9-Letter Words Starting with P

Causing privation; depriving.

Sell state businesses

Better than equal rights.

It's an honor

Right gear boxing low in exercise

Privity

With a take-charge attitude

On the offensive

Looking ahead

Probable

Probate

Period of trial.

Testing time pain with robot misbehaving

Test elastic bra and top on one running

Exploratory

Serving for trial; probationary.

Probity

Born with Scorpio's wrinkled nose

Feeding appendage of elephant, insect

One knows the sound of this

Procaine

English word

Criminal or civil study, in law

Established way of working

Reproduce new way to get things done

Moved along

Moved forward

How a professional continued to do the sowing (wordplay)

Refined (of food)

Sorted out changing press code

Put something through a series of stages

They make the ways one gets into line

Series of actions geared towards an end

Puts through a procedure

Teacher, or friend of Gilligan

Issuer of legal writs.

Computer hardware item

Yes to insurance paperwork!

Declares in favour of applications

Gives out Oscar with limp shake

Leaning forward; said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Ancient Roman provincial governor

Provincial governor

Roman governor

Cor! Parent in the making (wordplay)

Form a group, you might say

Do it, Biblical-style

Produce young ape 20 trained

Supervised

Procural

They make acquisitions for doctors

They get it

It takes a professional to be getting you well

Getting

Prodigal

Unusually gifted young persons

Early bloomers

Whiz kids

""Of or pertaining to prodromes; as, the prodromal stage of a disease. as, the prodromal stage of a disease.""

Prodrome

People funding a play

Shumlin, Abbott, Gordon, etc.

Con artists in a 1967 Mel Brooks film

Activity for David Merrick

Manufacturing, making

""Any one of a class of proteins that are converted, in the normal course of cellular metabolism, into one or more active enzymes; also called zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.zymogen. The conversion usually is due to a specific cleavage of a peptide bond by another enzyme, or may be due to acid.""

""The period immediately before estrus in most female mammals, characterized by development of the endometrium and ovarian follicles.""

Irreverently disrupted replay of gripping National

Sacrilegious types

Profane

Shame about being rejected for an oath

Conclusion of today's quote

Blasphemous language

Avowed

Avows.

Four-time role for Patrick Stewart

Member of an academic faculty

University department head

Proffer

CPAs (wordplay)

Relatives of police sketch artists

Manicurists and tax preparers, by trade (wordplay)

Profile

Will he make too much of it (wordplay)

Scalp tickets, for example

Charge too much

Profiter

Profit

""Flowing forward,""

Profound

A way to apologize or sweat

To a great degree

Like Edward Teller (wordplay)

Riot for integration

Riot for union

Groups of descendants.

Children and more children

Offspring

Progeria

Birth control hormone

Hormone treatment for top singer

Stop finger becoming malformed with absence of female hormone

Prognose

Go on press trips to get forecasts

No press go abroad for forecasts

Assessments of likely outcomes

Poor signs perhaps for medical forecast

TV show is following numbers in forecast

Stormy signs and poor outlook

Robotic variable

PROGRAM to arrange in a plan of proceedings

Schedule for unit

Radio or television show

Favouring lightweight in list of bouts

Outlaws

Bans

Scheme news boss threw out

Plan newsman threw out

Jutted out.

Plan alternative cinema equipment

Slide-showing device

Film-showing machine

Platonic relationship initially producing this hormone

""Any of a class of simple proteins soluble in alcohol and usually having a high proline and glutamine content, found in the grains of cereal crops such as wheat, rye, barley, corn, and rice.""

Prolamin

Prolapse

Prolapse

Anticipations of possible objections, in rhetoric

In rhetoric, anticipation and answering of objections

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Wordiness

Prolog

To deliver a Prologue.

Prologue

Introductions.

No dilettante was eager to be stretched

Dragged out

Injured center yearned to resume play (wordplay)

""One who, or that which, causes an extension in time or space.""

Prolonge

""A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, an introductory essay or exercise.""

""PROLE to prowl, also PROLL, PROUL""

Seaside walk (wordplay)

Nice walk (wordplay)

Square-dance figure

Conspicuous or outstanding

Noticeable or notable

Conspicuous in position or importance

Promisee

Yellow "evening" flowers

They gave their word

Likely to have concert with one chorus

Giving one's word

Showing great potential

Promisor

Boxing advocates (wordplay)

Fight arrangers

Lobbyists.

Working for the cause of something

Furthering

Up with professional speed!

Up for a marketing campaign (wordplay)

Advertising in advance

Tending to advance

Certain theatre employes.

They put a word in when required on stage

Prompt

Causing, bringing about

Promulge

Promulge

Pronate

Faulty foot posture

Pronator

""The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.""

Antelopelike deer

Antelope relative

Part of speech given to church, say

They say Anglicans are articulate

Make the sound of (a word)

Pl. pronuclei (-kl - ) The haploid nucleus of a sperm or egg before fusion of the nuclei in fertilization.

Check for character flaws (wordplay)

Work on a galley

Do galley labor

English word

Grow (plants) or spread (ideas)

Spread, as ideas

Right entrance, we hear, for produce

""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""

Moved forward (by something)

Driven forwards

Drove forward

Screw (on a boat)

Jack's screwdriver (wordplay)

Fit retaining 45-inch screw

PROPEL to drive forward

Propend

Propenol

A protein in blood serum that participates in the body's immune response by working in conjunction with the alternative pathway of the complement system.

Proper

Prophage

First stages in mitosis.

PROPHASE the first stage in mitosis

For seeing sound (wordplay)

Criminal hit copper - that's ominous!

Telling of tomorrow

Propine

Advocate (of a theory, etc)

Rotating proton pen champion

Advocate single bid by rugby player

Propone

Offers of marriage

Season-ending events on "The Bachelor"

They're made for girls

Those on bended knee

Poppers of the question.

Asking on bended knee

A professional pretending to be a suiter

Suggesting professional modelling

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

Support the sound moves one puts forward

Sets forth as defender of imperial units

This explains how the professional uses his fists

""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.""

Temple entrances

Alkene used for fuel or plastic production

Dividing fairly, say

Dividing proportionally.

Determining what to pay for only half a month, perhaps

PRORATE to divide proportionately

To prorogue.

Prorogue

Seems their trade is crime, so one stops them sitting

Prosaism

Fielding, Dickens, etc

English word

Ban writer earning money (wordplay)

Like Joseph Pulitzer (wordplay)

Does he write for a living? Outlaw him!

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.

""Of or belonging to the Prosimii, a suborder of primates that includes the lemurs, lorises, and tarsiers.""

The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Prosody

Expert at meter and verse

Verse maven

Chances of success, outlooks

Searches for wide views

Looks for gold and hopes for the future

Make steady progress, flourished

Succeeded in becoming editor: did well

Made it big

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.""

Not an amateur food seller (wordplay)

Dry food for beasts

Supplies spin round seller in US

Proverb

Having a saving grace

Thoughtful of the future.

Prepared for quiet drive, not breakdown

Breadwinners

Provide

Royalty about 05 areas (wordplay)

Subdivisions of a region

Quebec and Ontario

Big leaguer's dream (wordplay)

Yes to eye exams!

NFLer's dream (wordplay)

Proviso