13-letter words containing o, p, t, e
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preemployment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- preformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prefunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
- prelitigation — the act or process of litigating: a matter that is still in litigation.
- premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
- premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
- premonishment — a forewarning
- premonitorily — in a premonitory manner
- prenomination — the act of naming in advance of a formal nomination
- preoccupation — the state of being preoccupied.
- prepositional — 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.
- prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
- preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
- prerevolution — of the period before a revolution
- prerogatively — by way of privilege or prerogative
- preservations — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- press section — a section or part of an area, as at the scene of a public event, reserved for reporters.
- prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- presto chango — change at once (usually used imperatively, as in a magician's command).
- pret a porter — ready-to-wear clothing.
- pret-a-porter — ready-to-wear clothing.
- pretelevision — occurring before the arrival of television
- pretentiously — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- pretermission — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- pretournament — occurring prior to a tournament
- prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
- prevocational — of, relating to, or constituting preliminary vocational training.
- prevolitional — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
- price control — government regulation of prices by establishing maximum price levels for goods or services, as during a period of inflation.
- price support — the maintenance of the price of a commodity, product, etc., especially by means of a public subsidy or government purchase of surpluses.
- primogenitrix — a primogenitor who is female
- primogeniture — the state or fact of being the firstborn of children of the same parents.
- primrose path — a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- princess post — (in a queen truss) one of two vertical suspension members supplementing the queen posts nearer to the ends of the span.
- print spooler — a program that sequences printing jobs by temporarily storing data in a buffer and processing the jobs sequentially.
- priority case — a matter that takes precedence over others
- prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
- prison inmate — a person who is confined in a prison