9-letter words starting with AP
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter AP. This section showcases how AP at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with AP, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| apartment | 13 | a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house | - |
| apologize | 21 | acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | I apologized for being late |
| apologise | 12 | acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing | - |
| appointed | 14 | fixed or established especially by order or command | at the time appointed (or the appointed time) |
| appearing | 14 | formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | - |
| appealing | 14 | (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | - |
| appalling | 14 | causing consternation | appalling conditions |
| apparatus | 13 | equipment designed to serve a specific function | - |
| aphrodite | 15 | goddess of love and beauty and daughter of Zeus in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Venus | - |
| appetizer | 22 | food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | - |
| apprehend | 17 | take into custody | - |
| applicant | 15 | a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission | - |
| appliance | 15 | a device or control that is very useful for a particular job | - |
| apartheid | 15 | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa | - |
| appraised | 14 | - | - |
| apathetic | 16 | marked by a lack of interest | an apathetic audience |
| appraisal | 13 | a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) | - |
| appendage | 15 | a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | - |
| appellant | 13 | of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | - |
| approving | 17 | the formal act of approving | - |
| apostolic | 13 | proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles | - |
| appellate | 13 | of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals) | appellate court |
| appeasing | 14 | intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | the appeasing concessions to the Nazis at Munich |
| appetiser | 13 | food or drink to stimulate the appetite (usually served before a meal or as the first course) | - |
| applecart | 15 | a handcart from which apples and other fruit are sold in the street | - |
| appointee | 13 | a person who is appointed to a job or position | - |
| apocrypha | 21 | 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status | - |
| apologist | 12 | a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | an apologist for capital punishment |
| appraiser | 13 | one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things | - |
| appaloosa | 13 | a hardy breed of saddle horse developed in western North America and characteristically having a spotted rump | - |
| applejack | 26 | distilled from hard cider | - |
| apportion | 13 | give out as one's portion or share | - |
| apprising | 14 | - | - |
| apartness | 11 | - | - |
| apathaton | 14 | - | - |
| apatosaur | 11 | huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic | - |
| aperients | 11 | - | - |
| aperiodic | 14 | not recurring at regular intervals | - |
| aperitifs | 14 | - | - |
| aperitive | 14 | - | - |
| apertness | 11 | - | - |
| apertural | 11 | - | - |
| apertured | 12 | - | - |
| apertures | 11 | - | - |
| apetalies | 11 | - | - |
| apetalous | 11 | (of flowers) having no petals | - |
| aphanites | 14 | - | - |
| aphanitic | 16 | of or relating to aphanite | - |
| aphasiacs | 16 | - | - |
| aphelions | 14 | - | - |
| aphereses | 14 | - | - |
| apheresis | 14 | (linguistics) omission at the beginning of a word as in `coon' for `raccoon' or `till' for `until' | - |
| apheretic | 16 | relating to or formed by or consisting of aphaeresis | - |
| aphetised | 15 | - | - |
| aphetises | 14 | - | - |
| aphetized | 24 | - | - |
| aphetizes | 23 | - | - |
| aphicides | 17 | - | - |
| aphidians | 15 | - | - |
| aphidious | 15 | - | - |
| apholates | 14 | - | - |
| aphorised | 15 | - | - |
| aphoriser | 14 | - | - |
