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

  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • 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.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • rabbit's foot — the foot of a rabbit, especially the left hind foot carried as a good-luck charm.
  • rabble-rouser — a person who stirs up the passions or prejudices of the public, usually for his or her own interests; demagogue.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
  • rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • red sea bream — either of two fish of the family Sparidae, Pagrus major and Pagellus bogaraveo. Pagrus major is a popular food fish in Japan, Taiwan and Spain
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • refried beans — fried mashed beans
  • releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • resectability — the state of being resectable
  • resublimation — Psychology. the diversion of the energy of a sexual or other biological impulse from its immediate goal to one of a more acceptable social, moral, or aesthetic nature or use.
  • rhumb sailing — sea navigation along rhumb lines.
  • rib eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • rib-eye steak — a large beefsteak cut from the outer, or eye, side of the ribs.
  • ribosomal rna — a type of RNA, distinguished by its length and abundance, functioning in protein synthesis as a component of ribosomes. Abbreviation: rRNA.
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • roanoke bells — a wild plant, Mertensia virginica, of the borage family, native to the eastern U.S., grown as a garden plant for its handsome, nodding clusters of blue flowers.
  • robben island — a small island in South Africa, 11 km (7 miles) off the Cape Peninsula: formerly used by the South African government to house political prisoners
  • robber barons — History/Historical. a noble who robbed travelers passing through his lands.
  • rough as bags — uncouth
  • run sb ragged — If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted.
  • saber-toothed — having long, saberlike upper canine teeth, sometimes extending below the margin of the lower jaw.
  • sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
  • sacred bamboo — nandina.
  • sacred scarab — a beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
  • saint bernard — Great, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
  • san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • santa barbara — a city on the SW coast of California: Spanish mission.
  • scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
  • scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
  • sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
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