6-letter words containing o, p, e
- mopeds — Plural form of moped.
- mopery — mopish behavior.
- mopier — mopey.
- mopoke — (chiefly AU) A morepork. (from 19th c.).
- mopped — a wry face; grimace.
- mopper — One who mops.
- moppet — a young child.
- morphe — (archaic) alternative spelling of morphew.
- myopes — Plural form of myope.
- nepho- — concerning cloud or clouds
- one-up — to get the better of; succeed in being a point, move, step, etc., ahead of (someone): They one-upped the competition.
- opaled — made like an opal, in terms of iridescence
- opaque — not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.
- opcode — (computing) A mnemonic used to refer to a microprocessor instruction in assembly language.
- opened — 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.
- opener — a person or thing that opens.
- opengl — Open Graphics Library
- openly — 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.
- operas — Plural form of opera.
- operon — a set of two or more adjacent cistrons whose transcription is under the coordinated control of a promoter, an operator, and a regulator gene.
- ophite — a diabase in which elongate crystals of plagioclase are embedded in pyroxene.
- opiate — a drug containing opium or its derivatives, used in medicine for inducing sleep and relieving pain.
- opined — Simple past tense and past participle of opine.
- opines — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of opine.
- oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
- optate — (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- optime — (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler (def 2).
- orpine — a plant, Sedum telephium, of the stonecrop family, having purplish flowers.
- osprey — Also called fish hawk. a large hawk, Pandion haliaetus, that feeds on fish.
- oupire — A vampire.
- p-code — (language) The intermediate language produced by the Pascal-P compiler. P-code is the assembly language for a hypothetical stack machine, the P-machine, said to imitate the instruction set of the Burroughs 6700. The term was first used in the Wirth reference below. Byte articles on writing a Pascal Compiler in Northstar BASIC (ca Aug 1978) also used the term. P-code was initially the intermediate code generated by the P2 compiler from ETH Zurich. P-code was later used as the intermediate language in the UCSD Pascal System, and in its two main derivatives, Apple Pascal and the UCSD P-system. Variants: P2 P-code, P4 P-code, UCSD P-code, LASL P-code.
- paedo- — indicating a child or children
- paleo- — the Old World
- pareto — Vilfredo [veel-fre-daw] /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/ (Show IPA), 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.
- parole — language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language (contrasted with langue).
- parore — a dark brownish-green fish, Girella tricuspidata of coastal and estuarine waters in New Zealand's North Island and Australia
- pavone — a peacock
- peapod — the part of a pea plant that surrounds the growing peas
- pedalo — pedal boat
- pedion — a crystal form having only a single face, without a symmetrical equivalent: unique to the triclinic system.
- peepbo — Peepbo is a game you play with babies in which you cover your face with your hands or hide behind something and then suddenly show your face, saying 'peepbo'.
- pegbox — the widened end of the neck of a stringed instrument, to which the tuning pegs are fixed.
- pelion — Mount, a mountain near the E coast of Greece, in Thessaly. 5252 feet (1600 meters).
- peloid — mud used therapeutically.
- pelops — Classical Mythology. a son of Tantalus and Dione, slaughtered by his father and served to the Olympians as food; Hermes restored him to life and he later ruled over southern Greece, which was called Peloponnesus after him.
- pelory — floral mutation
- pelota — a Basque and Spanish game from which jai alai was developed.
- pennon — a distinctive flag in any of various forms, as tapering, triangular, or swallow-tailed, formerly one borne on the lance of a knight.
- people — persons indefinitely or collectively; persons in general: to find it easy to talk to people; What will people think?
- peoria — a city in central Illinois, on the Illinois River.