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8-letter words containing n, e, p, t

  • inputter — One who, or that which, inputs.
  • inspects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of inspect.
  • interpel — (transitive, obsolete) To interrupt, break in upon, or intercede with.
  • interpol — an official international agency that coordinates the police activities of more than 100 member nations: organized in 1923 with headquarters in Paris.
  • intrepid — resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer.
  • keep nit — to keep watch, esp during illegal activity
  • lapstone — A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers used to beat leather.
  • leptonic — Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
  • linctape — (storage)   A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
  • linotype — to typeset on a Linotype machine.
  • meneptah — Merneptah.
  • misspent — spent wrongly or unwisely; wasted: misspent youth.
  • monotype — the only print made from a metal or glass plate on which a picture is painted in oil color, printing ink, or the like.
  • nametape — a fabric tape on which a person's name is written, woven, or printed: for affixing to garments and other personal belongings to identify ownership.
  • nectopod — (in certain mollusks) an appendage modified for swimming.
  • neophyte — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • nepenthe — a drug or drink, or the plant yielding it, mentioned by ancient writers as having the power to bring forgetfulness of sorrow or trouble.
  • nephrite — Mineralogy. a compact or fibrous variety of actinolite, varying from whitish to dark green: a form of jade.
  • nephtali — Naphtali.
  • nepotism — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • nepotist — patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of family relationship, as in business and politics: She was accused of nepotism when she made her nephew an officer of the firm.
  • net play — play made from a position close to the net
  • netphone — A telephone that connects through the internet.
  • netpipes — (networking)   A package by Robert Forsman <[email protected]> to manipulate BSD Unix TCP/IP stream sockets. The netpipes package makes TCP/IP streams usable in shell scripts. It can also simplify client-server code by allowing the programmer to skip all the tedious programming related to sockets and concentrate on writing a filter/service.
  • netscape — 1. Netscape Navigator. 2. Netscape Communications Corporation.
  • netspeak — internet jargon
  • netsplit — netburp
  • nextstep — (operating system)   The original multitasking operating system that NeXT, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an interface builder, object-oriented application builder, and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT, 486, Pentium, HP-PA, and Sun SPARC computers. The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then developed into "OpenStep". See also: GNUStep.
  • nonempty — (of a set, group, collection, etc.) containing at least one element.
  • nonuplet — One of a group of nine, especially such a multiple birth.
  • notepads — Plural form of notepad.
  • nut pine — piñon (def 1).
  • nymphets — a young nymph.
  • one-spot — the upward face of a die bearing one pip or a domino one half of which bears one pip.
  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
  • open cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open out — lead to wider area
  • open pit — An open pit is a mine where the coal, metal, or minerals are near the surface and underground passages are not needed.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • open-cut — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which coal and other flat-lying mineral deposits are removed by the excavation of long, narrow trenches.
  • open-pit — noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
  • open-top — An open-top bus has no roof, so that the people sitting on the top level can see or be seen more easily. An open-top car has no roof or has a roof that can be removed.
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openstep — (operating system)   An object-oriented application programming interface (API) derived from NEXTSTEP and proposed as an open standard by NeXT in 1994. OpenStep is the specification of the object kits of NEXTSTEP. OPENSTEP/Mach was an implementation of this specification. The original, OPENSTEP version 4.0, and really was NEXTSTEP 4. Rhapsody was the codename for Apple's Mac OS X Server, which is really NEXTSTEP 5 (it calls itself "kernel 5.3" at boot time). OpenStep was designed to be implemented independently of the computer's operating system, hardware, and user interface. The API for Rhapsody will be a superset of OpenStep's. When the OpenStep API is implemented for a specific platform and made into a product, it is written in uppercase, e.g. OPENSTEP Developer 4.2 for Mach, or OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows NT and Windows 95. Versions of OPENSTEP exist for Windows 95/NT, Solaris, HP/UX, and Mach.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
  • optioned — the power or right of choosing.
  • optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
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