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Answer for the clue "Women playing no part in prattling and silly laughter ", 9 letters:
tittering

Word definitions for tittering in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who titters. vb. (present participle of titter English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Titter \Tit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tittered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tittering .] [Probably of imitative origin.] To laugh with the tongue striking against the root of the upper teeth; to laugh with restraint, or without much noise; to giggle. A group of tittering ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being or sounding of nervous or suppressed laughter [syn: thoriated ]

Usage examples of tittering.

From some of the tumble-down buildings came cacklings and titterings as the maimed caroused with the crippled and the degenerate and corrupted coupled with their crones.

I want to talk to you without the constant titterings and hushed whisperings of that gaggle of noble-born geese you have collected about you.

There were titterings, squeals of demoniac mirth, long shuddering howls, and once the unmistakable squalling laughter of a hyena ended awfully in human words of shrieking blasphemy.