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

  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • principalness — the quality or position of being principal
  • principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
  • prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • 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
  • public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
  • pupil teacher — a young person who plans to be a teacher and who spends part of his or her time in preliminary education undertaking teaching duties under the supervision of the head-teacher
  • pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • quadratically — square.
  • quadricipital — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
  • quadrilocular — having four compartments
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quadruplicate — one of four copies or identical items, especially copies of typewritten material.
  • quadruplicity — the state or fact of being quadruple or fourfold.
  • qualificatory — That serves as qualification.
  • quasi-crystal — a group of atoms resembling a crystal but not having symmetrical plane faces
  • quasiparticle — an entity, as an exciton or phonon, that interacts with elementary particles, but does not exist as a free particle.
  • quick-release — (of part of a device, etc) capable of being detached quickly and easily
  • 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.
  • radical right — the faction representing extreme right-wing political views; ultraconservatives; reactionaries.
  • radio control — remote control by means of radio signals from a transmitter
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