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11-letter words containing p, a, c

  • aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
  • apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
  • archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
  • archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
  • archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
  • arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears
  • areographic — relating to areography
  • ars poetica — the art of poetry
  • arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
  • arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
  • ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
  • aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
  • asplanchnic — having no gut
  • atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
  • atomic pile — nuclear reactor
  • attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
  • atypicality — the quality or condition of being atypical
  • auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
  • autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
  • autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
  • automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
  • autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
  • autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.
  • autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
  • auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
  • back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
  • backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
  • backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
  • backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
  • backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
  • backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
  • backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
  • backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
  • backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
  • baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
  • banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
  • baroceptors — Plural form of baroceptor.
  • barographic — Measured using a barograph.
  • basidiocarp — the fruiting body of basidiomycetous fungi; the mushroom of agarics
  • batch plant — a manufacturing plant where concrete is mixed before being transported to a construction site ready to be poured.
  • bathing cap — a tight rubber cap worn by a swimmer to keep the hair dry
  • bathyscaphe — a navigable, submersible vessel for exploring the depths of the ocean, having a separate, overhead chamber filled with gasoline for buoyancy and iron or steel weights for ballast.
  • battlepiece — a painting, relief, mosaic, etc, depicting a battle, usually commemorating an actual event
  • battlespace — the area of air, sea, and land that is directly involved in war, often taken to include any technological, environmental, infrastructural, or temporal factors which may be relevant to the success of a mission
  • bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
  • beach party — a party held on a beach
  • beach scarp — a steep slope or miniature cliff, formed by wave action, fronting the berm on a beach.
  • bearing cap — A bearing cap is a rigid, semi-circular part that fits around one half of a bearing and secures it.
  • beneplacito — an indication of approval
  • bicephalous — having two heads
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