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4-letter words containing p

  • epss — Electronic Performance Support System
  • eqpt — equipment
  • ercp — endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
  • esop — Employee Stock Ownership Plan: a compensation plan set up by a company and funded with its tax-deductible contributions by which qualified employees accumulate shares of the company's stock
  • espy — Catch sight of.
  • excp — Execute Channel Program
  • expo — A large exhibition.
  • fcap — foolscap
  • feep — /feep/ 1. The soft electronic "bell" sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52); a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer beep). 2. To cause the display to make a feep sound. ASR-33s (the original TTYs) do not feep; they have mechanical bells that ring. Alternate forms: beep, "bleep", or just about anything suitably onomatopoeic. (Jeff MacNelly, in his comic strip "Shoe", uses the word "eep" for sounds made by computer terminals and video games; this is perhaps the closest written approximation yet.) The term "breedle" was sometimes heard at SAIL, where the terminal bleepers are not particularly soft (they sound more like the musical equivalent of a raspberry or Bronx cheer; for a close approximation, imagine the sound of a Star Trek communicator's beep lasting for five seconds). The "feeper" on a VT-52 has been compared to the sound of a '52 Chevy stripping its gears. See also ding.
  • fips — Federal Information Processing Standards
  • flap — to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise: A loose shutter flapped outside the window.
  • flip — to toss or put in motion with a sudden impulse, as with a snap of a finger and thumb, especially so as to cause to turn over in the air: to flip a coin.
  • flop — to fall or plump down suddenly, especially with noise; drop or turn with a sudden bump or thud (sometimes followed by down): The puppy flopped down on the couch.
  • flpl — Fortran List Processing Language. A package of Fortran subroutines for handling lists by H. Gelernter et al, ca 1960.
  • fmpl — Frobozz Magic Programming Language
  • foip — Fax over IP
  • foop — OBJ2 plus object-orientation. "Extensions and Foundations for Object-Oriented Programming", J. Goguen et al, in Research Directions in Object-Oriented Programming, B. Shriver et al eds, MIT Press 1987.
  • fops — Plural form of fop.
  • fpga — field-programmable gate array
  • fpwu — Federal Printing Workers Union
  • frap — to bind or wrap tightly with ropes or chains.
  • frcp — Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
  • frps — Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society
  • fttp — Do you mean FTP or HTTP?
  • fupa — a wide area of protruding fat in the upper pubic region.
  • gaap — In the US, GAAP are rules to which financial statements of publicly traded companies must conform.
  • galp — Lb archaic to gape; yawn.
  • gamp — an umbrella.
  • gape — to stare with open mouth, as in wonder.
  • gapo — (in South America) a forest near a river, esp one which becomes flooded during the rainy season
  • gaps — Plural form of gap.
  • gapy — Veterinary Pathology. a parasitic disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by frequent gaping due to infestation of the trachea and bronchi with gapeworms.
  • garp — A graphical language for concurrent programming.
  • gasp — a sudden, short intake of breath, as in shock or surprise.
  • gaup — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
  • gawp — to stare with the mouth open in wonder or astonishment; gape: Crowds stood gawping at the disabled ship.
  • gbps — gigabits per second
  • gdpl — Generalized Distributed Programming Language. "GDPL - A Generalized Distributed Programming Language", K. Ng et al, Proc 4th Intl Conf Distrib Comp Sys, IEEE 1984, pp.69-78.
  • geep — the hybrid offspring of a goat and a sheep.
  • gimp — a limp.
  • gipe — Alternative form of gype.
  • gips — /gips/ or /jips/ [Analogy with MIPS] Giga-Instructions per Second (or possibly "Gillions of Instructions per Second"; see gillion). In 1991, this was used of only a handful of highly parallel machines and one sequential processor built with Josephson devices. DEC's Alpha AXP 21164 processor was the first commercially available 1 GIPS sequential processor (7 Sep 1994). Compare KIPS.
  • glip — (military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.
  • glop — unappetizing food, especially of a semiliquid consistency.
  • gmap — GCOS Macro Assembler Program
  • golp — a roundel purpure.
  • goop — a viscous or sticky substance; goo.
  • gorp — a mixture of nuts, raisins, dried fruits, seeds, or the like eaten as a high-energy snack, as by hikers and climbers.
  • goup — to keep or be in motion; function or perform as required: Can't you go any faster in your work?
  • gpib — IEEE 488
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