11-letter words containing a, l, o, p
- approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
- arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- at a gallop — If you do something at a gallop, you do it very quickly.
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- barber pole — a pole with spiral stripes of red and white, used as a symbol of the barber's trade
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- bibliograph — to put in a bibliography.
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bicephalous — having two heads
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- black power — a social, economic, and political movement of Black people, esp in the US, to obtain equality with White people
- blasphemous — You can describe someone who shows disrespect for God or a religion as blasphemous. You can also describe what they are saying or doing as blasphemous.
- blastospore — a spore formed by budding, as in certain fungi
- block party — A block party is an outdoor party for all the residents of a block or neighborhood.
- block plane — a carpenter's small plane used to cut across the end grain of wood
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boilerplate — A boilerplate is a basic written contract that can be used to make many different kinds of contracts.
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- broken play — an improvised offensive play that results when the originally planned play has failed to be executed properly.
- bush parole — an escape from prison.
- butorphanol — a narcotic analgesic, C 21 H 29 NO 2 , administered by injection to treat moderate to severe pain.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- callipygous — having well-shaped buttocks.
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- calyptrogen — a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants
- camel corps — a brigade of infantry mounted on camels used by the British army in various campaigns
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- campanology — the art or skill of ringing bells musically
- campbeltown — a seaport on the Kintyre peninsula, in SW Scotland: resort.
- campesterol — (organic compound) A phytosterol, found in many vegetable oils, related to sitosterol.
- camphor oil — a colorless liquid obtained from the wood of the camphor tree by distillation and separation from the solid camphor, used in varnish, soaps, and shoe polish, and in medicine chiefly as a rubefacient.
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- cantaloupes — Plural form of cantaloupe.
- capaciously — In a capacious manner.
- cape blanco — a peninsula in Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast
- cape collar — a soft, wide, circular collar that covers the shoulders and the upper arms like a cape.
- cape colony — the name from 1652 until 1910 of the former Cape Province of South Africa