12-letter words starting with pre
- pre-assembly — an assembling or coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose: The principal will speak to all the students at Friday's assembly.
- pre-assigned — Law. to transfer: to assign a contract.
- pre-ceremony — the formal activities conducted on some solemn or important public or state occasion: the coronation ceremony.
- pre-colonial — of or relating to the time before a region or country became a colony.
- pre-conclude — to bring to an end; finish; terminate: to conclude a speech with a quotation from the Bible.
- pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
- pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- pre-cultural — of or relating to culture or cultivation.
- pre-delivery — the carrying and turning over of letters, goods, etc., to a designated recipient or recipients.
- pre-disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- pre-discount — to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.
- pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
- pre-electric — pertaining to, derived from, produced by, or involving electricity: an electric shock.
- pre-emergent — not yet having emerged
- pre-eminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
- pre-enrolled — to write the name of (a person) in a roll or register; place upon a list; register: It took two days to enroll the new students.
- pre-estimate — to form an approximate judgment or opinion regarding the worth, amount, size, weight, etc., of; calculate approximately: to estimate the cost of a college education.
- pre-existing — to exist beforehand.
- pre-hellenic — of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., especially before the time of Alexander the Great. Compare Hellenistic (def 3).
- pre-ignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- pre-issuance — the act of issuing.
- 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.
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