| aphorises | 14 | - | - |
| aphorisms | 16 | - | - |
| aphorists | 14 | - | - |
| aphorized | 24 | - | - |
| aphorizer | 23 | - | - |
| aphorizes | 23 | - | - |
| aphyllies | 17 | - | - |
| aphyllous | 17 | having no leaves | - |
| apiaceous | 13 | - | - |
| apiarians | 11 | - | - |
| apiarists | 11 | - | - |
| apiculate | 13 | (of a leaf shape) having a short sharply pointed tip | - |
| apimanias | 13 | - | - |
| apishness | 14 | - | - |
| apivorous | 14 | feeding on bees | - |
| aplanatic | 13 | free from or corrected for spherical aberration | an aplanatic mirror |
| aplanetic | 13 | - | - |
| aplustres | 11 | - | - |
| apneustic | 13 | - | - |
| apocopate | 15 | - | - |
| apodictic | 16 | of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain | - |
| apoenzyme | 25 | a protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme | - |
| apogamies | 14 | - | - |
| apogamous | 14 | of or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization | - |
| apographs | 17 | - | - |
| apologiae | 12 | - | - |
| apologias | 12 | - | - |
| apologies | 12 | - | - |
| apologues | 12 | - | - |
| apomictic | 17 | (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction | - |
| apophases | 16 | - | - |
| apophasis | 16 | mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned | - |
| apophatic | 18 | of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable') | - |
| apophenia | 16 | - | - |
| apophyges | 20 | - | - |
| apophyses | 19 | - | - |
| apophysis | 19 | (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra | - |
| apoplasts | 13 | - | - |
| apoplexed | 21 | - | - |
| apoplexes | 20 | - | - |
| apoptoses | 13 | - | - |
| apoptosis | 13 | a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival | - |
| apoptotic | 15 | - | - |
| apositias | 11 | - | - |
| aposporic | 15 | - | - |
| apostates | 11 | - | - |
| apostatic | 13 | - | - |
| apostille | 11 | - | - |
| apotheces | 16 | - | - |
| apothecia | 16 | - | - |
| apothegms | 17 | - | - |
| appairing | 14 | - | - |
| appanaged | 15 | - | - |
| appanages | 14 | - | - |
| appareled | 14 | dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination | - |
| apparency | 18 | the property of being apparent | - |
| apparents | 13 | - | - |
| apparitor | 13 | - | - |
| appeached | 19 | - | - |
| appeaches | 18 | - | - |
| appealers | 13 | - | - |
| appearers | 13 | - | - |
| appeasers | 13 | - | - |
| appellees | 13 | - | - |
| appellors | 13 | - | - |
| appendant | 14 | affixed as an appendage | - |
| appendent | 14 | - | - |
| appending | 15 | - | - |
| apperills | 13 | - | - |
| appertain | 13 | be a part or attribute of | - |
| appestats | 13 | - | - |
| appetence | 15 | a feeling of craving something | - |
| appetency | 18 | a feeling of craving something | - |
| appetible | 15 | - | - |
| appetised | 14 | - | - |
| appetises | 13 | - | - |
| appetites | 13 | - | - |
| appetized | 23 | - | - |
| appetizes | 22 | - | - |
| applauded | 15 | - | - |
| applauder | 14 | someone who applauds | - |
| applauses | 13 | - | - |
| appletini | 13 | - | - |
| appliable | 15 | - | - |
| applicate | 15 | - | - |
| appliqued | 23 | - | - |
| appliques | 22 | - | - |
| appointer | 13 | - | - |
| appointor | 13 | - | - |
| apposable | 15 | capable of being placed opposite to something | - |
| appraisee | 13 | - | - |
| appraises | 13 | - | - |
| appressed | 14 | pressed close to or lying flat against something | igneous rocks...closely appressed by this force |
| appresses | 13 | - | - |
| apprisers | 13 | - | - |
| apprizers | 22 | - | - |
| apprizing | 23 | - | - |
| approbate | 15 | accept (documents) as valid | - |
| approvals | 16 | - | - |
| approvers | 16 | - | - |
| appulsive | 16 | - | - |
| apricated | 14 | - | - |
| apricates | 13 | - | - |
| apricocks | 19 | - | - |
| apriorism | 13 | - | - |
| apriorist | 11 | - | - |
| apriority | 14 | - | - |
| apronfuls | 14 | - | - |
| apronlike | 15 | - | - |
| apsarases | 11 | - | - |
| apsidiole | 12 | - | - |
| apterisms | 13 | - | - |
| apteryxes | 21 | - | - |
| aptitudes | 12 | - | - |
| aptnesses | 11 | - | - |
| apyrexias | 21 | - | - |
