10-letter words containing a, p, r
- appraisive — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- appreciate — If you appreciate something, for example a piece of music or good food, you like it because you recognize its good qualities.
- apprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprehend.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- apprentise — Obsolete form of apprentice.
- appretiate — Archaic form of appreciate.
- approached — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approacher — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approaches — Plural form of approach.
- approbated — Simple past tense and past participle of approbate.
- approvable — able to be approved
- approvably — in an approvable manner
- approvance — approval
- approvedly — So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
- approximal — situated side by side; close together
- aprication — the act of sunbathing or basking in the sun
- april fool — An April Fool is a trick that is played on April Fool's Day.
- apropos of — with regard to; in respect of
- apterygial — (of eels, certain insects, etc) lacking such paired limbs as wings or fins
- apterygote — belonging or pertaining to the Apterygota, a subclass of primitive wingless insects that undergo little or no metamorphosis.
- aquaplaner — the rider of an aquaplane
- aquaporins — Plural form of aquaporin.
- archbishop — In the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican Churches, an archbishop is a bishop of the highest rank, who is in charge of all the bishops and priests in a particular country or region.
- archespore — the cell or group of cells in a sporangium that gives rise to spores
- archetypal — Someone or something that is archetypal has all the most important characteristics of a particular kind of person or thing and is a perfect example of it.
- archetypes — the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype.
- archetypic — Archetypical.
- archipenko — Aleksandr Porfiryevich (alɪkˈsandr parˈfirjɪvitʃ). 1887– 1964, Russian sculptor and painter, in the US after 1923, whose work is characterized by economy of form
- archiplasm — archoplasm
- archoplasm — the protoplasmic material surrounding the centrosome, formerly thought to be involved in the formation of the asters and spindle during mitosis
- archpriest — (formerly) a chief assistant to a bishop, performing many of his sacerdotal functions during his absence
- arctophile — a person who collects teddy bears or is fond of them
- arctophily — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- area opaca — the opaque area of the blastoderm surrounding the area pellucida.
- areography — the description of the physical features, such as the surface, atmosphere, etc, of the planet Mars
- areopagite — a member of the Areopagus, a judicial council of ancient Athens that met on the hill of that name
- aristippus — ?435–?356 bc, Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school
- aristotype — a process of photographic printing in which paper coated with silver chloride in gelatin is used.
- armipotent — strong in arms or war
- army corps — a military formation that comprises two or more divisions and additional support arms
- army group — the largest operational formation of military land forces, normally comprising two or more armies or army corps under a designated commander.
- arpeggiate — to play an arpeggio
- arpeggione — a stringed musical instrument of the early 19th century which was played with a bow
- arthropoda — the phylum comprising the arthropods.
- arthropods — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having a segmented body, jointed limbs, and usually a chitinous shell that undergoes moltings, including the insects, spiders and other arachnids, crustaceans, and myriapods.
- artocarpus — a genus of the mulberry family, originating in Asia, species of which include the jackfruit and the breadfruit
- aryl group — any organic group derived from an aromatic hydrocarbon by the removal of a hydrogen atom, as phenyl, C 6 H 5 −, from benzene, C 6 H 6 .
- ascocarpic — relating to an ascocarp
- ascospores — Plural form of ascospore.
- ascosporic — relating to an ascospore