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11-letter words containing p, r, e, t, n

  • praenestine — of or relating to the ancient town of Praeneste in Italy, or to the Latin dialect spoken there.
  • prattlement — chatter, prattling
  • pre-control — to hold in check; curb: to control a horse; to control one's emotions.
  • pre-eminent — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
  • pre-emption — the act or right of claiming or purchasing before or in preference to others.
  • pre-notions — a preconception.
  • pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
  • pre-written — a past participle of write.
  • preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
  • precedented — (of a decision, etc) supported by having a precedent
  • precedently — in a precedent or preceding fashion, beforehand
  • precentress — a female precentor
  • precipitant — falling headlong.
  • preconquest — of or relating to the time before the conquest of one people, region, or country by another.
  • precontract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • predestined — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
  • 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.
  • preelection — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • preemergent — of or relating to seedlings before they emerge or appear above ground: a preemergent weed-killer.
  • preexistent — to exist beforehand.
  • preexisting — to exist 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.
  • pregenerate — to bring into existence; cause to be; produce.
  • preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • preindicate — to indicate in advance; presage: The early thaw preindicated an avalanche.
  • prejudgment — to judge beforehand.
  • prejudicant — judging beforehand
  • prelibation — a foretaste.
  • premonetary — of or relating to the coinage or currency of a country.
  • 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.
  • premovement — the act of premoving
  • 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.
  • prendergast — Maurice Brazil [braz-uh l] /ˈbræz əl/ (Show IPA), 1859–1924, U.S. painter.
  • prenominate — mentioned beforehand.
  • preoccupant — a previous occupant
  • preparation — a proceeding, measure, or provision by which one prepares for something: preparations for a journey.
  • preparental — prior to becoming a parent: preparental instruction.
  • 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.
  • prepunctual — arriving before the appointed time
  • preromantic — of, relating to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.
  • presagement — an omen
  • presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
  • prescindent — tending to prescind
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