7-letter words containing d, p
- lycopod — any erect or creeping, mosslike, evergreen plant of the genus Lycopodium, as the club moss or ground pine.
- lymphad — an ancient rowing boat with one mast
- made-up — concocted; falsely fabricated or invented: a made-up story.
- mandapa — (in south India, architecture) A pillared hall or porch fronting a Hindu temple. It may be attached or detached from the building.
- medigap — (sometimes initial capital letter) private health insurance that supplements coverage for people already covered by government insurance.
- megapod — Megapode.
- mendips — a range of limestone hills in SW England, in N Somerset: includes the Cheddar Gorge and numerous caves. Highest point: 325 m (1068 ft)
- mid-cap — designating a company, or a mutual fund that invests in companies, with a market capitalization of between $1 billion and $5 billion.
- midship — in or belonging to the middle part of a ship.
- midstep — During a step.
- mindmap — Alternative spelling of mind map.
- mispaid — Simple past tense and past participle of mispay.
- monopod — a single-legged support used to steady a handheld camera.
- mophead — Alternative spelling of mop head.
- morphed — Linguistics. a sequence of phonemes constituting a minimal unit of grammar or syntax, and, as such, a representation, member, or contextual variant of a morpheme in a specific environment. Compare allomorph (def 2).
- mud map — a map drawn on the ground with a stick, or any other roughly drawn map
- mud pie — Mississippi mud pie: chocolate dessert
- mud pit — A mud pit is a large tank that holds mud used as a drilling fluid.
- mud pot — a hot spring filled with boiling mud. Compare paint pot (def 2).
- mudflap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
- mudlump — a small, short-lived island of clay or silt that forms within a river delta.
- mudpack — a pastelike preparation, as one consisting of fuller's earth, astringents, etc., used on the face as a cosmetic restorative.
- nippled — Having a nipple or nipples.
- nondrip — to let drops fall; shed drops: This faucet drips.
- nonpaid — a simple past tense and past participle of pay1 .
- nord pl — Intermediate language for Norsk Data computers. Sintran III, the operating system of the ND 10 (late 1970's), was written in NORD PL.
- notepad — a pad of blank pages for writing notes.
- np-hard — (complexity) A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in class NP in polynomial time. Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called "NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NP problem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomial time, you could solve all NP problems. See also computational complexity.
- octopod — any eight-armed cephalopod mollusk of the order or suborder Octopoda, including the octopuses and paper nautiluses.
- oedipal — of, characterized by, or resulting from the Oedipus complex.
- oedipus — a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
- op code — operation code
- opaqued — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- openbsd — (operating system) A version of BSD Unix with an emphasis on security. A lot of security work that is ported to other free operating systems originates with OpenBSD and a lot of code review is done here. Sub-projects of OpenBSD include implementations of SSH, ntpd, and CVS, to be called OpenCVS.
- opendoc — (operating system) A compound document architecture from CIL based on CORBA. It aims to enable embedding of features from different application programs into a single working document.
- operand — a quantity upon which a mathematical operation is performed.
- opiated — Simple past tense and past participle of opiate.
- opioids — Plural form of opioid.
- oppidan — of a town; urban.
- oppidum — A large, defended Iron Age settlement associated with the Celtic La Tène culture.
- opposed — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- outplod — to exceed in plodding
- outsped — rapidity in moving, going, traveling, proceeding, or performing; swiftness; celerity: the speed of light; the speed of sound.
- pad out — written piece: add words
- pad saw — a small compass saw with a pad.
- paddies — a rice field.
- padding — a dull, muffled sound, as of footsteps on the ground.
- paddler — a short, flat bladed oar for propelling and steering a canoe or small boat, usually held by both hands and moved more or less through a vertical arc.
- paddock — Archaic. a frog or toad.
- padella — a type of candle