12-letter words containing p, a, r, u, e
- pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
- pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
- preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
- preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
- preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
- precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
- precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
- predeparture — of, pertaining to or implemented during the stage prior to departure
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- pregustation — the act of tasting beforehand
- preinaugural — occurring before an inauguration
- prelingually — in a prelingual manner
- premenstrual — of or relating to menstruation or to the menses.
- premium deal — a commercial transaction in which a special incentive or bonus is offered
- premium loan — a loan made by a life-insurance company in order that a policyholder may pay the due premium, the cash value on the policy serving as security.
- premium-rate — (relating to telephone calls) charged at a higher than standard rate
- preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
- preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- presbyacusis — an age-related, progressive loss of hearing in both ears
- preslaughter — of the period before slaughter (of animals)
- press bureau — an organization or a department whose function is press-agentry.
- press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
- primulaceous — belonging to the plant family Primulaceae.
- pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
- pro-european — of or relating to Europe or its inhabitants.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- procedurally — of or relating to a procedure or procedures, especially of a court of law, legislative body, or law enforcement agency.
- proconsulate — the office or term of office of a proconsul.
- produce race — a race for the offspring of parents identified or characterized at the time of nomination.
- producer gas — a mixture of carbon monoxide and nitrogen produced by passing air over hot coke, used mainly as a fuel
- promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
- propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
- proper value — characteristic root.
- prosecutable — Law. to institute legal proceedings against (a person). to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process. to conduct criminal proceedings in court against.
- protuberance — the condition, state, or quality of being protuberant.
- protuberancy — protuberance.
- proudhearted — full of pride.
- prudentially — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or resulting from prudence.
- pseudamphora — a Mycenaean vase having a spherical body, a spout on the shoulder, and a handle, curving across the top, supported by a solid conical neck.
- pseudocereal — any of several plants, as buckwheat and quinoa, that produce fruits and seeds used as flour but are not of the grass family.
- pseudography — writing that does not follow conventional spelling or usage
- pseudomartyr — someone falsely or inaccurately called a martyr
- pseudorabies — a highly contagious, usually fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other animals, caused by the herpesvirus Herpes suis, and characterized by severe pruritus and progressive central nervous system involvement sometimes including an aggressive excitement phase.
- pseudorandom — noting or pertaining to random numbers generated by a definite computational process to satisfy a statistical test.
- pseudoscalar — a scalar quantity that changes sign when the sense of the orientation of the coordinate system is changed.
- pterocarpous — having winged fruit.
- pterosaurian — a pterosaur