10-letter words containing ap
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.
- biographic — of or relating to a person's life: He's gathering biographical data for his book on Milton.
- biotherapy — the treatment of disease by means of substances, as serums, vaccines, penicillin, etc., secreted by or derived from living organisms
- bitch-slap — to strike (someone) with one's open hand
- black caps — any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- blackstrap — a kind of port wine
- blade slap — the regular noise beat generated by the rotor blades of a helicopter
- blank tape — magnetic tape that has no recorded sound or image, as an unused or erased tape.
- bodyshaper — an undergarment which flattens the stomach, bottom etc
- bond paper — a superior quality of strong white paper, used esp for writing and typing
- boob happy — suffering from the mental strain caused by the difficulties of prison life
- booby-trap — A booby-trap is something such as a bomb which is hidden or disguised and which causes death or injury when it is touched.
- bottle cap — a device for closing or sealing a bottle, especially a metal cover with a cork gasket fitting tightly over the mouth of a glass or plastic bottle, held in place by crimping the edge of the cap over the lip or flange of the bottle.
- box staple — a socket for holding the end of a lock bolt when the door is closed.
- buonaparte — Bonaparte1
- butt-strap — (in metal construction) a plate which overlaps and fastens two pieces butted together.
- cacography — bad handwriting
- caligraphy — Alternative form of calligraphy.
- calligraph — to produce by means of calligraphy: The love letter was calligraphed in a delicate hand.
- cap pistol — a toy gun using caps to imitate the sound of a real pistol.
- cap sleeve — a very short sleeve on a woman's dress, blouse, etc., fashioned by lengthening only the outer shoulder area of the garment to form a caplike extension
- capability — If you have the capability or the capabilities to do something, you have the ability or the qualities that are necessary to do it.
- capablanca — José Raúl (xoˈse raˈul), called Capa or the Chess Machine 1888–1942, Cuban chess player; world champion 1921–27
- capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
- capacitate — to make legally competent
- capacities — the ability to receive or contain: This hotel has a large capacity.
- capacitive — of electrical capacitance
- capacitors — Plural form of capacitor.
- capacitous — Having the legal capacity to do something.
- caparisons — Plural form of caparison.
- cape blanc — a headland in N Tunisia: the northernmost point of Africa
- cape coast — a seaport in S Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea, 75 miles (121 km) SW of Accra.
- cape coral — city in SW Fla.: pop. 102,000
- cape dutch — (in South Africa) a distinctive style of furniture or architecture
- cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
- cape smoke — South African brandy
- cape verde — a cape in Senegal, near Dakar: the westernmost point of Africa
- cape wrath — a promontory at the NW extremity of the Scottish mainland
- cape-wrath — Cape, a high promontory in NW Scotland: most NW point on mainland.
- capillaire — a syrup flavoured with maidenhair fern or orange flower water
- capillatus — (of a cumulonimbus cloud) having a cirriform upper portion that resembles an anvil or a disorderly mass of hair.
- capistrate — (zoology, rare) hooded; cowled.
- capitalise — to write or print in capital letters letters or with an initial capital letter.
- capitalism — Capitalism is an economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are owned by private individuals and not by the state.
- capitalist — A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
- capitalize — If you capitalize on a situation, you use it to gain some advantage for yourself.
- capitation — a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per head
- capitative — Per head; capitatim.
- capitellum — an enlarged knoblike structure at the end of a bone that forms an articulation with another bone; capitulum
- capitolian — of or relating to the Capitoline