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11-letter words containing n, a, p, i

  • apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
  • aptitudinal — capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
  • aquaplaning — loss of contact with the road because of surface water
  • arab spring — The Arab Spring is a period of time in and around 2011 to 2012 during which people in the Middle East and Africa tried to achieve democratic reforms.
  • arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
  • artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
  • artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
  • ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
  • asperations — Plural form of asperation.
  • aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
  • asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
  • aspirations — a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
  • asplanchnic — having no gut
  • asportation — the removal or taking away of something
  • assumptions — something taken for granted; a supposition: a correct assumption. Synonyms: presupposition; hypothesis, conjecture, guess, postulate, theory.
  • at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
  • 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.
  • auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
  • axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
  • backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
  • backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
  • banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
  • bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.
  • bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
  • basis point — In finance, a basis point is one hundredth of a per cent (.01%).
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • batsmanship — (cricket) A skilled or courteous display of skill as a batsman.
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • beilan pass — a mountain pass in SE Turkey near Syria. 2395 feet (730 meters).
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bi-partisan — representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions: Government leaders hope to achieve a bipartisan foreign policy.
  • bipartition — divided into or consisting of two parts.
  • bipectinate — having both margins toothed like a comb, as the antennae of certain moths.
  • birthparent — a person's parent related biologically rather than by adoption
  • bit pattern — (data)   A sequence of bits, in a memory, a communications channel or some other device. The term is used to contrast this with some higher level interpretation of the bits such as an integer or an image. A bit string is similar but suggests an arbitrary, as opposed to predetermined, length.
  • bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
  • blaspheming — to speak impiously or irreverently of (God or sacred things).
  • blind-stamp — to emboss or impress (the cover or spine of a book) without using ink or foil.
  • boatmanship — boatsmanship.
  • bon appetit — enjoy your meal
  • bonapartism — a political system resembling the rules of the Bonapartes, esp Napoleon I and Napoleon III: centralized government by a military dictator, who enjoys popular support given expression in plebiscites
  • bonapartist — an adherent of the Bonapartes or their policies.
  • bondmanship — the state of being a bondman; serfdom
  • bone spavin — a disease of the hock joint of horses in which enlargement occurs because of collected fluids (bog spavin) bony growth (bone spavin) or distention of the veins (blood spavin)
  • bony spavin — enlargement of the hock of a horse by a bony growth, usually caused by inflammation or injury, and often resulting in lameness
  • bossnapping — kidnapping a company executive as part of industrial action
  • branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
  • break point — a point which allows the receiving player to break the service of the server
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