11-letter words containing a, p, r, e
- appraisable — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- appreciable — An appreciable amount or effect is large enough to be important or clearly noticed.
- appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciator — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of apprehend.
- apprehender — Agent noun of apprehend; one who apprehends.
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- appressoria — a flattened and thickened tip of a hyphal branch, formed by some parasitic fungi, that facilitates penetration of the host plant.
- approacheth — Archaic third-person singular form of approach.
- approbative — showing approbation or approval
- appropinque — to approach
- appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
- approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- approximate — An approximate number, time, or position is close to the correct number, time, or position, but is not exact.
- appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
- araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
- archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
- archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
- areographic — relating to areography
- arkadelphia — a city in central Arkansas.
- 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
- arpeggiated — having arpeggios
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- art therapy — a type of psychotherapy that encourages the expression of emotions through artistic activities such as painting, drawing, or sculpture; psychotherapy based on the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing.
- arte povera — a style of minimal art originating in Italy in the late 1960s, making use of cheap and commonly available materials such as stones, newspapers etc
- arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
- arthrospore — a sporelike cell of ascomycetous fungi and some algae produced by a breaking of the hyphae
- asperations — Plural form of asperation.
- aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspergillus — any ascomycetous fungus of the genus Aspergillus, having chains of conidia attached like bristles to a club-shaped stalk: family Aspergillaceae
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
- astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atriopeptin — any of several peptide hormones that are released by the atria of the heart in response to an abnormal increase in blood volume and that modulate blood pressure and the excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Abbreviation: ANF.
- attempering — Present participle of attemper.
- auto-repeat — a feature of computer keys whereby a character is generated repeatedly as long as the user holds down the key in question