13-letter words containing c, o, t, e, l
- pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- police action — a relatively localized military action undertaken by regular armed forces, without a formal declaration of war, against guerrillas, insurgents, or other forces held to be violating international peace and order.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- politicalized — to cause to be political; color with politics.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- polycotyledon — a plant having more than two cotyledons, as certain gymnosperms.
- polycythaemia — an abnormal condition of the blood characterized by an increase in the number of red blood cells. It can occur as a primary disease of unknown cause (polycythaemia vera or erythraemia) or in association with respiratory or circulatory diseases
- 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).
- polytechnical — relating to a technical school
- port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- 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.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- 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
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- 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
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quodlibetical — a subtle or elaborate argument or point of debate, usually on a theological or scholastic subject.
- re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
- re-collection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
- 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.
- recollectedly — in a recollected manner
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- recompilation — the act of compiling: the compilation of documents.
- reconcilement — to cause (a person) to accept or be resigned to something not desired: He was reconciled to his fate.
- reconsolidate — to bring together (separate parts) into a single or unified whole; unite; combine: They consolidated their three companies.
- recultivation — the act or art of cultivating.
- reduplication — the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.