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10-letter words containing d, o, p

  • double tap — an act of firing a gun twice in rapid succession
  • double top — a score of double 20
  • double-dip — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • dove prion — a common petrel, Pachyptila desolata, of the southern seas, having a bluish back and white underparts
  • dove prism — a prism that inverts a beam of light, often used in a telescope to produce an erect image.
  • downplayed — Simple past tense and past participle of downplay.
  • downspouts — Plural form of downspout.
  • drainspout — downspout.
  • draw poker — a variety of poker in which a player is dealt five cards and, after an initial bet, may discard usually up to three of these cards and receive replacements from the dealer.
  • dripstones — Plural form of dripstone.
  • droop nose — Aeronautics. a downward-sloping, adjustable aircraft nose, which increases visibility for the pilot during takeoff and landing. an aircraft with this type of nose. an adjustable flap at the leading edge of an aircraft wing.
  • droopiness — The characteristic of being droopy.
  • droopingly — In a drooping manner.
  • drop black — carbon, as animal black or lampblack, formed into pellets by mixing with water or glue: used as a black pigment.
  • drop cable — Wiring between a computer and its Ethernet transceiver. Maximum length if full-spec is 47m.
  • drop cloth — a sheet of cloth, paper, plastic, or the like laid over furniture and floors for protection while a room is being painted or laid over shrubbery while the exterior of a house is being painted.
  • drop elbow — an elbow having lugs for attaching it to a wall or joist.
  • drop forge — a device for forging metal between two dies, one of which is fixed, the other acting by gravity or by steam or hydraulic pressure
  • drop front — fall front.
  • drop press — drop forge.
  • drop scene — a drop curtain, often of painted or dyed canvas, located downstage and used as the backdrop for a scene played while the set upstage is being changed.
  • drop scone — a flat spongy cake made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
  • drop table — a tabletop hinged to a wall, held in a horizontal position by a bracket while in use.
  • drop valve — a valve, as for a steam engine, that drops freely to close.
  • drop-forge — to form in a drop forge.
  • drop-front — designating a desk with a front panel fitted with hinges on its bottom edge so that it can be pivoted forward and down to form a surface for writing
  • drop-panel — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • dropcloths — Plural form of dropcloth.
  • droperidol — a phenothiazine, C 22 H 22 FN 3 O 2 , used as an anesthetic or antiemetic, or for emergency control of severe behavioral disturbance.
  • dropkicked — Simple past tense and past participle of dropkick.
  • dropkicker — One who dropkicks.
  • dropper-in — drop-in (def 1).
  • dropperful — the amount contained in a dropper
  • drosophila — a fly of the genus Drosophila, especially D. melanogaster, used in laboratory studies of genetics and development.
  • drownproof — to teach (a person) the technique of drownproofing.
  • drum corps — a band, especially a marching band, of drum players usually under the direction of a drum major.
  • drupaceous — resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
  • dump orbit — an earth orbit into which communications satellites may be moved at the end of their operational lives, where there is no risk of their interference or collision with working satellites in the normal orbits
  • duopsonies — Plural form of duopsony.
  • duplicator — a machine for making duplicates, as a mimeograph.
  • dyalog apl — (language)   Arguably the current (2001) market-leading implementation of APL, from Dyalog Limited. Dyalog APL runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000; and several popular UNIX systems including Linux. Dyalog APL complies with ISO 8485 and has many features that make it good for complex GUI applications. Dyalog APL was introduced in 1983 and is currently (2002) in active development.
  • dyophysite — the presence of the divine and human natures in Jesus Christ
  • dysmorphia — Deformity or abnormality in the shape or size of a specified part of the body.
  • dysmorphic — relating to or resulting in misshapenness of parts of the body
  • dysprosium — a rare-earth metallic element, highly reactive and paramagnetic, found in small amounts in various rare-earth minerals, as euxenite and monazite: used to absorb neutrons in nuclear reactors. Symbol: Dy; atomic weight: 162.50; atomic number: 66.
  • dysprosody — A disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions of speech are compromised or eliminated completely.
  • dystrophia — Medicine/Medical. faulty or inadequate nutrition or development.
  • dystrophic — Medicine/Medical. pertaining to or caused by dystrophy.
  • dystrophin — a protein, the absence of which is believed to cause muscular dystrophy
  • eavesdrops — Plural form of eavesdrop.
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