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12-letter words containing pr

  • pre-language — a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French language; the Yiddish language.
  • pre-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
  • pre-modelled — a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
  • pre-packaged — Pre-packaged foods have been prepared in advance and put in plastic or cardboard containers to be sold.
  • pre-planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
  • pre-planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • pre-position — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • pre-prandial — You use pre-prandial to refer to things you do or have before a meal.
  • pre-purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-recorded — Something that is pre-recorded has been recorded in advance so that it can be broadcast or played later.
  • pre-shipping — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • pre-teaching — to impart knowledge of or skill in; give instruction in: She teaches mathematics. Synonyms: coach.
  • preachership — the office of a preacher
  • preadmission — (in a reciprocating engine) admission of steam or the like to the head of the cylinder near the end of the stroke, as to cushion the force of the stroke or to allow full pressure at the beginning of the return stroke.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preamplifier — a device in the amplifier circuit of a radio or phonograph that increases the strength of a weak signal for detection and further amplification.
  • preannounced — to make known publicly or officially; proclaim; give notice of: to announce a special sale.
  • preassembled — assembled prior to purchase
  • preassurance — a guarantee or assurance offered beforehand
  • preauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
  • precancerous — showing pathological changes that may be preliminary to malignancy.
  • precariously — dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure: a precarious livelihood.
  • precedential — of the nature of or constituting a precedent.
  • precessional — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
  • preciousness — of high price or great value; very valuable or costly: precious metals.
  • precipitable — capable of being precipitated.
  • precipitance — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitancy — the quality or state of being precipitant.
  • precipitated — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • precisionism — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • precisionist — (sometimes initial capital letter) a style of painting developed to its fullest in the U.S. in the 1920s, associated especially with Charles Demuth, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Charles Sheeler, and characterized by clinically precise, simple, and clean-edged rendering of architectural, industrial, or urban scenes usually devoid of human activity or presence.
  • preclassical — occurring or existing in, produced during or characteristic of a period prior to the classical period
  • preclearance — the act of clearing.
  • precociously — unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development: a precocious child.
  • precognition — knowledge of a future event or situation, especially through extrasensory means.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • preconceived — to form a conception or opinion of beforehand, as before seeing evidence or as a result of previously held prejudice.
  • preconcerted — prearranged; settled in advance
  • preconciliar — (in the Catholic church) of or pertaining to a period prior to a church council, particularly one of the Vatican Councils
  • precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
  • preconscious — Psychoanalysis. absent from but capable of being readily brought into consciousness.
  • preconstruct — to construct beforehand
  • predeparture — of, pertaining to or implemented during the stage prior to departure
  • predesignate — to designate beforehand.
  • predestinate — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
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