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13-letter words containing o, p, a, c

  • potomac river — a river flowing SE from the Allegheny Mountains in West Virginia, along the boundary between Maryland and Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay. 287 miles (460 km) long.
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • praecipitatio — Meteorology. precipitation from a cloud that reaches the surface of the earth (distinguished from virga).
  • prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
  • praxiological — the study of human conduct.
  • pre-cognizant — having cognizance; aware (usually followed by of): He was cognizant of the difficulty.
  • pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
  • pre-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • 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.
  • prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
  • precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
  • precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
  • precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • preexcitation — the act of exciting.
  • prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
  • preponderance — the fact or quality of being preponderant; superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.: The preponderance of votes is against the proposal.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
  • prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
  • primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
  • principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • pro-democracy — government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
  • proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
  • probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
  • probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
  • problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
  • 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.
  • processionary — of, relating to, or moving in a procession
  • procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • procreational — having the potential to procreate
  • procuratorate — Roman History. any of various imperial officials with fiscal or administrative powers.
  • product range — variety of merchandise within a brand
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
  • program music — music intended to convey an impression of a definite series of images, scenes, or events.
  • proleptically — anticipatorily
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