9-letter words containing p, r, e, i
- presiding — to occupy the place of authority or control, as in an assembly or meeting; act as president or chairperson.
- presidium — (in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries) an administrative committee, usually permanent and governmental, acting when its parent body is in recess but exercising full powers: the presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
- presignal — to signal in advance
- 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.
- presuming — presumptuous.
- 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.
- pretorius — Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus [ahn-drees vil-hel-moo s yah-kaw-boo s] /ˈɑn dris vɪlˈhɛl mʊs yɑˈkɔ bʊs/ (Show IPA), 1799–1853, and his son Marthinus Wessels [mahr-tee-noo s ves-uh ls] /mɑrˈti nʊs ˈvɛs əls/ (Show IPA) 1819–1901, Boer soldiers and statesmen in South Africa.
- prettiest — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- prettyish — quite pretty
- prettyism — an affectedly pretty style
- pretypify — to foreshadow or prefigure the type of: The father's personality pretypified his son's.
- prevailed — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- prevailer — to be widespread or current; exist everywhere or generally: Silence prevailed along the funeral route.
- previable — occurring before a fetus has developed enough to survive outside the uterus
- previewer — someone who or something that gives a preview
- prevision — foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
- prewiring — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- price cut — discount, lowering of costs
- price tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- price-cut — to reduce the price of, especially to gain a competitive advantage.
- price-tag — a label or tag that shows the price of the item to which it is attached.
- priceable — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- priceless — having a value beyond all price; invaluable: a priceless artwork.
- priciness — the state of being pricey
- prideless — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prie-dieu — a piece of furniture for kneeling on during prayer, having a rest above, as for a book.
- priestess — a woman who officiates in sacred rites.
- priestley — J(ohn) B(oynton) [boin-tuh n,, -tn] /ˈbɔɪn tən,, -tn/ (Show IPA), 1894–1984, English novelist.
- prigogine — Ilya [il-yuh,, eel-;; Russian ee-lyah] /ˈɪl yə,, ˈil-;; Russian iˈlyɑ/ (Show IPA), 1917–2003, Belgian chemist, born in Russia: Nobel prize 1977.
- primacies — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primaeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primaries — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primavera — a central American tree, Cybistax donnell-smithii, of the bignonia family, having showy, tubular yellow flowers.
- prime rib — beef: meat from ribs
- primitiae — the first fruits of the harvest
- primitive — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- primuline — a synthetic yellow dye
- princedom — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princekin — a small, young, or minor prince.