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10-letter words containing ap

  • cradle cap — a form of seborrhoea of the scalp common in young babies
  • crappiness — extremely bad, unpleasant, or inferior; lousy: crappy weather.
  • crapshoots — Plural form of crapshoot.
  • crapulence — sickness caused by excess in drinking or eating
  • curl paper — a strip of paper used to roll up and set a section of hair, usually wetted, into a curl
  • cut a tape — To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream business's "cut a check", the recording industry's "cut a record", and the military's "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium.
  • cyclograph — Arcograph.
  • dapperness — neat; trim; smart: He looked very dapper in his new suit.
  • datapoints — Plural form of datapoint.
  • death trap — If you say that a place or vehicle is a death trap, you mean it is in such bad condition that it might cause someone's death.
  • deathtraps — Plural form of deathtrap.
  • decapitate — If someone is decapitated, their head is cut off.
  • decapodous — Decapodal; ten-footed.
  • demography — Demography is the study of the changes in numbers of births, deaths, marriages, and cases of disease in a community over a period of time.
  • diagraphic — descriptive; relating to illustration by drawing or graphics
  • diapedesis — the passage of blood cells through the unruptured wall of a blood vessel into the surrounding tissues
  • diaphanous — Diaphanous cloth is very thin and almost transparent.
  • diaphoneme — (linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
  • diaphonics — The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.
  • diaphonous — Misspelling of diaphanous.
  • diaphorase — a flavoprotein enzyme operating in mitochondria, acting as a catalyst in the process of dye reduction or oxidation
  • diaphragms — Plural form of diaphragm.
  • diaphyseal — the shaft of a long bone.
  • dictagraph — Alt form dictograph.
  • dictaphone — a tape recorder designed for recording dictation and later reproducing it for typing
  • dictograph — a telephonic instrument for secretly monitoring or recording conversations by means of a small, sensitive, and often concealed microphone
  • dilapidate — to cause or allow (a building, automobile, etc.) to fall into a state of disrepair, as by misuse or neglect (often used passively): The house had been dilapidated by neglect.
  • dirt cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • dirt-cheap — very inexpensive: The house may need a lot of work, but it was dirt-cheap.
  • disapparel — to remove the clothing from (a person)
  • disappears — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disappear.
  • disapplied — Simple past tense and past participle of disapply.
  • disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
  • disapprove — to think (something) wrong or reprehensible; censure or condemn in opinion.
  • dittograph — an instance of dittography; a passage containing reduplicated syllables, letters, etc.
  • dognapping — Kidnapping or stealing of a dog owned by someone else.
  • dollar gap — the difference, measured in U.S. dollars, between the earnings of a foreign country through sales and investments in the U.S. and the payments made by that country to the U.S.
  • double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
  • dreamscape — a dreamlike, often surrealistic scene.
  • dyalog apl — (language)   Arguably the current (2001) market-leading implementation of APL, from Dyalog Limited. Dyalog APL runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000; and several popular UNIX systems including Linux. Dyalog APL complies with ISO 8485 and has many features that make it good for complex GUI applications. Dyalog APL was introduced in 1983 and is currently (2002) in active development.
  • dysgraphia — inability to write, caused by cerebral lesion.
  • dysgraphic — a person who suffers from dysgraphia
  • echography — a device that records oceanic depths by means of sonic waves.
  • edaphology — The ecological relationship of soil with plants, and land cultivation practices.
  • egg-shaped — having an oval form, usually with one end larger than the other.
  • el capitan — a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada: a monolith with a precipice rising over 1100 m (3600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Height: 2306 m (7564 ft)
  • en rapport — in sympathy, harmony, or accord
  • encaptured — Simple past tense and past participle of encapture.
  • encaptures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encapture.
  • energy gap — the difference of energy between the bottom of the conduction band and the top of the valence band of the electrons in a crystalline solid. For values below about 2eV the substance is considered to be a semiconductor whilst for higher values it is considered to be an insulator
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