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10-letter words containing a, p, e, n

  • aquaplanet — (astronomy) A planet having a considerable amount of surface water.
  • archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
  • armipotent — strong in arms or war
  • arpeggione — a stringed musical instrument of the early 19th century which was played with a bow
  • asian pear — a tropical pear tree, esp any of several varieties of Japanese pear Pyrus serotina
  • asparagine — a nonessential amino acid, a component of proteins
  • aspen hill — a city in central Maryland.
  • asperating — to make rough, harsh, or uneven: a voice asperated by violent emotion.
  • asperation — The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
  • aspersions — disparaging or malicious remarks; slanderous accusations
  • asphaltene — any of the constituents of a bitumen, as asphalt, that are insoluble in pentane, hexane, or naphthalene.
  • aspirinate — (organic compound) Any salt or ester of aspirin.
  • asthenopia — a strained condition of the eyes, often with headache, dizziness, etc.
  • at present — A situation that exists at present exists now, although it may change.
  • atropatene — Media Atropatene.
  • attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
  • backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
  • bank paper — bank notes collectively
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
  • barnstaple — a town in SW England, in Devon, on the estuary of the River Taw: tourism, agriculture. Pop: 30 765 (2001)
  • barpersons — Plural form of barperson.
  • baseperson — (baseball, softball) A fielder (of either gender) positioned near a base.
  • be in pain — If you are in pain, you feel pain in a part of your body, because you are injured or ill.
  • bead plane — a plane for cutting beads.
  • bead plant — a creeping plant, Nertera granadensis, of New Zealand and South America, having leathery leaves and orange-colored, transparent berries.
  • bean aphid — a small, black aphid, Aphis fabae, often found on beans and related plants.
  • bean caper — a shrub, Zygophyllum fabago, of E Mediterranean regions, whose flower buds are eaten as a substitute for capers: family Zygophyllaceae
  • beat up on — If someone beats up on a person or beats on them, they hit or kick the person many times.
  • beating-up — a physical assault
  • beg-pardon — an expression of apology (used especially in the phrase with no beg-pardons).
  • bespangled — covered or adorned with or as if with spangles or jewels
  • biparental — from two parents
  • blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
  • bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
  • brainpower — Brainpower is intelligence or the ability to think.
  • breakpoint — an instruction inserted by a debug program causing a return to the debug program
  • buena park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 78,000
  • buonaparte — Bonaparte1
  • calliopean — resembling a calliope in sound; piercingly loud: a calliopean voice.
  • camel spin — camel (def 3).
  • campaigned — Simple past tense and past participle of campaign.
  • campaigner — A campaigner is a person who campaigns for social or political change.
  • campanella — Tommaso. 1568–1639, Italian philosopher and Dominican friar. During his imprisonment by the Spaniards (1599–1626) he wrote his celebrated utopian fantasy, La città del sole
  • campaniles — Plural form of campanile.
  • camper van — A camper van is a van which is equipped with beds and cooking equipment so that you can live, cook, and sleep in it.
  • camptonite — a lamprophyric rock occurring in dikes and composed of labradorite, pyroxene, sodic hornblende and olivine.
  • can opener — A can opener is the same as a tin opener.
  • can't help — If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude.
  • can-opener — a manual device or small electric appliance for opening cans.
  • candlepins — a type of bowling game, employing a smaller ball than tenpins, in which three balls are allowed to a frame and fallen pins are not removed from the alley
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