11-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- pre-adamite — a person supposed to have existed before Adam.
- pre-bargain — an advantageous purchase, especially one acquired at less than the usual cost: The sale offered bargains galore.
- pre-cardiac — of or relating to the heart: cardiac disease.
- 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-decided — to solve or conclude (a question, controversy, or struggle) by giving victory to one side: The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff.
- pre-diploma — a document given by an educational institution conferring a degree on a person or certifying that the person has satisfactorily completed a course of study.
- 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-emptive — of or relating to preemption.
- pre-ethical — not governed by ethics, or not having an ethical or moral aspect
- pre-exilian — being or occurring prior to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
- pre-funding — a supply of money or pecuniary resources, as for some purpose: a fund for his education; a retirement fund.
- pre-hearing — the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived.
- pre-holiday — a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
- pre-homeric — of, relating to, or suggestive of Homer or his poetry.
- pre-imposed — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
- pre-islamic — existing prior to the ascendancy of Islam; pre-Muslim.
- 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-receipt — a written acknowledgment of having received, or taken into one's possession, a specified amount of money, goods, etc.
- pre-scoring — to record the sound of (a motion picture) before filming.
- pre-selling — to sell in advance, as before manufacture or construction: to presell a planned house.
- pre-seminal — released before semen is ejaculated
- pre-spanish — of or relating to Spain, its people, or their language.
- pre-testing — an advance or preliminary testing or trial, as of a new product.
- pre-warning — 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.
- pre-written — a past participle of write.
- preachiness — the quality of being preachy; a preachy style, esp a tedious one
- preachingly — in a preaching manner, with preaching
- preacquaint — to acquaint (someone with information) in advance
- preadaptive — tending to preadapt, causing preadaptation
- preadmonish — to admonish or warn beforehand
- preaudience — the right to be given an audience before other people; the privilege of being the first to be heard
- prebiblical — written, existing or occurring prior to the writing of the Bible; pertaining to this time period
- preboarding — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
- precambrian — noting or pertaining to the earliest era of earth history, ending 570 million years ago, during which the earth's crust formed and life first appeared in the seas.
- precautious — using or displaying precaution: a precautious reply; a precautious person.
- precipitant — falling headlong.
- precipitate — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitous — of the nature of or characterized by precipices: a precipitous wall of rock.
- preciseness — definitely or strictly stated, defined, or fixed: precise directions.
- precisional — the state or quality of being precise.
- preclinical — of or relating to the period prior to the appearance of the symptoms.
- 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.
- precritical — anteceding a crisis.
- predelivery — the act of delivering in advance of need, use or expectation of the thing delivered
- predesigned — to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge.
- predestined — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.