| practicability | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicableness |
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| practicable | (adjective) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are | Synonyms: executable, feasible, viable, workable |
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| (adjective) usable for a specific purpose | Synonyms: operable |
| practicableness | (noun) the quality of being usable | Synonyms: practicability |
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| practicably | (adverb) in a practicable manner; so as to be feasible | Synonyms: feasibly |
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| practical | (adjective) concerned with actual use or practice | - |
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| (adjective) having or put to a practical purpose or use | - |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic |
| (adjective) being actually such in almost every respect | Synonyms: virtual |
| practicality | (noun) concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities | - |
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| practically | (adverb) almost; nearly | - |
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| (adverb) in a practical manner | - |
| (adverb) (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely | Synonyms: much |
| 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 | - |
| (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| practiced | (adjective) skillful after much practice | Synonyms: practised |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, proficient, skilful, skillful |
| practician | (noun) someone who practices a learned profession | Synonyms: practitioner |
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| practise | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practice |
| practised | (adjective) skillful after much practice | Synonyms: practiced |
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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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| praetorial | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorian, pretorial, pretorian |
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| praetorian | (adjective) of or relating to a Roman praetor | Synonyms: praetorial, pretorial, pretorian |
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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 | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatical |
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| (adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatical |
| (adjective) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, practical |
| (noun) an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land | Synonyms: pragmatic sanction |
| pragmatical | (adjective) of or concerning the theory of pragmatism | Synonyms: pragmatic |
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| (adjective) concerned with practical matters | Synonyms: matter-of-fact, pragmatic |
| pragmatically | (adverb) in a practical manner, as opposed to theoretically or idealistically | - |
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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 | - |
| (verb) express approval of | - |
| praiseful | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: laudatory, praising |
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| praiseworthily | (adverb) in an admirable manner | Synonyms: admirably, commendable, laudably |
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| praiseworthiness | (noun) the quality of being worthy of praise | Synonyms: laudability, laudableness |
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| praiseworthy | (adjective) worthy of high praise | Synonyms: applaudable, commendable, laudable |
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| praising | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: laudatory, praiseful |
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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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| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
| (verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
| (verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
| prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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| prandial | (adjective) of or relating to a meal | - |
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| prang | (noun) a crash involving a car or plane | - |
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| (verb) crash | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) dress up showily | - |
| (verb) dress or decorate showily or gaudily | - |
| prankish | (adjective) naughtily or annoyingly playful | Synonyms: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, puckish, wicked |
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| 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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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| 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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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| 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 |
| (verb) fish for prawns | - |
| praxis | (noun) translating an idea into action | Synonyms: practice |
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| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| 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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| prayerful | (adjective) disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
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| prazosin | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress) | Synonyms: Minipress |
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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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| 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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| precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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| precarious | (adjective) fraught with danger | Synonyms: parlous, perilous, touch-and-go |
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| (adjective) not secure; beset with difficulties | Synonyms: shaky |
| (adjective) affording no ease or reassurance | Synonyms: unstable |
| precariously | (adverb) in a precarious manner | - |
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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 |
| precast | (adjective) of structural members especially of concrete; cast into form before being transported to the site of installation | - |
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| precative | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precatory |
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| precatory | (adjective) expressing entreaty or supplication | Synonyms: precative |
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| 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 |
| precautional | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautionary |
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| precautionary | (adjective) taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure | Synonyms: precautional |
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| 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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| precede | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, preface, premise |
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| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be the predecessor of | Synonyms: come before |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: predate |
| 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 | (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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| preceding | (adjective) existing or coming before | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, retiring |
| 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 |