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11-letter words containing d, p, a, r

  • dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
  • dotted pair — (programming)   The usual LISP syntax for representing a cons cell that is not a list. For example, the expression (cons 'foo 42) returns a cons cell that is output as (foo . 42) which represents a cons cell whose car is the symbol "foo" and whose cdr is the integer 42.
  • double-park — If someone double-parks their car or their car double-parks, they park in a road by the side of another parked car.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
  • drag-n-drop — (spelling)   Stupid spelling of drag and drop.
  • drapability — to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
  • draw stumps — to close play, as by pulling out the stumps
  • draw trumps — to play the trump suit until the opponents have none left
  • drawing pen — a pen with a fine nib used for drawing
  • drawing pin — a thumbtack.
  • dreamscapes — Plural form of dreamscape.
  • drift apart — separate gradually
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • drop anchor — secure a ship in place
  • drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
  • drop cannon — a shot in which the first object ball joins or gathers with the cue ball and the other object ball, esp at the top of the table
  • drop hammer — drop forge.
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • dry compass — a compass having a compass card mounted on pivots.
  • dry shampoo — a product in powder or spray form that you can use to clean hair without wetting it
  • dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • duplicature — a folding or doubling of a part on itself, as a membrane.
  • dynamograph — a device for registering the quantity of force applied
  • dyspareunia — painful coitus.
  • edp auditor — (job)   A person who analyses system functions and operations to determine adequate security and controls. An EDP analyst evaluates systems and operational procedures and reports findings to senior management. He writes ad hoc report programs using 4GLs and specialised audit software.
  • escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
  • espadrilles — Plural form of espadrille.
  • exasperated — Simple past tense and past participle of exasperate.
  • expatriated — Simple past tense and past participle of expatriate.
  • expiry date — the date on which something comes to an end, can no longer be used, or is no longer safe to be eaten
  • face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
  • fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
  • frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
  • garden path — paved walkway
  • garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
  • garden-path — noting or pertaining to a sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly because its beginning suggests it has an interpretation that it clearly does not have.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
  • grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
  • graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
  • grand opera — a serious, usually tragic, opera in which most of the text is set to music.
  • grand piano — a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.
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