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13-letter words containing b, e, t

  • potbelly wood — a load of firewood, approximately half a cord, cut in lengths of 16 inches (40 cm) or less for use in a potbelly stove.
  • 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
  • pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • preferability — more desirable.
  • prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
  • 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.
  • pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • proper subset — a subset that excludes at least one member of the containing set
  • property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
  • proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • public health — health services to improve and protect community health, especially sanitation, immunization, and preventive medicine.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • punjab states — (formerly) a group of states in NW India, amalgamated in 1956 with Punjab state
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • quarantinable — Subject to quarantine; under quarantine.
  • quarter-bound — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quarter-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person with one white grandparent, especially a person of American Indian ancestry.
  • quarterbacked — Simple past tense and past participle of quarterback.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • 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
  • ratbite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
  • rattlebrained — foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • re-submitting — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
  • 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.
  • reattribution — the act of attributing; ascription.
  • 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
  • receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
  • recombination — any of several processes by which genetic material of different origins becomes combined. It most commonly occurs between two sets of parental chromosomes during production of germ cells
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