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13-letter words containing b, e, s, l, o, r

  • problem-solve — find solutions
  • 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
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • 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.
  • rambling rose — any of various cultivated hybrid roses that straggle over other vegetation
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
  • self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
  • self-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
  • skilled labor — labor that requires special training for its satisfactory performance.
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • solar battery — an array of solar cells, used as a source of electrical power.
  • solderability — the characteristic of being solderable
  • sound blaster — (hardware)   The best known family of sound cards for the IBM PC from Creative Labs.
  • southern blot — a procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific DNA sequence or gene in a mixed extract, as in testing for a mutation or a virus: DNA strands from the person or organism under study are cut with restriction enzymes, separated by gel electrophoresis, transferred to special filter paper, and hybridized with a labeled DNA probe.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
  • sterling bloc — those countries having currencies whose values tend to vary directly with the rise and fall of the value of the pound sterling.
  • stone bramble — a herbaceous Eurasian rosaceous plant, Rubus saxatilis, of stony places, having white flowers and berry-like scarlet fruits (drupelets)
  • strobilaceous — resembling a strobilus; conelike.
  • subequatorial — of, relating to, or being a region near the equatorial region.
  • sublime porte — official name of Porte.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • superlobbyist — someone who lobbies on behalf of another
  • transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • truck bolster — the upper transverse member of a car truck that holds the truck center plate and receives the car's weight.
  • umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
  • un-personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
  • unconversable — inappropriate for conversation
  • unforeseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • unforeseeably — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • unobtrusively — not obtrusive; inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent.
  • unresponsible — answerable or accountable, as for something within one's power, control, or management (often followed by to or for): He is responsible to the president for his decisions.
  • unsmotherable — unquenchable
  • unsupportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • 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).
  • water-soluble — capable of dissolving in water.
  • well-observed — to see, watch, perceive, or notice: He observed the passersby in the street.
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