| practicability | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicableness |
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| practicableness | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicability |
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| practicality | (noun) concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities | - |
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| practice | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: pattern |
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| (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice session, recitation |
| (noun) the exercise of a profession | - |
| (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: praxis |
| (noun) knowledge of how something is usually done | - |
| practician | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practitioner |
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| practitioner | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practician |
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| praenomen | (noun) the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome | - |
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| praesidium | (noun) a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | Synonyms: presidium |
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| praetor | (noun) an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic | Synonyms: pretor |
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| praetorium | (noun) the tent of an ancient Roman general | Synonyms: pretorium |
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| praetorship | (noun) the office of praetor | - |
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| pragmatic | (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
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| pragmatics | (noun) the study of language use | - |
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| pragmatism | (noun) the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth | Synonyms: realism |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value | - |
| pragmatist | (noun) a person who takes a practical approach to problems and is concerned primarily with the success or failure of their actions | - |
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| (noun) an adherent of philosophical pragmatism | - |
| prairie | (noun) a treeless grassy plain | - |
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| praise | (noun) an expression of approval and commendation | Synonyms: congratulations, extolment, kudos |
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| (noun) offering words of homage as an act of worship | - |
| praiseworthiness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, laudableness |
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| praisworthiness | (noun) the property of deserving praise | - |
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| praline | (noun) cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans | - |
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| pram | (noun) a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around | Synonyms: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, go-cart, perambulator, pushchair, pusher, stroller |
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| prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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| prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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| prang | (noun) a crash involving a car or plane | - |
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| prank | (noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, caper, joke, put-on, trick |
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| (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, japery |
| prankishness | (noun) the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks | Synonyms: rascality, roguishness |
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| prankster | (noun) someone who plays practical jokes on others | Synonyms: cut-up, hoaxer, practical joker, tricker, trickster |
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| praseodymium | (noun) a soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process | Synonyms: atomic number 59, Pr |
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| prat | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| prate | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prattle |
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| prater | (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, spouter |
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| pratfall | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup |
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| (noun) a fall onto your buttocks | - |
| pratincole | (noun) Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs; closely related to the coursers | Synonyms: glareole |
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| prattle | (noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk | Synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate |
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| prattler | (noun) someone who speaks in a childish way | - |
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| pravastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Pravachol) administered to reduce blood cholesterol levels; recommended after nonfatal heart attacks | Synonyms: Pravachol |
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| prawn | (noun) shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible | - |
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| (noun) any of various edible decapod crustaceans | Synonyms: shrimp |
| praxis | (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: practice |
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| praya | (noun) colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long | - |
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| prayer | (noun) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving) | Synonyms: supplication |
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| (noun) earnest or urgent request | Synonyms: appeal, entreaty |
| (noun) a fixed text used in praying | - |
| (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: orison, petition |
| (noun) someone who prays to God | Synonyms: supplicant |
| prayerbook | (noun) a book containing prayers | Synonyms: prayer book |
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| prazosin | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress) | Synonyms: Minipress |
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| preacher | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher man, sermoniser, sermonizer |
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| preachification | (noun) moralization delivered tediously in a preachy manner | - |
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| preaching | (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | Synonyms: discourse, sermon |
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| (noun) a moralistic rebuke | Synonyms: sermon |
| preachment | (noun) a sermon on a moral or religious topic | Synonyms: homily |
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| preamble | (noun) a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| prebend | (noun) the stipend assigned by a cathedral to a canon | - |
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| prebendary | (noun) a canon who receives a prebend for serving the church | - |
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| precalc | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalculus |
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| precalculus | (noun) a college-level algebra and trigonometry course that is designed to prepare students for the study of calculus | Synonyms: precalc |
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| precariousness | (noun) extreme dangerousness | - |
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| (noun) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance | Synonyms: uncertainness, uncertainty |
| precaution | (noun) a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc. | Synonyms: guard, safeguard |
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| (noun) the trait of practicing caution in advance | - |
| (noun) judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger | Synonyms: care, caution, forethought |
| precava | (noun) receives blood from the head and arms and chest and empties into the right atrium of the heart; formed from the azygos and both brachiocephalic veins | Synonyms: superior vena cava |
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| precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
| precedency | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, priority |
| precedent | (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
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| (noun) (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| (noun) a subject mentioned earlier (preceding in time) | - |
| (noun) a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws | Synonyms: case law, common law |
| precentor | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, choirmaster |
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| precentorship | (noun) the position of precentor | - |
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| precept | (noun) a doctrine that is taught | Synonyms: commandment, teaching |
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| (noun) rule of personal conduct | Synonyms: principle |
| preceptor | (noun) teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) | Synonyms: don |
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| preceptorship | (noun) the position of preceptor | - |
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| precession | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precedency |
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| (noun) the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone | - |
| prechlorination | (noun) chlorination prior to another chemical process | - |
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| precinct | (noun) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes | - |
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| preciosity | (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciousness |
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| preciousness | (noun) the positive quality of being precious and beyond value | Synonyms: invaluableness, pricelessness, valuableness |
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| (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciosity |
| (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: costliness, dearness |
| precipice | (noun) a very steep cliff | - |
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| precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitant | (noun) an agent that causes a precipitate to form | - |
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| precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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| precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
| (noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
| (noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
| (noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
| (noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
| precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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| precipitin | (noun) an antibody that causes precipitation when it unites with its antigen | - |
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| precipitousness | (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: abruptness, steepness |
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| (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, suddenness |
| precis | (noun) a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory | Synonyms: abstract, outline, synopsis |
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| preciseness | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: precision |
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| (noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: clearcutness |
| precision | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: preciseness |
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| preclusion | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: forestalling, obviation |
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| precociousness | (noun) intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules | Synonyms: precocity |
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| precocity | (noun) intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules | Synonyms: precociousness |
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| precognition | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: foreknowledge |
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| preconception | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, prepossession |
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| (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, prejudice |
| precondition | (noun) a condition that is a prerequisite | - |
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| (noun) an assumption that is taken for granted | Synonyms: given, presumption |
| (noun) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else | Synonyms: condition, stipulation |
| precordium | (noun) the external surface of the body overlying the heart and stomach | - |
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| precursor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, predecessor |
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| (noun) a person who goes before or announces the coming of another | Synonyms: forerunner |
| (noun) a substance from which another substance is formed (especially by a metabolic reaction) | - |
| predaceousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaciousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predaciousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predation | (noun) the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey | - |
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| (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: depredation |
| predator | (noun) any animal that lives by preying on other animals | Synonyms: predatory animal |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, vulture |
| predecessor | (noun) something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | Synonyms: forerunner, harbinger, herald, precursor |
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| (noun) one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office) | - |
| predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predetermination, preordination |
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| (noun) previous determination as if by destiny or fate | - |
| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| predetermination | (noun) the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place | - |
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| (noun) a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something | - |
| (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predestination, preordination |
| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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