8-letter words containing pr
- prettify — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- prettily — pleasing or attractive to the eye, as by delicacy or gracefulness: a pretty face.
- preunion — a meeting in advance of a permanent union
- preunite — to unite in advance
- preussen — German name of Prussia.
- prevalue — to value beforehand
- previous — coming or occurring before something else; prior: the previous owner.
- previsit — to visit beforehand
- previsor — to foresee.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand
- prewired — 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.
- priapean — priapic.
- priapism — Pathology. continuous, usually nonsexual erection of the penis, especially due to disease.
- prichard — a city in S Alabama.
- prick up — ears: react to sound
- pricking — a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
- prideful — 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.
- priestly — of or relating to a priest; sacerdotal: priestly vestments.
- priggery — the conduct or character of a prig.
- priggish — a person who displays or demands of others pointlessly precise conformity, fussiness about trivialities, or exaggerated propriety, especially in a self-righteous or irritating manner.
- priggism — priggish character or ideas; priggishness.
- prilling — Prilling is a process in which a melted substance is sprayed against upward-flowing air in a tower to form solid particles.
- primally — in a primal manner
- primatal — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primates — Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
- primeval — of or relating to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
- primming — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primness — formally precise or proper, as persons or behavior; stiffly neat.
- primping — to dress or adorn with care.
- primrose — Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of.
- primrosy — characteristic of, or resembling, a primrose (esp in colour)
- princely — greatly liberal; lavish; magnificent: a princely entertainment.
- princeps — first edition.
- princess — a nonreigning female member of a royal family.
- principe — an island in the Gulf of Guinea, off the W coast of Africa: one of the two chief components of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe. 54 sq. mi. (140 sq. km).
- printery — (formerly) an establishment for typographic printing.
- printing — the state of being printed.
- printout — output produced by a printer, generally on continuous sheets of paper.
- prior to — before, earlier than
- priorate — the office, rank, or term of office of a prior.
- prioress — a woman holding a position corresponding to that of a prior, sometimes ranking next below an abbess.
- priority — the state or quality of being earlier in time, occurrence, etc.
- priscian — flourished a.d. c500, Latin grammarian.
- prismoid — a solid having sides that are trapezoids and bases or ends that are parallel and similar but not congruent polygons. Compare prism (def 2).
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- prissily — excessively proper; affectedly correct; prim.
- pristane — a colourless combustible liquid
- pristina — the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.
- pristine — having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
- prithivi — a Vedic goddess personifying the earth and fertility.