13-letter words containing c, a, b, s
- pablo picasso — Pablo [pah-bloh;; Spanish pah-vlaw] /ˈpɑ bloʊ;; Spanish ˈpɑ vlɔ/ (Show IPA), 1881–1973, Spanish painter and sculptor in France.
- 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
- post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- 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.
- rauschenbusch — Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.
- republicanism — republican government.
- resectability — the state of being resectable
- sabin vaccine — an orally administered vaccine of live viruses for immunization against poliomyelitis.
- sacred baboon — hamadryas baboon.
- sacred bamboo — nandina.
- sacred scarab — a beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, regarded by the ancient Egyptians as divine
- saddle-backed — having the back or upper surface curved like a saddle.
- saint columba — Padraic [paw-drik] /ˈpɔ drɪk/ (Show IPA), 1881–1972, Irish poet and dramatist, in the U.S. from 1914.
- saint-brieucs — a city in and the capital of the Côtes-du-Nord, in W France.
- saleleaseback — leaseback.
- san cristobal — a city in SW Venezuela.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- satanic abuse — sexual abuse (esp of children), killing, or violent acts considered to be carried out as part of satanic worship rituals
- savoy cabbage — a variety of cabbage having a compact head of crinkled, blistered leaves.
- sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- school phobia — a fear of going to or returning to school
- scrambled egg — eggs stirred while cooking
- scythian lamb — a fern, Cibotium barometz, of southeastern Asia, having stalks covered with shaggy, brownish hair and large, feathery leaves, formerly believed to be a source of vegetable wool.
- sea buckthorn — a thorny Eurasian shrub, Hippophaë rhamnoides, growing on sea coasts and having silvery leaves and orange fruits: family Elaeagnaceae
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- second banana — a comic who supports the leading comedian, often as a straight man, especially in burlesque or vaudeville.
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- selectability — to choose in preference to another or others; pick out.
- semi-abstract — pertaining to or designating a style of painting or sculpture in which the subject remains recognizable although the forms are highly stylized in a manner derived from abstract art.
- semicarbazide — an organic nitrogen compound derived from urea
- semicarbazone — a product that occurs as a result of aldehyde or ketone reacting with semicarbazide
- service break — an instance of a player winning a game against a server.
- shambolically — in a completely disorganized or chaotic manner
- shark biscuit — a bodyboard
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- shingle beach — a beach made of a mass of small pieces of rough stone
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- sketchability — the suitability for being sketched