11-letter words containing p, r, i, e
- price break — a reduction in price, esp for bulk purchase
- price check — A price check is an investigation of the prices charged by different retailers for the same goods to find the best value.
- price index — an index of the changes in the prices of goods and services, based on the prices of the same goods and services at a period arbitrarily selected as a base, usually expressed as 100.
- price limit — the maximum that somebody is prepared to pay for something
- price point — the price for which something is sold on the retail market, especially in relation to a range of competitive prices: We can't go below the $100 price point for this printer.
- price range — the highest and lowest price of a commodity, security, etc., over a given period of time.
- prick-eared — British. Informal. (of a man) having the hair cut short. Archaic. following or sympathetic to the Puritans or Roundheads. Archaic. priggish.
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- prickleback — any of several blennioid fishes of the family Stichaeidae, usually inhabiting cold waters, having spiny rays in the dorsal fin.
- priest-hole — a secret chamber in certain houses in England, built as a hiding place for Roman Catholic priests when they were proscribed in the 16th and 17th centuries
- priestcraft — the training, knowledge, and abilities necessary to a priest.
- prima facie — at first appearance; at first view, before investigation.
- primariness — the state of being primary
- primary key — (database) A unique identifier, often an integer, that labels a certain row in a table of a relational database. When this value occurs in other tables as a reference to a particular row in the first table it is called a "foreign key". Some RDBMSes can generate a new unique identifier each time a new row is inserted, others merely allow a column to be constrained to contain unique values. A table may have multiple candidate keys, from which the primary key is chosen. The primary key should be an arbitrary value, such as an autoincrementing integer. This avoids dependence on uniqueness, permanence and format of existing columns with real-world meaning (e.g. a person's name) or other external identifier (e.g. social security number). There should be enough possible primary key values to cater for the current and expected number of rows, bearing in mind that a wider column will generally be slower to process.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- prime focus — the focal point of the objective lens or primary mirror of a telescope
- prime ideal — an ideal in a ring with a multiplicative identity, having the property that when the product of two elements of the ring results in an element of the ideal, at least one of the elements is an element of the ideal.
- prime mover — Mechanics. the initial agent, as wind or electricity, that puts a machine in motion. a machine, as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source.
- primigenial — relating to an early stage of existence; primitive
- primitively — being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world: primitive forms of life.
- print media — the industry that is engaged in the printing and dissemination of news through newspapers and magazines
- printaniere — (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prioritized — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- private bar — the saloon or lounge bar of a public house
- private eye — a private detective.
- private key — (cryptography) A piece of data used in private-key cryptography and public-key cryptography. In the former the private key is known by both sender and recipient whereas in the latter it is known only to the sender.
- private law — a branch of law dealing with the legal relationships of private individuals. Compare public law (def 2).
- privateness — the quality of being private
- privet hawk — a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets
- privileging — a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most: the privileges of the very rich.
- privy purse — a sum from the public revenues allotted to the sovereign for personal expenses.
- prize court — a court whose function it is to adjudicate on prizes taken in war.
- prize fight — A prize fight is a boxing match where the boxers are paid to fight, especially one that is not official.
- prize money — money offered, won, or received in prizes.
- prizewinner — a person or thing that wins a prize or is deserving of a prize.
- prizeworthy — deserving or qualified for a prize: a prizeworthy performance.
- pro memoria — a formal note used in diplomacy as a record of a subject that has been discussed.
- pro-chinese — the standard language of China, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin.
- pro-choicer — a person who supports the right of a woman to have an abortion
- pro-vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- proactively — serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or difficult one; anticipatory: proactive measures against crime.
- probationer — a person undergoing probation or trial.
- problematic — of the nature of a problem; doubtful; uncertain; questionable.
- probusiness — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
- proceedings — a particular action or course or manner of action.
- procephalic — of or relating to the head.
- processible — capable of being processed.
- prochlorite — a dark green member of the chlorite group, usually foliated.