10-letter words containing p
- atmosphere — A planet's atmosphere is the layer of air or other gases around it.
- atropatene — Media Atropatene.
- atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
- attempting — to make an effort at; try; undertake; seek: to attempt an impossible task; to attempt to walk six miles.
- attoparsec — (unit, humour) About 31 mm (one inch). "atto-" is the standard SI prefix for multiplication by 10^-18. A parsec (parallax-second) is 3.26 light-years; an attoparsec is thus 3.26 * 10^-18 light years. Thus, one attoparsec per microfortnight is about one inch per second. This unit is reported to be in use (though probably not very seriously) among hackers in the UK.
- atypically — not typical; not conforming to the type; irregular; abnormal: atypical behavior; a flower atypical of the species.
- audiograph — a machine used to test a patient's hearing by transmitting sound waves directly to the inner ear
- audiophile — a person who has a great interest in high-fidelity sound reproduction
- audiotapes — Plural form of audiotape.
- auriscopes — Plural form of auriscope.
- auspicated — Simple past tense and past participle of auspicate.
- auspicious — Something that is auspicious indicates that success is likely.
- australorp — a heavy black breed of domestic fowl
- authorship — The authorship of a piece of writing is the identity of the person who wrote it.
- autographs — Plural form of autograph.
- autography — the writing of something in one's own handwriting; something handwritten
- autophagia — sustenance by self-absorption of the tissues of the body
- autophilia — Self love, especially sexual attraction to the self.
- autophobia — the fear of solitude or being alone
- autophobic — Of or pertaining to autophobia.
- autopilots — Plural form of autopilot.
- autoplasty — surgical repair of defects by grafting or transplanting tissue from the patient's own body
- autopodium — (anatomy) The distal part of a limb; a hand or foot.
- autopsying — Present participle of autopsy.
- autorepeat — Any feature that repeats an action automatically.
- autoscopic — of or relating to an out-of-body experience
- autotrophs — Plural form of autotroph.
- autotrophy — (in certain plants and bacteria) the process of making food from inorganic substances, using photosynthesis
- autotropic — Growing in a straight line.
- auxospores — Plural form of auxospore.
- auxotrophs — Plural form of auxotroph.
- auxotrophy — the inability to synthesize particular growth factors, due to mutational changes
- aviophobia — fear of flying in an airplane or other aircraft.
- awl-shaped — shaped like an awl
- axoplasmic — of or relating to the axoplasm
- azeotropes — Plural form of azeotrope.
- azygospore — a thick-walled spore produced by parthenogenesis in certain algae and fungi
- b particle — B meson.
- baby split — a split in which the two and seven pins or the three and ten pins remain standing.
- back-pedal — If you back-pedal, you express a different or less forceful opinion about something from the one you have previously expressed.
- backpacked — Simple past tense and past participle of backpack.
- backpacker — A backpacker is a person who goes travelling with a backpack.
- backpaddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- backpedals — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of backpedal.
- backplanes — Plural form of backplane.
- backplates — Plural form of backplate.
- backspaced — Simple past tense and past participle of backspace.
- backspaces — Plural form of backspace.
- backsplash — any tiled area by, for example, a sink, cooker or bath to prevent damage to a wall by food or water splashes
- backsplice — a knot for finishing a rope end neatly, beginning with a crown and proceeding in a series of tucks, each strand over the first adjoining strand and under the next, the strands being split in half at each tuck.