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11-letter words containing p, a

  • advisership — the office or post of an adviser
  • aeciospores — Plural form of aeciospore.
  • aegospotami — a river of ancient Thrace that flowed into the Hellespont. At its mouth the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians in 405 bc, ending the Peloponnesian War
  • aelurophile — ailurophile.
  • aelurophobe — ailurophobe.
  • aeolotropic — anisotropic
  • aero-optics — the study of the effect of aircraft-induced and atmospheric disturbances on the efficiency of laser weapons
  • aerotropism — the growth of plants towards or away from a source of oxygen
  • aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
  • aesculapius — the Roman god of medicine or healing
  • after-party — a usually exclusive party that takes place after a performance or other event or after the main party: The screening of the premiere was followed by an afterparty.
  • afterpieces — Plural form of afterpiece.
  • aftersupper — happening in the period of time between supper and bedtime
  • agamospermy — formation of seeds in the absence of fertilization; a form of apomixis
  • agapetus ii — died a.d. 955, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 946–955.
  • agastrophus — a son of Paeon who was slain by Diomedes.
  • agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
  • aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
  • agoraphobia — an abnormal fear of being in open or public places
  • agoraphobic — Someone who is agoraphobic suffers from agoraphobia.
  • agriproduct — a product that is a result of agribusiness
  • ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon)   /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
  • aibohphobia — (humorous) An irrational fear of palindromes.
  • aid-de-camp — aide-de-camp.
  • ailurophile — a person who likes cats
  • ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
  • air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
  • air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
  • air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
  • air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
  • air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
  • air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
  • airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
  • airport bus — a public bus that takes passengers to and from the airport, usually connecting the city centre and (at a large airport) the different terminals
  • airport tax — Airport tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
  • alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
  • aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
  • aleppo gall — a type of nutgall occurring in oaks in W Asia and E Europe
  • aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
  • alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
  • algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
  • algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
  • alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
  • alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
  • all ends up — totally or completely
  • all up with — over; finished
  • all-expense — including all necessary or usual expenses, as the full cost of a trip, tour, or the like: a two-week all-expense tour of Mexico.
  • all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
  • allelomorph — allele
  • allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
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