

Row of columns.

Row of columns around courtyard

Court or square with columns all round

PERORAL occurring through the mouth

Embody in human form

Be the epitome of

Represent as human

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Peevish state

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Links to esophagi

Pharynx

PHENE an old name for benzene

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

Total physical appearance of an organism

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Phoney

Study of speech sounds

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

English word

Waldo Salt supply

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Phyllite

Phyllode

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Phylloid

Phyllome

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

Physic

Bod examples (wordplay)

They're judged at some pageants

Builds

English word

Things of very small value

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

In a pinnate manner.

Adjective (-ic)

In a stimulating way.

Pertaining to fishing

Of fishing.

So as to arouse sorrow and compassion

In heart-moving fashion

In a wretched way

""PITIFUL arousing pity, also PITEOUS""

Type of gland

Master gland of the endocrineasystem

Master gland of the endocrine system

PITYING pity

PIVOTAL critically important

Play-actor trying to be conciliatory

Being conciliatory for play-actor

Stage show including animal - or seeking to appease

It's a calm sort of plaid for the city

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

Calmness

PLANAR {flat=adj}

Of Mars and Uranus, say

Of Venus, Jupiter, Uranus, etc.

Relating to the earth

Expressiveness

Scheme to get the lowdown on some cyclist's reported clanger

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

PLATY a small tropical fish

In a believable way

In fun, publish unbound novel with ingratiating words

Won a Po'okela

Performed on stage

Made believe

Playback

Usher's handouts

*Handouts to theatergoers

What ushers hand out, sometimes

Copies of dramas.

Coaches consult them

Kids' visits with friends

Arrangements for tots

After-school arrangements

Playdown

English word

PLAYFUL full of fun

Playgirl

Theater audience, often

Theater buffs.

Theater audience

Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)

Child's toy.

Backyard structure for kids

Playland

Queued-up songs

Deejays consult them

Custom-made iPod compilations

Strategic team athlete

Point guard, for example

Point guard, e.g

Ones with recess appointments (wordplay)

Romeo and Juliet (wordplay)

John Barrymore's last film

Recreation places

Nursery areas

Toddler's wardrobe

The Mousetrap, say - object of amusement

Item in Santa's sack

Toy to produce reedy note

Playtime

Numerousness

Ability to make a lasting impression

Quality that can touch or move

Touching quality

Indicated empty lavatory in a very obvious way

Juicy, blackish fruit

Pollywog

AMIDE a type of chemical compound

AMINE a type of chemical compound

Practice of a woman having many husbands

Custom of having more than one husband

System of having multiple husbands

English word

English word

Polybrid

Suit material, perhaps

This material goes out to Presley

Tennis racket string material

Polygala

GAMIC requiring fertilisation

Polygene

Of or relating to polygeny; polygenetic.

They speak many languages

People who know and use several languages

Shapely (wordplay)

Many-sided

""A genus of plants embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.""

Station administration (wordplay)

Detective's device

Storyteller (wordplay)

Many-faced bodies

Prisms, e.g

Solid figures of more than six faces

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.

Like nylon, chemically

""A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. Allomorph. Allomorph.""

Any of various mainly toxic antibiotics derived from strains of the soil bacterium Bacillus polymyxa and used to treat various infections with gram-negative bacteria.

The practice or faculty of subsisting on many kinds of food.

""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.""

""A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd. read, which is pronounced r\'c7d or r\'cbd.""

Music institution once fraudulent

Old college not genuine? Conflicting noises perhaps here (wordplay)

Polypide

""POLYPE an animal with many tentacles, also POLYP, POLYPIDE""

Polypnea

Polypore

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

Polypus

Polysome

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

Polyuria

- - acetate, colourless resin

- - chloride (PVC)

Common kind of plastic

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

Polyzoan

Puffed-up quality

Pretentiousness

Shame about old member so backward offering bombast

POMPOUS infused with exaggerated self-importance

WNBA athletes sport them, often

Easy-maintenance hairdos

Part of some coiffures

Beau Brummells

Coxcombs (and a hint to solving this puzzle)

Beau Brummells.

A ladybird? Nonsense!

Flower crower? Piffle!

Pop goes the rooster? 23 down!

""A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc., in Gothic churches.""

Among the people

""Any of several disorders of porphyrin metabolism, usually hereditary, characterized by the presence of large amounts of porphyrins in the blood and urine.""

""Any of various organic compounds containing four pyrrole rings, occurring universally in protoplasm, and functioning as a metal-binding cofactor in hemoglobin, chlorophyll, and certain enzymes.""

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

People in general who succeed (wordplay)

They follow the last of 1 across first

All future generations