13-letter words starting with pr
- pre-reference — an act or instance of referring.
- pre-requisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- pre-sintering — (in powder metallurgy) to heat (a compact) in preparation for sintering.
- pre-submitted — to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
- preacher curl — a weightlifting exercise for the biceps in which a barbell is lifted by flexing the elbows, with the upper arms resting on an angled bench
- preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
- preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
- preadolescent — of or relating to preadolescence or a preadolescent.
- preanesthetic — a substance that produces a preliminary or light anesthesia.
- preantiseptic — (especially of surgery) noting that period of time before the adoption of the principles of antisepsis (about 1867).
- preattachment — an act of attaching or the state of being attached.
- prebasic molt — the molt by which most birds replace all of their feathers, usually occurring annually after the breeding season.
- prebiological — of or relating to chemicals or environmental conditions existing before the development of the first living things.
- precapitalist — a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.
- precautionary — of, relating to, or characterized by precaution: precautionary measures.
- preceptorship — an instructor; teacher; tutor.
- precious opal — any opal having a play of colors, used as a gemstone.
- precipitately — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitating — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precipitation — the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.
- precipitative — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
- precombustion — of or relating to the period immediately before combustion
- precommitment — the act of committing.
- preconception — a conception or opinion formed beforehand.
- preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- preconvention — taking place immediately prior to a convention
- preconviction — a conviction or assurance formed beforehand; a preconceived conviction
- precopulatory — carried out or occurring prior to copulation
- predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
- predesignated — to designate beforehand.
- predestinated — Theology. to foreordain by divine decree or purpose.
- predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
- predetermined — to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer.
- predeterminer — a member of a subclass of English adjectival words, often quantitative in meaning, that may be placed before an article or other determiner, as all in all the paintings or half in half her salary.
- prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
- predicamental — of or relating to a predicament or situation
- prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- predistortion — preemphasis.
- predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
- predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
- preemployment — being required or accomplished before an employee begins a new job: a preemployment medical exam.
- preengineered — constructed of or using prefabricated parts.
- preexcitation — the act of exciting.
- prefabricated — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- prefabricator — someone who or an organization that prefabricates
- preferability — more desirable.
- preferred lie — a nearby position for a ball preferable to that where it actually landed and to which repositioning is sometimes allowed without loss of a stroke or strokes to the player.
- prefiguration — the act of prefiguring.
- prefigurement — to show or represent beforehand by a figure or type; foreshadow.