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

  • open day — An open day is a day on which members of the public are encouraged to visit a particular school, university, or other institution to see what it is like.
  • open die — a die of flat, concave, or hollow V shape that only minimally restricts lateral flow.
  • 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 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
  • open-air — existing in, taking place in, or characteristic of the open air; outdoor: The orchestra gave three open-air concerts last summer.
  • 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-end — of, relating to, or like an open-end investment company.
  • open-jaw — relating to a ticket that allows a traveller to arrive in one place and depart from another
  • 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.
  • open-web — having a web of zigzag or crisscross lacing.
  • openable — capable of being opened.
  • openbill — Either of two species of bird in the genus Anastomus of the stork family Ciconiidae, with a distinctive gap between the mandibles of the closed bill.
  • opencast — (chiefly, British) Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed.
  • openhole — Openhole describes an uncased (=having no casing or liner) part of a well.
  • 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.
  • openwork — any kind of work, especially ornamental, as of embroidery, lace, metal, stone, or wood, having a latticelike nature or showing openings through its substance.
  • operands — Plural form of operand.
  • operants — Plural form of operant.
  • opinable — thinkable or able to be an opinion
  • opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.
  • oppugned — Simple past tense and past participle of oppugn.
  • oppugner — Someone who oppugns; an opponent.
  • opsonize — to increase the susceptibility of (bacteria) to ingestion by phagocytes.
  • optioned — the power or right of choosing.
  • optionee — a person who acquires or holds a legal option.
  • opulence — wealth, riches, or affluence.
  • orphaned — a child who has lost both parents through death, or, less commonly, one parent.
  • orpiment — a mineral, arsenic trisulfide, As 2 S 3 , found usually in soft, yellow, foliated masses, used as a pigment.
  • osipenko — former name of Berdyansk.
  • outpreen — to exceed in preening
  • outspend — to outdo in spending; spend more than: They seemed determined to outspend their neighbors.
  • outspent — worn-out; exhausted.
  • overplan — to plan excessively
  • overspin — topspin.
  • palinode — a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
  • pancheon — a wide, shallow bowl, originally used for making bread or separating cream
  • pantheon — a national monument in Paris, France, used as a sepulcher for eminent French persons, begun in 1764 by Soufflot as the church of Ste. Geneviève and secularized in 1885.
  • pantofle — a slipper.
  • paranoea — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
  • pardoner — a person who pardons.
  • parergon — something that is an accessory to a main work or subject; embellishment.
  • paste-on — that can be pasted or stuck on: canning jars with paste-on labels.
  • patentor — a person or official agency that grants patents.
  • paterson — a city in NE New Jersey.
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