15-letter words containing op
- from top to toe — You can use from top to toe to emphasize that the whole of someone's body is covered or dressed in a particular thing or type of clothing.
- galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
- garrison troops — troops who maintain and guard a military base or fortified place
- geostrophically — By means of, or in terms of, geostrophy.
- get the drop on — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- gigantopithecus — a genus of extinct ape of southern Asia existing during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs, known only from very large fossil jaws and teeth and believed to be perhaps the biggest hominoid that ever lived.
- golden eardrops — a Californian plant, Dicentra chrysantha, of the fumitory family, having bluish-green foliage and branched clusters of yellow flowers.
- good and proper — thoroughly
- gopher tortoise — any North American burrowing tortoise of the genus Gopherus, especially G. polyphemus, of the southeastern U.S.: several species are now reduced in number.
- gramophonically — in a gramophonic manner
- grasshopper pie — a custardlike pie, flavored and colored with green crème de menthe and served in a graham-cracker crust.
- grey propaganda — propaganda that does not identify its source
- heart operation — a surgical operation performed on the heart
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- hematoporphyria — porphyria.
- hematoporphyrin — a porphyrin made by treating haemoglobin with acid, used to treat cancer in photodynamic therapy
- hemicryptophyte — any perennial plant that bears its overwintering buds at soil level, where they are often partly covered by surface debris
- hexachlorophene — a white, crystalline powder, C 13 Cl 6 H 6 O 2 , insoluble in water: used as an antibacterial agent chiefly in toothpastes and soaps.
- histopathologic — the science dealing with the histological structure of abnormal or diseased tissue; pathological histology.
- histophysiology — the branch of physiology dealing with tissues.
- homeopathically — By means of homeopathy.
- homoerotophobia — Homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals.
- hop-o'-my-thumb — a very small person, as a midget or dwarf.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- hopper casement — a casement with a sash hinged at the bottom.
- huitzilopochtli — the Aztec god of war and of the sun.
- hunting leopard — the cheetah.
- hydropathically — in a hydropathic manner; in a manner relating to hydropathy
- hygroscopically — In a hygroscopic way.
- hypophosphorous — of or derived from hypophosphorous acid.
- hypopituitarism — abnormally diminished activity of the pituitary gland, especially of the anterior lobe.
- hypoproteinemia — an abnormally low concentration of protein in the blood.
- hysteresis loop — a closed curve showing the variation of the magnetic flux density of a ferromagnetic material with the external magnetic field producing it, when this field is changed through a complete cycle
- immunopathology — the study of diseases having an immunologic or allergic basis.
- in sb's opinion — You add expressions such as 'in my opinion' or 'in their opinion' to a statement in order to indicate that it is what you or someone else thinks, and is not necessarily a fact.
- inappropriately — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inoperativeness — The state or condition of being inoperative; nonfunction.
- inopportuneness — The quality of being inopportune.
- interpopulation — Between populations.
- intrapopulation — occurring within a population or between members of a population
- isoperimetrical — having equal perimeters
- isopropyl ether — a colorless, volatile, flammable, slightly water-soluble liquid, C 6 H 14 O, used chiefly as a solvent for waxes, fats, and resins.
- isopropyl group — the univalent group C 3 H 7 , an isomer of the propyl group.
- isotope geology — the study and application of stable and radioactive isotopes to geological processes and their time scales
- isotopic number — the number of neutrons minus the number of protons in an atomic nucleus.
- job opportunity — an opportunity of employment
- kaleidoscopical — Alternative form of kaleidoscopic.
- keep open house — to be always ready to provide hospitality
- kernmantel rope — a rope made of many straight nylon fibres within a plaited sheath; used for its tensile strength, freedom from twisting, and elasticity
- kleptoparasites — Plural form of kleptoparasite.