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12-letter words containing a, p, e, r, i

  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preachership — the office of a preacher
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • prediagnosis — Medicine/Medical. the process of determining by examination the nature and circumstances of a diseased condition. the decision reached from such an examination. Abbreviation: Dx.
  • predischarge — of or pertaining to the period prior to discharge, esp prior to discharge from hospital or from employment
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preeclampsia — Pathology. a form of toxemia of pregnancy, characterized by hypertension, fluid retention, and albuminuria, sometimes progressing to eclampsia.
  • preestablish — to establish beforehand.
  • prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehensorial — relating to a part that grasps
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
  • prelapsarian — Theology. occurring before the Fall: the prelapsarian innocence of Eden.
  • prelatically — in the manner of a prelate
  • prelingually — in a prelingual manner
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premaritally — in a premarital manner
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
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