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13-letter words containing c, a, s, e, r, o

  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • pocket-square — a handkerchief, often colored or figured, worn in the breast pocket of a suit or blazer as a fashion accessory.
  • polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • 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.
  • processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
  • procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
  • proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
  • proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
  • protest march — public demonstration
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • psychographer — a person who writes a psychograph; a psychological or psychographic biographer.
  • psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
  • racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
  • radius vector — Mathematics. the length of the line segment joining a fixed point or origin to a given point.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • raking course — a concealed course of bricks laid diagonally to the wall surface in a raking bond.
  • random access — designating or of a volatile memory that allows data to be accessed directly and does not require following a sequence of storage locations
  • random-access — direct-access.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reacquisition — the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
  • reactionarism — of, pertaining to, marked by, or favoring reaction, especially extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or social change.
  • reassociation — an organization of people with a common purpose and having a formal structure.
  • recessionista — a person whose clothes, whether cheap, second-hand, or suitably subdued, are considered appropriate to an economic downturn
  • recitationist — someone who gives recitations
  • reconsecrated — to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity: to consecrate a new church building.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • recreationist — a person who advocates that national parks, seashores, lakes, etc., be preserved in their natural state for recreation, farming, or scientific study.
  • regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
  • remote access — Remote access is a system which allows you to gain access to a particular computer or network using a separate computer.
  • reorchestrate — to orchestrate (a piece of music) again
  • reprographics — reprography.
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