8-letter words containing p, a
- agraphon — saying of Jesus not in Gospels
- agrypnia — the inability to sleep
- air drop — An air drop is a delivery of supplies by aircraft to an area that is hard to get to. The supplies are dropped from the aircraft on parachutes.
- air plot — Aeronautics. the calculation of the ground position of an aircraft by first determining its air position from its speed in the air and heading information, and then correcting for wind effects.
- air plug — a plug making an airtight seal to a vent.
- air pump — a device for pumping air in or out of something
- air-ship — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- air-trap — a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
- airdrops — Plural form of airdrop.
- airgraph — a system devised in the Second World War in which letters were photographed in miniature and sent by airmail
- airparks — Plural form of airpark.
- airplane — An airplane is a vehicle with wings and one or more engines that enable it to fly through the air.
- airports — Plural form of airport.
- airpower — the strength of a nation's air force
- airproof — impervious to air
- airscape — a view of the land or sea below from the air
- airships — Plural form of airship.
- airspace — A country's airspace is the part of the sky that is over that country and is considered to belong to it.
- airspeed — An aircraft's airspeed is the speed at which it travels through the air.
- airstrip — An airstrip is a stretch of land which has been cleared so that aircraft can take off and land.
- alcopops — Plural form of alcopop.
- algraphy — (formerly) an offset process employing an aluminum plate instead of a stone.
- alkapton — homogentisic acid.
- all-pass — Radio. (of a network, transducer, etc.) transmitting signals without significant attenuation of any frequencies.
- alleppey — a port in S India, in Kerala on the Malabar Coast. Pop: 177 079 (2001)
- allopath — a person who practises or is skilled in allopathy
- allotype — an additional type specimen selected because of differences from the original type specimen, such as opposite sex or morphological details
- allotypy — the condition of being an allotype
- allspice — Allspice is a powder used as a spice in cooking, which is made from the berries of a tropical American tree.
- allyship — The role or status of being an ally.
- alopecia — loss of hair, esp on the head; baldness
- alopecic — bald
- alphabet — An alphabet is a set of letters usually presented in a fixed order which is used for writing the words of a particular language or group of languages.
- alphette — (rare) an alpha female; a confident, self-assured woman.
- alphonse — a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “noble” and “ready.”.
- alphonso — a masculine name
- alphorns — Plural form of alphorn.
- alphosis — absence of skin pigmentation, as in albinism
- alpinely — In an alpine way, loftily.
- alpinism — mountain climbing, especially in the Alps.
- alpinist — a mountaineer who climbs in medium-sized glaciated mountain areas such as the Alps
- altepetl — A Nahua community; a pueblo.
- amblyope — A person afflicted with amblyopia.
- amblyopy — Dated form of amblyopia.
- amblypod — one of the primitive ungulate mammals of the extinct order Pantodonta, from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, having a massive body and short legs.
- amidship — in or toward the middle part of a ship or aircraft; midway between the ends.
- amorphic — Having no defined shape, lacking form; amorphous.
- ampakine — Any of a class of chemical compounds that enhance attention span and alertness and facilitate learning and memory.
- amperage — the magnitude of an electric current measured in amperes, esp the rated current of an electrical component or device
- amphibia — the amphibians considered collectively