11-letter words containing a, p, e
- 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
- 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.
- alkaliphile — Any organism that lives and thrives in an alkaline environment, such as a soda lake; a form of extremophile.
- all ends up — totally or completely
- 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
- allelopathy — the inhibitory effect of one living plant upon another by the release of toxic substances
- allopelagic — living or growing at different depths.
- allopoiesis — Creation of something other than the self. Or creation by something else than the self.
- alpenstocks — Plural form of alpenstock.
- alpha cells — cells in the anterior pituitary that contain acidophil granules
- alpha decay — the radioactive decay process resulting in emission of alpha particles
- alpha helix — a helical conformation of a polypeptide chain, found abundantly in the structure of proteins
- alpha lyrae — Vega1
- alpha-omega — the beginning and the end. Rev. 1:8.
- alpha-waves — a pattern of slow brain waves (alpha waves) in normal persons at rest with closed eyes, thought by some to be associated with an alert but daydreaming mind.
- alphabetise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of alphabetize.
- alphabetize — to arrange in conventional alphabetical order
- alpine ibex — an ibex, Capra ibex, of the Alps and Apennines, having long, heavy horns with transverse ridges.
- altarpieces — Plural form of altarpiece.
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- amblyoscope — an instrument used to train an amblyopic eye to function properly.
- aminophenol — any of three isomeric forms that are soluble crystalline solids, used as a dye intermediate (meta- and ortho-), in dyeing hair, fur, and textiles (ortho- and para-), and as a photographic developer (para-). Formula: C6H4NH2OH
- aminopterin — a derivative of pterin used in chemotherapy
- aminopyrine — a colorless, crystalline powder, C13H17N3O, sometimes used to reduce fever or pain: may cause agranulocytosis
- ampere-hour — a practical unit of quantity of electricity; the quantity that flows in one hour through a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere. 1 ampere-hour is equivalent to 3600 coulombs
- ampere-turn — a unit of magnetomotive force; the magnetomotive force produced by a current of 1 ampere passing through one complete turn of a coil. 1 ampere-turn is equivalent to 4π/10 or 1.257 gilberts
- amperes-law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- amphetamine — Amphetamine is a drug which increases people's energy, makes them excited, and reduces their desire for food.
- amphibolite — a metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphigenous — (of certain parasitic fungi) growing on both sides of leaves.
- amphigories — Plural form of amphigory.
- amphimacers — Plural form of amphimacer.
- amphisbaena — any worm lizard of the genus Amphisbaena
- amphithemis — a son of Apollo and Acacallis.
- ampitheater — Misspelling of amphitheater.
- ampitheatre — Misspelling of amphitheatre.
- amplexicaul — (of some sessile leaves, stipules, etc) having an enlarged base that encircles the stem
- amplifiable — Capable of being amplified.
- amur privet — a northern Chinese shrub, Ligustrum amurense, of the olive family, having hairy leaves and white flowers.