0%

11-letter words containing p, o, i, r

  • dirty power — Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits).
  • disapproval — the act or state of disapproving; a condemnatory feeling, look, or utterance; censure: stern disapproval.
  • disapproved — Simple past tense and past participle of disapprove.
  • disapprover — One who disapproves.
  • disapproves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disapprove.
  • disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
  • discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
  • discography — a selective or complete list of phonograph recordings, typically of one composer, performer, or conductor.
  • discophoran — a member of the Discophora group
  • disempowers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disempower.
  • disimprison — to release from imprisonment.
  • diskography — discography.
  • dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
  • dispersions — Plural form of dispersion.
  • disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • disproperty — to deprive of property
  • disprovable — to prove (an assertion, claim, etc.) to be false or wrong; refute; invalidate: I disproved his claim.
  • disprovided — Simple past tense and past participle of disprovide.
  • disruptions — Plural form of disruption.
  • diterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C20 skeleton.
  • dittography — reduplication of letters or syllables in writing, printing, etc., usually through error.
  • do a perish — to die or come near to dying of thirst or starvation
  • do up right — to do carefully or thoroughly
  • dorsispinal — of or relating to the back and the spine.
  • 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.
  • downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
  • drill corps — drill team.
  • drip coffee — a beverage prepared in a vessel in which boiling water filters from a top compartment through the coffee into a pot below.
  • dromophobia — an irrational fear of crossing roads
  • drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
  • drop a line — send a message
  • 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 siding — weatherboarding having its upper edges narrowed to fit into grooves or rabbets in its lower edges, and its backs flat against the sheathing or studs of the wall.
  • drop window — a window with a sash that slides into a space below the sill.
  • drosophilas — Plural form of drosophila.
  • duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
  • dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
  • east peoria — a city in central Illinois, near Peoria.
  • ectomorphic — having a thin body build, roughly characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic ectoderm (contrasted with endomorphic, mesomorphic).
  • ectotrophic — (of a mycorrhiza) growing outside the root or between the cells.
  • 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.
  • emancipator — A person who emancipates.
  • emperorship — The rank or office of an emperor.
  • endomorphic — Of or pertaining to an endomorph.
  • endospermic — Of, or relating to the endosperm.
  • endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
  • epimorphism — (category theory) A morphism p such that for any other pair of morphisms f and g, if f \\circ p = g \\circ p, then f = g.
  • epiplastron — a lateral plate in the plastron of a turtle
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?