11-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- preordained — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- preparative — preparatory.
- preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
- primariness — the state of being primary
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
- primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- printaniere — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
- private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- pro memoria — a formal note used in diplomacy as a record of a subject that has been discussed.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- prodigalize — to spend lavishly
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- proletariat — common people, working class