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13-letter words containing a, b, o, r, l

  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • proces-verbal — a report of proceedings, as of an assembly.
  • process table — (operating system, process)   A table containing all of the information that must be saved when the CPU switches from running one process to another in a multitasking system. The information in the process table allows the suspended process to be restarted at a later time as if it had never been stopped. Every process has an entry in the table. These entries are known as process control blocks and contain the following information: process state - information needed so that the process can be loaded into memory and run, such as the program counter, the stack pointer, and the values of registers. memory state - details of the memory allocation such as pointers to the various memory areas used by the program resource state - information regarding the status of files being used by the process such as user ID. Accounting and scheduling information. An example of a UNIX process table is shown below. SLOT ST PID PGRP UID PRI CPU EVENT NAME FLAGS 0 s 0 0 0 95 0 runout sched load sys 1 s 1 0 0 66 1 u init load 2 s 2 0 0 95 0 10bbdc vhand load sys SLOT is the entry number of the process. ST shows whether the process is paused or sleeping (s), ready to run (r), or running on a CPU (o). PID is the process ID. PGRP is the process Group. UID is the user ID. PRI is the priority of the process from 127 (highest) to 0 (lowest). EVENT is the event on which a process is paused or sleeping. NAME is the name of the process. FLAGS are the process flags. A process that has died but still has an entry in the process table is called a zombie process.
  • profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • republication — publication anew.
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • road-blocking — an obstruction placed across a road, especially of barricades or police cars, for halting or hindering traffic, as to facilitate the capture of a pursued car or inspection for safety violations.
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • simon bolivar — Simón [sahy-muh n;; Spanish see-mawn] /ˈsaɪ mən;; Spanish siˈmɔn/ (Show IPA), ("El Libertador") 1783–1830, Venezuelan statesman: leader of revolt of South American colonies against Spanish rule.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
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