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

  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proverbialism — a proverbial expression
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
  • psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
  • replenishable — able to be replenished
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • republicanism — republican government.
  • semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
  • sinumbra lamp — an unshaded sperm-oil lamp consisting of a translucent glass globe supported on a pedestal: a form of astral lamp.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • subperiosteal — the normal investment of bone, consisting of a dense, fibrous outer layer, to which muscles attach, and a more delicate, inner layer capable of forming bone.
  • subprime loan — A subprime loan is a loan with a higher interest rate, to borrowers who are a high credit risk.
  • subtriplicate — designating or involving the ratio of the cube roots of two terms
  • subtropically — in the subtropics
  • superannuable — (of a salary or job) with which a superannuation is associated, which entitles one to a superannuation
  • suprasensible — not perceptible by the senses
  • symbolography — the writing of symbolic characters or tracing of symbolic figures
  • triploblastic — having three primary germ layers, as the embryos of vertebrates.
  • trumpet blast — the sound of a single note made by a trumpet
  • umbrella step — (in the game of giant steps) a step executed by extending one foot forward and whirling on the heel.
  • un-personable — of pleasing personal appearance; handsome or comely; attractive.
  • unpersuadable — not open or susceptible to persuasion
  • unpleasurable — such as to give pleasure; enjoyable; agreeable; pleasant: a pleasurable experience.
  • unpleasurably — without pleasure, in an unpleasurable manner
  • unpresentable — not fit to be shown or introduced to other people
  • unrespectable — not able to be respected
  • unsupportable — capable of being supported; endurable; maintainable.
  • unsurpassable — to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree; be greater than; exceed.
  • unsurpassably — in an unsurpassable manner; in a way that cannot be surpassed
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