10-letter words starting with pr
- preprogram — to program in advance: to preprogram a manufacturing process.
- prepuberal — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepuberty — the period of life just prior to sexual maturation.
- prepublish — to publish in advance of a scheduled date.
- prepyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
- prequalify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- prereading — of or relating to the period before reading a text, book, etc
- prerelease — something released beforehand, as a movie shown before its scheduled premiere.
- prerequest — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- prerequire — to require in advance
- presbyopia — farsightedness due to ciliary muscle weakness and loss of elasticity in the crystalline lens.
- presbytery — a body of presbyters or elders.
- presbytism — the condition of being affected by presbyopia
- prescience — knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.
- prescribed — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- prescriber — to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed; appoint, ordain, or enjoin.
- 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).
- preservice — of a period before a person begins service
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- preshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- presidency — the office, function, or term of office of a president.
- presignify — to signify or indicate beforehand; foretell.
- prespecify — to specify in advance
- press card — a card issued to journalists, certifying they work for the press, and authorizing them to attend certain events, venues, etc
- press lord — press baron.
- press pack — a dismissive term for a group of journalists, viewed as hounding a person
- press pass — a pass issued to accredited journalists giving them free access to certain events, venues, etc
- press room — A press room is a room for journalists to use at a special event.
- press stud — snap fastener.
- press time — the time at which a pressrun begins, especially that of a newspaper.
- press view — a showing of a film exclusively for the benefit of the press, before it goes on general release
- press-back — a wooden chair back having a design pressed, rather than carved, into its crossrails.
- press-gang — to force (a person) into military or naval service.
- pressboard — a kind of millboard or pasteboard.
- pressboxer — a sportswriter or sportscaster.
- pressuring — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- presswoman — a female reporter
- prestamped — stamped in advance
- prestation — a payment in money or in services.
- presternal — Anatomy. manubrium.
- presternum — Anatomy. manubrium.
- prestorage — occurring before storage
- prestretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
- presumable — capable of being taken for granted; probable.