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13-letter words containing a, l, e, o, p, r

  • poet laureate — (in Great Britain) a poet appointed for life as an officer of the royal household, formerly expected to write poems in celebration of court and national events.
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • polyarteritis — inflammation of the layers of an artery or of many arteries, usually caused by a severe hypersensitivity reaction, and characterized by nodules and hemorrhage along the involved vessels.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • poor relation — If you describe one thing as a poor relation of another, you mean that it is similar to or part of the other thing, but is considered to be inferior to it.
  • poplar kitten — a moth, (Furcula bifida,) which has larvae like those of the related puss moth
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
  • portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
  • portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potato peeler — a special knife used to peel the skin from potatoes or other vegetables
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • poulard wheat — a Mediterranean wheat, Triticum turgidum, grown as a forage crop in the U.S.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • pre-adulthood — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • 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.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
  • private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
  • 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.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
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