9-Letter Words Ending in A

Pl. acetabula (-l ) Anatomy The cup-shaped cavity at the base of the hipbone into which the ball-shaped head of the femur fits.

""The failure of a ring of muscle fibers, such as a sphincter of the esophagus, to relax.""

Adenoma

Ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma). (Nepeta Glechoma).

A tree, the common mesquite

Blindness

""Pl. ambulacra (-l k r , -l kr ) One of the five radial areas on the undersurface of the starfish and similar echinoderms, from which the tube feet are protruded and withdrawn.""

Any abnormal condition of the refracting powers of the eye.

Lack of muscle tone.

Lack of pain NOT a country! (nonverbal)

State of "feeling no pain"

In Ala., easing of pain

""Loss of structural differentiation within a cell or group of cells often with increased capacity for multiplication, as in a malignant tumor.""

Small Pacific fish used for bait

""Pl. androecia (-sh - , -sh ) The stamens of a flower considered as a group.""

Dead Roman, perhaps, or mythical Greek

Princess attached to rock stars in group

The Chained Lady

Pl. angiomas or angiomata (-m -t ) A tumor composed chiefly of lymph and blood vessels.

The absence of pleasure or the ability to experience it.

Writings of dubious authorship

Secret things books left out

Writings not considered genuine

""Pl. apothecia (-s - , -sh - ) A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.""

Showy flower, also known as columbine

One member - one in water - is Columbine

Plant also known as Granny's Bonnet

* Song about goldfish (nearly)

Monkey puzzle tree (or Chile pine)

Evergreen song about golden vehicle

Plural of argumentum .

Aromatic plant related to wormwood

Genus of herbaceous perennial plants

Bitter tasting plant

Smelly gum resin from the Orient.

Pl. ascogonia (-n - ) The female reproductive organ of ascomycetous fungi.

Eg, concert halls

They are found in schools

School meeting places

Brazilian plant that has winged fruits

Tea in some Amazonian rituals

Psychotropic drug said to induce spiritual experiences

Battle overhead (wordplay)

Battle dress (wordplay)

Knitted hat (for bank robbers?)

Lake like a ... they say like a guitar

Triangular-bodied instrument

Mandolin's cousin

Bare all in dancing? Not me!

She's winning on points!

She may be winning on points!

Plymouth muscle car

Predatory fish found in tropical seas

'68 Plymouth with optional Mod Top roof

Genus of parasitic worms

English word

English word

Type of aria

Care if tea spilled here (wordplay)

The only waiting here is at the counter!

Eatery where there's no waiting!

To which 'plant' can allude, possibly

Eurasian plant of the marigold genus

Pot marigold

A queen protected by duchess and coterie

Secret advisers

Intriguing group around the old lady artist, grabbing improperly

eg Harebell or Scottish bluebell

Genus of bellflowers

Bell flower

Ballad ain't clean when broadcast

Simple melodic passage

Musical part carrying melody

Star-fruit tree

Star fruit

Type of pasta sauce

A sauce for pasta

Bacony pasta dish

A major type of cancer

Carrion Virginia mixed for flesh-eaters

Wolves etc mostly fair when tackling men

Order soldiers to stop endless festivity

Mostly relaxed, artist captures popular tree

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.

""The use of a linguistic unit, such as a pronoun, to refer ahead to another unit, for example, the use of him to refer to John in the sentence Near him, John saw a snake.""

Band once fronted by Cerys Matthews

State of rigidity and stupor

State of muscular rigidity and stupor

""(Medicine / Pathology) Pathol a burning sensation along the course of a peripheral nerve together with local changes in the appearance of the skin [from New Latin, from Greek kausos fever + -algia ]""

Fabulous creature presses on each star thistle, for example

Parts of brains

Lower posterior parts of the brain

Occupiers of the skull's posterior fossa

""One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.""

Luscious fruit of tropical America.

Chiasma

Variant of cherimoya .

The disorder a child may wreak!

An alga responsible for turning stagnant water an opaque green

""Poisoning caused by ingesting fish contaminated with ciguatoxin, characterized by gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms.""

Plant ashes in these places (wordplay)

Flower for the (say) sinner and the song

Showy flower from the Canary Islands.

Ancient water clock

Dry places, not right for this to work

Dry places damaged this timekeeper

Any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries.

Coelom

Cognomen

Scholarly get-togethers

Conferences, meetings for discussion

Seminars, meetings for discussion

""An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.""

Digests of a sort

Short summaries

Reference works from which man copied wrongly

""Pl. condylomas or condylomata (-m -t ) A wartlike growth on the skin or mucous membrane, usually in the area of the anus or the external genital organs.""

