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12-letter words containing e, n, t, r, p

  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • prayer plant — a plant, Maranta leuconeura, native to Brazil, that is widely cultivated for its variegated leaves that close up at night.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • 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-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
  • predetermine — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • preeminently — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • preferential — of, relating to, or of the nature of preference: preferential policies.
  • 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.
  • pregenerated — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
  • prehistorian — an authority on or specialist in prehistory
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
  • preinventive — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
  • prejudgement — to judge beforehand.
  • premalignant — occurring before a state of malignancy
  • premarketing — before the development of a market
  • premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
  • premigration — occurring before migration
  • prenegotiate — to discuss before a formal negotiation
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
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