9-letter words containing p, c, r
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precipice — a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
- precisely — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- precising — a concise summary.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- precisive — characterized by accuracy or exactness: a precisive method of expressing oneself.
- preclimax — a stable community that precedes the full development of the climax community of a given area and that results from local variations in soil and water.
- precluded — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- precocial — (of an animal species) active and able to move freely from birth or hatching and requiring little parental care (opposed to altricial).
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- preconize — to proclaim or commend publicly.
- precooked — to cook (food) partly or completely beforehand, so that it may be cooked or warmed and served quickly at a later time.
- precooker — a device for cooking or partially cooking food in advance of final preparations
- precrease — to provide (e.g. clothing, paper for origami) with a crease or creases in advance
- precrisis — occurring or existing before a crisis; of or pertaining to the period preceding a crisis
- precurrer — a precursor, forerunner
- precursor — a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- prededuct — preceding deduction, done or carried out prior to a deduction being made
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- preexilic — of that period of Jewish history preceding the Babylonian Exile (6th cent. b.c.)
- prefacial — located anterior to the face
- pregnancy — the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant.
- prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- prelocate — to set, fix, or establish in a position, situation, or locality; place; settle: to locate our European office in Paris.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- premosaic — of the period before Moses
- prentices — a male given name.
- preoccupy — to absorb or engross to the exclusion of other things.
- preocular — a scale in front of the eye of a reptile or fish
- prepacked — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- preplaced — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- prerecord — to record beforehand or in advance.
- prerectal — in front of the rectum
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- preschool — of, relating to, or intended for a child between infancy and school age: new methods of preschool education.
- prescient — having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.
- prescious — prescient
- prescored — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- prescreen — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- prescribe — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescript — prescribed.
- prescutum — the anterior dorsal sclerite of a thoracic segment of an insect.
- presearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.