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8-letter words containing n, s, p

  • moonship — a lunar module
  • mopiness — languishing, listless, droopy, or glum.
  • nauplius — (in many crustaceans) a larval form with three pairs of appendages and a single median eye, occurring usually as the first stage of development after leaving the egg.
  • neapolis — a port in E Greece, in Macedonia East and Thrace region on the Bay of Kaválla an important Macedonian fortress of the Byzantine empire; ceded to Greece by Turkey after the Balkan War (1912–13). Pop: 58 576 (1991)
  • necropsy — the examination of a body after death; autopsy.
  • neoplasm — a new, often uncontrolled growth of abnormal tissue; tumor.
  • neotypes — Plural form of neotype.
  • nepalese — of or relating to Nepal, its inhabitants, or their language.
  • nephrism — chronic kidney disease, renal failure
  • nephrons — Plural form of nephron.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • news peg — a news story that forms the basis of or justification for a feature story, editorial, political cartoon, or the like.
  • newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • newspeak — (sometimes initial capital letter) an official or semiofficial style of writing or saying one thing in the guise of its opposite, especially in order to serve a political or ideological cause while pretending to be objective, as in referring to “increased taxation” as “revenue enhancement.”.
  • 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.
  • ninepins — (used with a singular verb) tenpins played without the head pin.
  • nishapur — a town in NE Iran: the birthplace of Omar Khayyám.
  • nol-pros — to end by a nolle prosequi.
  • non-stop — being without a single stop en route: a nonstop bus; a nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
  • nonstops — Plural form of nonstop.
  • notepads — Plural form of notepad.
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • nuptials — of or relating to marriage or the marriage ceremony: the nuptial day; nuptial vows.
  • nutpicks — Plural form of nutpick.
  • 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 sea — the main body of a sea or ocean, especially the part that is outside territorial waters and not enclosed, or partially enclosed, by land.
  • open set — a set which is not a closed set
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openings — Plural form of opening.
  • openness — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
  • openside — (rugby), the space on the side of the pitch with the larger distance between the breakdown/set piece and the touchline; compare blindside.
  • 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.
  • operands — Plural form of operand.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • opinicus — a heraldic monster having the head, neck, and wings of an eagle, the body of a lion, and the tail of a bear.
  • opinions — Plural form of opinion.
  • oppidans — Plural form of oppidan.
  • opposing — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
  • opsonify — to facilitate phagocytosis of (a microorganism, as a bacterium) by treatment with opsonin.
  • opsonins — Plural form of opsonin.
  • opsonium — any food used as a relish, such as chutney
  • opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
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