9-letter words containing p, e, n
- prehensor — a part that grasps
- prehiring — relating to the period before hiring
- preinform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelaunch — preparatory to launch, as of a spacecraft.
- preluding — a preliminary to an action, event, condition, or work of broader scope and higher importance.
- prelusion — a prelude.
- premenace — something that threatens to cause evil, harm, injury, etc.; a threat: Air pollution is a menace to health.
- preminger — Otto (Ludwig) 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.
- premodern — of or relating to present and recent time; not ancient or remote: modern city life.
- premonish — to admonish beforehand; forewarn
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenomina — praenomen.
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- prentices — a male given name.
- prenubile — of the period from birth to puberty
- prenumber — a numeral or group of numerals.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- preordain — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- prepaging — (architecture) (Or "working set model") A technique whereby the operating system in a paging virtual memory multitasking environment loads all pages of a process's working set into memory before the process is restarted. Under demand paging a process accesses its working set by page faults every time it is restarted. Under prepaging the system remembers the pages in each process's working set and loads them into physical memory before restarting the process. Prepaging reduces the page fault rate of reloaded processes and hence generally improves CPU efficiency.
- prepatent — the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- prepotent — preeminent in power, authority, or influence; predominant: a prepotent name in the oil business.
- prereturn — of the period before return
- 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.
- prescreen — to screen in advance; select before a more detailed selecting process.
- preseason — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
- presences — the state or fact of being present, as with others or in a place.
- presenile — pertaining to or exhibiting the characteristics of presenility; prematurely old.
- presented — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presentee — a person to whom something is presented.
- presenter — a person or thing that presents.
- presently — in a little while; soon: They will be here presently.
- preshrink — to subject (textiles, garments, etc.) to a shrinking process before marketing to minimize subsequent shrinkage.
- preshrunk — of or relating to a fabric or garment that has been subjected to a shrinking process in order to reduce contraction when the apparel is washed or laundered.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- press run — the number of copies (of a book, newspaper, etc) printed during a continuous printing session
- presuming — presumptuous.
- preteen's — Also called preteenager [pree-teen-ey-jer] /priˈtinˌeɪ dʒər/ (Show IPA), preteener. a boy or girl under the age of 13, especially one between the ages of 9 and 12.
- pretended — Informal. make-believe; simulated; counterfeit: pretend diamonds.
- pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- prevented — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- preventer — a person or thing that prevents.