6-letter words starting with pr
- pretty — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- preval — René García [ruh-ney gahr-see-uh] /rəˈneɪ gɑrˈsi ə/ (Show IPA), born 1943, Haitian politician: prime minister 1991–95, president 1996–2001, 2006–11.
- previn — André (ˈɒndreɪ). born 1929, US orchestral conductor, born in Germany; living in Britain; awarded an honorary knighthood (1996)
- prevue — to view or show beforehand or in advance.
- prewar — before the war: prewar prices.
- prexie — a slang term for a college president
- preyed — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- preyer — an animal hunted or seized for food, especially by a carnivorous animal.
- pricer — (especially in retail stores) an employee who establishes prices at which articles will be sold, or one who affixes price tags to merchandise.
- pricey — expensive or unduly expensive: a pricey wine.
- pricky — prickly.
- prided — 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.
- priers — a person who pries; a curious or inquisitive person.
- priest — a person whose office it is to perform religious rites, and especially to make sacrificial offerings.
- primal — first; original; primeval: primal eras before the appearance of life on earth.
- primed — of the first importance; demanding the fullest consideration: a prime requisite.
- primer — the most flourishing stage or state.
- primly — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primus — Scottish Episcopal Church. a bishop who is elected to represent the church body and to summon and preside at synods but who possesses no metropolitan power.
- prince — a treatise on statecraft (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli.
- printf — (library) The standard function in the C programming language library for printing formatted output. The first argument is a format string which may contain ordinary characters which are just printed and "conversion specifications" - sequences beginning with '%' such as %6d which describe how the other arguments should be printed, in this case as a six-character decimal integer padded on the right with spaces. Possible conversion specifications are d, i or u (decimal integer), o (octal), x, X or p (hexadecimal), f (floating-point), e or E (mantissa and exponent, e.g. 1.23E-22), g or G (f or e format as appropriate to the value printed), c (a single character), s (a string), % (i.e. %% - print a % character). d, i, f, e, g are signed, the rest are unsigned. The variant fprintf prints to a given output stream and sprintf stores what would be printed in a string variable.
- priory — a religious house governed by a prior or prioress, often dependent upon an abbey.
- pripet — 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.
- prised — pry2 .
- prises — pry2 .
- prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- prissy — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- privet — any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Ligustrum, especially L. vulgare, having clusters of small white flowers and commonly grown as a hedge.
- prized — pry2 .
- prizer — a competitor for a prize.
- pro-am — including both professionals and amateurs.
- probed — to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
- prober — to search into or examine thoroughly; question closely: to probe one's conscience.
- probie — a probationer, especially a firefighter who has recently joined a department.
- probit — a normal equivalent deviate increased by five.
- procne — a princess of Athens, who punished her husband for raping her sister Philomela by feeding him the flesh of their son. She was changed at her death into a swallow
- procol — (language) A parallel object language with protocols, constraints and distributed delegation by J. Van Den Bos of Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
- procto — proctosigmoidoscopy.
- prodoc — (documentation) A set of tools for software documentation from SPC.
- proems — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- progun — in favour of the public owning firearms
- projet — a project.
- proker — a fire poker
- prolan — a constituent of human pregnancy urine
- proleg — one of the abdominal ambulatory processes of caterpillars and other larvae, as distinct from the true or thoracic legs.
- proler — a prowler
- proles — a member of the proletariat.
- prolix — extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
- prolly — probably