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12-letter words containing p, e, n, c

  • pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • preclearance — the act of clearing.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • predominance — the state, condition, or quality of being predominant: the predominance of the rich over the poor.
  • preemergence — occurring or applied before the emergence of a plant from the soil: preemergence herbicide.
  • prefinancing — financing arranged in advance
  • preinduction — occurring before an induction
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • prenticeship — an apprenticeship
  • preoccupancy — the act, right, or instance of prior occupancy.
  • preordinance — an authoritative rule or law; a decree or command.
  • prepackaging — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
  • prepubescent — of or relating to the years immediately preceding puberty, prepubertal.
  • prerecession — of the period before a recession
  • preschooling — the education of preschool children.
  • prescreening — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
  • prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • presentenced — 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.
  • press agency — news-reporting organization
  • press launch — the launch of a product, exhibition, event, etc, to which journalists are invited, in order to publicize it
  • prestriction — the obstruction of sight
  • pretenceless — without pretence
  • price fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • price-fixing — the establishing of prices at a determined level, either by a government or by mutual consent among producers or sellers of a commodity.
  • prices index — an official list of the price of goods
  • primal scene — a child's first real or imagined observation of parental sexual intercourse.
  • prince royal — the eldest son of a king or queen.
  • privatdocent — (in German and certain other universities) a private teacher or lecturer recognized by the university but receiving no compensation from it, being remunerated by fees.
  • pro-american — in favour of or supporting America, its people, culture, etc
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