| precedent | (adjective) preceding in time, order, or significance | - |
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| (noun) an example that is used to justify similar occurrences at a later time | Synonyms: case in point |
| (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 |
| precedented | (adjective) having or supported or justified by a precedent | - |
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| precedentedly | (adverb) with precedent | - |
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| precedential | (adjective) having precedence (especially because of longer service) | - |
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| predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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| 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 | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
| 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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| predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
| (verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
| predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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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 |
| predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
| predetermined | (adjective) set in advance | Synonyms: preset |
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| propaedeutic | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, preparatory |
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| (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutics |
| propaedeutics | (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutic |
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| psychedelia | (noun) the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs | - |
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| psychedelic | (adjective) (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair | - |
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| (adjective) having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states | - |
| (adjective) producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis | - |
| recede | (verb) become faint or more distant | - |
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| (verb) retreat | Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw |
| rede | (verb) give advice to | Synonyms: advise, counsel |
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| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: interpret |
| redecorate | (verb) redo the decoration of an apartment or house | - |
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| rededicate | (verb) dedicate anew | - |
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| rededication | (noun) a new dedication | - |
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| redeem | (verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers | - |
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| (verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat | Synonyms: ransom |
| (verb) to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange | - |
| (verb) restore the honor or worth of | - |
| (verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, save |
| redeemable | (adjective) able to be converted into ready money or the equivalent | Synonyms: cashable |
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| (adjective) susceptible to improvement or reform | Synonyms: reformable |
| (adjective) recoverable upon payment or fulfilling a condition | - |
| redeemed | (adjective) saved from the bondage of sin | Synonyms: ransomed |
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| redeemer | (noun) someone who redeems or buys back (promissory notes or merchandise or commercial paper etc.) | - |
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| redeeming | (adjective) compensating for some fault or defect | - |
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| (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redemptive, saving |
| redefine | (verb) give a new or different definition of (a word) | - |
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| (verb) give a new or different definition to | - |
| redefinition | (noun) the act of giving a new definition | - |
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| redemption | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, repurchase |
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| (noun) (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | Synonyms: salvation |
| (noun) repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock) | - |
| redemptional | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptive, redemptory |
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| redemptive | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptory |
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| (adjective) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin | Synonyms: redeeming, saving |
| redemptory | (adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption | Synonyms: redemptional, redemptive |
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| redeploy | (verb) deploy anew | - |
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| redeployment | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redisposition |
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| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| redesign | (verb) design anew, make a new design for | - |
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| redetermination | (noun) determining again | - |
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| redetermine | (verb) fix, find, or establish again | - |
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| redevelop | (verb) change the plans for the use of (land) | - |
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| (verb) formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis | Synonyms: reformulate |
| (verb) develop for a second time, in order to improve the contrast, colour, etc., of a negative or print | - |
| redevelopment | (noun) the act of improving by renewing and restoring | Synonyms: overhaul, renovation |
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| redeye | (noun) a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep | Synonyms: redeye flight |
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| scleredema | (noun) a skin disease marked by hard edema of the tissue usually beginning in the face | - |
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| secede | (verb) withdraw from an organization or communion | Synonyms: break away, splinter |
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| sedentary | (adjective) requiring sitting or little activity | - |
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| seeded | (adjective) (of the more skilled contestants) selectively arranged in the draw for position in a tournament so that they meet each other in later rounds | - |
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| (adjective) sprinkled with seed | Synonyms: sown |
| (adjective) having or supplied with seeds | - |
| (adjective) having seeds as specified | - |
| (adjective) having the seeds extracted | - |
| seeder | (noun) a kitchen utensil that removes seeds from fruit | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that sows grass seed or grain evenly over the ground | - |
| (noun) a person who seeds clouds | Synonyms: cloud seeder |
| speeder | (noun) a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit | Synonyms: speed demon |
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| stampede | (noun) a headlong rush of people on a common impulse | - |
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| (noun) a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle) | - |
| (verb) run away in a stampede | - |
| (verb) cause to run in panic | - |
| (verb) act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse | - |
| (verb) cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively | - |
| stapedectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear | - |
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| succeeder | (noun) a person with a record of successes | Synonyms: achiever, success, winner |
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| suede | (noun) a fabric made to resemble suede leather | Synonyms: suede cloth |
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| (noun) leather with a napped surface | Synonyms: suede leather |
| supersede | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supervene upon, supplant |
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| swede | (noun) the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food | Synonyms: rutabaga, swedish turnip, yellow turnip |
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| (noun) a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root | Synonyms: Brassica napus napobrassica, rutabaga, rutabaga plant, Swedish turnip, turnip cabbage |
| unexceeded | (adjective) not capable of being improved on | Synonyms: unexcelled, unsurpassed |
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| unheeded | (adjective) disregarded | Synonyms: ignored, neglected |
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| unimpeded | (adjective) not slowed or prevented | - |
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| unneeded | (adjective) not necessary | Synonyms: unnecessary |
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| unprecedented | (adjective) having no precedent; novel; never seen before | - |
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| unprecedentedly | (adverb) in an unprecedented manner | - |
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| unredeemable | (adjective) insusceptible of reform | Synonyms: irreclaimable, irredeemable, unreformable |
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| unredeemed | (adjective) in danger of the eternal punishment of Hell | Synonyms: cursed, damned, doomed, unsaved |
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| unseeded | (adjective) not seeded; used of players of lesser skill | - |
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| (adjective) (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it | Synonyms: unsown |
| velocipede | (noun) a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals | Synonyms: tricycle, trike |
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| (noun) any of several early bicycles with pedals on the front wheel | - |
| wedel | (verb) ski, alternating directions | - |
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| weeder | (noun) a hand tool for removing weeds | Synonyms: weed-whacker |
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| (noun) a farmhand hired to remove weeds | - |