9-letter words starting with APO

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• apologizeacknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing
• apologiesan expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
• apologisedefend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
• apostolicof or relating to or deriving from the Apostles or their teachings
• apologista person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
• apostatesa disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
• apocrypha14 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
• apodicticof a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
• apologiasa formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
• apoenzymea protein that combines with a coenzyme to form an active enzyme
• apogamies(botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte without fertilization
• apogamousof or relating to the development of an embryo in the absence of fertilization
• apologiae
• apologuesa short moral story (often with animal characters)
• apomicticof or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis
• apophyges
• apophyses(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers
• apophysis(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers
• apotheces
• apotheciaa cuplike ascocarp in many lichens and ascomycetous fungi
• apothegmsa short pithy instructive saying