9-letter words containing ope
- open loop — a control system in which an input alters the output, but the output has no feedback loop and therefore no effect on the input.
- open mike — a session in a pub or club where members of the public are invited to perform comedy or to sing
- open mind — receptive attitude
- open plan — a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
- open shop — a factory, office, or other business establishment in which a union, chosen by a majority of the employees, acts as representative of all the employees in making agreements with the employer, but in which union membership is not a condition of employment.
- open side — the side of the scrum on which the majority of the backs are ranged
- open-book — someone or something easily understood or interpreted; something very clear: The child's face is an open book.
- open-cast — open-cut.
- open-door — If a country or organization has an open-door policy towards people or goods, it allows them to come there freely, without any restrictions.
- open-eyed — having the eyes open.
- open-line — (of a radio or TV show) maintaining open telephone lines to permit listeners or viewers to phone a program with comments, questions, requests, etc.; call-in.
- open-plan — a floor plan without fully enclosed spaces for distinct rooms.
- opera hat — a man's tall, collapsible top hat, held open or in shape by springs and usually covered with a black, silky fabric. Also called gibus. Compare beaver1 (def 4), silk hat, top hat.
- operagoer — a person who attends opera performances.
- operantly — In an operant manner.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- operating — used or engaged in performing operations: an operating surgeon.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- operative — a person engaged, employed, or skilled in some branch of work, especially productive or industrial work; worker.
- operatize — to turn (a play, novel, etc) into an opera
- operators — Plural form of operator.
- operatory — a room or other area with special equipment and facilities, as for dental surgery, scientific experiments, or the like.
- opercular — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operculum — Botany, Zoology. a part or organ serving as a lid or cover, as a covering flap on a seed vessel.
- operettas — Plural form of operetta.
- operosely — In an operose manner.
- operosity — the quality or characteristic of being operose
- orthopedy — Archaic form of orthopedics.
- osteocope — severe pain in the bones, especially that occurring in syphilitic persons.
- otoscopes — Plural form of otoscope.
- outrooper — an auctioneer
- periscope — an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision, consisting essentially of a tube with an arrangement of prisms or mirrors and, usually, lenses: used especially in submarines.
- phalarope — any of three species of small, aquatic birds of the family Phalaropodidae, resembling sandpipers but having lobate toes.
- philopena — a custom, presumably of German origin, in which two persons share the kernels of a nut and determine that one shall receive a forfeit from the other at a later time upon the saying of a certain word or the performance of a certain action.
- poroscope — an instrument for measuring porosity
- poweropen — The PowerOpen Association defines and promotes the PowerOpen Environment (POE).
- presbyope — a person with presbyopia
- propelled — to drive, or cause to move, forward or onward: to propel a boat by rowing.
- propeller — a device having a revolving hub with radiating blades, for propelling an airplane, ship, etc.
- properdin — a protein present in blood serum that, acting with complement, is involved in the destruction of alien cells, such as bacteria
- protanope — a person diagnosed with protanopia
- protopope — the ranking priest in a cathedral of the Eastern Church.
- pyroscope — an instrument for measuring the temperature of a heat source
- reopening — the act of opening again something that was closed
- reoperate — to operate again (on the same thing as a previous operation)
- rheotrope — a device that reverses an electric current
- rope burn — a burn on the skin caused by friction from a rope
- rope yarn — thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.
- rotoscope — a projection device that allows images from live-action films to be traced to create an animated sequence
- scalloped — Scalloped objects are decorated with a series of small curves along the edges.