10-letter words containing p, r, e, t
- preevident — plain or clear to the sight or understanding: His frown made it evident to all that he was displeased. It was evident that the project was a total failure.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prefecture — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- preferment — the act of preferring.
- prefixture — something used or added as a prefix
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- pregenital — of, relating to, or noting reproduction.
- preharvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
- prehistory — human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
- prelection — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- premarital — preceding marriage.
- premeiotic — occurring before the start of meiosis
- premention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- premonitor — a person who, or a thing which, forewarns
- premycotic — relating to the early phase of mycosis fungoides
- prenatally — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prenatural — existing in or formed by nature (opposed to artificial): a natural bridge.
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- preparator — a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- prepollent — having power; predominant
- preportion — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
- prepositor — praepostor.
- prepotence — the quality of being prepotent
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- preprinted — an advance printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical.
- prepuberty — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prerequest — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- presbytery — a body of presbyters or elders.
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- presential — present, or implying actual presence
- presenting — to furnish or endow with a gift or the like, especially by formal act: to present someone with a gold watch.
- presentism — a partiality towards present-day points of view, esp by those interpreting history
- presentist — a person who maintains that the prophecies in the Apocalypse are now being fulfilled. Compare futurist, preterist (def 1).
- presentive — notional (def 7).
- press stud — snap fastener.
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prestretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- presweeten — to sweeten in advance
- presystole — Physiology. the normal rhythmical contraction of the heart, during which the blood in the chambers is forced onward. Compare diastole.
- pretendant — a pretender
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious