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13-letter words containing s, p, a, b, t

  • hospitability — The quality of being hospitable.
  • hospital bill — the bills incurred for receiving hospital treatment
  • hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
  • impassability — The state or quality of being impassable.
  • impassibility — The state or condition of being impassible.
  • incompatibles — not compatible; unable to exist together in harmony: She asked for a divorce because they were utterly incompatible.
  • insupportable — not endurable; unbearable; insufferable: insupportable pain.
  • insupportably — In an insupportable manner.
  • library paste — a white, smooth paste for paper and lightweight cardboard.
  • library steps — a folding stepladder, especially one folding into another piece of furniture, as a table or chair.
  • lymphoblastic — (US, cytology, immunology) Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
  • malabsorption — faulty absorption of nutritive material from the intestine.
  • nonabsorptive — Not absorptive.
  • object pascal — (language)   An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
  • opisthobranch — any gastropod mollusk of the order Opisthobranchia, as the sea slugs, sea butterflies, and sea hares, characterized by a vestigial or absent mantle and shell and two pairs of tentacles.
  • parrot's-bill — a showy, vinelike plant, Clianthus puniceus, of New Zealand, having clusters of eight white-streaked, crimson flowers.
  • parsons table — a square or rectangular table, often of lightweight material, with straight legs that are square in cross section and of the same thickness as the top extending from the corners flush with the top so as to appear jointless.
  • pass the buck — Poker. any object in the pot that reminds the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
  • penobscot bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in S Maine. 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • pentasyllable — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • perishability — subject to decay, ruin, or destruction: perishable fruits and vegetables.
  • personal best — A sports player's personal best is the highest score or fastest time that they have ever achieved.
  • picnic basket — woven container for carrying food outdoors
  • pigeon breast — chicken breast.
  • pleasure boat — recreational vessel
  • pollen basket — (of bees) a smooth area on the hind tibia of each leg fringed with long hairs and serving to transport pollen.
  • post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
  • postdebutante — following the stage of being a debutante
  • postvertebral — of or relating to a vertebra or the vertebrae; spinal.
  • pre-establish — to establish, set up, set out, arrange or make secure in advance or previously
  • prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • proverbialist — a person who composes, records or uses proverbial expressions
  • punjab states — (formerly) a group of states in NW India, amalgamated in 1956 with Punjab state
  • re-absorption — resorption (def 2).
  • representable — to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize: In this painting the cat represents evil and the bird, good.
  • septisyllable — a word made up of seven syllables.
  • slumber party — a social gathering typically of teenagers held at the home of one of them for the purpose of sleeping there overnight.
  • snap-brim hat — a hat brim that can be turned up or down.
  • space blanket — a plastic insulating body wrapping coated on one or both sides with aluminium foil which reflects back most of the body heat lost by radiation: carried by climbers, mountaineers, etc, for use in cases of exposure or exhaustion
  • speaking tube — a tube for conveying the voice over a somewhat limited distance, as from one part of a building or ship to another.
  • spermatoblast — a reproductive cell
  • spreadability — capable of being spread; easily spread: a soft, spreadable cheese.
  • spring beauty — any American spring plant belonging to the genus Claytonia, of the purslane family, especially C. virginica, having an elongated cluster of white flowers tinged with pink.
  • step aerobics — a set of aerobic exercises designed to improve the cardiovascular system, which consists of stepping on and off a special box of adjustable height
  • sub-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
  • subdepartment — a distinct part of anything arranged in divisions; a division of a complex whole or organized system.
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