7-letter words containing a, p
- agriope — Eurydice.
- agrippa — Marcus Vipsanius (ˈmɑːkəs vɪpˈseɪnɪəs). 63–12 bc, Roman general: chief adviser and later son-in-law of Augustus
- air gap — Electricity. the space between two objects magnetically related, as between the rotor and the stator in a dynamo, or between two objects electrically related, as between the electrode and the tip of a spark plug.
- air map — a map constructed from aerial photographs.
- airdrop — a delivery of supplies, troops, etc, from an aircraft by parachute
- airpack — an apparatus consisting of a face mask connected to a portable air supply, as an air tank that can be strapped to one's back, used especially by firefighters and search teams in areas of smoke, poisonous fumes, intense heat, etc.
- airpark — a small airport often near a business or residential area
- airpipe — an airhose connecting the mouthpiece of scuba diving equipment to its air supply.
- airplay — The airplay which a piece of popular music receives is the number of times it is played on the radio.
- airport — An airport is a place where aircraft land and take off, which has buildings and facilities for passengers.
- airpost — the system of delivering mail by air; airmail
- airprox — a near collision between two or more aircraft
- airship — An airship is an aircraft that consists of a large balloon which is filled with gas and is powered by an engine. It has a section underneath for passengers.
- airstop — a landing place for helicopters
- alcopop — an alcoholic drink that tastes like a soft drink
- aleph 0 — (mathematics) The cardinality of the first infinite ordinal, omega (the number of natural numbers). Aleph 1 is the cardinality of the smallest ordinal whose cardinality is greater than aleph 0, and so on up to aleph omega and beyond. These are all kinds of infinity. The Axiom of Choice (AC) implies that every set can be well-ordered, so every infinite cardinality is an aleph; but in the absence of AC there may be sets that can't be well-ordered (don't posses a bijection with any ordinal) and therefore have cardinality which is not an aleph. These sets don't in some way sit between two alephs; they just float around in an annoying way, and can't be compared to the alephs at all. No ordinal possesses a surjection onto such a set, but it doesn't surject onto any sufficiently large ordinal either.
- alepine — a cloth made either of wool and silk or mohair and cotton
- allport — Gordon W(illard) 1897–1967, U.S. psychologist and educator.
- alpacas — Plural form of alpaca.
- alphard — (language) (Named after the brightest star in Hydra) A Pascal-like language developed by Wulf, Shaw and London of CMU in 1974. Alphard supports data abstraction using the 'form', which combines a specification and an implementation.
- alpheus — a river god, lover of the nymph Arethusa. She changed into a spring to evade him, but he changed into a river and mingled with her
- alphorn — a wind instrument used in the Swiss Alps, consisting of a very long tube of wood or bark with a cornet-like mouthpiece
- alpines — Plural form of alpine.
- amorpha — Any species of the genus Amorpha of leguminous shrubs.
- amorphy — (obsolete) shapelessness.
- amp off — (jargon) (Purdue) To run in background. From the Unix shell "&" (ampersand) operator.
- ampelos — a satyr who was placed among the stars by Dionysus.
- amperes — Plural form of ampere.
- amphion — a son of Zeus and Antiope: he builds a wall around Thebes by charming the stones into place with a lyre
- amphora — an ancient Greek or Roman two-handled narrow-necked jar for oil, wine, etc
- amplest — fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs; plentiful; enough: an ample supply of water; ample time to finish.
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- ampoule — An ampoule is a small container, usually made of glass, that contains a drug which will be injected into someone. The abbreviation amp is also used.
- ampules — Plural form of ampule.
- ampulla — the dilated end part of certain ducts or canals, such as the end of a uterine tube
- amputee — An amputee is someone who has had all or part of an arm or a leg amputated.
- ampycus — a son of Pelias, husband of Chloris, and father of Mopsus.
- anapest — a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of two short syllables followed by a long one, or, as in English, of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one
- anaphor — a word or phrase used to refer back to a previous word or phrase
- anapsid — belonging or pertaining to the Anapsida, a subclass of reptiles, extinct except for the turtles, characterized by having no opening in the temporal region of the skull.
- anaspid — any member of an extinct order, Anaspida, of small, freshwater jawless fishes of the Silurian and Devonian periods, characterized by a single nostril, narrow rows of scales, and, usually, an armor-plated head.
- anopsia — a defect in vision, whether partial or total
- antapex — the point exactly opposite in direction to the solar apex; the point away from which the solar system is moving and toward which the stars appear to be converging, located in the constellation Columba.
- ante up — If you ante up an amount of money, you pay your share, sometimes unwillingly.
- antheap — Anthill.
- antipot — opposed to the illegal use of marijuana
- antispy — Countering or opposing spies; antiespionage.
- antwerp — a province of N Belgium. Pop: 1 668 812 (2004 est). Area: 2859 sq km (1104 sq miles)
- ap star — a peculiar A star whose emission spectrum is characterized by abnormally strong lines of certain ionized metals.
- apaches — a Parisian gangster, rowdy, or ruffian.