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13-letter words containing b, s, p, e, c

  • overprescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • paucis verbis — in or by few words; with brevity.
  • peach blossom — the flower of the peach tree: the state flower of Delaware.
  • penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pensacola bay — an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, in NW Florida. About 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postpubescent — a young person in his or her early teens.
  • pre-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • 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
  • prepubescence — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
  • pressed brick — face brick molded under pressure to a desired finish.
  • 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.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • public access — the availability of noncommercial television and radio broadcasting facilities to community groups or members of the public for programs of general interest to the community, especially as a condition of cable television franchises.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pubococcygeus — a muscle that stretches backward from the pubes toward the coccyx and forms part of the pelvic floor. Abbreviation: PC.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
  • space biology — exobiology.
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
  • specbase_fp92 — A variant of SPECfp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • speech bubble — cartoon: spoken text in a balloon
  • spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • sub-component — a constituent part; element; ingredient.
  • subappearance — a slight appearance
  • subdiscipline — training to act in accordance with rules; drill: military discipline.
  • subprefecture — the office or position of subprefect
  • subspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • subspeciality — a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subspecialize — to specialize in a particular area of expertise within a specialism
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
  • to be precise — You say 'to be precise' to indicate that you are giving more detailed or accurate information than you have just given.
  • unrespectable — not able to be respected
  • unspecifiable — not able to be specified
  • unsusceptible — not susceptible or impressionable; not possible or easy to influence; not vulnerable (to harm)
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