13-letter words containing p, a, r, o
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- 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.
- primary group — a group of individuals living in close, intimate, and personal relationship.
- primary tooth — one of the temporary teeth of a mammal that are replaced by the permanent teeth.
- 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.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- priority mail — (in the U.S. Postal Service) mail consisting of merchandise weighing more than 12 ounces sent at first-class rates.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- 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
- privatization — to transfer from public or government control or ownership to private enterprise: a campaign promise to privatize some of the public lands.
- pro-abolition — the act of abolishing: the abolition of war.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- professoriate — a group of professors.
- profit margin — the percentage that profit constitutes of total sales.
- profit taking — the selling of securities that have risen in price above costs; selling in order to realize a profit.
- profit-making — A profit-making business or organization makes a profit.
- profit-taking — Profit-taking is the selling of stocks and shares at a profit after their value has risen or just before their value falls.
- profitability — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- progametangia — Mycology. the hyphal tip of certain fungi that produces the gametangium and subsequent gamete.
- progenitorial — characteristic of a progenitor
- 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.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- proliferation — the growth or production of cells by multiplication of parts.
- prolification — the production of offspring
- promised land — Heaven.
- promonarchist — the principles of monarchy.
- promotability — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- pronominalize — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- pronunciation — Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination.