11-letter words containing p
- atmospheric — Atmospheric is used to describe something which relates to the Earth's atmosphere.
- atomic pile — nuclear reactor
- 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.
- attapulgite — a clay mineral, basic hydrous silicate of magnesium and aluminum, the active ingredient of fuller's earth.
- attempering — Present participle of attemper.
- attemptable — Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked.
- 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
- atypicality — the quality or condition of being atypical
- audiophiles — Plural form of audiophile.
- audiotypist — a typist trained to type from a dictating machine
- auditorship — the position or function of auditor
- auspicating — Present participle of auspicate.
- auto-prompt — (language) A numerical control language from IBM for 3D milling.
- auto-repeat — a feature of computer keys whereby a character is generated repeatedly as long as the user holds down the key in question
- autocephaly — the state of being autocephalous.
- autographed — Simple past tense and past participle of autograph.
- autographic — of, for, or like an autograph or autographs
- automorphic — shaped and designed after oneself
- 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.
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- avoirdupois — a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton
- axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- azido group — the univalent group N 3 −, derived from hydrazoic acid.
- azoospermia — absence of spermatozoa in the semen
- back-paddle — to propel a boat by paddling backward, as by using a stroke in the direction of stern to bow.
- backpackers — Plural form of backpacker.
- backpacking — If you go backpacking, you go travelling with a backpack.
- backpedaled — (US) Simple past tense and past participle of backpedal.
- backslapped — Simple past tense and past participle of backslap.
- backslapper — a person who backslaps; a hearty jovial person
- backspacing — Present participle of backspace.
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- baffleplate — a plate used as a baffle.
- bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
- baldcypress — any of a genus (Taxodium, esp. T. distichum) of cone-bearing trees of the baldcypress family, that grows in the swamps of the SE U.S. and normally sheds its small, pointed needles in the fall
- ballplayers — Plural form of ballplayer.
- balsam pear — an Old World tropical vine, Momordica charantia, of the gourd family, having yellow flowers and orange-yellow fruit.
- banana peel — A banana peel is the same as a banana skin.
- banana plug — a small single-conductor electrical plug having a curved metal spring along its shank forming a clip to hold it in its socket
- banded pack — two products which are held together with a band and sold together at a discounted price
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- banking pin — either of two pins for damping or halting the oscillation, in either direction, of a balance or lever.
- bankrupting — Present participle of bankrupt.