| predaceous | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predacious, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predacious |
| predaceousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaciousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predacious | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predatory |
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| (adjective) hunting and killing other animals for food | Synonyms: predaceous |
| predaciousness | (noun) (of an animal, usually a bird) The quality of subsisting off live prey. | Synonyms: predaceousness, rapaciousness, rapacity |
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| predate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, foredate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: prey, raven |
| predation | (noun) the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey | - |
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| (noun) an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | Synonyms: depredation |
| predator | (noun) any animal that lives by preying on other animals | Synonyms: predatory animal |
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| (noun) someone who attacks in search of booty | Synonyms: marauder, piranha, vulture |
| predatory | (adjective) living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain | Synonyms: predaceous, predacious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, raiding |
| 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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| predicament | (noun) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one | Synonyms: plight, quandary |
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| predicate | (noun) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | Synonyms: verb phrase |
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| (noun) (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predication | (noun) (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument | Synonyms: postulation |
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| predicative | (adjective) of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence | - |
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| predicatively | (adverb) occurring within the predicate phrase | - |
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| predicator | (noun) an expression that predicates | - |
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| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| predictability | (noun) the quality of being predictable | - |
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| predictable | (adjective) capable of being foretold | - |
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| predictably | (adverb) in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree | - |
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| prediction | (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prevision |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prognostication |
| predictive | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: prognostic, prognosticative |
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| predictor | (noun) a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival | - |
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| (noun) information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events | - |
| (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer |
| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| predigested | (adjective) artificially partially digested as by enzymatic action | - |
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| predilection | (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, preference |
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| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, preference, taste |
| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| predisposed | (adjective) made susceptible | - |
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| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| prednisolone | (noun) a glucocorticoid (trade names Pediapred or Prelone) used to treat inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Pediapred, Prelone |
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| prednisone | (noun) a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant | Synonyms: Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone |
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| predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
| predominant | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, prevailing, prevalent, rife |
| predominantly | (adverb) much greater in number or influence | Synonyms: preponderantly |
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| predominate | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, preponderant, preponderating |
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| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| predomination | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predominance |
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| (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, prepotency |