14-letter words containing a, r
- premenstrually — in a premenstrual manner
- premier league — a professional football or soccer league consisting of the top teams in England and Wales
- premillenarian — a believer in premillennialism.
- prenegotiation — taking place before a formal negotiation
- preoperational — able to function or be used; functional: How soon will the new factory be operational?
- preoperatively — in a preoperative context
- preparatory to — as a preparation to; before
- prepared piano — a grand piano that has been altered for some modern compositions by having various objects attached to its strings to change the sound and pitch, and performance on which typically involves playing the keys, plucking the strings, slapping the body of the instrument, and slamming the keyboard lid.
- preperformance — occurring before a performance
- preponderantly — superior in weight, force, influence, numbers, etc.; prevailing: a preponderant misconception.
- prepreparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- preprogramming — the action of programming a computer in advance
- prepublication — the period immediately preceding the publication of a book.
- presentability — that may be presented.
- presentational — of or relating to presentation.
- presentimental — expressing a presentiment
- preserving pan — a pan specially designed for preserving fruit
- press cupboard — a cupboard of the 16th and 17th centuries having an overhanging top above a recessed cabinet, beneath which is a section of drawers or cabinets.
- press fastener — snap fastener.
- pressing plant — a manufacturing plant where phonograph records are produced by pressing in a mold or by stamping.
- pressure cabin — a pressurized cabin.
- pressure gauge — an instrument for measuring the pressure of a gas or liquid.
- pressurization — the process or act of pressurizing.
- presuppurative — noting or pertaining to the stage of inflammation before the formation of pus.
- presymptomatic — relating to or describing a symptom that occurs before the typical symptoms of a disease
- pretermination — of the period before termination (esp of employment)
- pretransaction — the act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
- preventive war — an attack against a possible enemy to prevent an attack by that enemy at a later time.
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- primacy effect — the process whereby the first few items on a list are learnt more rapidly than the middle items
- primal therapy — a form of psychotherapy in which the patient is encouraged to relive traumatic events, often screaming or crying, in order to achieve catharsis and a breakdown of psychological defenses.
- primary accent — the principal or strongest stress of a word.
- primary colour — Primary colours are basic colours that can be mixed together to produce other colours. They are usually considered to be red, yellow, blue, and sometimes green.
- primary growth — growth in vascular plants, especially an increase in length, that results from cell division and differentiation of an apical meristem.
- primary letter — a lowercase character having neither a descender nor an ascender, as a, c, e, i, m, n, o, r, s, u, v, w, x, z.
- primary mirror — the mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light in a reflecting telescope
- primary phloem — phloem derived directly from the growth of an apical meristem.
- primary school — a school usually covering the first three or four years of elementary school and sometimes kindergarten.
- primary source — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primary stress — primary accent.
- primary tissue — any tissue resulting directly from differentiation of an apical meristem.
- primatological — relating to primatology
- prime meridian — the meridian running through Greenwich, England, from which longitude east and west is reckoned.
- prime vertical — the great circle passing through the observer's zenith and meeting the horizon due east and west
- princess royal — the eldest daughter of a king or queen.