11-letter words containing p, a, y
- antipyrotic — relieving the pain and stimulating the healing of burns.
- antispyware — Designed or intended to combat or eliminate spyware on a computer system.
- antityphoid — preventing or acting against typhoid
- antitypical — something that is foreshadowed by a type or symbol, as a New Testament event prefigured in the Old Testament.
- aortography — an X-ray examination of the aorta
- aphasiology — The study of linguistic problems resulting from brain damage.
- aphetically — (linguistics) In an aphetic way: through aphesis.
- apicoectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the end of a tooth root in endodontic therapy.
- apocalypses — Plural form of apocalypse.
- apocalyptic — Apocalyptic means relating to the total destruction of something, especially of the world.
- apocynthion — the point at which a spacecraft in lunar orbit is farthest from the moon
- apodyterium — the changing room in an ancient Roman bathhouse
- apogamously — in an apogamous manner
- apophyllite — a white, colourless, pink, or green mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, potassium, and fluorine in tetragonal crystalline form. It occurs in cracks in volcanic rocks. Formula: KCa4(Si4O10)2(OH1F).8H2O
- apophysitis — (pathology) Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
- appallingly — causing dismay or horror: an appalling accident; an appalling lack of manners.
- appeal play — Baseball. an appeal by the team in the field to the umpire regarding a possible base-running infraction, such as failure to touch a base or leaving it to score before a fly is caught, that is considered only when the defending team tags the runner or base in question before making the appeal.
- appealingly — evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive.
- appeasingly — in an appeasing manner
- applaudably — in an applaudable manner
- apple dowdy — Chiefly New England. a deep-dish apple pie or cobbler, usually sweetened with molasses.
- applicatory — suitable for application
- appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- approbatory — approving; expressing approbation.
- appropriacy — the condition of delicate and precise fittingness of a word or expression to its context, even when it is chosen from a number of close synonyms
- approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- art therapy — a type of psychotherapy that encourages the expression of emotions through artistic activities such as painting, drawing, or sculpture; psychotherapy based on the belief that the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing.
- arthropathy — a disease of a joint
- arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- asbury park — city in EC N.J., on the Atlantic: an ocean resort: pop. 17,000
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- asphyxiants — Plural form of asphyxiant.
- asphyxiated — Simple past tense and past participle of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of asphyxiate.
- asphyxiator — to produce asphyxia in.
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- 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
- audiotypist — a typist trained to type from a dictating machine
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- 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
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- baptismally — In a baptismal way; through baptism.
- barbary ape — a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
- basipetally — in the manner of a basipetal
- bass player — a player of a double bass or a bass guitar
- bathygraphy — The scientific description of the depth of the ocean.
- 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.