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

  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
  • 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.
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
  • propositional — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • 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
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • 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.
  • provisionally — providing or serving for the time being only; existing only until permanently or properly replaced; temporary: a provisional government.
  • psilanthropic — relating to psilanthropism
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • random sample — a statistical sample that is devised to avoid interference so that its distribution is affected only by, and so can be held to represent, that of the whole population
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • saloon keeper — a person who owns or operates a saloon.
  • scalpelliform — having the shape of a scalpel blade
  • 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.
  • selenographer — the branch of astronomy that deals with the charting of the moon's surface.
  • self-approval — the act of approving; approbation.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • self-reproach — blame or censure by one's own conscience.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semiporcelain — any of several vitrified ceramic wares lacking the translucency or hardness of true porcelain but otherwise similar to it.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • shell program — A shell program is a basic computer program that provides a framework within which the user can develop the program to suit their own needs.
  • silver poplar — white poplar (def 1).
  • simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
  • soccer player — A soccer player is a person who plays soccer, especially as a profession.
  • solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
  • solar-powered — powered by heat radiation from the sun converted into electrical power
  • solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.
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