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13-letter words containing c, r, o, s, p, l

  • necrophiliacs — Plural form of necrophiliac.
  • non-spherical — having the form of a sphere; globular.
  • noncompulsory — Not compulsory.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • oscillographs — Plural form of oscillograph.
  • oscillography — a device for recording the wave-forms of changing currents, voltages, or any other quantity that can be translated into electric energy, as sound waves.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • personal call — a private phone call
  • personal care — assistance in dressing, grooming, etc., provided to elderly, disabled, or other persons who are unable to care for themselves.
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • plasmodiocarp — a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
  • 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.
  • polycistronic — of or relating to the transcription of two or more adjacent cistrons into a single messenger RNA molecule.
  • popular music — music having wide appeal, esp characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies
  • porcelaineous — like porcelain
  • postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
  • postcranially — affecting the postcranium
  • 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.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • 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.
  • promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • pseudo-colour — an artificial colour
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
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