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

  • 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-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • 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.
  • primum mobile — (in Ptolemaic astronomy) the outermost of the 10 concentric spheres of the universe, making a complete revolution every 24 hours and causing all the others to do likewise.
  • pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
  • 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.
  • problem-solve — find solutions
  • 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.
  • prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • public office — position in government
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
  • 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
  • random rubble — masonry in which untooled stones are set without coursing
  • reasonability — agreeable to reason or sound judgment; logical: a reasonable choice for chairman.
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • redial button — a button on a telephone, allowing the user to dial a number again
  • reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
  • rehabilitator — to restore to a condition of good health, ability to work, or the like.
  • reinforceable — capable of being reinforced
  • 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).
  • republication — publication anew.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • robbe-grillet — Alain [a-lan] /aˈlɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1922–2008, French writer.
  • 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
  • robert fulton — Robert, 1765–1815, U.S. engineer and inventor: builder of the first profitable steamboat.
  • rock barnacle — any marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia, usually having a calcareous shell, being either stalked (goose barnacle) and attaching itself to ship bottoms and floating timber, or stalkless (rock barnacle or acorn barnacle) and attaching itself to rocks, especially in the intertidal zone.
  • rollerblading — skating on rollerblades
  • rubber gloves — gloves made of rubber, worn to protect the hands while washing up, gardening, etc
  • rube goldberg — having a fantastically complicated, improvised appearance: a Rube Goldberg arrangement of flasks and test tubes.
  • rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
  • rum rebellion — the deposition of Governor William Bligh in 1808 by officers of the New South Wales Corps, caused by his interference in their trading activities, esp in the trafficking of rum
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
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