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8-letter words that end in p

  • mateship — the state of being a mate.
  • megacorp — (informal) A very large corporation; megacorporation.
  • megaflop — A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
  • mericarp — one of the carpels of a schizocarp.
  • mesocarp — the middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits.
  • mic drop — a gesture in which a person drops (or imitates the action of dropping) a handheld microphone to the ground as the finale to a speech or performance
  • mic-drop — the act of intentionally dropping one’s microphone at the end of a speech or performance, displaying a bold confidence that it has been very impressive or cannot be topped.
  • microamp — One millionth ( 10-6 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as \u00b5A.
  • microcap — (US, finance) The stock of a public company with a market capitalization of roughly $300 million or less.
  • milk cap — any of a large genus (Lactarius) of basidiomycetous fungi that are brittle to touch and exude a milky liquid when crushed. Some are funnel-shaped and some parasol-shaped, and most, except for L. deliciosus, are inedible
  • milliamp — One thousandth ( 10-3 ) of an ampere, abbreviated as mA.
  • mind map — a diagrammatic method of representing ideas, with related concepts arranged around a core concept
  • mind-pop — a word, phrase, image, or sound that comes into the mind suddenly and involuntarily and is usually related to a recent experience.
  • minicamp — A session run by a professional sports team to train particular players, or to test potential new players, before the main preseason training.
  • mis-ship — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • misstamp — to stamp badly
  • mixed up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
  • mixed-up — completely confused or emotionally unstable: a mixed-up teenager.
  • modula-p — "Modula-P: A Language for Parallel Programming Definition and Implementation on a Transputer Network", R. Hoffart et al, IEEE Conf Comp Langs 1992.
  • moldwarp — the common European mole, Talpa europaea.
  • monocarp — a plant that dies after having once borne fruit.
  • moonship — a lunar module
  • mount up — accumulate
  • muckheap — Dunghill; dung heap.
  • mud flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
  • mud wasp — any of several wasps, as the mud dauber, that construct a nest of mud.
  • mud-flap — Also called mud flap. splash guard.
  • multihop — (networking) Proceeding in multiple hops.
  • namedrop — Alternative spelling of name-drop.
  • nana nap — a short sleep, esp taken by an elderly person
  • newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
  • nextstep — (operating system)   The original multitasking operating system that NeXT, Inc. developed to run on its proprietary NeXT computers (informally known as "black boxes"). NEXTSTEP includes a specific graphical user interface, an interface builder, object-oriented application builder, and several "kits" of prebuilt software objects such as the Indexing Kit for databases. This software runs on top of NeXT's version of the Mach operating system on NeXT, 486, Pentium, HP-PA, and Sun SPARC computers. The official spelling changed from "NeXTstep" to "NeXTStep" to "NeXTSTEP", and finally "NEXTSTEP". The last release of NEXTSTEP was 3.3, which NeXT then developed into "OpenStep". See also: GNUStep.
  • nightcap — Informal. an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime or at the end of a festive evening.
  • nit-lamp — jacklight.
  • no-trump — (of a hand, bid, or contract) without a trump suit; noting a bid or contract to be played without naming a trump suit.
  • non-stop — being without a single stop en route: a nonstop bus; a nonstop flight from New York to Paris.
  • nontrump — (of a playing card) not of the trump suit
  • northrop — John Howard, 1891–1987, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in chemistry 1946.
  • northrup — a male given name.
  • notch up — make score marks to count
  • nslookup — (networking)   A Unix utility program, originally by Andrew Cherenson, for querying Internet domain name servers. The basic use is to find the IP address corresponding to a given hostname (or vice versa). By changing the query type (e.g. "set type=CNAME") other types of information can be obtained including CNAME - the canonical name for an alias; HINFO - the host CPU and operating system type; MINFO - mailbox or mail list information; MX - mail exchanger information; NS - the name server for the named zone; PTR - the hostname if the query is an IP address, otherwise the pointer to other information; SOA the domain's start-of-authority information; TXT - text information; UINFO - user information; WKS - supported well-known services. Other types (ANY, AXFR, MB, MD, MF, NULL) are described in RFC 1035.
  • objvlisp — 1984. An object-oriented extension of Vlisp. Reflective architecture.
  • octaloop — (genetics) An eight-base hairpin loop motif.
  • off-ramp — an exit lane for traffic from a turnpike or freeway to a street.
  • offer up — present as a sacrifice
  • oil lamp — lamp that burns fuel
  • oil pump — An oil pump is a pump that sends lubricating oil under pressure to the bearings and other lubricated surfaces of an engine.
  • old chap — (used in informal direct address to a man of any age).
  • one-step — a round dance performed by couples to ragtime.
  • one-stop — that can be accomplished in one stop: a store offering one-stop shopping.
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