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Poodle
  • (n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks

    Pooh
  • (interj.) Pshaw! pish! nonsense!—an expression of scorn, dislike, or contempt.

    Pool
  • (n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities
  • (v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction
  • (v. t.) To put together

    Poon
  • (n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C

    Poop
  • (n.) A deck raised above the after part of a vessel
  • (v. i.) To make a noise
  • (v. t.) To break over the poop or stern, as a wave.

    Poor
  • (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus)
  • (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit

    Pop
  • (adv.) Like a pop
  • (n.) An unintoxicating beverage which expels the cork with a pop from the bottle containing it
  • (v. i.) To burst open with a pop, when heated over a fire
  • (v. t.) To cause to pop

    Pope
  • (n.) A fish

    Popgun
  • (n.) A child's gun

    Popinjay
  • (n.) A parrot.

    Poplar
  • (n.) Any tree of the genus Populus

    Poplin
  • (n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted

    Popliteal
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ham

    Popper
  • (n.) A dagger.

    Poppet
  • (n.) An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only.

    Popple
  • (n.) Tares.
  • (v. i.) To move quickly up and down

    Poppyhead
  • (n.) A raised ornament frequently having the form of a final. It is generally used on the tops of the upright ends or elbows which terminate seats, etc

    Populace
  • (n.) The common people

    Popular
  • (a.) Adapted to the means of the common people

    Populate
  • (a.) Populous.
  • (v. i.) To propagate.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with inhabitants, either by natural increase or by immigration or colonization

    Population
  • (n.) The act or process of populating

    Populism
  • (n.) The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.

    Populist
  • (n.) A member of the People's party.

    Populous
  • (a.) Abounding in people

    Porbeagle
  • (n.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail

    Porcelain
  • (n.) A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America

    Porch
  • (n.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof

    Porcine
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to swine

    Porcupine
  • (n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long

    Pore
  • (v.) A minute opening or passageway
  • (v. i.) To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying

    Porgy
  • (n.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe

    Poriferan
  • (n.) One of the Polifera.

    Pork
  • (n.) The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

    Pornographic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to pornography

    Pornography
  • (n.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.

    Porosity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being porous

    Porous
  • (n.) Full of pores

    Porphyritic
  • (a.) Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline

    Porphyry
  • (n.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated

    Porpoise
  • (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P

    Porrect
  • (a.) Extended horizontally

    Porringer
  • (n.) A porridge dish

    Port
  • (n.) A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol
  • (v.) A place where ships may ride secure from storms
  • (v. t.) To carry

    Pose
  • (a.) Standing still, with all the feet on the ground
  • (n.) A cold in the head
  • (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery
  • (v. t.) The attitude or position of a person

    Posit
  • (v. t.) To assume as real or conceded

    Posology
  • (n.) The science or doctrine of doses

    Poss
  • (v. t.) To push

    Post
  • (a.) Hired to do what is wrong
  • (adv.) With post horses
  • (n.) A messenger who goes from station
  • (v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting
  • (v. t.) To assign to a station

    Posy
  • (n.) A brief poetical sentiment

    Pot
  • (n.) A crucible
  • (v. i.) To take a pot shot or shots, as at game or an enemy.
  • (v. t.) To drain

    Potable
  • (a.) Fit to be drunk
  • (n.) A potable liquid

    Potash
  • (n.) The hydroxide of potassium hydrate, a hard white brittle substance, KOH, having strong caustic and alkaline properties

    Potassium
  • (n.) An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc

    Potation
  • (n.) A draught.

    Potato
  • (n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food

    Potboiler
  • (n.) A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living

    Potency
  • (n.) The quality or state of being potent

    Potent
  • (a.) Having great authority, control, or dominion
  • (n.) A prince

    Pother
  • (n.) Bustle
  • (v. i.) To make a bustle or stir
  • (v. t.) To harass and perplex

    Pothole
  • (n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock

    Pothook
  • (n.) An S-shaped hook on which pots and kettles are hung over an open fire.

    Potion
  • (n.) A draught
  • (v. t.) To drug.

    Potlatch
  • (n.) Among the Kwakiutl, Chimmesyan, and other Indians of the northwestern coast of North America, a ceremonial distribution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment

    Potluck
  • (n.) Whatever may chance to be in the pot, or may be provided for a meal.

