11-letter words containing m, e, r, p
- predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preemergent — of or relating to seedlings before they emerge or appear above ground: a preemergent weed-killer.
- preeminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- 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.
- preemptible — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- prefreshman — before being a freshman
- prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
- preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- premarriage — (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.
- prematerial — the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed: Stone is a durable material.
- prematurely — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- prematurity — occurring, coming, or done too soon: a premature announcement.
- premedicate — to administer preparatory medication to
- premedieval — prior to the Middle Ages.
- premeditate — to meditate, consider, or plan beforehand: to premeditate a murder.
- premier cru — See under cru.
- premiership — the head of the cabinet in France or Italy or certain other countries; first minister; prime minister.
- premodified — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
- premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- premorbidly — pertaining to diseased parts: morbid anatomy.
- premovement — the act of premoving
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- prenumbered — a numeral or group of numerals.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- presagement — an omen
- presentment — an act of presenting, especially to the mind, as an idea, view, etc.
- press money — prest money.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- presumingly — presumptuous.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- pretty much — mostly
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- price limit — the maximum that somebody is prepared to pay for something
- 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 field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- 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.
- prime mover — Mechanics. the initial agent, as wind or electricity, that puts a machine in motion. a machine, as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source.