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

  • 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.
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • 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
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • 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
  • proleptically — anticipatorily
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
  • recalculation — recount, act of computing again
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • 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
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
  • record player — phonograph.
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