9-Letter Words Starting with P

Mine sweeps on ships

Devices used by minesweepers.

Parawing

Parazoan

Broad pile (anagram)

Cooked a bit

Half-cooked

""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""

The act of dividing and distributing in portions or parts.

Allotted, British style

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

Joint heirs Law.

Parchesi

Parchisi

Thirst, perhaps, makes one all skinny

Paper written by dry people on time

Paper's section describing church people

Pardoner

Excusing fellow getting hooked by edge of nail

Excusing

Parecism

Tincture of opium.

Pain reliever

Inverted headgear in which one received, radiophonically, a palliative

How old is your man the Da (wordplay)

Family tree datum

Rent a bit inside the leaf for the line

Bringing up issue (wordplay)

Overseeing a child's development, say

Skill for moms and dads

""A kind of rawhide consisting of hide, esp. of the buffalo, which has been soaked in crude wood-ash lye to remove the hairs, and then dried.""

Ornamental plasterwork

Parget

English word

One of Jilly Cooper's amendments (wordplay)

Bones from skull and others - 13 across

Skull bones

Rules for allowing members of the opposite sex into dorms

Recreational spaces

Idioms

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

Related to local area - narrow

Relating to a church parish

Of narrow scope

Mickey-takers offering censure upset poets

Impressionists in times gone including Rodin? Not quite

Sending up

Sending up staff involved in handing over wages

Burlesquing

Paroquet

Inflammation of the parotid glands.

Parotoid

Sudden outbursts

For the audience, stadium assistant made a patterned floor

Pet playing with quarry blocks

Floor-covering of wooden blocks

Inlaid woodwork

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a variant spelling of parakeet PASTITSIO (Cookery) a Greek dish consisting of minced meat and macaroni topped with béchamel sauce

Oedipus, by chance

A murderer in the family.

The killing of one's own parent

Parridge

Parroket

Parroter

Mindlessly repeating

Trait of Scrooge

Meanness shown by mayor and spin doctor

Mean policy adjusted minor's pay

Containing parsley

Home enabling average lad to get on

Norm + heir + years

How old the vicar is and where he lives

Golf pros (wordplay)

Those who share

Sharers

The enjoyment of being a bit royalty

Having a share in a bit of a royal way

Being involved

Opera-house sections

Theaters' rear seats

Orchestra circles.

Unwholly (wordplay)

Not wholly.

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

Bits of dust

Pass items in tiny pieces

Minute pieces of matter

People who take sides.

Ones taking sides

A sin in bits in bits for the fans

In the house in Ireland in pieces

Bit it to start with with a border

Office cubicle divider

""Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive. as, a partitive genitive.""

Partizan

Teamed up (with)

Teamed up with

United in a twosome

1 fictional TV and radio presenter? Aha!

Game bird (in a pear tree?)

Say obscene words about substandard game

Parvolin

Pashadom

Pashalic

Pashalik

Passado

Jockey gasping as horse's walking sideways

Passband

Balanced reading materials (wordplay)

Hurl some reading material (wordplay)

Revision aids issued by building societies

One on a train perhaps

15 across may have one

He's taken for a ride.

Sparrow, for one.

Finch's order

Relating to songbirds

Some ships at night

People walking near

They often become onlookers

A book of the saints and martyrs

Make less reactive

Give an anticorrosive coating

Coat, as metal, to reduce its chemical reactivity

In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.

""The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.""

PASSIVE a verb form

Lack of resistance

Meekness - inertia

Listlessness

Nisan observances

Jewish holidays

Spring holidays

Jet-setters' papers

Canadian travel documents

Polo, archery, soccer

Epees to get by (wordplay)

I'll skip it, thanks (wordplay)

"I'll skip it, thanks" (wordplay)

Paper used to line a book's inside cover

Affix securely

Sketcher of a sort

Artist to glue one thing after another

Artist using crayons.

CIA topics codified in collage

Musical medley

Miscellany

Literary hodgepodges

Finished with one revolutionary's compositions

This space is reallocated to examples of imitative art

Beyond queasy on two quarters of sweets

Suckers start to be beyond getting sick

Flavored lozenges

Perhaps pall, or a sticky state, perhaps

Father's pallor gets Tess around in it

Pall or in the face of it

Country music (wordplay)

A forerunner of opera

Piece of idyllic music.

Poems about country life

Former Ph.D. tests

Big name in 19th-century fur trading

Certain cleric's term of office

A minister's flock.

Father's office

Pastor

Deli orders

Deli offerings

Pastromi

Feed a pet sugar, perhaps

Grazing after the time of the old city

Beyond you there's fury for grazing

Pasturer

Pasture

Most sporadic

County (abbrev.); weapons

Scent in incense and insect repellents

Asiatic tree hit cupola in storm

""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.""

Kind of quilt

Quilter's hodgepodge

Made up of many different elements

Patency

What Edison and Westinghouse were.

Certain inventors

Successful inventors

Job of a certain government office

Protecting, in a way

Making legal, as an invention

Inventors might contact them

Granters of protection

Such a suit might make Ian pretty upset

Kind of suit that makes men squirm

What a DNA test may prove

Any infectious agents

Study of hiking choices (wordplay)

Branch of medicine

The study of the sidewalk diseases (wordplay)

Patience

Patient

Best way to wait

Clearly admitting one with forbearance

With unhurried calmness

Patinate

Acquires a green film

Acquires a green coating

Patinize

Patinize

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Patness

Abraham or Isaac, perhaps

Male head of family or tribe

Male head of family

Of Sajak's hosting (wordplay)

Lady has name of aristocrat

Aristocratic Irishman cut by Scot

Case of murder.

Crime of killing one's own father

The crime of the Playboy

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

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

Heritage

Like country fans (wordplay)

Typical of the country-lover (wordplay)

Having love for one's country

Relating to the early Church theologians

Kept the beat (wordplay)

Boone threw the dice

Pounded a beat

Cop on the beat

Guard Irishman's posh car

Mobile guard

One keeping a beat (wordplay)

One who keeps a beat (wordplay)

Chap on the beat is an American cop

Parking upset Montreal traffic police

Beat keepers

Two men needing mature sponsorship

Favours distributed by 1 and 4 across

Given time, two boys gave one support

Sponsor of a social affair

She'll give you support, but not a press

Monica or Veronica

Talk down to

Points are worked out for champion

Frequent praise not unusual

Give one's trade to.

Talk down to

Trade regularly with

Pattamar

Fast-talking comedians.

Sound of rain on the roof

In the style of, with "after"

Argyle, say

That's not made it plain

Squash varieties

Some squash

Paucity

Pauldron

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

Paunchy

Pauper

Penury

Impoverish.

A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

They're all under more than one foot

They're all at the edge of the street

Get along there by the foot

State fair structures

Park shelters

Summerhouses

Pavillon

Fence posts (wordplay)

Loan sources, of a sort

Symbolized by three balls

Breadwinner's concerns

Take-home money.

End-of-the-month items.

Paygrade

Dispenser of wages

Dispenser of soldiers' salaries

Official dealing with wages

Hopi, literally

Sounds a bit capable of not being 22 down

Gentle pulse, perhaps, before guy taking Ecstasy...

PEACE to be or become silent

Protesters, in '60s slang

Pacifists, in slanguage

Doves

Period between wars

Dove's love

Late 40's, to Americans

Peachy

Peacock

Most nacreous

Pearlite

PEARLITE a cast iron alloy

PEARL to adorn with a milky-white concretion of nacre

Pearmain

Wat Tyler's revolutionaries

Lowerclassmen (wordplay)

Rustics left out of joke

Peasecod

Pebbly

In a peccant manner.

Peccary

Cheeses made from ewes' milk

Toothed cat in bother - dog, perhaps, circling with energy

Comblike

Pectize

Push-up targets

They're developed by a muscleman

Fins rise in unexpected places

With leader absent, took a risk and stole

Embezzles

Embezzler to clear up mess

Gambler decapitated thief

A thief, especially an embezzler

Personal properties

Related to finances

Relating to money

To do with money

Relating to teaching

Picky journalist keen to appear in film

Educational.

Ichabod Crane's calling.

Dogmatic teacher

Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!

Pedalfer

Foot keyboards

Propelling a bicycle

Annual tourists are always doing it

Lance Armstrong is always doing it

Pederast

Athenian relationship custom

Cycles round established bases

Stands deep and lasts

Supporters must turn round past Leeds

Like some hospital wards

Re children's health

Type of medicine

Pedicure

Jobs in a digital workplace (wordplay)

Treatments for some nails

Foot treatments

PEDIGREE a line of ancestors

Purebred dogs' ancestries

Family trees

AKC concerns

Decorative gables

Portico toppers

If I'm on top of the gables, that would be no help at all quite the contrary

Pedipalp

Pedlary

Pedlery

PEDOCAL a type of soil

Adjective (-ic)

""Soil the branch of medical science that studies the physical and psychological events of childhood. ; pedologist , ; pedological , adj . Children""

Tread a measure (wordplay)

Tom peered (anagram)

Gadget for walkers.

A person who has pedophilia.

Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.

Peduncle

Peekaboo

Spy circles (wordplay)

Spy rings (wordplay)

Lookout spots (wordplay)

Exhibitions seen through a small hole