9-letter words containing p, e, t, i
- pre-exist — to exist beforehand.
- pre-trial — occurring before a trial
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- preactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- preatomic — of or relating to the period of history preceding the atomic age.
- prebiotic — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- precincts — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precocity — the state of being or tendency to be precocious.
- precoital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
- predacity — predatory; rapacious.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- predatism — the state of living as a predator or by predation.
- predicant — preaching: a predicant religious order.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predictor — a person or thing that predicts.
- predigest — to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
- predikant — a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church, esp in South Africa
- predilect — chosen in preference; preferred
- prefilter — any substance, as cloth, paper, porous porcelain, or a layer of charcoal or sand, through which liquid or gas is passed to remove suspended impurities or to recover solids.
- preflight — occurring or done before a flight: a preflight briefing of the plane's crew.
- preinsert — to insert beforehand
- preinvite — to invite (somebody) before others
- prelatial — of, or relating to, a prelate
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- prelatism — prelacy; episcopacy.
- prelatize — to advocate or bring under the authority of prelacy
- premiated — to grant a prize or an award to.
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenotify — to notify in advance
- prenotion — a preconception.
- prentices — a male given name.
- preobtain — to obtain in advance
- preoption — the right of first choice
- preputial — the fold of skin that covers the head of the penis; foreskin.
- presbytic — affected by presbyopia
- 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.
- prescript — prescribed.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- presinter — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- press fit — a type of fit for mating parts, usually tighter than a sliding fit, used when the parts do not have to move relative to each other
- press kit — a packet of promotional materials, as background information, photographs, or samples, for distribution to the press, as at a press conference.
- prestiges — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- prestrike — of the period before a strike
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- presummit — of the period prior to a summit
- preterist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse have already been fulfilled. Compare futurist (def 2), presentist.
- preterite — past (def 12).
- pretermit — to let pass without notice; disregard.
- pretibial — Anatomy. the inner of the two bones of the leg, that extend from the knee to the ankle and articulate with the femur and the talus; shinbone.