9-letter words containing p, t
- appalment — The state of being appalled or alarmed.
- apparatus — The apparatus of an organization or system is its structure and method of operation.
- apparitor — an officer who summons witnesses and executes the orders of an ecclesiastical and (formerly) a civil court
- appealant — Obsolete form of appellant.
- appellant — An appellant is someone who is appealing against a court's decision after they have been judged guilty of a crime.
- appellate — of or relating to appeals
- appendant — attached, affixed, or added
- appendent — attached or suspended; annexed.
- appentice — penthouse (def 4).
- appertain — to belong (to) as a part, function, right, etc; relate (to) or be connected (with)
- appetence — a natural craving or desire
- appetency — a strong desire; craving; appetite
- appetible — desirable or capable of arousing desire
- appetiser — Alternative spelling of appetizer.
- appetites — Plural form of appetite.
- appetized — Simple past tense and past participle of appetize.
- appetizer — An appetizer is the first course of a meal. It consists of a small amount of food.
- applanate — having a horizontally flattened form.
- applecart — a cart or barrow from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street
- appletalk — (networking, protocol) A proprietary local area network protocol developed by Apple Computer, Inc. for communication between Apple products (e.g. Macintosh) and other computers. This protocol is independent of the network layer on which it runs. Current implementations exist for Localtalk, a 235 kilobyte per second local area network and Ethertalk, a 10 megabyte per second local area network.
- appletini — a cocktail consisting of vodka and apple juice with apple cider, apple brandy, or apple liqueur, and sometimes vermouth
- applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.
- applicate — applied practicably
- appointed — If something happens at the appointed time, it happens at the time that was decided in advance.
- appointee — An appointee is someone who has been chosen for a particular job or position of responsibility.
- appointer — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- appointor — a person to whom a power to nominate persons to take property is given by deed or will
- apportion — When you apportion something such as blame, you decide how much of it different people deserve or should be given.
- approbate — to accept as valid
- apreciate — Misspelling of appreciate.
- apriorist — a person who believes in apriorism
- apriority — the quality or fact of being a priori
- aprotinin — (protein) A polypeptide, obtained from bovine lung tissue, that acts as a protease inhibitor, and is used in surgery to reduce bleeding.
- aptitudes — Plural form of aptitude.
- 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.
- arhatship — the state of having achieved enlightenment, which is the ultimate goal of Theravada Buddhists
- 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
- aspartame — an artificial sweetener produced from aspartic acid. Formula: C14H18N2O5
- aspartate — a salt formed from the amalgamation of a base and aspartic acid
- aspectant — (of birds, fish, and animals other than beasts of prey) face to face; respectant.
- aspectual — of or relating to grammatical aspect
- asphalted — Simple past tense and past participle of asphalt.
- asphalter — a person who spreads a layer of asphalt
- asphaltic — Resembling, containing, or relating to asphalt; bituminous.
- asphaltum — a substance used to protect surface areas of metal that do not require to be etched
- aspirants — Plural form of aspirant.
- aspirated — (of a stop) articulated with some force, so that breath escapes with audible friction as the stop is released
- aspirates — Phonetics. to articulate (a speech sound, especially a stop) so as to produce an audible puff of breath, as with the first t of total, the second t being unaspirated. to articulate (the beginning of a word or syllable) with an h -sound, as in which, pronounced (hwich), or hitch as opposed to witch or itch.
- aspirator — a device employing suction, such as a jet pump or one for removing fluids from a body cavity