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10-letter words containing e, p, a

  • afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play
  • agapetus i — Saint, died a.d. 536, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 535–536.
  • agoraphobe — a person suffering from agoraphobia
  • ahithophel — a member of David's council, who became one of Absalom's advisers in his rebellion and hanged himself when his advice was overruled (II Samuel 15:12–17:23)
  • air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
  • air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
  • airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
  • aleph-null — the smallest infinite cardinal number; the cardinal number of the set of positive integers
  • alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
  • alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
  • allen park — a city in SE Michigan.
  • allophones — Plural form of allophone.
  • allotropes — Plural form of allotrope.
  • alpenhorns — Plural form of alpenhorn.
  • alpenstock — an early form of ice axe, consisting of a stout stick with an iron tip and sometimes having a pick and adze at the head, formerly used by mountain climbers
  • alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
  • alpha geek — the person in a group or office who has the most knowledge about computer technology
  • alpha male — the dominant male animal or person in a group
  • alpha wave — any of the electrical waves from the parietal and occipital regions of the brain, having frequencies from 8 to 13 hertz: a sign of relaxation, since they indicate a lack of sensory stimulation in a conscious person
  • alpha-test — an in-house test of a new or modified piece of computer software
  • alphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
  • alphametic — a mathematical puzzle using letters to express numbers that must be deciphered
  • alpine fir — a fir, Abies lasiocarpa, of the Rocky Mountains, yielding a soft, brittle wood used for making boxes, crates, etc.
  • altarpiece — An altarpiece is a work of art behind the altar in a church.
  • amboceptor — an immune body formed in the blood during infection or immunization that serves to link the complement to the antigen
  • amlodipine — A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina.
  • ampelopsis — any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America
  • ampersands — Plural form of ampersand.
  • amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
  • amphimacer — a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of one short syllable between two long ones, or, in English verse, of one unaccented syllable between two accented ones (Ex.: | hésĭtáte |)
  • amphimixes — Plural form of amphimixis.
  • amphiphile — any of many organic compounds such as detergents combining both hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties
  • amphitrite — a sea goddess, wife of Poseidon and mother of Triton
  • amphogenic — producing both male and female offspring.
  • amphoteric — able to function as either a base or an acid
  • ampliative — serving to extend or add to what is already known
  • amplidynes — Plural form of amplidyne.
  • amplifiers — Plural form of amplifier.
  • amplitudes — Plural form of amplitude.
  • anabaptise — to rebaptise
  • anabaptize — to baptize again
  • anal phase — Psychoanalysis. the second stage of psychosexual development during which the child, usually at two years of age, becomes preoccupied with defecation.
  • analeptics — Plural form of analeptic.
  • analphabet — an illiterate person unfamiliar with the letters of the alphabet
  • anastrophe — reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
  • andropause — the period, usually occurring between the ages of 45 and 55, during which a man's testosterone levels may fall, leading to a reduction in vigour and sexual drive
  • androphore — an extension of the receptacle carrying the androecium and the gynoecium, typical of the caper family (Capparidaceae)
  • androspore — the zoospore of certain algae that develops into a small male plant producing antherozoids.
  • anemograph — a self-recording anemometer
  • anemophily — fertilized by wind-borne pollen or spores.
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