8-letter words starting with pr
- practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- practise — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
- praecipe — any of various legal writs commanding a defendant to do something or to appear and show why it should not be done.
- praedial — of, relating to, or consisting of land or its products; real; landed.
- praefect — a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
- praelect — to lecture or discourse publicly.
- praesepe — an open star cluster in the center of the constellation Cancer, visible to the naked eye.
- prairial — the month of meadows: the ninth month of the French Revolutionary calendar, extending from May 21 to June 19
- praising — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- prakriti — (in Sankhya philosophy) primal matter or substance from which the physical and mental universe evolves under the influence of purusha.
- prancing — to spring from the hind legs; to move by springing, as a horse.
- prandial — of or relating to a meal, especially dinner.
- prankful — full of pranks or mischief, tending to play pranks
- pranking — to dress or adorn in an ostentatious manner: They were all pranked out in their fanciest clothes.
- prankish — of the nature of a prank: a prankish plan.
- pratfall — a fall in which one lands on the buttocks, often regarded as comical or humiliating.
- pratique — license or permission to use a port, given to a ship after quarantine or on showing a clean bill of health.
- prattler — to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
- pratyeka — (in Mahayana Buddhism) a buddha who enters into nirvana without teaching others.
- prazosin — a white crystalline substance, C 1 9 H 2 1 N 5 O 4 , used in the treatment of hypertension.
- pre-aged — (used with a plural verb) old people collectively (usually preceded by the): We must have improved medical care for the aged.
- pre-aids — (not in technical use) AIDS-related complex.
- pre-bake — to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.
- pre-date — to date before the actual time; antedate: He predated the check by three days.
- pre-dawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- pre-draw — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
- pre-echo — something that has preceded and anticipated something else; precursor
- pre-edit — to edit in advance
- pre-empt — to occupy (land) in order to establish a prior right to buy.
- pre-loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- pre-sale — a sale held in advance of an advertised sale, as for select customers.
- pre-sell — To pre-sell a product to promote it with publicity before it comes on to the market.
- pre-soak — to soak something (such as washing) beforehand
- pre-teen — A pre-teen is a child aged between nine and thirteen.
- preacher — a person whose occupation or function it is to preach the gospel.
- preadapt — to undergo pre-adaptation.
- preadmit — to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
- preadopt — to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
- preadult — of or relating to the period prior to adulthood: preadult strivings for independence.
- preallot — to allot in advance
- prealtar — in front of the altar.
- prealter — to alter beforehand
- preamble — an introductory statement; preface; introduction. Synonyms: opening, beginning; foreword, prologue, prelude. Antonyms: epilogue, appendix, conclusion, afterword, closing.
- preapply — to apply beforehand
- preaudit — an examination of vouchers, contracts, etc., in order to substantiate a transaction or a series of transactions before they are paid for and recorded.
- preaxial — situated before the body axis; pertaining to the radial side of the upper limb and the tibial side of the lower limb.
- prebasal — (in biology) located in front of a base, or in front of a basal part
- prebirth — the period, usually six months, preceding a child's birth.
- prebless — to bless beforehand, esp to bless a couple before they marry
- preboard — to put or allow to go aboard in advance of the usual time or before others: Passengers with disabilities will be preboarded.
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