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10-letter words containing a, c, r, p

  • aprication — the act of sunbathing or basking in the sun
  • archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
  • archespore — the cell or group of cells in a sporangium that gives rise to spores
  • archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
  • archetypes — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
  • archetypic — Archetypical.
  • archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
  • archiplasm — archoplasm
  • archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
  • archpriest — (formerly) a chief assistant to a bishop, performing many of his sacerdotal functions during his absence
  • arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
  • arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
  • area opaca — the opaque area of the blastoderm surrounding the area pellucida.
  • army corps — a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
  • artocarpus — a genus of the mulberry family, originating in Asia, species of which include the jackfruit and the breadfruit
  • ascocarpic — relating to an ascocarp
  • ascospores — Plural form of ascospore.
  • ascosporic — relating to an ascospore
  • ascription — the act of ascribing
  • ascriptive — having the ability to be attributable to
  • aspherical — (of a reflecting surface or lens) deviating slightly from a perfectly spherical shape and relatively free from aberrations.
  • at a price — If you can buy something that you want at a price, it is for sale, but it is extremely expensive.
  • attoparsec — (unit, humour)   About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
  • auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
  • autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
  • b particle — B meson.
  • backpacker — A backpacker is a person who goes travelling with a backpack.
  • bankruptcy — Bankruptcy is the state of being bankrupt.
  • baroceptor — Baroreceptor.
  • barophilic — (of living organisms) growing best in conditions of high atmospheric pressure
  • baroscopic — Relating to, or determined by, the baroscope.
  • barotropic — having a density that is a function only of pressure.
  • base price — a price quoted as a base without including additional charges.
  • bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
  • bicapsular — (of plants) having two capsules or one capsule with two chambers
  • bicorporal — having two bodies, main divisions, symbols, etc.
  • biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
  • bioprivacy — the state of freedom from others having unauthorized access to biometric data about oneself
  • birthplace — Your birthplace is the place where you were born.
  • blackstrap — a kind of port wine
  • bnr pascal — ["Remote Rendezvous", N. Gammage et al, Soft Prac & Exp 17(10):741-755 (Oct 1987)].
  • brachiopod — any marine invertebrate animal of the phylum Brachiopoda, having a ciliated feeding organ (lophophore) and a shell consisting of dorsal and ventral valves
  • break camp — to pack up equipment and leave a camp
  • broadpiece — an English coin replaced by the guinea in 1663
  • buckpasser — a person who avoids responsibility by shifting it to another, especially unjustly or improperly.
  • bumper car — A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground.
  • cacography — bad handwriting
  • cacotrophy — malnutrition
  • caecotroph — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and some rodents, a cake or pellet of food which is produced by means of digestion and expulsion through the anus.
  • caerphilly — a market town in SE Wales, in Caerphilly county borough: site of the largest castle in Wales (13th–14th centuries). Pop: 31 060 (2001)
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