13-letter words containing op
- hypsophyllary — relating to a hypsophyll
- i-proposition — a particular affirmative proposition
- iceland poppy — any of various widely cultivated arctic poppies, esp Papaver nudicaule, with white or yellow nodding flowers
- ichthyopsidan — a member of the class Ichthyopsida
- improprieties — Plural form of impropriety.
- in opposition — (of a political party) opposing the government
- in proportion — balanced
- in the hopper — a person or thing that hops.
- inappropriate — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- indo-european — a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Compare family (def 14).
- infinite loop — (programming) (Or "endless loop") Where a piece of program is executed repeatedly with no hope of stopping. This is nearly always because of a bug, e.g. if the condition for exiting the loop is wrong, though it may be intentional if the program is controlling an embedded system which is supposed to run continuously until it is turned off. The programmer may also intend the program to run until interrupted by the user. An endless loop may also be used as a last-resort error handler when no other action is appropriate. This is used in some operating system kernels following a panic. A program executing an infinite loop is said to spin or buzz forever and goes catatonic. The program is "wound around the axle". A standard joke has been made about each generation's exemplar of the ultra-fast machine: "The Cray-3 is so fast it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds!" See also black hole, recursion, infinite loop.
- inoperational — Not operational.
- inopportunely — In an inopportune manner.
- inopportunity — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
- intercropping — Present participle of intercrop.
- interoperable — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperably — capable of being used or operated reciprocally: interoperable weapons systems.
- interoperates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interoperate.
- intertropical — situated or occurring between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn; tropical.
- intratropical — Within the tropics.
- iontophoresis — a painless alternative to drug injection in which a weak electrical current is used to stimulate drug-carrying ions to pass through intact skin.
- iontophoretic — Of or pertaining to iontophoresis.
- iopanoic acid — an acid containing iodine that is opaque to X-rays
- isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
- isotopic spin — a quantum number that is related to the number of different values of electric charge that a given kind of baryon or meson may have. Symbol: I.
- jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
- john winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- jury shopping — the practice of presenting a case to several juries until a favourable decision is obtained
- juxtoposition — Misspelling of juxtaposition.
- kaleidoscoped — Simple past tense and past participle of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopes — Plural form of kaleidoscope.
- kaleidoscopic — of, relating to, or created by a kaleidoscope.
- knocking copy — advertising or publicity material designed to denigrate a competing product
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- laparoscopies — Plural form of laparoscopy.
- laparoscopist — One who carries out laparoscopy.
- laryngoscopes — Plural form of laryngoscope.
- laryngoscopic — Of or pertaining to laryngoscopy.
- lechosos opal — a variety of opal having a deep-green play of color.
- leopard shark — a small, inshore shark, Triakis semifasciata, having distinctive black markings across the back, inhabiting Pacific coastal waters from Oregon through California.
- lepidopterans — Plural form of lepidopteran.
- lepidopterist — the branch of zoology dealing with butterflies and moths.
- lepidopterous — belonging or pertaining to the Lepidoptera, an order of insects comprising the butterflies, moths, and skippers, that in the adult state have four membranous wings more or less covered with small scales.
- leptophyllous — (of plants) having long slender leaves
- letter opener — bladed tool for opening envelopes
- lexical scope — (programming) (Or "static scope") When the scope of an identifier is fixed at compile time to some region in the source code containing the identifier's declaration. This means that an identifier is only accessible within that region (including procedures declared within it). This contrasts with dynamic scope where the scope depends on the nesting of procedure and function calls at run time. Statically scoped languages differ as to whether the scope is limited to the smallest block (including begin/end blocks) containing the identifier's declaration (e.g. C, Perl) or to whole function and procedure bodies (e.g. ECMAScript), or some larger unit of code (e.g. ?). The former is known as static nested scope.
- lipodystrophy — A disorder characterized by abnormal or degenerative conditions of the body's adipose tissue.
- little people — small supernatural beings, such as elves, pixies, or leprechauns
- loop diuretic — any of a group of diuretics, including frusemide, that act by inhibiting resorption of salts from Henle's loop of the kidney tubule
- loop of henle — the part of a nephron between the proximal and distal convoluted tubules that extends, in a loop, from the cortex into the medulla of the kidney.