11-letter words containing e, s, p, i
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- predesigned — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- predestined — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- prediabetes — a condition in which carbohydrate metabolism is mildly abnormal but other criteria indicating diabetes mellitus are absent.
- predigested — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- predispatch — to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- predisposal — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predisposed — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preemphasis — a process of increasing the amplitude of certain frequencies relative to others in a signal in order to help them override noise, complemented by deemphasis before final reproduction of the signal being received.
- preexistent — to exist beforehand.
- preexisting — to exist beforehand.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefinished — coated or treated before use or sale: prefinished wood.
- prehensible — able to be seized or grasped.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- premiership — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preregister — to register in advance
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbycusia — impaired hearing due to old age.
- presbycusis — the gradual loss of acute hearing with advancing age
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- presenility — premature old age.
- presentient — having a presentiment.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- presstitute — a journalist or media source whose news coverage is considered to be inappropriately influenced by business interests, political motives, etc. (often used attributively): claims made by the industry and trumpeted by the corporate presstitute media.
- pressurized — brought to and maintained at an atmospheric pressure higher than that of the surroundings: cooking with pressurized steam.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- previous to — before, prior to
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- primariness — the state of being primary
- primateship — primacy (def 2).