11-letter words containing s, t, e, r, i
- prehistoric — of or relating to the time or a period prior to recorded history: The dinosaur is a prehistoric beast.
- prelateship — the rank of a prelate
- preposition — any member of a class of words found in many languages that are used before nouns, pronouns, or other substantives to form phrases functioning as modifiers of verbs, nouns, or adjectives, and that typically express a spatial, temporal, or other relationship, as in, on, by, to, since.
- 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
- presanctify — to sanctify ahead of an event
- prescindent — tending to prescind
- presenility — premature old age.
- presentient — having a presentiment.
- presolution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- prioritised — to arrange or do in order of priority: learning to prioritize our assignments.
- privateness — the quality of being private
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- prompt side — the part of the stage that in the U.S. is to the right and in Britain to the left as one faces the audience. Abbreviation: P.S.
- proprieties — The proprieties are the standards of social behaviour which most people consider socially or morally acceptable.
- propriety's — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
- prosecuting — carrying out a prosecution
- prosecution — Law. the institution and carrying on of legal proceedings against a person. the body of officials by whom such proceedings are instituted and carried on.
- prosecutrix — a female prosecutor or plaintiff
- proselyting — a person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; convert.
- proselytism — the act or fact of becoming a proselyte; conversion.
- proselytize — try to attract converts
- prospecting — Usually, prospects. an apparent probability of advancement, success, profit, etc. the outlook for the future: good business prospects.
- prospection — anticipation
- prospective — of or in the future: prospective earnings.
- prosthetics — an artificial body part; a prosthesis: Hundreds of amputees volunteered to test the new prosthetics.
- prosthetist — a person skilled in making or fitting prosthetic devices.
- prostituted — a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money; whore; harlot.
- prostomiate — having a prostomium.
- proteolysis — the breaking down of proteins into simpler compounds, as in digestion.
- protrusible — able to be thrust outwards
- proximities — nearness in place, time, order, occurrence, or relation.
- puerilities — the state or quality of being a child.
- putrescible — liable to become putrid.
- quantifiers — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.