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13-letter words containing c, o, r, a, l

  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • procapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
  • 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.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • proleptically — anticipatorily
  • prolification — the production of offspring
  • pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
  • prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
  • proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
  • provincialise — to make provincial in character.
  • provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
  • provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
  • provinciality — provincial character.
  • provincialize — to make provincial in character.
  • provocational — the act of provoking.
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quadrilocular — having four compartments
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • racial memory — feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply influenced the mind and behavior.
  • racialisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of racialization.
  • racialization — to impose a racial interpretation on; place in a racial context.
  • radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
  • radio silence — the absence, usually deliberately maintained, of radio transmissions
  • radiochemical — pertaining to or involving radiochemistry.
  • radiolocation — the method or process of determining the position and velocity of an object by radar.
  • ragged school — (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
  • ramon y cajal — Santiago [sahn-tyah-gaw] /sɑnˈtyɑ gɔ/ (Show IPA), 1852–1934, Spanish histologist: Nobel Prize in medicine 1906.
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • rationalistic — the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
  • re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
  • recalculation — recount, act of computing again
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
  • recirculation — an act or instance of circulating, moving in a circle or circuit, or flowing.
  • recognitional — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
  • recommendable — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • recommendably — in a way that is recommendable
  • recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
  • reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
  • record dealer — a person who buys and sells vinyl records
  • record player — phonograph.
  • recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
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