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13-letter words containing a, b, t, e, r

  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • pre-celebrate — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
  • probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
  • ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
  • ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • realizability — the ability of something to be realized
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recallability — the quality of being recallable
  • receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
  • recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
  • recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
  • 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).
  • remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
  • repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
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