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

  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • parking brake — emergency brake.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • particle beam — Physics. a concentrated stream of particles, as electrons, neutrons, or protons, generated for studying particle interactions, nuclear structure, crystal structure, etc.
  • particleboard — a boardlike building material made by compressing sawdust or wood particles with a resin binder
  • partitionable — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
  • path-breaking — very original; ground-breaking
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • peanut butter — a paste made from ground roasted peanuts, used as a spread or in cookery.
  • pebble garden — a small ornamental garden mainly composed of an arrangement of pebbles
  • pebble heater — a heat exchanger utilizing refractory pellets to store and give off heat.
  • pentobarbital — a barbiturate, C 1 1 H 1 7 N 2 O 3 , used as a hypnotic and as a sedative.
  • perambulation — to walk through, about, or over; travel through; traverse.
  • perboric acid — a hypothetical acid, HBO 3 , known only in the form of its salts.
  • perditionable — deserving perdition or damnation
  • perennibranch — any amphibian that retains its gills throughout its life
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • peruvian bark — cinchona (def 2).
  • phenobarbital — a white, crystalline powder, C 1 2 H 1 2 N 2 O 3 , used as a sedative, a hypnotic, and as an antispasmodic in epilepsy.
  • phlebographic — relating to phlebography or the X-ray imaging of a vein that has been injected with a dye that is visible on the image taken
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pine grosbeak — a large grosbeak, Pinicola enucleator, of coniferous forests of northern North America and Eurasia, the male of which has rose and gray plumage.
  • plain bearing — any of various bearings, not containing rolling elements, that present to the shaft or axle they support broad areas of corresponding form, usually segments of a cylinder.
  • plant breeder — a botanist concerned with the origin and evolution of plants
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • pork-barreler — a politician, especially a senator or member of Congress who is party to or benefits from a pork barrel.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • 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-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • 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.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • premandibular — situated in front of the mandible
  • price bracket — a notional range of prices which consumers are prepared to pay for a good
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • private brand — a product marketed under a private label.
  • 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.
  • privy chamber — a private apartment in a royal residence.
  • probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
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