4-letter words containing p
- apud — Used in scholarly works to cite a reference at second hand.
- apus — a constellation in the S hemisphere situated near Musca and Octans
- aqap — al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
- arpa — a site concerned with internet infrastructure
- asap — asap is an abbreviation for 'as soon as possible'.
- aspi — Advanced SCSI Peripheral Interface
- asps — Plural form of asp.
- atap — the fronds of palm trees, particularly those of Nipa fruticans, used in South East Asia to thatch houses
- atmp — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- atop — If something is atop something else, it is on top of it.
- bapi — Business Application Programming Interface
- baps — a woman's breasts
- bapu — a spiritual father
- barp — a mound or cairn of stones
- bcpl — (language) (Basic CPL) A British systems language developed by Richards in 1969 and descended from CPL (Combined Programming Language). BCPL is low-level, typeless and block-structured, and provides only one-dimensional arrays. Case is not significant, but conventionally reserved words begin with a capital. Flow control constructs include: If-Then, Test-Then-Else, Unless-Do, While-Do, Until-Do, Repeat, Repeatwhile, Repeatuntil, For-to-By-Do, Loop, Break and Switchon-Into-Case-Default-Endcase. BCPL has conditional expressions, pointers, and manifest constants. It has both procedures: 'Let foo(bar) Be command' and functions: 'Let foo(bar) = expression'. 'Valof $(..Resultis..$)' causes a compound command to produce a value. Parameters are call-by-value. Program segments communicate via the global vector where system and user variables are stored in fixed numerical locations in a single array. The first BCPL compiler was written in AED. BCPL was used to implement the TRIPOS operating system, which was subsequently reincarnated as AmigaDOS. See OCODE, INTCODE. Oxford BCPL differed slightly: Test-Ifso-Ifnot, and section brackets in place of $( $). The original INTCODE interpreter for BCPL is available for Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/programming/languages/BCPL/. A BCPL compiler bootstrap kit with an INTCODE interpreter in C was written by Ken Yap <[email protected]>.
- bdpa — Black Data Processing Associates
- beep — A beep is a short, loud sound like that made by a car horn or a telephone answering machine.
- bfpo — British Forces Post Office
- bipm — Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
- bips — Billion (10^9) instructions per second. Same as GIPS.
- bkpt — bankrupt
- blip — A blip is a small spot of light, sometimes occurring with a short, high-pitched sound, which flashes on and off regularly on a piece of equipment such as a radar screen.
- bmdp — BioMeDical Package
- boep — a protruding or distended belly
- bopp — Franz, 1791–1867, German philologist.
- bpel — Web Services Business Process Execution Language
- bpoe — Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
- brap — an exclamation used to imitate the sound of a burst of gunfire from an automatic weapon
- bump — If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
- bupa — The British United Provident Association Limited: a company which provides private medical insurance
- burp — When someone burps, they make a noise because air from their stomach has been forced up through their throat.
- calp — a type of limestone, dark grey or bluish black in colour, that is found in Ireland
- camp — A camp is a collection of huts and other buildings that is provided for a particular group of people, such as refugees, prisoners, or soldiers, as a place to live or stay.
- cap. — chapter
- capa — Robert, real name André Friedmann. 1913–54, Hungarian photographer, who established his reputation as a photojournalist during the Spanish Civil War
- cape — A cape is a large piece of land that sticks out into the sea from the coast.
- caph — kaf
- capi — 1. Calendar Application Programming Interface. 2. (cryptography) Cryptographic Application Programming Interface. 3. (networking) Common ISDN Application Programming Interface.
- capo — a device fitted across all the strings of a guitar, banjo, etc, so as to raise the pitch of each string simultaneously
- capp — Al, full name Alfred Caplin. 1909–79, US cartoonist, famous for his comic strip Li'l Abner
- caps — Capital letters.
- capt — Abbreviation of captain.
- carp — A carp is a kind of fish that lives in lakes and rivers.
- caup — a gift given by a man to his master for his keeping and protection
- cccp — Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- ccsp — Contextually Communicating Sequential Processes
- cdpd — Cellular Digital Packet Data
- celp — (language) Computationally Extended Logic Programming.
- cepe — a large, fleshy, edible boletus mushroom (Boletus edulis) with a brown cap and a thick, white stem
- ceps — Plural form of cep.