10-letter words containing s, e, r, p, n
- precedents — Law. a legal decision or form of proceeding serving as an authoritative rule or pattern in future similar or analogous cases.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- preconsume — to consume in advance
- predescent — the act, process, or fact of moving from a higher to a lower position. Synonyms: falling, sinking; fall, drop.
- predestine — to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine: He seemed predestined for the ministry.
- predestiny — predestination; pre-determined destiny
- prednisone — an analogue of cortisone, C 2 1 H 2 6 O 5 , used as an anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive, and antineoplastic in the treatment of various diseases.
- prehensile — adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something: a prehensile tail.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- preleasing — to sign or grant a lease on (a building, apartment, etc.) in advance of construction: Agents have preleased more than 60 percent of the new building.
- premoisten — to moisten beforehand
- prepensely — in a premeditated way
- prepensive — premeditated
- preppiness — the fact of being preppy
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- 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).
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- press-gang — to force (a person) into military or naval service.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presweeten — to sweeten in advance
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- pretensive — pretentious
- prettiness — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- priestling — a small or insignificant priest
- princedoms — the position, rank, or dignity of a prince.
- princeship — a nonreigning male member of a royal family.
- princesses — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- princessly — resembling a princess
- principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- prissiness — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- pristinely — in a pristine manner
- processing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- promptness — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- pronephros — one of the three embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, which becomes the functional kidney of certain primitive fishes.