11-letter words containing r, t, s, p
- prepositive — (of a word) placed before another word to modify it or to show its relation to other parts of the sentence. In red book, red is a prepositive adjective. John's in John's book is a prepositive genitive.
- preregister — to register in advance
- presagement — an omen
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- presbyteral — of or relating to a presbyter or presbytery
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- preselected — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
- preselector — a preamplifier between the antenna and receiving circuit, used to improve reception.
- presenility — premature old age.
- present-day — current; modern: present-day techniques; present-day English.
- presentable — that may be presented.
- presentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
- presentient — having a presentiment.
- presentment — an act of presenting, especially to the mind, as an idea, view, etc.
- presentness — being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current: increasing respect for the present ruler of the small country.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- press agent — a person employed to promote the interests of an individual, organization, etc., by obtaining favorable publicity through advertisements, mentions in columns, and the like.
- press party — a party given for reporters and photographers exclusively or particularly to get publicity, as for the introduction of a new product, the maiden voyage of a liner, or the like.
- presstitute — a journalist or media source whose news coverage is considered to be inappropriately influenced by business interests, political motives, etc. (often used attributively): claims made by the industry and trumpeted by the corporate presstitute media.
- prest money — a sum of money advanced to men enlisting in the navy or the army, given to bind the bargain and as an inducement.
- prestandard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
- prestations — a payment in money or in services.
- prestigious — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
- prestissimo — (a musical direction) in the most rapid tempo.
- prestonpans — a seaside resort in the Lothian region, in SE Scotland, E of Edinburgh: battle 1745.
- prestressed — (of steel cables, wires, etc, of a precast concrete part) that has been prestressed
- presumption — the act of presuming.
- presumptive — affording ground for presumption: presumptive evidence.
- presynaptic — being or occurring on the transmitting end of a discharge across a synapse.
- pretensions — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretentious — characterized by assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved: a pretentious, self-important waiter.
- previous to — before, prior to
- prick-tease — a woman who is sexually provocative but refuses to engage in sexual activity
- 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.
- primateship — primacy (def 2).
- primitivism — a recurrent theory or belief, as in philosophy or art, that the qualities of primitive or chronologically early cultures are superior to those of contemporary civilization.
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- prison riot — a disturbance made by an unruly mob in a prison
- privateness — the quality of being private
- pro-british — of or relating to Great Britain or its inhabitants.
- pro-fascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- pro-oestrus — proestrus.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- pro-zionist — a worldwide Jewish movement that resulted in the establishment and development of the state of Israel.
- procrustean — pertaining to or suggestive of Procrustes.
- proctorship — a person appointed to keep watch over students at examinations.
- proctoscope — an instrument for visual examination of the interior of the rectum.
- proctoscopy — examination by means of a proctoscope.
- productions — the act of producing; creation; manufacture.