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  • neocapitalism — a politico-economic theory combining elements of capitalism and socialism
  • neocapitalist — a person who advocates neocapitalism
  • neoplasticism — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
  • nondescriptly — in a nondescript manner
  • nonspecialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
  • object pascal — (language)   An object-oriented Pascal developed jointly by Apple Computer and Niklaus Wirth.
  • opthalmoscope — Misspelling of ophthalmoscope.
  • optical mouse — (hardware)   Any kind of mouse that uses visible light or infrared to detect changes in its position.
  • overspeculate — to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • palaeocrystic — consisting of former glacial formation
  • paleo-asiatic — a member of any of various Mongoloid peoples of northeastern Asia.
  • parallelistic — of, relating to, or of the nature of a parallelism.
  • pastoral care — help with personal needs and problems given by a teacher
  • paternalistic — the system, principle, or practice of managing or governing individuals, businesses, nations, etc., in the manner of a father dealing benevolently and often intrusively with his children: The employees objected to the paternalism of the old president.
  • pedal cyclist — a person who rides a pedal cycle, as opposed to a motorcycle
  • peirastically — in a peirastic manner
  • pelican state — Louisiana (used as a nickname).
  • pencil stripe — a stripe of varying widths, especially a dark stripe on a light ground.
  • pentasyllabic — a word or line of verse of five syllables.
  • 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.
  • perspectively — a technique of depicting volumes and spatial relationships on a flat surface. Compare aerial perspective, linear perspective.
  • petrophysical — relating to the analysis of the constitution and characteristics of rocks
  • phelloplastic — an image or a representation that has been fashioned from cork
  • phlogisticate — to integrate or blend phlogiston with
  • physicalities — the physical attributes of a person, especially when overdeveloped or overemphasized.
  • pictorialness — the state of being pictorial
  • picturesquely — visually charming or quaint, as if resembling or suitable for a painting: a picturesque fishing village.
  • pietistically — in a pietistical manner
  • place setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • place-setting — the group of dishes, silverware, glasses, etc., set at the place of each person at a meal.
  • plain-clothes — Plain-clothes police officers wear ordinary clothes instead of a police uniform.
  • planet-struck — affected adversely by the supposed influence of a planet.
  • plastic money — credit cards, used instead of cash
  • plectopterous — of or relating to the order Plectoptera, containing mayflies
  • plus juncture — open juncture.
  • pocket chisel — any woodworking chisel having a blade of medium length.
  • police escort — a police officer or vehicle which accompanies a prisoner
  • polysynthetic — (of a language) characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of affixes to express syntactic relationships and meanings. Many American Indian languages are polysynthetic. Compare analytic (def 3), synthetic (def 3).
  • postepileptic — after an epileptic seizure
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • prescriptible — subject to or suitable for prescription.
  • 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.
  • prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
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