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13-letter words containing r, o, t, c, e, l

  • pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
  • pearl tapioca — a food substance prepared from cassava in granular, flake, pellet (pearl tapioca) or flour form, used in puddings, as a thickener, etc.
  • perchlorinate — to combine with the maximum proportion of chlorine.
  • perfunctorily — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • periodicalist — a writer of articles for periodicals
  • perissodactyl — having an uneven number of toes or digits on each foot.
  • personalistic — Also called personal idealism. a modern philosophical movement locating ultimate value and reality in persons, human or divine.
  • petrochemical — a chemical substance obtained from petroleum or natural gas, as gasoline, kerosene, or petrolatum.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phallocentric — a doctrine or belief centered on the phallus, especially a belief in the superiority of the male sex.
  • photoallergic — photosensitive.
  • photoelectric — pertaining to the electronic or other electric effects produced by light.
  • photoelectron — an electron emitted from a system by the photoelectric effect.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • piezoelectric — electricity, or electric polarity, produced by the piezoelectric effect.
  • pilot officer — A pilot officer is an officer of low rank in the British Royal Air Force.
  • 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
  • pointe claire — a city in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal, on the St. Lawrence.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • polycarbonate — a synthetic thermoplastic resin, a linear polymer of carbonic acid, used for molded products, films, and nonbreakable windows.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
  • prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • proleptically — anticipatorily
  • 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
  • provocatively — tending or serving to provoke; inciting, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.
  • public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
  • pyrotechnical — of or relating to pyrotechnics.
  • re-allocation — the act of allocating; apportionment.
  • re-collection — the act of re-collecting or the state of being re-collected.
  • re-escalation — the act of re-escalating
  • reapplication — an act or the process of reapplying a substance
  • recalculation — recount, act of computing again
  • recalibration — the act or process of recalibrating something
  • reciprocality — given or felt by each toward the other; mutual: reciprocal respect.
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