11-letter words containing p, e, a, r, t
- preparatory — serving or designed to prepare: preparatory arrangements.
- preparental — prior to becoming a parent: preparental instruction.
- prepatellar — describing a bursa between the skin of the knee and the patella
- prepubertal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- prerogative — an exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like: the prerogatives of a senator.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- presagement — an omen
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presentable — that may be presented.
- press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- preterhuman — beyond what is human: preterhuman experience.
- preterlegal — being beyond the scope or limits of law.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- prevacation — a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel; recess or holiday: Schoolchildren are on vacation now.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- prevalently — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevaricate — to speak falsely or misleadingly; deliberately misstate or create an incorrect impression; lie.
- preventable — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- printaniere — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
- private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- pro re nata — for an unforeseen need or contingency.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procreative — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctodaeum — proctodeum.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.