11-letter words containing op
- autotrophic — (of organisms such as green plants) capable of manufacturing complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic sources such as carbon dioxide, water, and nitrates, using energy from the sun
- auxotrophic — designating or of a mutant organism requiring more nutritional substances than its prototrophic parent because it has lost the ability to make a certain enzyme
- axanthopsia — a defect of vision in which the retina fails to respond to yellow.
- axerophthol — any form of vitamin A
- backstopped — Simple past tense and past participle of backstop.
- backstopper — a wall, wire screen, or the like, serving to prevent a ball from going too far beyond the normal playing area.
- bandywallop — an imaginary town, far from civilization
- bar-hopping — Informal. to go to a succession of bars or nightclubs, with a brief stay at each.
- barber shop — A barber shop is a shop where a barber works.
- barber-shop — Also called, especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
- barbershops — Plural form of barbershop.
- bastard pop — a type of popular music in which two records, usually from different genres or eras, are blended together into a whole, often using the vocal performance from one and the instrumental from the other
- bathophobia — the fear of depths of any kind, whether a fear of deep water or of falling from a great height
- bay scallop — a small scallop, Pecten irradians, inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, especially eastern Long Island Sound.
- beauty shop — A beauty shop is the same as a beauty parlour.
- bell-topper — a tall silk hat
- bellerophon — a hero of Corinth who performed many deeds with the help of the winged horse Pegasus, notably the killing of the monster Chimera
- benthoscope — a deep-sea diving vessel
- benzopyrene — an aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, found in coal tar, cigarette smoke, etc. and known to be a cause of cancer in animals
- bibliopegic — relating to bookbinding as a fine art
- bibliophage — an ardent reader; a bookworm.
- bibliophile — a person who collects or is fond of books
- bibliophily — the love of books
- bibliophobe — a person who hates, fears, or distrusts books.
- bibliopolic — relating to bibliopoles
- biophysical — the branch of biology that applies the methods of physics to the study of biological structures and processes.
- bioprinting — the construction of replacement body parts using techniques developed for three-dimensional printing
- boat people — Boat people are people who escape from their country in small boats to travel to another country in the hope that they will be able to live there.
- boottopping — the area between the water lines of a ship when fully loaded and when unloaded.
- bottle shop — A bottle shop is a shop which sells wine, beer, and other alcoholic drinks.
- boy soprano — a young male singer whose voice is in the soprano range and has not yet broken, esp one who performs solo
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- bridal shop — a shop that specializes in selling bridal wear
- british lop — a breed of large white pig with large drooping ears, originating from Wales, Cumberland, and Ulster
- brushpopper — a cowboy, especially one who works in the brush.
- bryophyllum — a genus of plants of the family Crassulaceae with the ability to produce plantlets on their leaves or floral stems
- bucket shop — an unregistered firm of stockbrokers that engages in speculation with clients' funds
- bumper crop — large harvest
- bunny slope — (in skiing) a nursery slope
- cacophonies — Plural form of cacophony.
- cacophonous — If you describe a mixture of sounds as cacophonous, you mean that they are loud and unpleasant.
- caecotrophy — (biology) In certain mammals, especially rabbits and other lagomorphs, the consumption of food pellets which are naturally produced by means of digestion, retention in the caecum, and expulsion through the anus.
- cainophobia — The fear of newness and/or of things that are new.
- calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
- call option — an option to buy a stated amount of securities at a specified price during a specified period
- camelopards — Plural form of camelopard.
- canophilist — a person who loves dogs
- canopic jar — (in ancient Egypt) one of four containers with tops in the form of animal heads of the gods, for holding the entrails of a mummy
- canopic urn — an urn used in ancient Egypt to hold and preserve the internal organs of the mummified dead
- carbon copy — If you say that one person or thing is a carbon copy of another, you mean that they look or behave exactly like them.