13-letter words containing c, o, l, e, s
- physics model — a variety of software illustrating the movement of objects in reality, used by designers of video games to improve verisimilitude
- pick holes in — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
- place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
- plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
- plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
- plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- 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.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- polygalaceous — any plant of the genus Polygala, comprising the milkworts.
- polygonaceous — belonging to the Polygonaceae, the buckwheat family of plants.
- polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- 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.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- 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.
- 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.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protectorless — without a protector
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
- pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
- pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
- psychoanalyse — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychoanalyze — to investigate or treat by psychoanalysis.
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pyrocellulose — cordite.
- quelque chose — a trifle
- quelque-chose — kickshaw.
- radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
- ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
- re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- record sleeve — the outer covering of a phonograph record
- red corpuscle — a red blood cell.
- red delicious — a deep-red type of Delicious apple.
- reform school — reformatory (def 2).