English Words: A

Abbreviation of assists per game.

appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)

A partial or total loss of language skills due to brain damage. Usually, damage to the left perisylvian region, including Broca's area and Wernicke's area, causes aphasia.

A sap-sucking insect pest of the superfamily Aphidoidea; an aphidian.

An aphid.

A concise expression of a principle in an area of knowledge; an axiom, a precept.

Arousing or intensifying sexual desire.

The goddess of beauty and love, born when Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea.

Initialism of active pharmaceutical ingredient.

The capital city of Samoa.

A place where bees and their hives are kept.

Of or connected with the apex.

Each by itself; for or to each one.

present participle and gerund of ape

An APK file, or an Android app distributed via APK files.

Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia.

In a generous or overlarge quantity.

Self-confidence; poise; composure.

Initialism of arbitrage pricing model.

The cessation of breathing, most often in reference to transient instances thereof during sleep.

A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events.

Of or relating to an apocalypse:

plural of apocryphon

Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha.

The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is farthest from the Earth: the apoapsis of an Earth orbiter.

Any polypeptide or protein that can serve as an apoprotein by binding with a lipid to form a lipoprotein.

Having no interest or involvement in politics.

A very handsome young man.

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

A figure of the early Christian church, mentioned in the Book of Acts and the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

Having the character of apology; regretfully excusing.

In an apologetic manner; by way of defense, apology or excuse.

The field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrines.

A written defense of a position or belief.

plural of apology

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of apologize.

One who makes an apology.

To make an apology or excuse; to acknowledge some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it, by way of amends

The act of making an apology.

An expression of remorse or regret for having said or done something that harmed another: an instance of apologizing (saying that one is sorry).

Of or relating to apoplexy.

Unconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.

A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.

The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.

Guilty of apostasy.

A missionary, or leader of a religious mission, especially one in the early Christian Church (but see Apostle).

The office, or responsibilities of an apostle.

Pertaining to apostles or their practice or teaching; pertaining to the apostles (of early Christianity) or their teachings.

The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

Synonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially (historical) one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.