Businesses producing iron coats

Spies entrap working-class associations

Groups require actions or else

Pl -lae [-ˌliː] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) the technical name for pollen basket

Prawns and lobster perhaps act as cure

A class made up of hard cases (wordplay)

Shrimp, lobsters, etc.

Pl. cuadrillas The group of assistants to the matador in a bullfight.

Programme of activities? Of course!

Courses of study.

Pictures representing a continuous scene

Pictorial landscape encircling a viewer

Curved wall used as a stage background

Pl. decahedrons or decahedra (-dr ) A polyhedron with ten faces.

Administer a horrid enema to be purged of this (wordplay)

Motions not welcomed from her radio broadcast at one

A small creeping herb (Dichondra micrantha) commercially cultivated as a substitute for lawn grass.

Diploma

Play for real (wordplay)

Program that rings true

'Based on a true story' movie

An ill habit or state of the constitution; formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.

Remedy sipped, say, for indigestion

Sipped, say, stew causing stomach upset

Stomach upset - spied a spy (anagram)

Disease and Illness

Disorder marked by difficulty in expressing thoughts in words

""Difficulty in speaking, usually evidenced by hoarseness.""

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Jockey displays a growth abnormality

""Any of numerous tropical American plants of the genus Echeveria, having thick, succulent leaves often clustered in a showy rosette.""

Parroter's form of speech.

Habit of repeating others' words.

Repetition of another's words

City light is about a cause of fits

Misplace a treatment for antenatal condition

Lights in city and capital erected as a condition

Ecthyma

Smoker's lung condition

Distension of the lung

Lung condition causes bad ESP mayhem

Empyema

Plural of encephalon .

Whole food (wordplay)

Hot Mexican dish

Special deal with china dish

Variant of entamoeba .

""Pl. entamoebas also endamoebas or entamoebae also endamoebae (-b ) Any of several parasitic amoebas of the genus Entamoeba, especially E. histolytica, causing dysentery and ulceration of the colon and liver.""

Parts of sacs around hearts

Skin cells

Lamb contains marrow and the last pieces of cell tissue

Mysterious items - ciao trees (anagram)

Dark matter (wordplay)

Words not ideal for crossword puzzles

Bush perhaps began in excessive optimism

Great feeling about key plant

Plant for bishop in high spirits

Skin eruption accompanying a fever

Skin rash accompanying a fever

Exodontics.

Fibroma

""Pl -ture [-ˈtʊəreɪ] (Music, other) Music embellishment, esp ornamentation added by the performer [Italian: a blossoming]""

Early spring bloom

Shrub with showy bell-shaped flowers

A frosty hi to the flowering shrub

See yaws .

""The sex organs, especially the external sex organs, called the external genitalia; the genitals.external genitalia; the genitals.""

""Pl. glochids also glochidia (-k d - ) One of the minute barbed hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as the prickly pear.""

Clap for American turn and not South American bird

The burning in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Burning"

""Pl. granulomas or granulomata (-m -t ) A mass of inflamed granulation tissue, usually associated with ulcerated infections.""

Damaging parts of accusations

""A light open-necked cotton shirt, often with large pockets and pleats down the front, that is typically worn outside the pants.""

Simian soldier (wordplay)

Che Guevara, for one

To lure a girl is highly irregular!

Blues player, maybe

Benjamin Franklin invented one

Small wind instrument

English word

English word

Passage of urine mingled with blood.

English word

English word

Speakers' receptions (wordplay)

Guest speaker fees, say

Payments to speakers, say

Body harm I'll do (wordplay)

Garden flower - garden hay (anagram)

Shrub - garden hay (anagram)

Handy gear (anagram) - shrub

""Pl. hypanthia (-th - ) The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.""

y=1/x, say

Par hole by playing for curve

Certain curve in math

Blood and Blood Vessels

Hypermetropia.

Abnormally deep or rapid breathing.

Condition marked by overexcitability

English word

Insufficient oxygenation of the blood

Sign of severe altitude sickness

One with a Roman upset at a fiance, say

Woman in love

Cleopatra, to Antony

Congreve's 2 Juliana

Woman in disguise.

Woman undercover

Officially informing (someone)

Something caught in the air

Viral disease that is highly contagious

Plural of involucrum .

Region of one country claimed by another

English word

One oriental male in Walton's isle presenting a bloody problem

After ache is treated intention is to reverse deficiency in blood supply

Blood disorder - a setback for me in Italian island

Tropical flowering tree

Tropical tree with fern-like leaves

Purple-blooming bignonia

Spicy Creole dish

Mardi Gras meal

One-pot New Orleans dish

Young adult novels (wordplay)

Children's books

The Brontes' Glass Town Confederacy stories, for example

English word

Lacunar

This is On the Beach - long song about dictator

""Any shrubby or herbaceous plant of the genus Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.Lespedeza, widely used for forage, soil improvement, and especially hay in the Southern U.S.""

