11-letter words containing d, o, l, a, r
- modularized — having been made modular or relating to the use of modular concepts or forms
- molendinary — a mill
- molly-guard — /mol'ee-gard/ [University of Illinois] A shield to prevent tripping of some Big Red Switch by clumsy or ignorant hands. Originally used of the plexiglass covers improvised for the BRS on an IBM 4341 after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) frobbed it twice in one day. Later generalised to covers over stop/reset switches on disk drives and networking equipment.
- montbéliard — an industrial town in E France: former capital of the duchy of Burgundy. Pop: 27 570 (1999)
- morcellated — Simple past tense and past participle of morcellate.
- mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
- mortal mind — the illusion that mind and life arise from matter and are subject to death. Compare mind (def 19).
- motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
- mustard oil — oil expressed from the seed of mustard, used chiefly in making soap.
- narcodollar — Usually, narcodollars. money obtained through illegal drug trafficking.
- nasal drops — Nasal drops are medicine that you put directly in your nose one drop at a time.
- non-radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- non-related — associated; connected.
- nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
- nonrailroad — not using or involving a railroad
- nonreadable — unreadable.
- normal mode — an oscillation of a mechanical system in which all particles move with the same frequency and phase.
- northlander — the land or region in the north.
- northwardly — Northwards, towards the north.
- notochordal — Of or pertaining to the notochord.
- obliterated — to remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
- octachordal — having or consisting of eight notes or eight strings
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- old iranian — any of the Iranian languages spoken or written until the first century a.d.
- old persian — an ancient West Iranian language attested by cuneiform inscriptions. Abbreviation: OPers.
- old russian — Russian as used in documents before 1600. Abbreviation: ORuss.
- old scratch — the devil; Satan.
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- pearl danio — a slender iridescent tropical cyprinid, Brachydanio albolineatus, from parts of southeast Asia: a popular freshwater aquarium fish.
- pedal power — use of a cycle
- 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
- placeholder — Mathematics, Logic. a symbol in an expression that may be replaced by the name of any element of the set.
- plateholder — a lightproof container for a photographic plate, loaded into the camera with the plate and having a slide that is removed before exposing.