11-letter words containing a, p, l, i, n
- approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- aptitudinal — capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
- aquaplaning — loss of contact with the road because of surface water
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- asplanchnic — having no gut
- beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
- beneplacito — an indication of approval
- blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
- blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
- broiler pan — a pan for broiling food
- caesalpinia — designating a family (Caesalpiniaceae) of leguminous trees and shrubs, including the Kentucky coffee tree
- 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
- call-in pay — payment made to employees who report for work and find there is no work for them to do.
- callipygian — having beautifully shaped buttocks
- calypsonian — a performer or writer of calypsos
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- capsulation — enclosed in or formed into a capsule.
- capsulizing — Present participle of capsulize.
- captionless — (of a cartoon) having no caption
- cardiolipin — a lipid purified from bovine heart and used as an antigen for reacting with reagin, the Wassermann antibody, in the Wassermann diagnostic test for syphilis.
- catapulting — Present participle of catapult.
- centripetal — acting, moving, or tending to move towards a centre
- cephalothin — a cephalosporin antibiotic often used in the treatment of bacterial infections
- chain plate — any of the metal plates secured to the hull of a sailing vessel or elsewhere to hold shrouds and backstays at their lower ends.
- chainplates — Plural form of chainplate.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- chippendale — Chippendale is a style of furniture from the eighteenth century.
- clasp knife — a large knife with one or more blades or other devices folding into the handle
- clay pigeon — Clay pigeons are discs of baked clay which are thrown into the air by a machine as targets for gun shooting practice.
- cleptomania — kleptomania
- cling peach — a clingstone peach.
- clubmanship — the status of belonging to an active club
- colophonian — a native of Colophon.
- companiable — sociable
- compilating — Present participle of compilate.
- compilation — A compilation is a book, CD, or programme that contains many different items that have been gathered together, usually ones which have already appeared in other places.
- complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
- complainers — Plural form of complainer.
- complaineth — (archaic) Third-person singular present simple form of 'complain'.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- complaisant — If you are complaisant, you are willing to accept what other people are doing without complaining.
- compliances — Plural form of compliance.
- compliantly — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
- coplanarity — being or operating in the same plane.
- coprincipal — a joint principal
- coprolagnia — sexual arousal that is produced by the thought or sight of feces.
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- dental lisp — a speech defect consisting in pronouncing s and z like or nearly like the th- sounds of thin and this, respectively.
- deploration — the act of deploring