11-letter words containing p, e, r, s, t
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preregister — to register in advance
- presagement — an omen
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- preselected — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
- presenility — premature old age.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presentable — that may be presented.
- 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.
- presentient — having a presentiment.
- presentment — an act of presenting, especially to the mind, as an idea, view, etc.
- presentness — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- 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.
- presstitute — a journalist or media source whose news coverage is considered to be inappropriately influenced by business interests, political motives, etc. (often used attributively): claims made by the industry and trumpeted by the corporate presstitute media.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- 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.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- prestressed — (of steel cables, wires, etc, of a precast concrete part) that has been prestressed
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- previous to — before, prior to
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- privateness — the quality of being private
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- progestogen — progestin.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- 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.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- proof sheet — a printer's proof.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- proprieties — The proprieties are the standards of social behaviour which most people consider socially or morally acceptable.