| bedspread | (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, counterpane, spread |
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| dispread | (verb) spread abroad or out | - |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| midspread | (noun) a measure of statistical dispersion, being equal to the difference between the upper and lower quartiles. | Synonyms: interquartile range, middle fifty |
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| outspread | (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: spread |
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| overspread | (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: spread |
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| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| 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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| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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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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| preachy | (adjective) inclined to or marked by tedious moralization | - |
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| preadolescent | (adjective) of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12 | Synonyms: preteen |
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| preamble | (noun) a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution (usually explaining its purpose) | - |
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| (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
| preanal | (adjective) situated in front of the anus | - |
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| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| prearrangement | (noun) something arranged in advance | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| spread | (adjective) distributed or spread over a considerable extent | Synonyms: dispersed |
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| (adjective) fully extended in width | Synonyms: outspread |
| (adjective) prepared or arranged for a meal; especially having food set out | - |
| (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) decorative cover for a bed | Synonyms: bed cover, bed covering, bedcover, bedspread, counterpane |
| (noun) farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) | Synonyms: cattle farm, cattle ranch, ranch |
| (noun) a haphazard distribution in all directions | Synonyms: scatter |
| (noun) the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age) | - |
| (noun) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread head, spreadhead |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spreading |
| (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: paste |
| (noun) a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate |
| (verb) become widely known and passed on | Synonyms: circulate, go around |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: distribute |
| (verb) spread out or open from a closed or folded state | Synonyms: open, spread out, unfold |
| (verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: propagate |
| (verb) cover by spreading something over | - |
| (verb) distribute over a surface in a layer | - |
| (verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: scatter, spread out |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: diffuse, fan out, spread out |
| (verb) spread across or over | Synonyms: overspread |
| spreadeagle | (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: rout, spread-eagle |
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| spreader | (noun) a hand tool for spreading something | - |
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| (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: broadcaster |
| spreadhead | (noun) two facing pages of a book or other publication | Synonyms: facing pages, spread, spread head |
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| spreading | (noun) act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, dissemination, public exposure |
| (noun) process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space | Synonyms: spread |
| spreadsheet | (noun) a screen-oriented interactive program enabling a user to lay out financial data on the screen | - |
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| thickspread | (adjective) covered thickly | - |
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| widespread | (adjective) distributed over a considerable extent | Synonyms: far-flung |
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| (adjective) widely circulated or diffused | - |
| wingspread | (noun) distance between the tips of the wings (as of a bird or insect) when fully extended | - |
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| (noun) linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil | Synonyms: wingspan |