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13-letter words containing b, e, l, t, r, a

  • pre-celebrate — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private label — the label of a product, or the product itself, sold under the name of a wholesaler or retailer, by special arrangement with the manufacturer or producer.
  • 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.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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.
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • rabbit-killer — a rabbit punch.
  • ratable value — (formerly) a fixed value assigned to a property by a local authority, on the basis of which variable annual rates are charged
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • reality-based — (especially of television) portraying or alleging to portray events as they actually happened.
  • realizability — the ability of something to be realized
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • rebarbatively — in a rebarbative manner
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recallability — the quality of being recallable
  • receivability — the fact or condition of being receivable
  • recyclability — to treat or process (used or waste materials) so as to make suitable for reuse: recycling paper to save trees.
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reestablished — to found, institute, build, or bring into being on a firm or stable basis: to establish a university; to establish a medical practice.
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • refundability — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
  • rehabilitated — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • releasability — to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go: to release a prisoner; to release someone from a debt.
  • relubrication — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
  • remarkability — notably or conspicuously unusual; extraordinary: a remarkable change.
  • remediability — the state of being able to be remedied
  • repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
  • replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
  • 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.
  • republication — publication anew.
  • 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.
  • retainability — to keep possession of.
  • retrofittable — to modify equipment (in airplanes, automobiles, a factory, etc.) that is already in service using parts developed or made available after the time of original manufacture.
  • rialto bridge — a bridge over the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, liking Rialto Island with San Marco Island
  • riding stable — a place where horses are kept for people to ride
  • sanitary belt — a narrow belt, usually of elastic, for holding a sanitary napkin in place.
  • sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
  • silent barter — dumb barter.
  • sinterability — the capacity to be sintered
  • slaughterable — (of an animal) ready for slaughter
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