11-letter words containing d, o, a, n
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- outbalanced — Simple past tense and past participle of outbalance.
- outdazzling — Present participle of outdazzles.
- outdistance — to leave behind, as in running; outstrip: The winning horse outdistanced the second-place winner by five lengths.
- outdoorsman — a person devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities, as hiking, hunting, fishing, or camping.
- outstanding — prominent; conspicuous; striking: an outstanding example of courage.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- 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-demand — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
- over-expand — to increase in extent, size, volume, scope, etc.: Heat expands most metals. He hopes to expand his company.
- over-handle — a part of a thing made specifically to be grasped or held by the hand.
- overdrawing — Present participle of overdraw.
- 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.
- overplanned — resulting from overplanning
- oxidization — the process or result of oxidizing.
- oxygen acid — oxyacid.
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- paedodontic — of or relating to paedodontics
- 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.
- pandemonian — a noisy and disorderly person
- pandemonium — wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.
- pantalooned — wearing pantaloons
- paper round — job delivering newspapers
- paper-bound — a book bound in a flexible paper cover, often a lower-priced edition of a hardcover book.
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- parent body — an organization's parent body is the organization that created it and usually still controls it
- parodontium — periodontium.
- parson bird — tui.
- pass around — distribute, circulate
- passiontide — the two-week period from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- payday loan — A payday loan is a small personal cash loan at a very high interest rate, secured by the borrower's next paycheck.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- 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
- pedantocrat — a pedantic ruler
- pentagonoid — like a pentagon in shape.
- pentahedron — a solid figure having five faces.
- pentandrous — of or pertaining to the order of plants Pentandria, characterized by having five stamens
- pentaploidy — the condition of being pentaploid
- pentastomid — tongue worm.
- perduration — the act of lasting forever or enduring continually; the capacity to endure indefinitely
- perigordian — of, relating to, or characteristic of an Upper Paleolithic cultural epoch in southern France, especially of the Périgord region.
- period pain — Period pain is the pain that some women have when they have a monthly period.
- periodontal — of or relating to the periodontium.
- periodontia — the bone, connective tissue, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth.
- personal ad — of, relating to, or coming as from a particular person; individual; private: a personal opinion.
- 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.
- pioneer day — a legal holiday in Utah on July 24 to commemorate Brigham Young's founding of Salt Lake City in 1847.