10-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescriber — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- 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).
- preservice — of a period before a person begins service
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prespecify — to specify in advance
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presurmise — a surmise previously formed.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious
- pretexting — the practice of deceiving individuals into surrendering personal information for fraudulent purposes
- prettified — made pretty
- prettiness — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- prevail on — to persuade; induce
- prevailing — predominant: prevailing winds.
- prevenient — coming before; antecedent.
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
- preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- previously — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsible — that can be seen; perceptible to the eye: mountains visible in the distance.
- prevocalic — immediately preceding a vowel.
- prewarning — to give notice, advice, or intimation to (a person, group, etc.) of danger, impending evil, possible harm, or anything else unfavorable: They warned him of a plot against him. She was warned that her life was in danger.
- preweaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- prewriting — preparatory work for a piece of writing, as idea formulation, an outline, or research.
- prewritten — a past participle of write.
- price list — a list giving the prices of items for sale.
- price ring — a group of traders formed to maintain the prices of their goods
- pridefully — 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.
- priestfish — blue rockfish.
- priesthood — the condition or office of a priest.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- primaquine — a viscous liquid, C 1 5 H 2 1 N 3 O, used in the treatment of malaria.
- primaveral — of, in, or pertaining to the early springtime: primaveral longings to sail around the world.
- prime bill — a bill that is accepted by a bank in first-class credit
- prime cost — that part of the cost of a commodity deriving from the labor and materials directly utilized in its manufacture.
- prime rate — the minimum interest rate charged by a commercial bank on short-term business loans to large, best-rated customers or corporations.