13-letter words containing p, l, o, c
- postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
- postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
- postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
- postcranially — affecting the postcranium
- postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
- postholocaust — following a holocaust
- potamological — of or relating to potamology
- potter's clay — a clay, suitably plastic and free of iron and other impurities, for use by potters.
- prague school — a school of linguistics emphasizing structure, active in the 1920s and 1930s.
- praxeological — of or pertaining to praxeology
- praxiological — the study of human conduct.
- 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-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
- 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.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- preganglionic — of, relating to, or consisting of ganglia.
- 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.
- prickly poppy — any tropical American poppy of the genus Argemone, especially A. mexicana (Mexican poppy) having prickly pods and leaves and yellow or white, poppylike flowers.
- primary color — Art. a color, as red, yellow, or blue, that in mixture yields other colors. Compare complementary color (def 1), secondary color, tertiary color.
- principal boy — the leading male role in a pantomime, played by a woman
- privy council — a board or select body of personal advisers, as of a sovereign.
- pro-celebrity — (of a golf tournament, snooker tournament, etc) involving both professional players and celebrities
- probabilistic — Statistics. of or relating to probability: probabilistic forecasting.
- problematical — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- 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.
- procreational — having the potential to procreate
- producibility — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- proleptically — anticipatorily
- prolification — the production of offspring
- promiscuously — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- pronounceable — to enunciate or articulate (sounds, words, sentences, etc.).
- prophetically — of or relating to a prophet: prophetic inspiration.
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- protectorless — without a protector
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- provincialise — to make provincial in character.
- provincialism — narrowness of mind, ignorance, or the like, considered as resulting from lack of exposure to cultural or intellectual activity.
- provincialist — a native or inhabitant of a province.
- provinciality — provincial character.
- provincialize — to make provincial in character.
- provocational — the act of provoking.