9-letter words containing a, p, l, i
- apologise — to offer an apology or excuse for some fault, insult, failure, or injury: He apologized for accusing her falsely.
- apologist — An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
- apologize — When you apologize to someone, you say that you are sorry that you have hurt them or caused trouble for them. You can say 'I apologize' as a formal way of saying sorry.
- apostille — a marginal annotation or note.
- apostolic — Apostolic means belonging or relating to a Christian religious leader, especially the Pope.
- appalling — Something that is appalling is so bad or unpleasant that it shocks you.
- appealing — Someone or something that is appealing is pleasing and attractive.
- appetible — desirable or capable of arousing desire
- apple pie — An apple pie is a kind of pie made with apples.
- apple-pie — pertaining to or embodying traditional American values: apple-pie virtues; an apple-pie issue that no politician could vote against.
- appletini — a cocktail consisting of vodka and apple juice with apple cider, apple brandy, or apple liqueur, and sometimes vermouth
- appliable — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- appliance — An appliance is a device or machine in your home that you use to do a job such as cleaning or cooking. Appliances are often electrical.
- applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.
- applicate — applied practicably
- appliqued — Appliqued shapes or fabric are formed from pieces of fabric which are stitched on to clothes or larger pieces of cloth.
- appliques — Plural form of applique.
- appraisal — If you make an appraisal of something, you consider it carefully and form an opinion about it.
- apronlike — resembling an apron
- apse line — the major axis of an elliptical orbit.
- apsidiole — a secondary, or small, apse
- arpillera — a Peruvian hand-sewn wall-hanging, typically of exquisite detail
- asclepiad — a plant that belongs to the class Asclepiadaceae
- asclepias — any plant of the perennial mostly tuberous genus Asclepias; some are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their showy orange-scarlet or purple flowers: family Asclepiadaceae
- asclepius — a god of healing; son of Apollo
- aspergill — An aspergillum.
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asphyxial — the extreme condition caused by lack of oxygen and excess of carbon dioxide in the blood, produced by interference with respiration or insufficient oxygen in the air; suffocation.
- asplenium — any fern of the very large genus Asplenium, of worldwide distribution. Some, esp the bird's nest fern (A. nidus), are grown as greenhouse or house plants for their decorative evergreen fronds: family Polypodiaceae
- at a clip — If something moves or happens at a fast clip, it moves or happens quickly.
- atabalipa — Atahualpa.
- atmophile — (of a chemical element in the earth) having an affinity for the atmosphere, as neon or helium.
- atypicals — Plural form of atypical.
- auspicial — of or relating to auspices: auspicial rites.
- autopilot — automatic pilot
- b special — a member of a part-time largely Protestant police force formerly functioning in Northern Ireland
- backflips — Plural form of backflip.
- ballpoint — A ballpoint or a ballpoint pen is a pen with a very small metal ball at the end which transfers the ink from the pen onto a surface.
- baptismal — Baptismal means relating to or connected with baptism.
- barophile — An organism that lives and thrives under high barometric pressure; a form of extremophile.
- basipetal — (of leaves and flowers) produced in order from the apex downwards so that the youngest are at the base
- basophile — Biology. a basophilic cell, tissue, organism, or substance.
- basophils — Plural form of basophil.
- bicipital — having two heads
- big apple — People sometimes refer to the city of New York as the Big Apple.
- biophilia — an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind
- bipedally — in a bipedal manner
- bit plane — (graphics) (Or "bitplane") The memory in a graphic display device which holds a complete one-bit-per-pixel image. Several bit planes may be used in conjunction to give more bits per pixel or to overlay several images or mask one with another. "Bit plane" may be used as a synonym for "bitmap", though the latter suggests the data itself rather than the memory and also suggests a graphics file format.
- biteplate — a device used by dentists to correct dental problems
- black pit — a disease of lemons, characterized by dark brown, sunken spots on the skin of the fruit, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas syringae.