11-letter words containing p, o, r, n, i, e
- pre-confirm — to make valid or binding by some formal or legal act; sanction; ratify: to confirm a treaty; to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court.
- pre-emption — the act or right of claiming or purchasing before or in preference to others.
- pre-notions — a preconception.
- pre-opening — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
- pre-opinion — a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- precolonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- preconceive — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
- 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.
- preelection — a choice or selection made beforehand.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- preinvasion — occurring before an invasion
- prelibation — a foretaste.
- premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- premonitive — of, or relating to, a premonition
- premonitory — giving premonition; serving to warn beforehand.
- premunition — Immunology. a state of balance between host and infectious agent, as a bacterium or parasite, such that the immune defense of the host is sufficient to resist further infection but insufficient to destroy the agent.
- prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
- preordained — to ordain beforehand; foreordain.
- preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
- prepetition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
- prescission — the action of prescinding
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- 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.
- preterition — the act of passing by or over; omission; disregard.
- 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.
- previsional — characteristic of prevision
- price point — the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices: We can't go below the $100 price point for this printer.
- prize money — money offered, won, or received in prizes.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- 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.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- procreation — to beget or generate (offspring).
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progeniture — procreation