11-letter words containing p, i, r, a, n
- 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.
- precipitant — falling headlong.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- predication — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- predominant — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominate — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- 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.
- prefinanced — financed in advance
- prehispanic — Spanish.
- preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- preinvasive — of or relating to a stage preceding invasion of the tissues; in situ.
- prejudicant — judging beforehand
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- preliminary — preceding and leading up to the main part, matter, or business; introductory; preparatory: preliminary examinations.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- preordained — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- preprandial — before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial: a preprandial apéritif.
- 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
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- preterminal — situated at or forming the end or extremity of something: a terminal feature of a vista.
- pretraining — the education, instruction, or discipline of a person or thing that is being trained: He's in training for the Olympics.
- 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.
- prevailment — the action of prevailing
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- prima donna — a first or principal female singer of an opera company.
- primariness — the state of being primary
- primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
- principally — chiefly; mainly.
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- printaniere — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
- printmaking — the art or technique of making prints, especially as practiced in engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut or serigraphy.
- prison camp — a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- prison farm — a farm attached to a prison, where prisoners carry out hard labour
- prison yard — a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
- privateness — the quality of being private
- pro-african — Also, Africa. of or from Africa; belonging to the black peoples of Africa.
- 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.
- proabortion — pro-choice.
- probational — the act of testing.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- proclaimant — someone who proclaims
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).