13-letter words containing p, e, r, l, c
- platonic year — a period of about 26,000 years, equal to the time required for a complete revolution of the equinoxes.
- plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
- pleurocarpous — (of certain mosses) bearing the fructifications along the main stem or lateral branches.
- pluripresence — presence in more than one place at the same time
- plus juncture — open juncture.
- pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
- polar nucleus — Botany. either of two female haploid nuclei, in the embryo sac of flowers, that fuse to produce a diploid nucleus, which combines with a male nucleus to form the endosperm.
- police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
- police record — an official file, held by the police, containing details of any criminal offences committed by an individual
- polished rice — white rice polished or buffed by leather-covered cylinders during processing.
- pollice verso — with thumbs turned downward: the sign made by spectators calling for the death of a defeated gladiator in the ancient Roman circus.
- polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
- porcelaineous — like porcelain
- porcelainlike — resembling porcelain
- port colborne — a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- practicalness — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
- pre-calculate — to determine or ascertain by mathematical methods; compute: to calculate the velocity of light.
- pre-celebrate — to observe (a day) or commemorate (an event) with ceremonies or festivities: to celebrate Christmas; to celebrate the success of a new play.
- pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
- pre-columbian — of or relating to the Americas before the arrival of Columbus: pre-Columbian art; pre-Columbian Indians.
- pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-eclamptic — a woman suffering from pre-eclampsia
- pre-placement — the act of an employment office or employer in filling a position.
- pre-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
- 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.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- prejudicially — causing prejudice or disadvantage; detrimental.
- prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- prince albert — Carl (Bert) 1908–2000, U.S. politician: Speaker of the House 1971–77.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- 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.