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11-letter words containing o, p, e, d

  • donner pass — a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada, in E California. 7135 feet (2175 meters) high.
  • donor sperm — sperm which has been voluntarily given for use in the insemination of another person
  • donut peach — fruit
  • door opener — a mechanism that automatically opens a door, as of a garage, when actuated by a radio transmitter, electric eye, or other device.
  • doorkeepers — Plural form of doorkeeper.
  • doorpersons — Plural form of doorperson.
  • doorstepper — a person who goes from door-to-door in order to canvass or interview
  • doorstopper — A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
  • dope addict — Slang. a drug addict.
  • dope pusher — pusher (def 2).
  • 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 jump — Chess. the advance of a pawn, in its original move only, from its initial position on the second rank to the fourth without stopping at the intervening square.
  • double play — a play in which two putouts are made.
  • double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
  • double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
  • double-crop — to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season.
  • 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.
  • double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
  • doublespeak — evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.
  • downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • doxographer — a person who collects the opinions and conjectures of ancient Greek philosophers
  • drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
  • drop behind — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
  • drop cookie — a cookie made by dropping batter from a spoon onto a cookie sheet for baking.
  • drop hammer — drop forge.
  • drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
  • drop rudder — a rudder that can be lowered beneath the level of the bottom of a boat.
  • dropped egg — a poached egg.
  • drug report — (humour)   A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
  • 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.
  • due process — established course of legal proceedings
  • duplex lock — a lock capable of being opened either by a master key or a change key, each operating its own mechanism.
  • dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
  • 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.
  • edrophonium — a substance, C 10 H 16 BrNO, used to reverse certain muscle-relaxing agents, such as tubocurarine, in surgical procedures: also used in the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis.
  • ellipsoidal — Alternative form of ellipsoid.
  • encephaloid — resembling the brain or brain matter
  • encompassed — Simple past tense and past participle of encompass.
  • end product — result of a process
  • end-stopped — (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line
  • endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
  • endophagous — relating to endophagy
  • endoplasmic — (cytology) of, or relating to endoplasm.
  • endospermic — Of, or relating to the endosperm.
  • endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
  • epaminondas — ?418–362 bc, Greek Theban statesman and general: defeated the Spartans at Leuctra (371) and Mantinea (362) and restored power in Greece to Thebes
  • epicycloids — Plural form of epicycloid.
  • epidemology — Misspelling of epidemiology.
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