Cancer of the blood

Type of cancer

Disease in which white blood cells multiply

1999's winning word: Verbosity

Nonstop talkativeness

Excessive talkativeness, perhaps incoherent

""A votive candle set into a small, decorative paper bag weighted with sand and placed in a row with others along a walkway, driveway, or rooftop as a holiday decoration. Also called regionally farolito .""

Tree housing Sandler (wordplay)

Some kind of nut

Tree or nut

Dance similar to fandango

Spanish dance similar to the fandango

Spanish dance

Flowering shrub of western U. S.

Californian species of bearberry

Chaparral shrub

Tequila/citrus cocktail

Woman's drink

Type of tequila cocktail

Illegal drug (alt. spelling)

Alternative spelling for the hemp plant

""A strong-smelling Asian plant (Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).Cannabis sativa), also called hemp, from which a number of euphorogenic and halucinogenic drugs are prepared. The euphoric effect is predominently due to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).""

English word

Large animals of a region

Vocal runs

Play that made moral, perhaps (wordplay)

Torme's theatrics (wordplay)

Soap ingredient (wordplay)

Work sheets (wordplay)

Flowers for secretaries (wordplay)

Reminders, of sorts

See midgut .

The layer of gelatinous material that separates the inner and outer cell layers of a coelenterate.

Gun collection

A limit arbitrarily imposed on IRA fixed weapons collection (wordplay)

Big stretch (wordplay)

Note modulating all nine periods

Really long time

Pl -ia [-ɪə] (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) the flat ciliated larva of flukes that hatches from the egg and gives rise asexually to other larval forms

Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape," for example

Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape,' for example

Old bird with no drink in singular performance

Obsession with one thing

Obsession with a single subject

Overconcentration on one theme.

Rent freezes, say

Maria, root out stays!

Temporary bans on an activity

English word

Myeloma

Myocardium

One billionth (10 -9 ) of a tesla.

Swimming-pools (US)

Swim-meet sites

US word for swimming-pools

Salamis as served at Roman spectacle (wordplay)

Salamis as offered at Roman circus (wordplay)

Naval occasion, said by Ovid to be a good place to meet girls

""(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of a genus, Nemophila, of low-growing hairy annual plants, esp N. menziesii, grown for its blue or white flowers: family Hydrophyllaceae [New Latin, from Greek nemos a grove + philein to love]""

Liking for new things

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

""Pl. nephridia (- - ) A tubular excretory organ in many invertebrates, such as mollusks and earthworms.""

Aspirin target, maybe

Pain in the neck, perhaps

Broken rule again leads to complaint

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

Benign tumour, typically at the end of a severed nerve

Casual inaction restricts a plant

Action in a struggle with tobacco

Inaction is bad for a plant

Longing for something past

A seductive liar: George W. Ball

Love for the past

Massive glass houses (wordplay)

Shark tanks, maybe

Water worlds (wordplay)

These solid figures heard Cato, perhaps

Solids with eight faces

Figures doctor had to care

""Pl. ommatidia (- - ) One of the structural elements, resembling a single simplified eye, that make up the compound eye of insects and other arthropods.""

Players with excited roar about 16, say

Boston Pops, for one

Musicians in a pit (wordplay)

Pl. osmeteria (-tîr - ) An eversible glandular sac on the first thoracic segment of many caterpillars that secretes an unpleasant-smelling substance to ward off predators.

Benign swellings

Ruins in wrestling (wordplay)

Regularly spray leaders at break in gym

Roman gymnasium.

English word

""A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papill\'91 of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart.""

Microscopic denizens of fresh water

One-celled animals.

Common protozoans

Pl. paraments or paramenta (-m n t ) An ecclesiastical vestment or hanging.

Pl. parapodia (-d - ) One of the fleshy paired appendages of polychete annelids that function in locomotion and breathing.

Small Asian tree with heart-shaped leaves and fragrant lilac flowers

Map projection (wordplay)

Crimea, for one

Florida, for one.

Same as Penult. Penult.

""Any of numerous succulent tropical herbs of the genus Peperomia, having simple, entire, palmately veined leaves and numerous minute, unisexual flowers densely grouped in cylindrical spikes.""

""Pl. perihelia (-h l - , -h l y ) The point nearest the sun in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body.""

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

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

Pl. periostea (-t - ) The dense fibrous membrane covering the surface of bones except at the joints and serving as an attachment for muscles and tendons.

Pl. peritonea also peritonaea (-tn- ) The serous membrane that lines the walls of the abdominal cavity and folds inward to enclose the viscera.