13-letter words containing a, r, c, t, o, p
- pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
- pococurantism — a careless or indifferent person.
- pococurantist — a person who demonstrates a tendency toward indifference
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- polyarticular — pertaining to or affecting many joints.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polychromatic — having or exhibiting a variety of colors.
- pontchartrain — Lake, a shallow extension of the Gulf of Mexico in SE Louisiana, N of New Orleans. 41 miles (66 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pornification — the perceived pervasion of society in general or an aspect of it by the imagery, language, and attitudes associated with pornography
- port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
- post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
- postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
- posttraumatic — occurring after physical or psychological trauma.
- potomac fever — the determination or fervor to share in the power and prestige of the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., especially by being appointed or elected to a government position.
- potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
- pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
- pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
- 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.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- 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.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate