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11-letter words containing t, r, o, p, e, d

  • dipterocarp — A tall forest tree from which are obtained resins and timber for the export trade, occurring mainly in Southeast Asia.
  • dirlotapide — A drug used to treat obesity in dogs.
  • 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).
  • disceptator — a person who disputes or disagrees
  • discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
  • dispensator — a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.
  • disportment — to divert or amuse (oneself).
  • disproperty — to deprive of property
  • diterpenoid — (chemistry) a terpenoid having a C20 skeleton.
  • doctorspeak — the language of physicians and other health professionals; specialized or technical jargon used by healthcare workers.
  • doorstepper — a person who goes from door-to-door in order to canvass or interview
  • doorstopper — A doorstop: a device for halting the motion of a door.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • endotrophic — obtaining nourishment from within another plant
  • 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.
  • eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
  • eurypteroid — of, relating to or resembling a eurypterid or eurypterids
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • horned pout — a bullhead, especially the brown bullhead.
  • hydrophytes — Plural form of hydrophyte.
  • ideopraxist — a person who is impelled to carry out an idea
  • improvident — not provident; lacking foresight; incautious; unwary.
  • incorrupted — not corrupted
  • iodoprotein — a protein that contains iodine
  • lepidoptera — the order comprising the lepidopterous insects.
  • lepidoptery — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
  • letter drop — (in a door or partition) a slot through which letters can be pushed.
  • madreporite — a sievelike plate in certain echinoderms, through which water passes into the vascular system.
  • misreported — Simple past tense and past participle of misreport.
  • mothproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of mothproof.
  • multiperiod — Relating to multiple periods.
  • nondescript — of no recognized, definite, or particular type or kind: a nondescript novel; a nondescript color.
  • odontophore — a structure in the mouth of most mollusks over which the radula is drawn backward and forward in the process of breaking up food.
  • openhearted — Frank and candid.
  • operculated — relating to the operculum
  • orthopaedic — of or relating to orthopedics.
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