13-letter words containing p, e, r, b
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- 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.
- problem-solve — find solutions
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- 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.
- prohibitively — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- 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
- proton number — the number of positive charges or protons in the nucleus of an atom of a given element, and therefore also the number of electrons normally surrounding the nucleus. Symbol: Z. Abbreviation: at. no.;
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- proverbialize — to use in a proverbial way
- prussian blue — any of a number of blue pigments containing ferrocyanide or ferricyanide complexes
- psychobabbler — a person who uses psychobabble
- public charge — a person who is in economic distress and is supported at government expense: He assured the American consul that the prospective immigrant would not become a public charge.
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- purple mombin — a tree, Spondias purpurea, of tropical America, having clusters of purple or greenish flowers and yellow or dark red fruit that is edible either raw or cooked.
- purpose-built — A purpose-built building has been specially designed and built for a particular use.
- raspberry jam — jam made using raspberries
- re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
- receptibility — the quality or condition of being receptible
- repairability — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
- repeatability — to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.
- replenishable — able to be replenished
- replicability — the quality or state of being replicable
- reprehensible — deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.
- 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.
- republicanize — to make republican.
- republication — publication anew.
- rumble strips — one of a series of rough or slightly raised strips of pavement on a highway, intended to slow down the speed of vehicles, as before a toll booth.
- rumbledethump — a Scottish dish of butter and mashed potatoes, sometimes mixed with cabbage or turnips
- semipermeable — permeable only to certain small molecules: a semipermeable membrane.
- she-crab soup — a thick, bisquelike soup made with the meat and eggs of the female crab.
- slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
- soapbox derby — a race between children in homemade racing carts
- spark chamber — a device for detecting elementary particles, consisting of a series of charged plates separated by a gas so that the passage of a charged particle causes sparking between adjacent plates.
- spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
- spiny lobster — any of several edible crustaceans of the family Palinuridae, differing from the true lobsters in having a spiny shell and lacking the large pincers.
- spiral nebula — (formerly) a spiral galaxy.
- sponge rubber — a light, spongy rubber, usually prepared by bubbling carbon dioxide through or whipping air into latex, used for padding, insulation, gaskets, etc.; foam rubber.
- spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
- spreader beam — a crosspiece for spacing the chains or cables hanging from the boom of a crane.
- spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
- spring binder — a loose-leaf binder in which a single, long, clamplike spring, forming the spine, holds the leaves.
- springboarded — a flexible board, projecting over water, from which divers leap or spring.
- spruce beetle — a beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, that feeds on and nests in spruce, pine, and other evergreen trees, sometimes causing extensive damage.