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16-letter words containing p, o, r

  • non-sporting dog — one of any of several breeds of variously sized dogs that may have been developed to hunt or work but now are usually bred for show or as a pet, including the Bichon Frise, bulldog, dalmatian, chow chow, keeshond, and poodle.
  • non-spuriousness — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
  • noncorresponding — That does not correspond (to something else).
  • nonparticipating — (of a person or thing) not participating: No penalties were given to nonparticipating students.
  • nonparticipation — absence of participation: Nonparticipation of citizens in political matters hampers efforts toward better government.
  • nonprofessionals — Plural form of nonprofessional.
  • nonproliferation — the action or practice of curbing or controlling an excessive, rapid spread: nonproliferation of nuclear weapons.
  • nonreciprocating — Not reciprocating; not responding in kind.
  • north massapequa — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
  • north palm beach — a town in E Florida.
  • north plainfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • north providence — a town in NE Rhode Island.
  • northamptonshire — a county in central England. 914 sq. mi. (2365 sq. km).
  • nuclear envelope — the double membrane surrounding the nucleus within a cell.
  • objective spirit — the human spirit, insofar as it has become capable of a rational identification of its individual self with the community of other spirits but is not yet capable of the identification with the absolute idea that characterizes the absolute spirit.
  • observation post — a forward position, often on high ground, from which enemy activity can be observed and, particularly, from which artillery or mortar fire can be directed.
  • obstreperousness — resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly.
  • occipitotemporal — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
  • occupation layer — (on an archaeological site) a layer of remains left by a single culture, from which the culture can be dated or identified.
  • october surprise — a major event, occurring shortly before a presidential election, which influences the result
  • odontoid process — the toothlike upward projection at the back of the second vertebra of the neck
  • oesophagogastric — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the oesophagus and the stomach.
  • on the scrapheap — (of people or things) having outlived their usefulness
  • on your doorstep — If a place is on your doorstep, it is very near to where you live. If something happens on your doorstep, it happens very close to where you live.
  • onboard computer — onboard a vehicle, ship, plane, train or spacecraft
  • one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
  • opaque projector — a machine for projecting opaque objects, as books, on a screen, by means of reflected light.
  • open parenthesis — left parenthesis
  • open scholarship — a scholarship which anyone can apply for
  • open-die forging — Open-die forging is a forging process in which the flow of metal is not kept completely in the die.
  • opening ceremony — a ceremony held in celebration of the start of something
  • operating budget — money allocated to a project
  • operating income — revenue from business operations after operating expenses are deducted from gross income.
  • operating manual — a leaflet of instructions on how to use something (such as an electrical appliance, etc)
  • operating margin — An operating margin is a ratio used to measure how well a company controls its costs, that is calculated by dividing operating income by net sales, and expressing it as a percentage.
  • operating profit — the profit of a company, etc, after it deducts its operating costs or the costs necessary to conduct the business
  • operating system — (operating system)   (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
  • operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
  • operationalizing — Present participle of operationalize.
  • ophthalmoparesis — (medicine) A partial or complete paralysis of the extraocular muscles which are responsible for eye movements.
  • opportunity cost — the money or other benefits lost when pursuing a particular course of action instead of a mutually-exclusive alternative: The company cannot afford the opportunity cost attached to policy decisions made by the current CEO.
  • opportunity shop — a shop selling second-hand goods for charitable funds
  • opposed-cylinder — (of an internal-combustion engine) having cylinders on opposite sides of the crankcase in the same plane
  • optical computer — an experimental computer that uses photons rather than electrical impulses to process data a thousand times faster than with conventional integrated circuits.
  • optical rotation — the angle at which the plane of polarized light is rotated when passed through an optically active substance.
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • organ transplant — an operation in which an organ is transplanted from a donor
  • organ-pipe coral — an alcyonarian coral of the genus Tubipora, occurring in tropical waters, and forming a complex colony of brick-red, vertical tubules joined at intervals by transverse plates.
  • organoleptically — In an organoleptic manner.
  • organophosphates — Plural form of organophosphate.
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