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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.
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