11-letter words containing op
- anglophones — Plural form of anglophone.
- anglophonic — of or relating to English speakers
- anisopteran — belonging or pertaining to the suborder Anisoptera, comprising the dragonflies.
- anisotropic — not isotropic; having different physical properties in different directions
- antatrophic — preventing or curing atrophy.
- anthophobia — an abnormal fear of flowers.
- anthrophony — Any sound produced by human beings or their creations.
- anthropical — relating to human nature
- anthropoids — Plural form of anthropoid.
- anthroponym — a personal name.
- antipopular — opposed to the people or to popular cause
- antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
- antiutopian — Opposing utopian values.
- apocopation — to shorten by apocope.
- apophthegms — Plural form of apophthegm.
- apophyllite — a white, colourless, pink, or green mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate of calcium, potassium, and fluorine in tetragonal crystalline form. It occurs in cracks in volcanic rocks. Formula: KCa4(Si4O10)2(OH1F).8H2O
- apophysitis — (pathology) Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
- apoproteins — Plural form of apoprotein.
- aposiopeses — Plural form of aposiopesis.
- aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
- aposiopetic — Of or pertaining to aposiopesis.
- apostrophes — Plural form of apostrophe.
- apostrophic — a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?”.
- apostrophus — a symbol resembling a reversed letter C used in Roman numerals to denote large numbers
- apotropaism — the use of ritual or magic to ward off evil or bad luck
- appropinque — to approach
- appropriacy — the condition of delicate and precise fittingness of a word or expression to its context, even when it is chosen from a number of close synonyms
- appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
- arabidopsis — Any cress (or related plant) of the genus Arabidopsis.
- archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
- arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears
- arthropathy — a disease of a joint
- arthropodan — relating to arthropods
- arthroscope — a tubular instrument that is inserted into the capsule of a joint to examine the joint, extract tissue, etc
- arthroscopy — the use of an arthroscope to diagnose an injury to or disease of a joint or to perform minor surgery on a joint.
- artophorion — pyx (def 1a).
- asteropaeus — a Trojan ally slain by Achilles.
- astrophobia — A fear of stars and celestial space.
- astrophyton — The giant basket star, an early Mesozoic invertebrate.
- at a gallop — If you do something at a gallop, you do it very quickly.
- atelophobia — The fear of imperfection or not being good enough.
- atheophobia — Fear or hatred of atheism or atheists.
- atriopeptin — any of several peptide hormones that are released by the atria of the heart in response to an abnormal increase in blood volume and that modulate blood pressure and the excretion of sodium, potassium, and water. Abbreviation: ANF.
- attophysics — the physics of structures and artefacts with dimensions in the attometre range or of devices, such as lasers, capable of producing pulses with a duration measured in attoseconds
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- autophagous — self-consuming or devouring of itself
- autophanous — illuminated by a self-contained power source
- autoplastic — Of or pertaining to autoplasty.
- autopoiesis — Self creation; self organization.
- autopotamic — (of an organism) living or growing only in flowing freshwater streams.