8-letter words starting with ap
- applique — Applique is the craft of sewing fabric shapes onto larger pieces of cloth. You can also use applique to refer to things you make using this craft.
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- appoints — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of appoint.
- apporter — (obsolete) A bringer in; an importer.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- apposite — Something that is apposite is suitable for or appropriate to what is happening or being discussed.
- appraise — If you appraise something or someone, you consider them carefully and form an opinion about them.
- apprisal — The act of apprising, of making aware, of informing.
- apprised — appraise.
- appriser — a person who appraises
- apprises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprise.
- apprizal — Archaic form of appraisal.
- apprized — Simple past tense and past participle of apprize.
- apprizer — An appraiser.
- apprizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of apprize.
- approach — When you approach something, you get closer to it.
- approval — If you win someone's approval for something that you ask for or suggest, they agree to it.
- approved — An approved method or course of action is officially accepted as appropriate in a particular situation.
- approver — a person who approves
- approves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of approve.
- appulses — Plural form of appulse.
- apractic — a disorder of the nervous system, characterized by an inability to perform purposeful movements, but not accompanied by a loss of sensory function or paralysis.
- apricate — to sunbathe or bask in the sun
- apricity — (obsolete) The warmth of the Sun.
- apricots — Plural form of apricot.
- apronful — the quantity that can be held in an apron
- apsyrtus — a son of Aeëtes, killed by his sister Medea, who, while fleeing with Jason, threw pieces of her brother's body into the sea so that her father, in pursuing her, might be delayed while picking them up.
- apterium — a bare patch on the skin of a bird between the feathered pterylae
- apterous — (of insects) without wings, as silverfish and springtails
- aptitude — Someone's aptitude for a particular kind of work or activity is their ability to learn it quickly and to do it well.
- apuleius — Lucius (ˈluːsɪəs). 2nd century ad, Roman writer, noted for his romance The Golden Ass
- apurimac — a river in S Peru, rising in the Andes and flowing northwest into the Urubamba River. Length: about 885 km (550 miles)
- apurpose — (dialect) on purpose; deliberately.
- apyrases — Plural form of apyrase.
- apyretic — without fever
- apyrexia — absence of fever