10-letter words containing p, i
- air piracy — the hijacking of an aircraft; skyjacking
- air pistol — An air pistol is a small gun which is fired by means of air pressure.
- air pocket — a localized region of low air density or a descending air current, causing an aircraft to suffer an abrupt decrease in height
- air police — members of an air force assigned to carry on police duties
- air potato — a vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, of southeastern Asia, having tubers weighing several pounds and growing in the leaf axils.
- air spring — an enclosed pocket of air used to absorb shock or sudden fluctuations of load
- airdropped — Simple past tense and past participle of airdrop.
- airmanship — the skill or art of flying an aircraft
- akiapolaau — a rare yellow Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hemignathus munroi, having a long slender down-curved upper bill and a short straight lower bill.
- aldis lamp — a portable lamp used to transmit Morse code
- algophilia — Pleasure from experiencing pain, especially sexually.
- algophobia — an acute fear of experiencing or witnessing bodily pain
- alice paul — Saint, died a.d. c67, a missionary and apostle to the gentiles: author of several of the Epistles. Compare Saul (def 2).
- alipterion — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room for anointment.
- alla prima — (of a painting) painted with a single layer of paint, in contrast to paintings built up layer by layer
- allopathic — of, relating to, or used in allopathy
- allopatric — (of biological speciation or species) taking place or existing in areas that are geographically separated from one another
- allophonic — any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
- allotropic — of or characterized by allotropy
- alpestrine — (of plants) growing at high altitudes; subalpine
- alpha iron — a magnetic allotrope of iron that is stable below 910°C; ferrite
- alphabetic — in the order of the letters of the alphabet: alphabetical arrangement.
- alphametic — a mathematical puzzle using letters to express numbers that must be deciphered
- alphavirus — Any virus of the genus Alphavirus (family Togaviridae).
- alpine fir — a fir, Abies lasiocarpa, of the Rocky Mountains, yielding a soft, brittle wood used for making boxes, crates, etc.
- altarpiece — An altarpiece is a work of art behind the altar in a church.
- altiplanos — Plural form of altiplano.
- altophobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- ambiophony — the reproduction of sound to create an illusion to a listener of being in a spacious room, such as a concert hall
- aminoplast — amino resin.
- amlodipine — A long-acting calcium channel blocker used as an anti-hypertensive and in the treatment of angina.
- amnioscopy — Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
- ampelopsis — any woody vine of the vitaceous genus Ampelopsis, of tropical and subtropical Asia and America
- amphiaraus — a hero who joined the Seven against Thebes, although he knew that his death was fated: deified after death.
- amphiaster — the structure that occurs in a cell undergoing mitosis, consisting of a spindle with an aster at each end
- amphibians — any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, comprising frogs and toads, newts and salamanders, and caecilians, the larvae being typically aquatic, breathing by gills, and the adults being typically semiterrestrial, breathing by lungs and through the moist, glandular skin.
- amphibious — In an amphibious military operation, army and navy forces attack a place from the sea.
- amphibolic — equivocal; uncertain; changing; ambiguous.
- amphibrach — a metrical foot consisting of a long syllable between two short syllables (◡ – ◡)
- amphictyon — a delegate to an amphictyonic council
- amphidamas — a son of Aleus who, with his brother Cepheus, joined the Argonauts.
- amphigoric — a meaningless or nonsensical piece of writing, especially one intended as a parody.
- amphigouri — amphigory.
- amphimacer — a metrical foot consisting, in Greek and Latin verse, of one short syllable between two long ones, or, in English verse, of one unaccented syllable between two accented ones (Ex.: | hésĭtáte |)
- amphimarus — a son of Poseidon, sometimes believed to be the father, by Urania, of the poet Linus.
- amphimixes — Plural form of amphimixis.
- amphimixis — true sexual reproduction by the fusion of gametes from two organisms
- amphinomus — Penelope's favorite suitor.
- amphiphile — any of many organic compounds such as detergents combining both hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties
- amphiploid — a hybrid organism having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parental species.