7-letter words starting with pr
- prévert — Jacques (ʒak). 1900–77, Parisian poet, satirist, and writer of film scripts, noted esp for his song poems. He was a member of the surrealist group from 1925 to 1929
- preview — an earlier or previous view.
- previse — to foresee.
- prevost — Marcel [mar-sel] /marˈsɛl/ (Show IPA), 1862–1941, French novelist and dramatist.
- prevote — a formal expression of opinion or choice, either positive or negative, made by an individual or body of individuals.
- prewarm — having or giving out a moderate degree of heat, as perceived by the senses: a warm bath.
- prewarn — to warn in advance
- prewash — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- prewire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- prework — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- preworn — (of clothing) previously owned and worn; secondhand.
- prewrap — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
- prey on — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyful — predatory
- preying — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- prezzie — present, gift
- pre\box — (computer) Phase 5's Amiga clone, announced on 1998-03-10. The pre\box will have a processor card with four PowerPC processors running in parallel. The processors will range from four 200 MHz PPC604e chips to four 300MHz PPC750 chips. It will have a Voodoo2 video graphics card, as well as a custom video chip working in concert, with 8 MB of video ram. It will run Amiga OS 3.1 (or higher if Gateway 2000 delivers the next upgrade before its release) and have Motorola 68000 CPU emulation in software. Other features include EIDE, Ultra Wide SCSI-II, PCI, Ethernet and DIMM sockets. Extra RAM, hard disks and CD-ROM will be available. The initial specification will probably be 32MB RAM, 32-speed CD and 4GB hard disk in an ATX minitower. Systems should start at about $2000 for four parallel 200 MHZ CPUs and be available at the end of 1998.
- priapic — (sometimes initial capital letter) of or relating to Priapus; phallic.
- priapus — Classical Mythology. a god of male procreative power, the son of Dionysus and Aphrodite.
- pricier — pricey.
- pricily — in a pricey manner
- pricing — the act or an instance of setting a price for a product or service
- pricker — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- pricket — a sharp metal point on which to stick a candle.
- prickle — a sharp point.
- prickly — full of or armed with prickles.
- pridian — relating to yesterday
- priding — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- priests — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- prigger — a thief
- primacy — the state of being first in order, rank, importance, etc.
- primage — a small allowance formerly paid by a shipper to the master and crew of a vessel for the loading and care of the goods: now charged with the freight and retained by the shipowner.
- primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
- primate — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primely — excellently.
- primero — a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- primers — a person or thing that primes.
- primest — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primeur — anything (esp fruit or wine) produced early
- primine — the outer integument of an ovule.
- priming — the most flourishing stage or state.
- primmer — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primsie — prim1 (def 1).
- primula — primrose (def 1).
- princox — a self-confident young fellow; coxcomb.
- print i — An early system on IBM 705.
- printed — produced by printing
- printer — the state of being printed.
- priorly — preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous: A prior agreement prevents me from accepting this.
- pripyat — a river in NW Ukraine and S Byelorussia (Belarus), flowing E through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River in NW Ukraine. 500 miles (800 km) long.