| preemie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: premature baby, premature infant, premie, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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| preeminent | (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: leading |
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| preeminently | (adverb) to a preeminent degree; with superiority or distinction above others; in a preeminent manner | Synonyms: pre-eminently |
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| preempt | (noun) a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding | Synonyms: pre-empt, preemptive bid |
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| (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| preemption | (noun) a prior appropriation of something | Synonyms: pre-emption |
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| (noun) the right to purchase something in advance of others | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property) | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| (noun) the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject | Synonyms: pre-emption |
| preemptive | (adjective) designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence | Synonyms: pre-emptive |
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| preemptor | (noun) a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
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| (noun) someone who acquires land by preemption | Synonyms: pre-emptor |
| preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
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| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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| preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| prefab | (adjective) manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) a prefabricated structure | - |
| prefabricate | (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: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| preface | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, prolusion |
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| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
| prefaded | (adjective) (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | - |
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| prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| prefect | (noun) a chief officer or chief magistrate | - |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| prefecture | (noun) the office of prefect | - |
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| (noun) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) | - |
| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| preferable | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferred |
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| preferably | (adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: rather, sooner |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferentially | (adverb) in a preferential manner | - |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| preferred | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferable |
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| (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent |
| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prefix | (noun) an affix that is added in front of the word | - |
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| (verb) attach a prefix to | - |
| prefixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of a prefix | - |
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| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| preformation | (noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell | Synonyms: theory of preformation |
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| prefrontal | (adjective) anterior to a frontal structure | - |
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| pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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| pregnanediol | (noun) a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women | - |
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| pregnant | (adjective) carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life | - |
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| (adjective) filled with or attended with | Synonyms: fraught |
| (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: meaning, significant |
| preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| prehensile | (adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object | - |
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| (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy |
| (adjective) having a keen intellect | - |
| prehension | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: grasping, seizing, taking hold |
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| prehensor | (noun) the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths | - |
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| prehistoric | (adjective) of or relating to times before written history | - |
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| (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistorical |
| (adjective) outdated | - |
| prehistorical | (adjective) belonging to or existing in times before recorded history | Synonyms: prehistoric |
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| prehistory | (noun) the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word | Synonyms: prehistoric culture |
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| preindication | (noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, sign |
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| preisolate | (verb) isolate beforehand | - |
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| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| prejudgement | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgment |
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| prejudgment | (noun) a judgment reached before the evidence is available | Synonyms: prejudgement |
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| prejudice | (noun) a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | Synonyms: bias, preconception |
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| (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prejudiced | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| (adjective) emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices | - |
| prejudicial | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicious |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicious |
| prejudicious | (adjective) tending to favor preconceived ideas | Synonyms: prejudicial |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial |
| prelacy | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelature |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelature |
| prelapsarian | (adjective) of or relating to the time before the Fall of Adam and Eve | - |
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| prelate | (noun) a senior clergyman and dignitary | Synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, primate |
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| prelature | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelacy |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelacy |
| prelim | (noun) an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue | Synonyms: preliminary exam, preliminary examination |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: preliminary |
| preliminary | (adjective) denoting an action or event preceding or in preparation for something more important | - |
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| (noun) a minor match preceding the main event | Synonyms: prelim |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, prelude |
| prelims | (noun) written matter preceding the main text of a book | Synonyms: front matter |
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| preliterate | (adjective) not yet having acquired the ability to read and write | - |
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| (adjective) used of a society that has not developed writing | Synonyms: nonliterate |
| prelude | (noun) music that precedes a fugue or introduces an act in an opera | - |
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| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: overture, preliminary |
| (verb) play as a prelude | - |
| (verb) serve as a prelude or opening to | - |
| premarital | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, prenuptial |
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| premature | (adjective) born after a gestation period of less than the normal time | - |
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| (adjective) uncommonly early or before the expected time | Synonyms: untimely |
| (adjective) too soon or too hasty | Synonyms: previous |
| prematurely | (adverb) too soon; in a premature manner | Synonyms: untimely |
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| (adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation | - |
| prematureness | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematurity |
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| prematurity | (noun) the state of being premature | Synonyms: prematureness |
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| premedical | (adjective) preparing for the study of medicine | - |
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| (adjective) preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | - |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| premeditated | (adjective) characterized by deliberate purpose and some degree of planning | - |
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| premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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| (noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
| premenopausal | (adjective) prior to menopause | - |
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| premenstrual | (adjective) of or relating to or occurring during the time just before menstruation | - |
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| premie | (noun) an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation | Synonyms: preemie, premature baby, premature infant, preterm baby, preterm infant |
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| premier | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (adjective) first in rank or degree | Synonyms: prime |
| (noun) the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom | Synonyms: PM, Prime Minister |
| (noun) the person who is head of government (in several countries) | Synonyms: chancellor, prime minister |
| (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| premiere | (adjective) preceding all others in time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (noun) the first public performance of a play or movie | - |
| (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| premiership | (noun) the office of premier | - |
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| premise | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premiss |
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| (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
| premises | (noun) land and the buildings on it | - |
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| premiss | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premise |
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| (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
| premium | (adjective) having or reflecting superior quality or value; having a higher price or cost | - |
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| (noun) the amount that something in scarce supply is valued above its nominal value | - |
| (noun) payment or reward (especially from a government) for acts such as catching criminals or killing predatory animals or enlisting in the military | Synonyms: bounty |
| (noun) payment for insurance | Synonyms: insurance premium |
| (noun) a fee charged for exchanging currencies | Synonyms: agio, agiotage, exchange premium |
| (noun) a prize, bonus, or award given as an inducement to purchase products, enter competitions initiated by business interests, etc. | - |
| premix | (noun) a commercially prepared mixture of dry ingredients | Synonyms: mix |
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| premolar | (noun) a tooth having two cusps or points; located between the incisors and the molars | Synonyms: bicuspid |
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| premonition | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: forewarning |
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| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment |
| premonitory | (adjective) warning of future misfortune | Synonyms: precursory |
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| prenatal | (adjective) occurring or existing before birth | Synonyms: antenatal, antepartum |
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| prenominal | (adjective) of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify | Synonyms: attributive |
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| prentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: apprentice, learner |
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| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
| preoccupation | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupancy |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupancy |
| (noun) an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention | - |
| preoccupied | (adjective) having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something | Synonyms: haunted, obsessed, taken up |
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| (adjective) deeply absorbed in thought | Synonyms: bemused, lost |
| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |