11-letter words containing a, p, i
- 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.
- aleppo pine — a pine tree, Pinus halepensis, native to the Mediterranean area, that is planted as an ornamental and is a source of turpentine.
- 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.
- all up with — over; finished
- allographic — Relating to allographs or allography.
- allomorphic — any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
- allopelagic — living or growing at different depths.
- allophylian — (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.
- alloplastic — of or relating to alterations made to a patient's external circumstances for the purpose of affecting his mental condition
- allopoiesis — Creation of something other than the self. Or creation by something else than the self.
- allopurinol — a synthetic drug that reduces blood concentrations of uric acid and is administered orally in the treatment of gout. Formula: C5H4N4O
- allotropism — a property of certain elements, as carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus, of existing in two or more distinct forms; allomorphism.
- alpha cygni — Deneb
- alpha helix — a helical conformation of a polypeptide chain, found abundantly in the structure of proteins
- alpha tauri — Aldebaran
- 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.
- alto-phobia — an abnormal fear of heights; acrophobia.
- amateurship — the nature of an amateur
- amaxophobia — Fear of riding in a vehicle.
- amici prism — a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam.
- amino group — the univalent group, −NH 2 .
- 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
- ammophilous — (of organisms) living or growing in sand
- amniography — an x-ray examination of the amniotic sac after the injection of an opaque solution, performed to permit visualization of the umbilical cord and the placenta.
- amphetamine — Amphetamine is a drug which increases people's energy, makes them excited, and reduces their desire for food.
- amphibiotic — having an aquatic larval form and a terrestrial adult form, as amphibians
- amphibolite — a metamorphic rock consisting mainly of amphibole and plagioclase
- amphibology — ambiguity of expression, esp when due to a grammatical construction, as in save rags and waste paper
- amphibolous — ambiguous or equivocal, especially when due to the uncertain grammatical construction of a word or phrase.
- amphibrachs — Plural form of amphibrach.
- amphicelous — concave on both sides, as the bodies of the vertebrae of fishes.
- amphichiral — (mathematics) superimposable on its mirror image; achiral.
- amphichroic — producing two colours, one on reacting with an acid, the other on reacting with a base
- amphicrania — (pathology) A headache affecting both sides of the head.