13-letter words containing p, l, a, s
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- postinaugural — of or relating to the period after an inauguration
- postisolation — following a period of isolation
- postlapsarian — occurring or being after the Fall.
- postmenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- postulational — to ask, demand, or claim.
- postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
- 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.
- prairie style — the style of the architects of the Prairie School.
- pre-classical — of, relating to, or characteristic of Greek and Roman antiquity: classical literature; classical languages.
- pre-eclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
- pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
- 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.
- 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.
- preindustrial — of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or resulting from industry: industrial production; industrial waste.
- preliminaries — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premenopausal — of, relating to, or characteristic of menopause.
- 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.
- present value — current monetary worth
- presentiality — the state of being present
- press gallery — a press section, especially in a legislative chamber.
- press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
- press release — news update or bulletin
- pressed glass — molded glass that has been shaped or given its pattern, while molten, by the action of a plunger thrust into the mold.
- primal scream — a scream uttered by a person undergoing primal therapy.
- primatologist — the branch of zoology dealing with the primates.
- principalness — the quality or position of being principal
- principalship — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
- prismatically — of, relating to, or like a prism.
- 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.
- 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.
- progressional — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- promised land — Heaven.
- proposal form — a form filled out by a person applying for insurance
- propositional — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prostaglandin — Biochemistry. any of a class of unsaturated fatty acids that are involved in the contraction of smooth muscle, the control of inflammation and body temperature, and many other physiological functions.
- protanomalous — of, relating to, or affected by protanomaly
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- proverbialism — a proverbial expression
- proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.