9-letter words containing t, a, p, e
- antipopes — Plural form of antipope.
- antipress — opposed to or acting against the press
- antisleep — acting to prevent sleep
- antitypes — Plural form of antitype.
- apartheid — Apartheid was a political system in South Africa in which people were divided into racial groups and kept apart by law.
- apartment — An apartment is a set of rooms for living in, usually on one floor of a large building.
- apartness — the quality of being apart
- apatheism — (religion) Apathy towards the existence of a god; belief that the question of the existence of a god is unimportant.
- apatheist — (religion) A person who may accept the existence of a god, but who does not care about that god's existence.
- apathetic — If you describe someone as apathetic, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to be interested in or enthusiastic about doing anything.
- aperients — Plural form of aperient.
- aperitifs — Plural form of aperitif.
- aperitive — aperient.
- aperitivo — aperitif (sense 2), esp. any of those produced in Italy
- apertness — the quality of being apert
- apertural — relating to aperture or an aperture
- apertured — having an aperture
- apertures — Plural form of aperture.
- apetalous — (of flowering plants) having no petals
- apheretic — Standard spelling of aphaeretic.
- aphetized — (linguistics, of a word) Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
- aphrodite — the goddess of love and beauty, daughter of Zeus
- apiculate — (of leaves) ending in a short sharp point
- aplanetic — (esp of some algal and fungal spores) nonmotile or lacking a motile stage
- apneustic — of or relating to apneusis
- apocenter — the point in the orbit of a heavenly body farthest from a primary other than the earth or the sun.
- apocopate — to omit the final sound or sounds of (a word)
- apostates — Plural form of apostate.
- apostille — a marginal annotation or note.
- apothecia — the fruit of certain lichens and fungi: usually an open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped body, the inner surface of which is covered with a layer that bears asci.
- apothegms — Plural form of apothegm.
- apothesis — (architecture) A place on the south side of the chancel in primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc.
- appalment — The state of being appalled or alarmed.
- 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.