10-letter words containing pp
- appointing — Present participle of appoint.
- appointive — relating to or filled by appointment
- appointors — Plural form of appointor.
- appomattox — a village in central Virginia where the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War
- apportions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apportion.
- appositely — In an apposite manner.
- apposition — If two noun groups referring to the same person or thing are in apposition, one is placed immediately after the other, with no conjunction joining them, as in 'Her father, Nigel, left home three months ago.'
- appositive — standing in apposition
- appraisals — Plural form of appraisal.
- appraisers — Plural form of appraiser.
- appraising — critical, considering
- appraisive — to estimate the monetary value of; determine the worth of; assess: We had an expert appraise the house before we bought it.
- appreciate — If you appreciate something, for example a piece of music or good food, you like it because you recognize its good qualities.
- apprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprehend.
- apprentice — An apprentice is a young person who works for someone in order to learn their skill.
- apprentise — Obsolete form of apprentice.
- appretiate — Archaic form of appreciate.
- approached — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approacher — to come near or nearer to: The cars slowed down as they approached the intersection.
- approaches — Plural form of approach.
- approbated — Simple past tense and past participle of approbate.
- approvable — able to be approved
- approvably — in an approvable manner
- approvance — approval
- approvedly — So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
- approximal — situated side by side; close together
- aristippus — ?435–?356 bc, Greek philosopher, who believed pleasure to be the highest good and founded the Cyrenaic school
- bakeapples — Plural form of bakeapple.
- big dipper — A big dipper is a fairground ride that carries people up and down steep slopes on a narrow railway at high speed.
- blue poppy — a papaveraceous plant, Meconopsis betonicifolia, grown for its showy sky-blue flowers
- boob happy — suffering from the mental strain caused by the difficulties of prison life
- box supper — a social gathering, as at a church, at which box lunches donated by women are auctioned off to raise funds
- bush poppy — tree poppy.
- cappadocia — an ancient region of E Asia Minor famous for its horses
- cappuccino — Cappuccino is coffee which is made using milk and has froth and sometimes powdered chocolate on top.
- carhopping — the practice of serving customers at a drive-in restaurant
- catnappers — Plural form of catnapper.
- catnapping — a short, light nap or doze.
- chippering — Present participle of chipper.
- chopped-up — cut into pieces
- choppiness — (of the sea, a lake, etc.) forming short, irregular, broken waves.
- chrysippus — 280–209? b.c, Greek Stoic philosopher.
- clapperboy — a boy who operates a clapper
- clappering — the sound made by using a clapper
- clappy-doo — a large black mussel
- clodhopper — a clumsy person; lout
- copper age — a phase in some human cultures between a Stone Age and a Bronze Age, characterized by the introduction and development of copper tools and weapons: in the Old World this phase is commonly thought of as being part of their Bronze Age
- copperhead — a venomous reddish-brown snake, Agkistrodon contortrix, of the eastern US: family Crotalidae (pit vipers)
- coppermine — river in Nunavut & Northwest Territories, Canada, flowing northwest into the Arctic Ocean: 525 mi (845 km)
- copperskin — a Native American