9-letter words containing ope
- escaloped — Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
- escalopes — Plural form of escalope.
- escopette — a carbine
- eyeopener — Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
- fetoscope — a tubular fiberoptic instrument used for diagnostic examination of the fetus and interior of the uterus.
- footropes — Plural form of footrope.
- gallopers — Plural form of galloper.
- gantelope — gauntlet2 .
- good hope — Cape of Good Hope.
- gooped up — sticky with goop
- grab rope — a rope supported to afford a hold for a person walking up a gangplank, working aloft, etc.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- half-open — (of a file) having a pawn or pawns of only one colour on it
- hemitrope — twin1 (def 5).
- hodoscope — any device for tracing the path of a charged particle, esp a particle found in cosmic rays
- hoped-for — Hoped-for is used to describe something that people would like to happen, and which they usually think is likely or possible.
- hopefully — in a hopeful manner: We worked hopefully and energetically, thinking we might finish first.
- horoscope — a diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, for use in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc.
- inoperant — Not operant.
- interlope — to intrude into some region or field of trade without a proper license.
- isentrope — a line on a map or chart joining points having equal entropy.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isopentyl — isoamyl.
- jack rope — a rope for bending the foot of a sail to a boom.
- jump rope — Also, jump roping. a children's game or an exercise for children and adults in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper, who must leap over it each time it reaches the feet.
- kinescope — a cathode-ray tube with a fluorescent screen on which an image is reproduced by a directed beam of electrons.
- koniscope — a device for detecting and measuring dust in the air
- landloper — a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
- lipopexia — the storage of fat in the body.
- logiscope — Software quality analysis tools from Verilog SA, used to evaluate the quality of software, both statically (based on software metrics) and dynamically.
- logopedic — the study and treatment of speech defects.
- mastopexy — fixation of a pendulous breast.
- megascope — A modification of the magic lantern, used especially for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
- metascope — a device for converting infrared radiation into visible light.
- misopedia — hatred of children, especially one's own.
- monoscope — a cathode-ray tube that provides a signal of a fixed pattern, formerly used for testing television equipment at the end of a broadcast day.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- nasoscope — Rhinoscope.
- nyctalope — a person or animal affected by nyctalopia
- onomatope — (linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis.
- opelousas — a city in S Louisiana.
- open bite — deformity: jaws do not close
- open book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
- open call — an audition, especially for actors or dancers, open to anyone wishing to try out.
- open city — a city that, during a war, is officially declared demilitarized and open to occupation, and that will consequently not be defended, in order to spare it, under international law, from bombardment or other military attack.
- open door — the policy of admitting people of all nationalities or ethnic groups to a country upon equal terms, as for immigration.
- open fire — start shooting
- open game — a relatively simple game involving open ranks and files, permitting tactical play, and usually following symmetrical development
- open goal — a goal which is left open or undefended
- open look — (operating system) A graphical user interface and window manager from Sun and AT&T.