11-letter words containing t, o, d, p
- double tape — a ribbon of material, usually with a plastic base, coated on one side (single tape) or both sides (double tape) with a substance containing iron oxide, to make it sensitive to impulses from an electromagnet: used to record sound, images, data, etc.
- double-stop — to play a double stop on (a stringed instrument).
- downpatrick — a market town in Northern Ireland: reputedly the burial place of Saint Patrick. Pop: 10 316 (2001)
- downpayment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- drop a hint — If you drop a hint, you give a hint or say something in a casual way.
- drop astern — to fall back to the stern (of another vessel)
- drop letter — a letter that is mailed to a local address at a post office without city delivery or a rural delivery service and must be picked up by the addressee.
- drug report — (humour) A bug report so utterly incomprehensible that whoever submitted it must have been smoking crack. Even worse than a chug report.
- dual ported — A term used to describe memory integrated circuits which can be accessed simultaneously via two independent address and data busses. Dual ported memory is often used in video display hardware, especially in conjunction with Video Random Access Memory (VRAM). The two ports allow the video display hardware to read memory to display the contents on screen at the same time as the CPU writes data to other areas of the same memory. In single-ported memory these two processes cannot occur simultanteously, the CPU must wait, thus resulting in slower access times. Cycle stealing is one technique used to avoid this in single-ported video memory.
- duopolistic — Characteristic of a duopoly.
- duplication — an act or instance of duplicating.
- duplicators — Plural form of duplicator.
- duplicitous — marked or characterized by duplicity.
- dystrophies — Plural form of dystrophy.
- 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.
- end product — result of a process
- end-stopped — (of verse) having a pause at the end of each line
- endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
- epithelioid — Of, pertaining to, or resembling epithelium.
- epitrochoid — A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine.
- epoxidation — (organic chemistry) Any reaction that converts a compound (especially an alkene) into an epoxide.
- eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
- eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
- expeditions — Plural form of expedition.
- expeditious — Done with speed and efficiency.
- export duty — a government tax paid on goods exported from a country
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fixed point — (mathematics) The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
- fixed-point — (programming) A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- gap-toothed — having a noticeable space between two teeth.
- gold-plated — secure, valuable
- gonadotrope — a gonadotropic substance.
- grade point — Education. a numerical equivalent to a received letter grade, usually 0 for F, 1 for D, 2 for C, 3 for B, and 4 for A, that is multiplied by the number of credits for the course: used to compute a grade point average.
- graded post — a position in a school having special responsibility for which additional payment is given
- heptahedron — a solid figure having seven faces.
- heptandrous — (of a flower) having seven stamens
- heteroploid — (biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
- hippodamist — a horse-tamer
- hopscotched — Simple past tense and past participle of hopscotch.
- horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
- hydropathic — Relating to hydropathy.
- hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
- hydrophyton — a branched plant-like structure which supports colonial animals such as zooids
- hydrotropic — Biology. turning or tending in a particular direction with reference to moisture.
- hypoacidity — acidity in a lesser degree than is usual or normal, as of the gastric juice.
- hypothyroid — deficient activity of the thyroid gland.
- ichthyopsid — relating to the class Ichthyopsida, which contains amphibians, fishes, and fish-like vertebrates
- ideal point — the point at infinity in projective geometry at which parallel lines intersect.