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13-letter words containing a, r, o, s, e

  • 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.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • 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.
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • possessionary — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
  • postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
  • postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
  • posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potato eaters — a painting (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • power station — a generating station.
  • power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 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.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • 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.
  • preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
  • procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • professoriate — a group of professors.
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
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