11-letter words containing p
- adscription — ascription
- advisership — the office or post of an adviser
- aeciospores — Plural form of aeciospore.
- aegospotami — a river of ancient Thrace that flowed into the Hellespont. At its mouth the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians in 405 bc, ending the Peloponnesian War
- aelurophile — ailurophile.
- aelurophobe — ailurophobe.
- aeolotropic — anisotropic
- aero-optics — the study of the effect of aircraft-induced and atmospheric disturbances on the efficiency of laser weapons
- aerotropism — the growth of plants towards or away from a source of oxygen
- aesculapian — of or relating to Aesculapius or to the art of medicine
- aesculapius — the Roman god of medicine or healing
- after-party — a usually exclusive party that takes place after a performance or other event or after the main party: The screening of the premiere was followed by an afterparty.
- afterpieces — Plural form of afterpiece.
- aftersupper — happening in the period of time between supper and bedtime
- agamospermy — formation of seeds in the absence of fertilization; a form of apomixis
- agapetus ii — died a.d. 955, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 946–955.
- agastrophus — a son of Paeon who was slain by Diomedes.
- agency shop — a contract arrangement between an employer and the union representing the majority of employees, which requires those who do not wish to be members to pay the union a fee equivalent to union dues
- aggrupation — (Philippines) A group, an organization.
- agoraphobia — an abnormal fear of being in open or public places
- agoraphobic — Someone who is agoraphobic suffers from agoraphobia.
- agriproduct — a product that is a result of agribusiness
- ai-complete — (artificial intelligence, jargon) /A-I k*m-pleet'/ (MIT, Stanford: by analogy with "NP-complete") A term used to describe problems or subproblems in artificial intelligence, to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the "strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other words, just too hard. See also gedanken.
- aibohphobia — (humorous) An irrational fear of palindromes.
- aid-de-camp — aide-de-camp.
- ailurophile — a person who likes cats
- ailurophobe — a person who dislikes or is afraid of cats
- air express — the rapid transportation of goods and documents by aircraft
- air passage — a space occupied or traversed by air.
- air sprayer — a pneumatic sprayer.
- air-express — to send or transport by air express: Your package will be air-expressed and should reach its destination tomorrow.
- air-shipped — to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
- air-sprayed — sprayed by means of compressed air
- airdropping — Present participle of airdrop.
- airport bus — a public bus that takes passengers to and from the airport, usually connecting the city centre and (at a large airport) the different terminals
- airport tax — Airport tax is a tax that airline passengers have to pay in order to use an airport.
- alderperson — a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
- aldopentose — a monosaccharide with five carbon atoms
- aleppo gall — a type of nutgall occurring in oaks in W Asia and E Europe
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
- algophagous — feeding on algae, as certain insects.
- algophilist — Person who is subject to algophilia; person who enjoys pain and gets sexual pleasure from it.
- alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
- alkyl group — any of a series of univalent groups of the general formula C n H 2n+1 , derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons, as the methyl group, CH 3 −, or ethyl group, C 2 H 5 −.
- all ends up — totally or completely
- all up with — over; finished
- all-expense — including all necessary or usual expenses, as the full cost of a trip, tour, or the like: a two-week all-expense tour of Mexico.
- all-purpose — You use all-purpose to refer to things that have lots of different uses or can be used in lots of different situations.
- allelomorph — allele