8-letter words containing p, t, e, r
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- pre-edit — to edit in advance
- pre-empt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- pre-teen — A pre-teen is a child aged between nine and thirteen.
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prebuilt — to construct (especially something complex) by assembling and joining parts or materials: to build a house.
- precents — to lead as a precentor in singing.
- precepts — a commandment or direction given as a rule of action or conduct.
- precinct — a district, as of a city, marked out for governmental or administrative purposes, or for police protection.
- precited — cited previously
- predated — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predates — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- predator — Zoology. any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
- predeath — occurring before or in the lead-up to death; of or pertaining to the period immediately prior to death
- predraft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- preexist — to exist beforehand.
- prefetch — instruction prefetch
- prefight — of the period before a boxing match
- pregnant — convincing; cogent: a pregnant argument.
- prehnite — a mineral, hydrous calcium aluminum silicate, Ca 2 Al 2 Si 3 O 1 0 (OH) 2 , occurring in light-green reniform aggregates or tabular crystals.
- prelimit — to limit within bounds beforehand: The chairman prelimited his speech to 10 minutes.
- premiate — to grant a prize or an award to.
- premoult — occurring in the period before an animal moults
- prenatal — previous to birth or to giving birth: prenatal care for mothers.
- prentice — a male given name.
- prepaste — to paste in advance
- preplant — occurring before planting
- preprint — an advance printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical.
- prescott — Samuel, 1751–77, U.S. patriot during the American Revolution: rode with Paul Revere and William Dawes to warn Colonists that British troops were marching from Boston, April 18, 1775.
- presents — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- presplit — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- pressfat — a wine vat
- prestamp — to stamp in advance
- prestige — reputation or influence arising from success, achievement, rank, or other favorable attributes.
- prestore — Computers. to fix an opening value for (the address of an operand or of a cycle index).
- prestudy — application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge, as by reading, investigation, or reflection: long hours of study.
- pretaste — a taste of what may be experienced later
- pretence — pretending or feigning; make-believe: My sleepiness was all pretense.