13-letter words containing t, o, p, s, e, c
- 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.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- proactiveness — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- 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.
- procrastinate — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
- progestogenic — relating to progestogen
- prognosticate — to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy.
- projectionist — an operator of a motion-picture or slide projector.
- prosectorship — the position or responsibility of a prosector
- prosecutorial — of or relating to a prosecutor or prosecution: prosecutorial zeal.
- prospectively — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prostatectomy — excision of part or all of the prostate gland.
- protected sex — sexual activity during which a condom is used to protect against sexually transmitted disease and pregnancy.
- protectionism — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protectionist — Economics. the theory, practice, or system of fostering or developing domestic industries by protecting them from foreign competition through duties or quotas imposed on importations.
- protectorless — without a protector
- protectorship — a person or thing that protects; defender; guardian.
- proteinaceous — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- proteoclastic — of, related to, or initiating proteolysis
- protest march — public demonstration
- pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
- pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
- psychogenetic — genesis of the psyche.
- psychometrics — the measurement of mental traits, abilities, and processes.
- psychomimetic — psychotomimetic.
- psychotherapy — the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy.
- psychotogenic — a substance that causes a psychotic reaction.
- psychrometric — relating to psychrometry
- public sector — the area of the nation's affairs under governmental rather than private control.
- puerto cortes — a seaport in NW Honduras.
- racket sports — sports, such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc, that are played using a racket
- radiopacities — opaque to radiation; visible in x-ray photographs and under fluoroscopy (opposed to radiotransparent).
- re-inspection — the act of inspecting or viewing, especially carefully or critically: an inspection of all luggage on the plane.
- recomposition — to compose again; reconstitute; rearrange.
- redescription — the act of redescribing
- respirometric — of or relating to respirometers or respirometry
- retrospecting — contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.
- retrospection — the action, process, or faculty of looking back on things past.
- retrospective — directed to the past; contemplative of past situations, events, etc.
- rheoreceptors — a receptor of fishes and aquatic amphibians stimulated by water currents.
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.