13-letter words containing e, t, o, c, l, s
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- 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).
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- 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.
- 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
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- 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.
- regionalistic — Government. the principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
- rochelle salt — a white crystalline double salt, sodium potassium tartrate, used in Seidlitz powder. Formula: KNaC4H4O6.4H2O
- rollercoaster — a small gravity railroad, especially in an amusement park, having a train with open cars that moves along a high, sharply winding trestle built with steep inclines that produce sudden, speedy plunges for thrill-seeking passengers.
- royal society — The Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, a society through which the British government has supported scientific investigation since 1662: awards four annual medals.
- sacerdotalism — the system, spirit, or methods of the priesthood.
- sacerdotalize — to submit (something) to sacerdotalism
- salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
- salvage costs — the costs involved in salvaging goods or property from fire, shipwreck, etc
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- scholasticate — a course of study for seminarians, taken prior to their theological studies.
- school report — written assessment of school pupil
- school system — state education
- schoolteacher — a teacher in a school, especially in one below the college level.
- sclerodermite — the hard covering of a section or segment of the body of an insect
- scleroprotein — protein that is fibrous and insoluble in water, serving a protective or supportive function in the body.
- sclerotherapy — Medicine/Medical. a treatment for varicose veins in which blood flow is diverted and the veins collapsed by injection of a hardening solution, also used cosmetically in spider veins to eliminate discoloration.
- scotch lovage — a similar and related plant, Ligusticum scoticum, of N Europe
- second ballot — an electoral procedure in which if no candidate emerges as a clear winner in a first ballot, candidates at the bottom of the poll are eliminated and another ballot is held among the remaining candidates
- secret ballot — a vote in which the confidentiality of how one votes is safeguarded.
- secret police — a police force that functions as the enforcement arm of a government's political policies and whose activities, which often include surveillance, intimidation, and physical violence as a means of suppressing dissent, are usually concealed from the public.
- sectionalized — divided into sections
- selenocentric — having the moon as its center.
- self-checkout — A self-checkout is a checkout where customers scan, pack and pay for their goods in a store without being served by a sales associate.
- self-conflict — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- self-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
- semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
- sex selection — the practice of attempting to control the sex of a baby in order to achieve a desired sex, through various scientific methods
- silver doctor — a type of artificial fly, used chiefly for trout and salmon.
- single combat — combat between two persons.
- single-action — (of a firearm) requiring the cocking of the hammer before firing each shot: a single-action revolver.
- sister school — a university or college which is financially, historically or socially linked to another
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre