10-letter words starting with pre
- prenuptial — before marriage.
- preopening — taking place before a formal opening
- prepackage — to package (foodstuffs or manufactured goods) before retail distribution or sale.
- prepacking — a package assembled by a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer and containing a specific number of items or a specific assortment of sizes, colors, flavors, etc., of a product.
- preparator — a person who prepares a specimen, as an animal, for scientific examination or exhibition.
- prepayment — paying for sth in advance
- prepensely — in a premeditated way
- prepensive — premeditated
- preplanned — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- prepollent — having power; predominant
- preportion — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
- prepositor — praepostor.
- prepossess — to possess or dominate mentally beforehand, as a prejudice does.
- prepotence — the quality of being prepotent
- prepotency — the ability of one parent to impress its hereditary characters on its progeny because it possesses more homozygous, dominant, or epistatic genes.
- preppiness — the fact of being preppy
- prepricing — the sum or amount of money or its equivalent for which anything is bought, sold, or offered for sale.
- preprimary — preceding a primary election: preprimary endorsement.
- preprinted — an advance printing, usually of a portion of a book or of an article in a periodical.
- preprocess — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- 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.