13-letter words containing o, p, t, e
- 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-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- 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.
- probate court — a special court with power over administration of estates of deceased persons, the probate of wills, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- profit center — a segment of a business organization that has a profitable base independent of the business as a whole.
- profit centre — a unit or department of a company that is responsible for its costs and its profits
- profit motive — the desire for profit that motivates one to engage in business ventures.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- progestogenic — relating to progestogen
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- progovernment — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- progressivist — the principles and practices of progressives.
- progressivity — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- projection tv — a system made up of lenses, mirrors, and a cathode-ray tube, for projecting video images onto a large screen
- projectionist — an operator of a motion-picture or slide projector.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolonge knot — a knot consisting of three overlapping loops formed by a single rope passed alternately over and under itself at crossings.
- pronouncement — a formal or authoritative statement.
- proparoxytone — having an accent or heavy stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
- proper motion — Astronomy. the angular motion of a star relative to a suitably defined frame of reference, expressed in seconds of arc per year.
- proper subset — a subset that excludes at least one member of the containing set
- property bond — a bond issued by a life-assurance company, the premiums for which are invested in a property-owning fund
- property porn — a genre of escapist TV programmes, magazine features, etc, showing desirable properties for sale, esp those in idyllic rural locations, or in need of renovation, or both
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- proportionate — proportioned; being in due proportion; proportional.
- propositioned — 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.
- proprioceptor — a receptor located in subcutaneous tissues, as muscles, tendons, and joints, that responds to stimuli produced within the body.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protectionist — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protectorless — without a protector