11-letter words containing a, d, o, l
- operculated — relating to the operculum
- oracle card — (tool) A Hypercard-like product from Oracle for constructing database applications. It runs on IBM PC and Macintosh.
- ordeal bean — Calabar bean.
- ordeal tree — any of several trees having poisonous seeds, leaves, etc., used in primitive trials by ordeal.
- orland park — a town in NE Illinois.
- orthodontal — the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention and correction of irregular teeth, as by means of braces.
- osteodermal — characterized by osteoderms
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- oval window — an oval opening at the head of the cochlea, connecting the middle and inner ear, through which sound vibrations of the stapes are transmitted.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- overloading — (language) (Or "Operator overloading"). Use of a single symbol to represent operators with different argument types, e.g. "-", used either, as a monadic operator to negate an expression, or as a dyadic operator to return the difference between two expressions. Another example is "+" used to add either integers or floating-point numbers. Overloading is also known as ad-hoc polymorphism. User-defined operator overloading is provided by several modern programming languages, e.g. C++'s class system and the functional programming language Haskell's type classes. Ad-hoc polymorphism (better described as overloading) is the ability to use the same syntax for objects of different types, e.g. "+" for addition of reals and integers or "-" for unary negation or diadic subtraction. Parametric polymorphism allows the same object code for a function to handle arguments of many types but overloading only reuses syntax and requires different code to handle different types.
- overplaided — (of a garment) covered with a design consisting of an overplaid
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- oxalic acid — a white, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous acid, H 2 C 2 O 4 ⋅2H 2 O, first discovered in the juice of the wood sorrel species of oxalis and obtained by reacting carbon monoxide with sodium hydroxide or certain carbohydrates with acids or alkalis: used chiefly for bleaching, as a cleanser, and as a laboratory reagent.
- oxidatively — by an oxidative process
- oxyaldehyde — an aldehyde containing the hydroxyl group.
- paddle boat — small boat with pedals
- paddle worm — any of a family of green-blue faintly iridescent active marine polychaete worms of the genus Phyllodoce, having paddle-shaped swimming lobes, found under stones on the shore
- paddleboard — a type of surfboard with one end rounded and the other tapered to a point, used chiefly in surfing and often in lifesaving.
- paedophilia — Paedophilia is sexual activity with children or the condition of being sexually attracted to children.
- palindromic — a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop.
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- paradoxical — having the nature of a paradox; self-contradictory.
- parlourmaid — In former times, a parlourmaid was a female servant in a private house whose job involved serving people at table.
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- payload bay — cargo bay.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pedagogical — of or relating to a pedagogue or pedagogy.
- pedal piano — a piano having a pedal keyboard of 29 notes and connected with an action placed at the back where a special soundboard, covered with 29 strings, is built into the case.
- pedal point — a sustained bass note, over which the other parts move bringing about changing harmonies
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- pedological — the scientific study of the nature and development of children.
- pedophiliac — pedophile.
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- petrodollar — profits made from oil exports
- phylloclade — a flattened stem or branch having the function of a leaf.
- pina colada — a tall mixed drink of rum, cream of coconut, pineapple juice, and ice usually frappéed in a blender.
- pineal body — (formerly) the pineal gland.
- piston land — A piston land is a raised area of a piston between piston rings.
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plasmodesma — any of many minute strands of cytoplasm that extend through plant cell walls and connect adjoining cells.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.
- play around — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- play doctor — a person, usually a professional playwright, employed to improve a script, especially shortly before the play's opening.
- pleurodynia — pain in the chest or side.
- polkadotted — a dot or round spot (printed, woven, or embroidered) repeated to form a pattern on a textile fabric.
- polling day — date of election voting