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13-letter words containing pp

  • barbershopper — a member of a barbershop singing group.
  • belly-flopper — an awkward, usually unintentional dive in which the front of the body strikes the water horizontally, the abdomen or chest bearing the brunt of the impact.
  • black crappie — a dark, spotted crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
  • blue copperas — a salt, copper sulfate, CuSO 4 ⋅5H 2 O, occurring naturally as large transparent, deep-blue triclinic crystals, appearing in its anhydrous state as a white powder: used chiefly as a mordant, insecticide, fungicide, and in engraving.
  • bodice ripper — You can refer to a film or novel which is set in the past and which includes a lot of sex scenes as a bodice ripper, especially if you do not think it is very good and is just intended to entertain people.
  • bodice-ripper — a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • booby-trapped — (of a building, vehicle, etc) planted with a booby trap
  • boycott apple — (legal)   Some time before 1989, Apple Computer, Inc. started a lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, claiming they had breeched Apple's copyright on the look and feel of the Macintosh user interface. In December 1989, Xerox failed to sue Apple Computer, claiming that the software for Apple's Lisa computer and Macintosh Finder, both copyrighted in 1987, were derived from two Xerox programs: Smalltalk, developed in the mid-1970s and Star, copyrighted in 1981. Apple wanted to stop people from writing any program that worked even vaguely like a Macintosh. If such look and feel lawsuits succeed they could put an end to free software that could substitute for commercial software. In the weeks after the suit was filed, Usenet reverberated with condemnation for Apple. GNU supporters Richard Stallman, John Gilmore and Paul Rubin decided to take action against Apple. Apple's reputation as a force for progress came from having made better computers; but The League for Programming Freedom believed that Apple wanted to make all non-Apple computers worse. They therefore campaigned to discourage people from using Apple products or working for Apple or any other company threatening similar obstructionist tactics (e.g. Lotus and Xerox). Because of this boycott the Free Software Foundation for a long time didn't support Macintosh Unix in their software. In 1995, the LPF and the FSF decided to end the boycott.
  • buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • carrot-topped — having red hair
  • cash-strapped — If a person or organization is cash-strapped, they do not have enough money to buy or pay for the things they want or need.
  • chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
  • cheerer-upper — a person or thing that cheers a person up: A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.
  • cherry pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum cerasiforme, having rounded, usually pungent fruit.
  • child support — If a parent pays child support, they legally have to pay money to help provide things such as food and clothing for a child with whom they no longer live.
  • chopped liver — cooked liver chopped with onions and hard-boiled eggs and seasoned.
  • chopped steak — ground, cooked beef, usually served as a main course.
  • clapperboards — Plural form of clapperboard.
  • clipper-built — (of a hull) having fast lines, with a high ratio of length to beam and a fine entrance.
  • clippety-clop — the sound struck by the hoofs of a horse trotting on pavement, or any staccato, rhythmic sound resembling it.
  • close-cropped — Close-cropped hair or grass is cut very short.
  • copper-fasten — to make (a bargain or agreement) binding
  • copperas cove — a town in central Texas.
  • copperheadism — U.S. History. (during the Civil War) the advocacy of peace negotiations to restore the Union to its prewar condition, with continued slavery in the South.
  • couch-hopping — to stay overnight in someone’s else’s home while traveling: He couch-surfed at the houses of strangers and friends.
  • cripple creek — a village in central Colorado: gold-mining centre since 1891, once the richest in the world
  • cupping glass — a glass vessel from which air can be removed by suction or heat to create a partial vacuum: formerly used in drawing blood to the surface of the skin for slow bloodletting
  • custard apple — a West Indian tree, Annona reticulata: family Annonaceae
  • cybershopping — Shopping by means of computers or the Internet.
  • deely boppers — hairband with two bobbing antennae-like attachments
  • dessert apple — an eating apple; an apple that can be eaten raw
  • disapparelled — undressed; naked
  • disappearance — the act or an instance of disappearing; a ceasing to be seen or to exist.
  • disappointing — failing to fulfill one's hopes or expectations: a disappointing movie; a disappointing marriage.
  • doppelgangers — Plural form of doppelganger.
  • doppler laser — a technique for measuring the shift in frequency between the source and reflected radiation of a laser.
  • doppler radar — a radar tracking system that determines the velocity of a moving object by measuring the Doppler shift of the frequency of a radar signal reflected by the object.
  • doppler shift — (often lowercase) the shift in frequency (Doppler shift) of acoustic or electromagnetic radiation emitted by a source moving relative to an observer as perceived by the observer: the shift is to higher frequencies when the source approaches and to lower frequencies when it recedes.
  • double-dipper — Informal. to earn a salary from one position while collecting a pension from the same employer or organization, especially to be a wage earner on the federal payroll while receiving a military retiree's pension.
  • double-ripper — bobsled (def 2).
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • eavesdroppers — Plural form of eavesdropper.
  • eavesdropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
  • epping forest — a forest in E England, northeast of London: formerly a royal hunting ground
  • excess supply — a situation in which the market supply of a commodity is greater than the market demand for it, thus causing its market price to fall
  • fairy-slipper — Calypso (def 2).
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • fieldstripped — Simple past tense and past participle of fieldstrip.
  • finger puppet — a miniature puppet fitting over and manipulated by one finger.
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