13-letter words containing l, a, p, o, r, t
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- primordiality — constituting a beginning; giving origin to something derived or developed; original; elementary: primordial forms of life.
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- private hotel — a residential hotel or boarding house in which the proprietor has the right to refuse to accept a person as a guest, esp a person arriving by chance
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- problem state — IBM jargon for user mode, the opposite of "supervisor state". On IBM System 360, 370 and 390 mainframes privileged instructions may only be executed in "supervisor state". Application programs request the operating system to perform these operations by using the Supervisor Call (SVC) instruction.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- 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
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolification — the production of offspring
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- propositional — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- propraetorial — of, or relating to, a propraetor
- proprietarily — belonging to a proprietor.
- proprietorial — the owner of a business establishment, a hotel, etc.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- proto-elamite — the indigenous script of Elam, found on inscriptions and tablets from the fourth millennium b.c.
- protolanguage — the reconstructed or postulated parent form of a language or a group of related languages.
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.
- provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
- psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
- pterylography — the description of the feather arrangement on birds
- pulverization — to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding.
- pyrolytically — in a pyrolytic manner
- pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
- quaterpolymer — A copolymer derived from four species of monomer.
- radioteletype — Also called radioteletypewriter [rey-dee-oh-tel-i-tahyp-rahy-ter, -tel-i-tahyp-rahy-] /ˌreɪ di oʊˌtɛl ɪˈtaɪpˌraɪ tər, -ˈtɛl ɪ taɪpˌraɪ-/ (Show IPA). a teletypewriter equipped for transmitting or receiving messages by radio instead of wire.
- real property — an estate or property consisting of lands and of all appurtenances to lands, as buildings, crops, or mineral rights (distinguished from personal property).
- realpolitiker — someone who practises or believes in realpolitik