11-letter words containing p, e, n, c
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preannounce — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- precedences — act or fact of preceding.
- precedented — (of a decision, etc) supported by having a precedent
- precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand
- precentress — a female precentor
- precipitant — falling headlong.
- preciseness — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
- precognosce — to conduct a preliminary examination of (a witness, a claim) prior to a trial
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- preconceive — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
- precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predynastic — of, relating to, or belonging to a time or period before the first dynasty of a nation, especially the period in Egypt before c3200 b.c.
- preelection — a choice or selection made beforehand.
- preeminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prejudicing — any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
- preluncheon — a light meal before lunch
- preoccupant — a previous occupant
- prepollence — prevalence; predominance
- prepollency — the quality of being prepollent
- prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- presentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- 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.
- prevenience — the act or state of being prevenient
- price index — an index of the changes in the prices of goods and services, based on the prices of the same goods and services at a period arbitrarily selected as a base, usually expressed as 100.
- price point — the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices: We can't go below the $100 price point for this printer.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- procurement — the act of procuring, or obtaining or getting by effort, care, or the use of special means: The organ procurement procedure is very complicated.