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13-letter words containing c, a, s, t, p, l

  • postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
  • postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • postholocaust — following a holocaust
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • 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.
  • precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • procapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • 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.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychoanalyst — a person trained to practice psychoanalysis.
  • psychotically — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • resting place — grave
  • sales receipt — slip or document: proof of payment
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • scapulimantic — relating to scapulimancy
  • sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
  • scotch plains — a township in NE New Jersey.
  • scripturalism — the state of being scriptural or adhering to the Scriptures when translating or writing
  • scripturalist — a literalist or translator obedient to the Scriptures
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • sesquiplicate — relating to or involving the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of given terms; i.e. the sesquiplicate ratio of given terms is the ratio between the square roots of the cubes of those terms
  • share capital — A company's share capital is the money that shareholders invest in order to start or expand the business.
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • skepticalness — inclined to skepticism; having an attitude of doubt: a skeptical young woman who will question whatever you say.
  • small capital — a capital letter of a particular font, the same height as the x-high letters.
  • sophistically — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.
  • 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
  • space lattice — lattice (def 4).
  • space shuttle — any of several U.S. space vehicles consisting of a reusable manned orbiter that touches down on a landing strip after an orbital mission, two reusable solid rocket boosters that drop off after initial ascent, and an expendable external tank containing liquid propellants.
  • spastic colon — a chronic condition of recurring abdominal pain with constipation or diarrhoea or both
  • special agent — an investigator in a law enforcement agency.
  • special staff — all staff officers assigned to headquarters of a division or higher unit who are not members of the general staff or personal staff.
  • specialities' — specialty.
  • spectacularly — of or like a spectacle; marked by or given to an impressive, large-scale display.
  • spectral line — a line in a spectrum due to the absorption or emission of light at a discrete frequency.
  • spectral type — a category for classifying a star, as A star or G star, according to features of its spectrum, as its shape as a function of temperature and wavelength and its absorption spectrum, that indicate the surface temperature of the star and the presence of particular atoms or molecules in its outer layers: principal types are spectral types O, B, A, F, G, K, and M.
  • speculatively — pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach.
  • state capitol — the building which houses the government of a state
  • steeplechaser — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
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