(bridge, of a high-level bid) Intended to interfere with an opponent's bidding.
Made so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation.
Of or relating to preemption.
preenvelop
preestival
preevading
preevasion
preevident
preforgave
preforgive
preharvest
preharvest
adj
Before a harvest.
prehensive
prehensive
adj
(philosophy) Of or relating to Alfred North Whitehead's concept of prehension.
preimprove
preinvited
preinvolve
preobserve
preobviate
preobvious
preprovide
preprovide
verb
To provide beforehand.
preprovoke
prereceive
preremoval
preremoved
preresolve
preresolve
verb
To resolve beforehand; to predetermine.
prerevenge
prereverse
prerevised
prerevival
prerevival
adj
Before a revival.
presentive
presentive
adj
Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
preservers
preservers
noun
plural of preserver
preserving
preserving
noun
preservation
verb
present participle of preserve
preslavery
preslavery
adj
Prior to a historical period of slavery.
presolving
presolving
noun
To transform a mathematical problem into an equivalent problem that is hopefully easier to solve.
presylvian
presylvian
adj
(anatomy) Anterior to the Sylvian fissure of the brain
pretensive
pretensive
adj
(chiefly US) Pretentious.
(now rare) Pretended; feigned.
prevacated
prevailers
prevailers
noun
plural of prevailer
prevailing
prevailing
adj
Predominant; of greatest force.
Prevalent, common, widespread.
verb
present participle of prevail
prevalence
prevalence
noun
(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.
The quality or condition of being prevalent; wide extension or spread.
prevalency
prevalency
noun
prevalence
prevalidly
prevaluing
prevenance
prevenance
noun
A going before; anticipation in sequence or order.
prevenancy
prevenancy
noun
(obsolete) The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., by way of favour or courtesy; obligingness.
prevenient
prevenient
adj
Relating to prevenience; anticipatory.
preventing
preventing
verb
present participle and gerund of prevent
prevention
prevention
noun
(medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.).
(obsolete) Anticipation; especially, anticipation of needs, wishes, hazards and risks
(obsolete) The act of going, or state of being, before.
The act of preventing or hindering; obstruction of action, access, or approach; thwarting.
precaution; forethought.
preventive
preventive
adj
(obsolete) Going before; preceding.
Carried out to deter military aggression.
Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
noun
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
A contraceptive, especially a condom.
preventral
preventral
noun
In snakes, any of a set of scales positioned anterior to the ventral scales and are wider than they are long, but not coming into contact with the paraventral row of dorsal scales on either side of the body.
preventure
preversing
preversion
prevesical
prevesical
adj
(anatomy) In front of a bladder, especially the urinary bladder.
prevetoing
previdence
previewing
previewing
verb
present participle of preview
previolate
previously
previously
adv
(now archaic, with present-tense constructions) First; beforehand, in advance.
(television) Recapitulating the preceding episodes of a series.
(with past-tense constructions) At an earlier time.
previsible
previsible
adj
(uncommon) foreseeable
previsibly
previsitor
prevocalic
prevocalic
adj
(phonetics) Immediately preceding a vowel or vowel sound
prevocally
prevocally
adv
Synonym of prevocalically
prevoyance
primaveral
primaveral
adj
Relating to or characteristic of early spring.
primaveras
primaveras
noun
plural of primavera
primaveria
primevally
primevally
adv
In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally.
primeverin
primitives
primitives
noun
plural of primitive
prineville
prineville
Proper noun
a city in Oregon, USA
privateers
privateers
noun
plural of privateer
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privateer
privatized
privatized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of privatize
priviledge
privileged
privileged
adj
(law) Not subject to legal discovery due to a protected status.
Having special privileges.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of privilege
privileger
privileger
noun
One who confers a privilege.
privileges
privileges
noun
plural of privilege
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of privilege
processive
processive
adj
Going forward, advancing, progressive
procursive
procursive
adj
(medicine) Running forward, as the patient does in certain forms of epilepsy.
prodivorce
productive
productive
adj
(linguistics, of an affix or word construction rule) Consistently applicable to any of an open set of words.
(medicine) Of a cough, producing mucus or sputum from the respiratory tract.
(medicine) Of inflammation, producing new tissue.
Capable of producing something, especially in abundance; fertile.
Of, or relating to the creation of goods or services.
