9-letter words containing p, a
- appraisal — If you make an appraisal of something, you consider it carefully and form an opinion about it.
- appraised — Simple past tense and past participle of appraise.
- appraisee — a person who is being appraised
- appraiser — An appraiser is someone whose job is to estimate the cost or value of something such as property.
- appraises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appraise.
- apprehend — If the police apprehend someone, they catch them and arrest them.
- appressed — pressed closely against, but not joined to, a surface
- apprising — appraise.
- apprizers — Plural form of apprizer.
- apprizing — Present participle of apprize.
- approbate — to accept as valid
- approvals — Plural form of approval.
- approvers — a person who approves.
- approving — An approving reaction or remark shows support for something, or satisfaction with it.
- apreciate — Misspelling of appreciate.
- apres-ski — Apres-ski is evening entertainment and social activities in places where people go skiing.
- apriorism — the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience
- apriorist — a person who believes in apriorism
- apriority — the quality or fact of being a priori
- apronfuls — Plural form of apronful.
- apronlike — resembling an apron
- aprosexia — Inability to concentrate.
- aprotinin — (protein) A polypeptide, obtained from bovine lung tissue, that acts as a protease inhibitor, and is used in surgery to reduce bleeding.
- apse line — the major axis of an elliptical orbit.
- apsidiole — a secondary, or small, apse
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- aqua pura — pure water; esp., distilled water
- aquaphobe — a person who is abnormally afraid of water
- aquaplane — a single board on which a person stands and is towed by a motorboat at high speed, as in water skiing
- aquaporin — any one of a group of proteins in cell membranes that allow the passage of water across the membrane
- arapaimas — Plural form of arapaima.
- archetype — An archetype is something that is considered to be a perfect or typical example of a particular kind of person or thing, because it has all their most important characteristics.
- archicarp — a female reproductive structure in ascomycetous fungi that consists of a cell or hypha and develops into the ascogonium
- arcograph — an instrument used for drawing arcs without using a central point
- areopagus — the hill to the northwest of the Acropolis in Athens
- arhatship — the state of having achieved enlightenment, which is the ultimate goal of Theravada Buddhists
- arpeggios — Plural form of arpeggio.
- arpillera — a Peruvian hand-sewn wall-hanging, typically of exquisite detail
- art paper — a high-quality type of paper having a smooth coating of china clay or similar substance on it
- arthropod — any invertebrate of the phylum Arthropoda, having jointed limbs, a segmented body, and an exoskeleton made of chitin. The group includes the crustaceans, insects, arachnids, and centipedes
- asclepiad — a plant that belongs to the class Asclepiadaceae
- asclepias — any plant of the perennial mostly tuberous genus Asclepias; some are grown as garden or greenhouse plants for their showy orange-scarlet or purple flowers: family Asclepiadaceae
- asclepius — a god of healing; son of Apollo
- ascocarps — Plural form of ascocarp.
- ascospore — one of the spores (usually eight in number) that are produced in an ascus
- asepalous — (of a plant or flower) having no sepals
- asparagus — Asparagus is a vegetable that is long and green and has small shoots at one end. It is cooked and served whole.
- aspargine — (amino acid) A nonessential amino acid C4H8N2O3 found in plants such as asparagus.
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid