11-letter words containing p
- applicative — relevant or applicable
- applicators — Plural form of applicator.
- applicatory — suitable for application
- applied art — design used for practical purposes
- appointable — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- appointment — The appointment of a person to a particular job is the choice of that person to do it.
- apportioned — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- apportioner — to distribute or allocate proportionally; divide and assign according to some rule of proportional distribution: to apportion expenses among the three men.
- appositions — Plural form of apposition.
- appositives — Plural form of appositive.
- appraisable — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- apprecation — (obsolete) Earnest prayer; devout wish.
- appreciable — An appreciable amount or effect is large enough to be important or clearly noticed.
- appreciably — sufficient to be readily perceived or estimated; considerable: There is an appreciable difference between socialism and communism.
- appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciates — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- appreciator — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
- apprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of apprehend.
- apprehender — Agent noun of apprehend; one who apprehends.
- apprenticed — a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- apprentices — Plural form of apprentice.
- appressoria — a flattened and thickened tip of a hyphal branch, formed by some parasitic fungi, that facilitates penetration of the host plant.
- approacheth — Archaic third-person singular form of approach.
- approaching — coming closer in time
- approbating — Present participle of approbate.
- approbation — Approbation is approval of something or agreement to it.
- approbative — showing approbation or approval
- approbatory — approving; expressing approbation.
- 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.
- approvement — (obsolete, Old English law) Improvement of common lands by converting them for advantage of the landlord.
- approvingly — to speak or think favorably of; pronounce or consider agreeable or good; judge favorably: to approve the policies of the administration.
- approximant — an articulation in which one articulator is close to another, but not sufficiently so to form a stop or a fricative.
- approximate — An approximate number, time, or position is close to the correct number, time, or position, but is not exact.
- appurtenant — relating, belonging, or accessory
- apra harbor — a port on the W coast of Guam.
- apricot jam — a sweet preserve made from apricots
- aprioristic — belief in, or reliance upon, a priori reasoning, arguments, or principles.
- apron piece — (in a staircase) a header receiving the ends of rough strings, carriage pieces, and the joists of landings.
- apron stage — a stage that projects into the auditorium so that the audience sit on three sides of it
- aptitudinal — capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent: She has a special aptitude for mathematics.
- aquaplaning — loss of contact with the road because of surface water
- arab spring — The Arab Spring is a period of time in and around 2011 to 2012 during which people in the Middle East and Africa tried to achieve democratic reforms.
- arabidopsis — Any cress (or related plant) of the genus Arabidopsis.
- araneomorph — (zoology) Any of the Araneomorphae, a suborder of spiders whose fangs cross with a pinching action.
- archbishops — Plural form of archbishop.
- archipelago — An archipelago is a group of islands, especially small islands.
- archpriests — Plural form of archpriest.
- arctophilia — the practice of collecting teddy bears