9-Letter Words Starting P & Ending AE

• A partially shaded area around the edges of a shadow, especially an eclipse.

• A region around the edge of a sunspot, darker than the sun's surface but lighter than the middle of the sunspot.

• An area of uncertainty or intermediacy between two mutually exclusive states or categories.

• An area that lies on the edge of something; a fringe.

• Something related to, connected to, and implied by, the existence of something else that is necessary for the second thing to be full and complete in its essential aspects.

• (in "ischaemic penumbra", after a stroke) A region of the brain that has lost only some of its blood supply, and retains structural integrity but has lost function.

• A vascular organ in mammals, except monotremes and marsupials, present only in the female during gestation. It supplies food and oxygen from the mother to the foetus, and passes back waste. It is implanted in the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

• It is an endocrine gland which secret human chorionic gonadotropin hormone.The HCG if detected in woman's urine then the pregnancy is confirmed.

• In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.