5-letter words containing op
- myope — A nearsighted person.
- myopy — Archaic form of myopia.
- netop — a friend, used esp by American colonists of American Indians
- no-op — /noh'op/ alt. NOP /nop/ [no operation] 1. A machine instruction that does nothing (sometimes used in assembler-level programming as filler for data or patch areas, or to overwrite code to be removed in binaries). See also JFCL. 2. A person who contributes nothing to a project, or has nothing going on upstairs, or both. As in "He's a no-op." 3. Any operation or sequence of operations with no effect, such as circling the block without finding a parking space, or putting money into a vending machine and having it fall immediately into the coin-return box, or asking someone for help and being told to go away. "Oh, well, that was a no-op." Hot-and-sour soup that is insufficiently either is "no-op soup"; so is wonton soup if everybody else is having hot-and-sour.
- nopal — any of several cacti of the genus Nopalea, resembling the prickly pear.
- op-ed — a newspaper page devoted to signed articles by commentators, essayists, humorists, etc., of varying viewpoints: the Op-Ed of today's New York Times.
- opake — Alternative form of opaque.
- opals — Plural form of opal.
- opens — Plural form of open.
- opepe — a West African tree, esp Nauclea diderrichii (family Rubiaceae), or the yellow wood of this tree
- opera — a plural of opus.
- opers — Plural form of oper.
- ophir — a country of uncertain location, possibly southern Arabia or the eastern coast of Africa, from which gold and precious stones and trees were brought for Solomon. I Kings 10:11.
- opine — Hold and state as one's opinion.
- oping — Present participle of ope.
- opito — Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organization
- opium — the dried, condensed juice of a poppy, Papaver somniferum, that has a narcotic, soporific, analgesic, and astringent effect and contains morphine, codeine, papaverine, and other alkaloids used in medicine in their isolated or derived forms: a narcotic substance, poisonous in large doses.
- opole — a city in Upper Silesia, SW Poland, on the Oder River.
- oppos — Plural form of oppo.
- ops83 — A commercial version of OPS5.
- opsin — any of several compounds that form the protein component of the light-sensitive retina pigment, rhodopsin.
- opted — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
- optic — of or relating to the eye or sight.
- opto- — pertaining to sight or vision; optical
- orlop — the lowermost of four or more decks above the space at the bottom of a hull.
- poopo — a lake in SW Bolivia, in the Andes. 60 miles (95 km) long; 12,000 feet (3660 meters) above sea level.
- pop-1 — Package for Online Programming. Edinburgh, 1966. First of the POP family of languages. Used reverse Polish notation. Implemented as a threaded interpreter. EPU-R-17, U Edinburgh (Jul 1966). "POP-1: An Online Language", R. Popplestone, Mach Intell 2, E. Dale et al eds, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1968.
- pop-2 — Robin POPplestone, Edinburgh, 1967. An innovative language incorporating many of Landin's ideas, including streams, closures, and functions as first-class citizens. ALGOL-like syntax. The first implementation was named Multi-POP, based on a REVPOL function written in POP-1, producing the reverse-polish form as output. "POP-2 Papers", R.M. Burstall et al, Oliver & Boyd 1968. "Programming in POP-2", R.M. Burstall et al, Edinburgh U Press 1971. "POP-2 User's Manual", R. Popplestone, Mach Intell 2, E. Dale et al eds, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1968.
- popov — Alexander Stepanovich (alɪkˈsandər stɪˈpanəvitʃ). 1859–1906, Russian physicist, the first to use an aerial in experiments with radio waves
- poppa — father.
- poppy — any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
- popsy — a girl or young woman.
- propr — proprietor
- props — a propeller.
- psyop — a military operation performed by a unit specializing in psychological warfare
- qophs — the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- rebop — bop1 .
- roopy — hoarse
- roper — decoy, esp one lures people into a gambling house
- ropey — If you say that something is ropey, you mean that its quality is poor or unsatisfactory.
- salop — a county in W England. 1348 sq. mi. (3490 sq. km).
- scoop — a ladle or ladlelike utensil, especially a small, deep-sided shovel with a short, horizontal handle, for taking up flour, sugar, etc.
- scopa — pollen brush.
- scope — extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- scops — an Old English bard or poet.
- sloop — a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel, with or without a bowsprit, having a jib-headed or gaff mainsail, the latter sometimes with a gaff topsail, and one or more headsails. Compare cutter (def 3), knockabout (def 1).
- slope — to have or take an inclined or oblique direction or angle considered with reference to a vertical or horizontal plane; slant.
- slops — to spill or splash (liquid).
- slopy — sloping; slanting
- snoop — to prowl or pry; go about in a sneaking, prying way.