8-letter words containing o
- albumose — any of a class of chemical compounds derived from albumins by the action of certain enzymes, as in digestion
- alcindor — (Ferdinand) Lew(is, Jr.) original name of Abdul-Jabbar.
- alcinous — (in Homer's Odyssey) a Phaeacian king at whose court the shipwrecked Odysseus told of his wanderings
- alcithoe — a daughter of Minyas who was driven mad for mocking Dionysus.
- alcmaeon — a son of Amphiaraus and Eriphyle who commanded the second expedition against Thebes. He killed his mother for sending his father to certain death and was driven mad by the Furies.
- alcohols — Plural form of alcohol.
- alcolock — a breath-alcohol ignition-interlock device fitted to the ignition in certain motor vehicles. The driver must blow into a tube and, if his or her breath contains too much alcohol, a lock is activated to prevent the vehicle starting
- alcopops — Plural form of alcopop.
- alcorcon — city in central Spain, near Madrid: pop. 140,000
- aldolase — an enzyme present in the body that breaks down fructose into triose sugars
- aldoxime — an oxime formed by reaction between hydroxylamine and an aldehyde
- aleatory — dependent on chance
- alehouse — An alehouse is a pub.
- aleurone — finely granulated protein present in seeds generally and forming the outer layer of cereal seeds
- alforjas — Plural form of alforja.
- alfresco — An alfresco activity, especially a meal, is one that takes place in the open air.
- algernon — a masculine name: dim. Algie, Algy
- algol 58 — (language) An early version of ALGOL 60, originally known as "IAL".
- algol 60 — (language) ALGOrithmic Language 1960. A portable language for scientific computations. ALGOL 60 was small and elegant. It was block-structured, nested, recursive and free form. It was also the first language to be described in BNF. There were three lexical representations: hardware, reference, and publication. The only structured data types were arrays, but they were permitted to have lower bounds and could be dynamic. It also had conditional expressions; it introduced :=; if-then-else; very general "for" loops; switch declaration (an array of statement labels generalising Fortran's computed goto). Parameters were call-by-name and call-by-value. It had static local "own" variables. It lacked user-defined types, character manipulation and standard I/O. See also EULER, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 68, Foogol.
- algol 68 — (language) An extensive revision of ALGOL 60 by Adriaan van Wijngaarden et al. ALGOL 68 was discussed from 1963 by Working Group 2.1 of IFIP. Its definition was accepted in December 1968. ALGOL 68 was the first, and still one of very few, programming languages for which a complete formal specification was created before its implementation. However, this specification was hard to understand due to its formality, the fact that it used an unfamiliar metasyntax notation (not BNF) and its unconventional terminology. One of the singular features of ALGOL 68 was its orthogonal design, making for freedom from arbitrary rules (such as restrictions in other languages that arrays could only be used as parameters but not as results). It also allowed user defined data types, then an unheard-of feature. It featured structural equivalence; automatic type conversion ("coercion") including dereferencing; flexible arrays; generalised loops (for-from-by-to-while-do-od), if-then-else-elif-fi, an integer case statement with an 'out' clause (case-in-out-esac); skip and goto statements; blocks; procedures; user-defined operators; procedure parameters; concurrent execution (par-begin-end); semaphores; generators "heap" and "loc" for dynamic allocation. It had no abstract data types or separate compilation.
- algology — the branch of biology concerned with the study of algae
- algonkin — Algonquin
- algorism — the Arabic or decimal system of counting
- aliakmon — a river in N Greece. 200 miles (322 km) long: longest river in Greece.
- alienors — Plural form of alienor.
- alinotum — the plate to which the wings are attached on the notum of an insect.
- aliquote — Misspelling of aliquot.
- aliquots — Plural form of aliquot.
- alive to — fully aware of; perceiving
- alkaloid — any of a group of nitrogenous basic compounds found in plants, typically insoluble in water and physiologically active. Common examples are morphine, strychnine, quinine, nicotine, and caffeine
- alkapton — homogentisic acid.
- alkoxide — a compound formed by the removal of a proton from an alcohol
- all gone — finished, used up
- all over — All over a place means in every part of it.
- all told — You can use all told to introduce or follow a summary, general statement, or total.
- all-over — upper; higher up.
- allegory — An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
- allegros — Plural form of allegro.
- allision — the striking of one ship by another.
- allmouth — angler (def 3).
- allocate — If one item or share of something is allocated to a particular person or for a particular purpose, it is given to that person or used for that purpose.
- allocher — any of the variant forms of a chereme.
- allocute — (chiefly, US, legal) To make an allocution.
- allodial — (of land) held as an allodium
- allodium — lands held in absolute ownership, free from such obligations as rent or services due to an overlord
- allogamy — cross-fertilization in flowering plants
- allomone — a chemical substance secreted externally by certain animals, such as insects, affecting the behaviour or physiology of another species detrimentally
- allopath — a person who practises or is skilled in allopathy
- allosaur — any large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the genus Antrodemus (formerly Allosaurus), common in North America in late Jurassic times: suborder Theropoda (theropods)
- allosome — A sex chromosome that differs from an ordinary autosome in form, size, or behaviour.