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12-letter words containing pr

  • point spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • polyisoprene — a thermoplastic polymer, (C 5 H 8) n , the major constituent of natural rubber and also obtained synthetically.
  • polysaprobic — flourishing in a body of water having a heavy load of decomposed organic matter and almost no free oxygen
  • pony express — a former system in the American West of carrying mail and express by relays of riders mounted on ponies, especially the system operating (1860–61) between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.
  • post-primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • practicalism — devotion to practical matters.
  • practicalist — devotion to practical matters.
  • practicality — of or relating to practice or action: practical mathematics.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • pragmaticism — the pragmatist philosophy of C. S. Peirce, chiefly a theory of meaning: so called by him to distinguish it from the pragmatism of William James.
  • pragmaticist — a follower of the doctrine of pragmatism
  • prairie fowl — prairie chicken.
  • prairie lily — sand lily.
  • prairie rose — a climbing rose, Rosa setigera, of the central U.S., having pinkish to white flowers: the state flower of North Dakota.
  • prairie soil — a soil that forms in subhumid, temperate regions with tall grass as native vegetation.
  • prairie wolf — coyote (def 1).
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • pralltriller — inverted mordent.
  • prankishness — the quality or condition of being prankish
  • praseodymium — a rare-earth, metallic, trivalent element, named from its green salts. Symbol: Pr; atomic weight: 140.91; atomic number: 59; specific gravity: 6.77 at 20°C.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • praxinoscope — a toy in which a sequence of images, depicted on the inner surface of a cylinder and reflected in a series of mirrors, gives the illusion of motion as the cylinder rotates
  • prayer beads — the beads of the rosary
  • prayer plant — a plant, Maranta leuconeura, native to Brazil, that is widely cultivated for its variegated leaves that close up at night.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • prayer wheel — a wheel or cylinder inscribed with or containing prayers, used chiefly by Buddhists of Tibet.
  • prayerlessly — in a prayerless manner, without the use of prayer
  • pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
  • pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
  • pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
  • pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
  • pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
  • pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
  • pre-disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
  • pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
  • pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
  • pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
  • pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
  • pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
  • pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
  • pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
  • pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
  • pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
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