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13-letter words containing a, p

  • at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
  • at peace with — If you are at peace with yourself or at peace with the world, you feel calm and contented, and you have no emotional conflicts within yourself or with other people.
  • at this point — at this moment in time
  • atlantic pact — North Atlantic Treaty.
  • atmospherical — pertaining to, existing in, or consisting of the atmosphere: atmospheric vapors.
  • atomic weapon — a weapon in which energy is provided by nuclear fission
  • atypicalities — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
  • auction pitch — a variety of all fours in which players bid to determine the trump or pitch.
  • audiographics — audiographic teleconferencing
  • austrian pine — an evergreen tree, Pina nigra austriaca
  • autapomorphic — (biology) Describing any characteristic that has evolved in only a single species (or other taxon).
  • autobiography — Your autobiography is an account of your life, which you write yourself.
  • autocephalous — (of an Eastern Christian Church) governed by its own national synods and appointing its own patriarchs or prelates
  • autographical — Relating to, or used in, the process of autography.
  • automatograph — a device for recording involuntary bodily movements.
  • autopolyploid — (of cells, organisms, etc) having more than two sets of haploid chromosomes inherited from a single species
  • autoprojector — (theory)   A self-applicable partial evaluator.
  • autoresponder — A program that automatically generates a set response to all messages sent to a particular e-mail address.
  • average speed — a scalar measure of the rate of movement of a body expressed as the distance travelled divided by the time taken
  • awe-inspiring — If you describe someone or something as awe-inspiring, you are emphasizing that you think that they are remarkable and amazing, although sometimes rather frightening.
  • baby elephant — a very young elephant
  • baby primrose — a tender primrose, Primula forbesii, native to China and Burma, having white, hairy leaves and rose- or lilac-colored flowers with a yellow center.
  • bacillophobia — The fear of microbes. Also known as germaphobia.
  • back clipping — a word formed by omitting the last part of the form from which it is derived.
  • back pressure — the pressure that opposes the motion of a piston on its exhaust stroke in an internal-combustion engine
  • back-slapping — Back-slapping is noisy, cheerful behaviour which people use in order to show affection or appreciation to each other.
  • back-up light — a light on the rear of a motor vehicle to warn others that the vehicle is being reversed
  • backdoor play — an offensive tactic whereby a player breaks away from a defender to receive a pass near the baseline in order to make a quick layup.
  • backing group — a group of musicians providing an instrumental or vocal accompaniment for a pop singer
  • backpedalling — to retard the forward motion by pressing backward on the pedal, especially of a bicycle with coaster brakes.
  • backspace key — a key on a typewriter or computer keyboard that makes the carriage or cursor move backwards one space
  • bacteriophage — a virus that is parasitic in a bacterium and multiplies within its host, which is destroyed when the new viruses are released
  • bacteriophagy — the action of a bacteriophage
  • bacterioscopy — the examination of bacteria with a microscope.
  • badminton cup — a long refreshing drink of claret with soda water and sugar
  • baking powder — Baking powder is an ingredient used in cake making. It causes cakes to rise when they are in the oven.
  • balanced step — any of a series of staircase winders so planned that they are nearly as wide at the inside of the stair as the adjacent fliers.
  • balch springs — a town in NE Texas.
  • ballistospore — a spore, esp a fungal spore, that is forcefully ejected from its source
  • balneotherapy — the treatment of disease by bathing, esp to improve limb mobility in arthritic and neuromuscular disorders
  • balsam capivi — copaiba.
  • balsam poplar — a poplar tree, Populus balsamifera, of NE North America, having resinous buds and broad heart-shaped leaves
  • balsam spruce — either of two North American coniferous trees of the genus Picea, P. pungens (the blue spruce) or P. engelmanni
  • banana spider — a large, yellowish, tropical crab spider (Heteropoda venatoria) occasionally found in bunches of bananas shipped to the Temperate Zones
  • band spectrum — a spectrum consisting of a number of bands of closely spaced lines that are associated with emission or absorption of radiation by molecules
  • banded purple — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • bandspreading — an additional tuning control in some radio receivers whereby a selected narrow band of frequencies can be spread over a wider frequency band, in order to give finer control of tuning
  • bankrupt worm — a roundworm (genus Trichostrongylus) that is an intestinal parasite of birds and mammals, especially devastating to young livestock.
  • barbary sheep — aoudad
  • barber's pole — a sign outside a barber's shop consisting of a pole painted with red and white spiral stripes
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