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13-letter words containing a, l, b, e

  • 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.
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
  • 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
  • ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • real variable — a variable to which only real numbers are assigned as values.
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • realizability — the ability of something to be realized
  • rearrangeable — to place in proper, desired, or convenient order; adjust properly: to arrange books on a shelf.
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • 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
  • 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
  • recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
  • redbelly dace — any of the small, brightly colored North American freshwater cyprinids, especially Phoxinus oreas (northern redbelly dace) and P. erythrogaster (southern redbelly dace)
  • 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.
  • regular bevel — the bevel of a bolt or lock on a door opening into the building, room, etc., to which the doorway leads (opposed to reverse bevel).
  • 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.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
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