Yielding good or useful results; constructive.
professive
proflavine
proflavine
noun
(organic chemistry) A disinfectant, acridine-3,6-diamine, bacteriostatic against many gram-positive bacteria
projective
projective
adj
(mathematics) describing those properties of a figure that are invariant upon projection
of, relating to, or caused by a projection
projecting outward
noun
(linguistics) A statement about a conditional or potential state of affairs, as opposed to one about a situation that actually exists or existed.
(mathematics) A projective member of a category.
(psychology) An assessment test that presents subjects with some sort of stimulus to which they react by projecting or imagining details.
promissive
promissive
adj
Making or implying a promise.
promovable
propulsive
propulsive
adj
Of or pertaining to propulsion
Serving to propel
proslavery
proslavery
adj
Supporting slavery.
protective
protective
adj
Serving or intended to protect.
Wishing to protect; defensive of somebody or something.
(Celtic linguistics) Devoicing of a voiced obstruent, either inside a word or as an initial consonant mutation.
(linguistics) The carrying forward of a final consonant to a following word, as in "nickname" for "an ekename".
proveditor
proveditor
noun
One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another.
provenance
provenance
noun
(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
(art) The history of ownership of a work of art
(computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
(of a person) Background; history; place of origin
Place or source of origin.
verb
To establish the provenance of something
provencale
provencial
provenders
provenders
noun
plural of provender
provenient
provenient
adj
(rare) Forthcoming; issuing.
proverbial
proverbial
adj
Not used in a literal sense, but as the subject of a well-known metaphor.
Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.
Widely known; famous; stereotypical.
noun
(euphemistic) Used to replace a word that might be considered unacceptable in a particular situation, when using a well-known phrase.
(euphemistic, in the plural) The groin or the testicles.
proverbing
proverbing
verb
present participle of proverb
proverbize
providable
providable
adj
Capable of being provided.
providance
providence
providence
noun
(now rare) Preparation for the future; good governance, foresight.
A manifestation of divine care or direction; an instance of divine intervention.
Specifically, the prudent care and management of resources; thriftiness, frugality.
The careful governance and guidance of God (or another deity, nature etc.).
proviruses
proviruses
noun
plural of provirus
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
provostess
provostess
noun
(rare) A female provost.
pseudooval
pseudovary
pseudovary
noun
Alternative form of pseudovarium
pullshovel
pulverable
pulverable
adj
Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
pulverated
pulverated
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pulverate
pulvereous
pulverised
pulverised
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pulverise
pulveriser
pulveriser
noun
Alternative spelling of pulverizer
pulverized
pulverized
verb
simple past tense and past participle of pulverize
pulverizer
pulverizer
noun
(agriculture) A device for crushing clods of soil in a field.
One who, or that which, pulverizes.
pulverizes
pulverizes
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pulverize
pulvinated
pulvinated
adj
pulvinate
pulviplume
pulviplume
noun
A feather yielding powder down.
punitively
punitively
adv
In a punitive manner.
purgatives
purgatives
noun
plural of purgative
purveyable
purveyable
adj
Able to be purveyed.
purveyance
purveyance
noun
(Britain, historical) The prerogative of the Crown to static separation of duty with goods and services for royal use.
The act of purveying.
putatively
putatively
adv
According to belief.
pylesville
ravelproof
ravelproof
adj
Resistant to raveling; tangleproof.
readaptive
reapproval
reapproval
noun
The act of reapproving.
reapproved
reapproved
verb
simple past tense and past participle of reapprove
reapproves
reapproves
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reapprove
redemptive
redemptive
adj
Causing, or relating to, redemption or saving; redeeming.
redevelops
redevelops
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of redevelop
reparative
reparative
adj
Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation.
Tending to or intended to repair.
noun
(rare) That which repairs.
repavement
reperceive
reperceive
verb
To perceive again, usually in a different way.
repetitive
repetitive
adj
Happening many times in a similar way; containing repetition; repeating.
replevined
replevined
verb
simple past tense and past participle of replevin
replevisor
replevisor
noun
(law) A plaintiff in replevin.
replevying
replevying
verb
present participle of replevy
repressive
repressive
adj
Serving to repress or suppress; oppressive
reprievers
reprieving
reprieving
verb
present participle of reprieve
reprovable
reprovable
adj
reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
reprovably
reprovably
adv
In a reprovable manner.
repudative
reputative
reputative
adj
reputed; putative
resorptive
resorptive
adj
Of, pertaining to, or caused by resorption.
respective
respective
adj
(obsolete) Fitted to awaken respect.
(obsolete) Looking toward; having reference to; relative, not absolute.
(obsolete) Noticing with attention; careful; wary.