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13-letter words containing p, e, r, s, t, o

  • postembryonic — occurring after the embryonic phase.
  • postemergence — occurring or applied after emergence of a plant from the soil and before full growth: postemergence frost.
  • postemergency — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after an emergency
  • posterization — a process for producing a posterlike, high-contrast color reproduction from continuous-tone art by using separation negatives of various densities.
  • posting error — an error made while carrying over an entry from a journal to a ledger
  • postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • postoperative — occurring after a surgical operation.
  • postrecession — occurring or existing in the period after a recession
  • postsecondary — of or relating to education beyond high school: She completed her postsecondary education at a two-year college.
  • posttreatment — an act or manner of treating.
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • potato eaters — a painting (1885) by Vincent Van Gogh.
  • potato-masher — a kitchen implement used to crush or mash potatoes
  • potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
  • power station — a generating station.
  • praetorianism — the control of a society by force or fraud, especially when exercised through titular officials and by a powerful minority.
  • 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.
  • preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
  • precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • predistortion — preemphasis.
  • premonishment — a forewarning
  • prepositional — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
  • prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
  • press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
  • pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
  • pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
  • pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
  • price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
  • 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.
  • princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
  • print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
  • priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • professoriate — a group of professors.
  • progestogenic — relating to progestogen
  • prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
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