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13-letter words containing l, e, p, t, o, s

  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • 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.
  • poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
  • rehospitalize — to place in hospital again
  • relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
  • repetitiously — full of repetition, especially unnecessary and tedious repetition: a repetitious account of their vacation trip.
  • reptile house — a house, shed, etc, used to keep reptiles in, as at a zoo, etc
  • reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
  • reupholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
  • roll-top desk — a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
  • salpingectomy — excision of the Fallopian tube.
  • school report — written assessment of school pupil
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • selenotropism — growth in response to moonlight.
  • self-contempt — the feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn.
  • self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
  • selling point — a unique or advantageous feature that appeals to the prospective buyer of a service, product, etc.: A generous discount is the chief selling point of the book club.
  • semi-tropical — Semi-tropical places have warm, wet air.
  • semipalmation — the state of being semipalmate
  • semipolitical — of a partially political nature; having some political features.
  • septentrional — northern; boreal
  • sexploitation — the exploitation of sex in films, magazines, etc.
  • shetland pony — one of a breed of small but sturdy, rough-coated ponies, raised originally in the Shetland Islands.
  • siphon bottle — a bottle for aerated water, fitted with a bent tube through the neck, the water being forced out, when a valve is opened, by the pressure on its surface of the gas accumulating within the bottle.
  • sleep through — If you sleep through something, it does not wake you up.
  • slotted spoon — a large spoon whose bowl has several slots or holes for draining liquid from food being ladled.
  • 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
  • southern alps — a mountain range in New Zealand, on South Island: the highest range in Australasia. Highest peak: Mount Cook (also known as Aoraki or Aorangi), 3754 m (12 316 ft)
  • speleotherapy — a form of treatment for asthma sufferers that takes place in clinics in disused mines, in which the air is free of pollen, dust mites, and the other irritants that provoke an allergic reaction; used to reduce the risk of heart disease
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
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