| 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 | - |
| preoperative | (adjective) happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation | - |
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| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| preordination | (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, predetermination |
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| prep | (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: preparation |
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| prepackaged | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepacked |
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| prepacked | (adjective) prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | Synonyms: prepackaged |
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| prepaid | (adjective) used especially of mail; paid in advance | Synonyms: postpaid |
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| preparation | (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: grooming, training |
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| (noun) preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home) | Synonyms: prep |
| (noun) the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose | Synonyms: readying |
| (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, cooking |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, provision |
| (noun) (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord | - |
| (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparedness, readiness |
| (noun) a substance prepared according to a formula | Synonyms: formulation |
| preparative | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparatory, propaedeutic |
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| preparatory | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, propaedeutic |
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| prepare | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, train |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready |
| (verb) to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery | - |
| (verb) lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord | - |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, train |
| prepared | (adjective) made ready or fit or suitable beforehand | - |
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| (adjective) equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources | - |
| (adjective) having made preparations | Synonyms: disposed, fain, inclined |
| preparedness | (noun) the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) | Synonyms: preparation, readiness |
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| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| prepayment | (noun) payment in advance | - |
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| preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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| (noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
| (noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
| preponderant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderating |
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| preponderantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: predominantly |
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| preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| prepositional | (adjective) of or relating to or formed with a preposition | - |
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| prepositionally | (adverb) as a preposition | - |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| prepossession | (noun) an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence | Synonyms: parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception |
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| (noun) the condition of being prepossessed | - |
| preposterous | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, ridiculous |
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| preposterously | (adverb) so as to arouse or deserve laughter | Synonyms: laughably, ludicrously, ridiculously |
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| prepotency | (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, predomination |
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| prepper | (noun) someone who prepares for a disaster | - |
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| preprandial | (adjective) preceding a meal (especially dinner) | - |
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| prepubertal | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubescent |
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| prepuberty | (noun) a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur | - |
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| prepubescent | (adjective) (especially of human beings) at the age immediately before puberty; often marked by accelerated growth | Synonyms: prepubertal |
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| prepuce | (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis | Synonyms: foreskin |
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| (noun) a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris | Synonyms: foreskin |
| prepupal | (adjective) of an inactive stage in the development of some insects, between the larval and the pupal stages | - |
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| prerecord | (verb) record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
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| prerecorded | (adjective) recorded at one time for transmission later | - |
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| prerequisite | (adjective) required as a prior condition or course of study | - |
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| (noun) something that is required in advance | Synonyms: requirement |
| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| presage | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| (noun) a foreboding about what is about to happen | - |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
| presbyope | (noun) a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens | - |
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| presbyopia | (noun) a reduced ability to focus on near objects caused by loss of elasticity of the crystalline lens after age 45 | Synonyms: farsightedness |
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| presbyopic | (adjective) able to see distant objects clearly | Synonyms: farsighted |
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| presbyter | (noun) an elder in the Presbyterian Church | - |
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| presbytery | (noun) building reserved for the officiating clergy | - |
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| preschool | (noun) an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
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| preschooler | (noun) a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten | Synonyms: kindergartener, kindergartner |
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| prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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| prescient | (adjective) perceiving the significance of events before they occur | - |
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| presciently | (adverb) with foresight | Synonyms: cannily |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| prescribed | (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: positive |
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| (adjective) set down as a rule or guide | - |
| (adjective) conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline | Synonyms: official |
| (adjective) fixed or established especially by order or command | Synonyms: appointed, decreed, ordained |
| prescript | (noun) prescribed guide for conduct or action | Synonyms: rule |
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| prescription | (adjective) available only with a doctor's written prescription | - |
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| (noun) a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist | Synonyms: ethical drug, prescription drug, prescription medicine |
| (noun) directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions | - |
| (noun) written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient | - |
| (noun) written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person | - |
| prescriptive | (adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules | Synonyms: normative |
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| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| preseason | (noun) a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation | - |
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| presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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| (noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
| (noun) the impression that something is present | - |
| (noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
| (noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
| (noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
| present | (adjective) temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration | - |
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| (adjective) being or existing in a specified place | - |
| (noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | Synonyms: present tense |
| (noun) something presented as a gift | - |
| (noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: nowadays |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |