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13-letter words containing a, s, c, o, r, b

  • inconversable — (obsolete) uncommunicative; reserved.
  • isobarometric — isobaric
  • isocarboxazid — a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor, C 12 H 13 N 3 O 2 , used to treat severe depression.
  • jack robinson — Bill ("Bojangles") 1878–1949, U.S. tap dancer.
  • malabar coast — a region along the entire SW coast of India, extending from the Arabian Sea inland to the Western Ghats.
  • membranaceous — Resembling or having properties of a membrane.
  • microbalances — Plural form of microbalance.
  • microhabitats — Plural form of microhabitat.
  • misobservance — a failure to observe thoroughly or properly
  • noncarbonates — Plural form of noncarbonate.
  • nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
  • obstacle race — a foot race in which the contestants are prevented in a specific way from covering the full course at top speed, as by having hurdles to jump, sacks enclosing the legs, or potatoes to pick up.
  • obstetrically — (medicine) In terms of obstetrics.
  • obstetricians — Plural form of obstetrician.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • over-abstract — thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances: an abstract idea.
  • 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.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • 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.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • smoke chamber — an enlarged area between the throat of a fireplace and the chimney flue.
  • sonic barrier — sound barrier.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • streaky bacon — Streaky bacon is bacon which has stripes of fat between stripes of meat.
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • subcategorize — to split into subcategories
  • subcontractor — Law. a person who or business that contracts to provide some service or material necessary for the performance of another's contract.
  • subcoriaceous — almost leathery
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • surgical boot — a specially designed boot or shoe that compensates for deformities of the foot or leg
  • thromboclasis — thrombolysis.
  • triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
  • unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
  • variable cost — a cost that varies with a change in the volume of output while remaining uniform on a per-unit basis, as cost of labor (distinguished from fixed cost).
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