11-letter words containing p, a
- argand lamp — an oil lamp with a chimney, having a tubular wick that permits air to reach the center of the flame.
- arkadelphia — a city in central Arkansas.
- armor plate — a protective covering of specially hardened steel plates, as on a tank
- arolla pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra, found esp in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
- arpeggiated — having arpeggios
- ars poetica — the art of poetry
- arsonphobia — Pyrophobia.
- 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.
- arte povera — a style of minimal art originating in Italy in the late 1960s, making use of cheap and commonly available materials such as stones, newspapers etc
- arthropathy — a disease of a joint
- arthropodan — relating to arthropods
- 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.
- arthrospore — a sporelike cell of ascomycetous fungi and some algae produced by a breaking of the hyphae
- artisanship — the occupation or product of a craftsperson or artisan
- artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
- asbury park — city in EC N.J., on the Atlantic: an ocean resort: pop. 17,000
- ascriptions — Plural form of ascription.
- aseptically — in a non-putrefying manner
- asperations — Plural form of asperation.
- aspergation — the action of sprinkling, suffusing or irrigating with water
- aspergillum — a brush or perforated container for sprinkling holy water
- aspergillus — any ascomycetous fungus of the genus Aspergillus, having chains of conidia attached like bristles to a club-shaped stalk: family Aspergillaceae
- aspersorium — a basin containing holy water with which worshippers sprinkle themselves
- aspheterise — to deny the right of private property
- aspheterism — the teaching that all property should be in common ownership and no individual should benefit from personal possession
- aspheterize — to observe or engage in aspheterism
- 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.
- aspidistras — Plural form of aspidistra.
- 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.
- asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
- astraphobia — a fear of thunder and lightning
- astrography — The art of describing or delineating the stars; a description or mapping of the heavens.
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- astrosphere — the part of the aster excluding the centrosome
- at a gallop — If you do something at a gallop, you do it very quickly.
- at gunpoint — If you are held at gunpoint, someone is threatening to shoot and kill you if you do not obey them.
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atheophobia — Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
- athwartship — having a position across a vessel from side to side at right angles to the keel
- atmosphered — having an intellectual or psychological climate or feeling
- atmospheres — Plural form of atmosphere.
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.