    Potoroo
  • (n.) Any small kangaroo belonging to Hypsiprymnus, Bettongia, and allied genera, native of Australia and Tasmania

    Potpie
  • (n.) A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.

    Potpourri
  • (n.) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.

    Potsherd
  • (n.) A piece or fragment of a broken pot.

    Potstone
  • (n.) A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

    Pott
  • (n.) A size of paper.

    Pouch
  • (n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  • (v. t.) To pocket

    Poulard
  • (n.) A pullet from which the ovaries have been removed to produce fattening

    Poult
  • (n.) A young chicken, partridge, grouse, or the like.

    Pounce
  • (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone
  • (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws
  • (v. t.) A punch or stamp.

    Pound
  • (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4
  • (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running
  • (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating

    Pour
  • (a.) Poor.
  • (n.) A stream, or something like a stream
  • (v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream
  • (v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it

    Poussette
  • (n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance.
  • (v. i.) To perform a certain movement in a dance.

    Pout
  • (n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips
  • (v. i.) To protrude.

    Poverty
  • (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness

    Powder
  • (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.
  • (v. i.) To be reduced to powder
  • (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles

    Power
  • (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted

    Powwow
  • (v. i.) Hence: To hold a noisy, disorderly meeting.

    Pox
  • (n.) Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases
  • (v. t.) To infect with the pox, or syphilis.

    Practicable
  • (a.) Capable of being used

    Practical
  • (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account

    Practice
  • (n.) Actual performance
  • (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment
  • (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually

    Practitioner
  • (n.) A sly or artful person.

    Praemunire
  • (n.) The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom

    Praenomen
  • (n.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc

    Pragmatic
  • (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.

    Pragmatism
  • (n.) The quality or state of being pragmatic

    Prairial
  • (n.) The ninth month of the French Republican calendar, which dated from September 22, 1792. It began May, 20, and ended June 18

    Prairie
  • (n.) A meadow or tract of grass

    Praise
  • (v.) Commendation for worth

    Prakrit
  • (n.) Any one of the popular dialects descended from, or akin to, Sanskrit

    Praline
  • (n.) A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp

    Pralltriller
  • (n.) A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale

    Prance
  • (v. i.) To ride on a prancing horse

    Prandial
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a repast, especially to dinner.

    Prank
  • (a.) Full of gambols or tricks.
  • (n.) A gay or sportive action
  • (v. i.) To make ostentatious show.
  • (v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner

    Prase
  • (n.) A variety of cryptocrystalline of a leek-green color.

    Prate
  • (n.) Talk to little purpose
  • (v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose
  • (v. t.) To utter foolishly

    Pratincole
  • (n.) Any bird of the Old World genus Glareola, or family Glareolidae, allied to the plovers

    Pratique
  • (n.) Practice

    Prattle
  • (n.) Trifling or childish tattle
  • (v. i.) To talk much and idly
  • (v. t.) To utter as prattle

    Prawn
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large shrimplike Crustacea having slender legs and long antennae

    Praxis
  • (n.) An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.

    Pray
  • (v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired
  • (v. t.) To address earnest request to

    Preach
  • (v.) A religious discourse.
  • (v. i.) To give serious advice on morals or religion
  • (v. t.) To advise or recommend earnestly.

    Preadamite
  • (n.) An inhabitant of the earth before Adam.

    Preamble
  • (n.) A introductory portion
  • (v. t. & i.) To make a preamble to

    Prearrange
  • (v. t.) To arrange beforehand.

    Prebend
  • (n.) A payment or stipend

    Precarious
  • (a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another

    Precaution
  • (n.) A measure taken beforehand to ward off evil or secure good or success
  • (v. t.) To take precaution against.

    Precede
  • (v. t.) To cause to be preceded

    Preceding
  • (a.) Going before

    Precentor
  • (n.) A leader of a choir

    Precept
  • (v. t.) To teach by precepts.

    Precession
  • (n.) The act of going before, or forward.

    Precinct
  • (n.) A district within certain boundaries

    Preciosity
  • (n.) Fastidious refinement, esp. in language

    Precious
  • (a.) Of great price

    Precipice
  • (n.) A headlong steep

    Precipitancy
  • (n.) The quality or state of being precipitant, or precipitate

    Precipitant
  • (a.) Falling or rushing headlong
  • (n.) Any force or reagent which causes the formation of a precipitate.

    Precipitate
  • (a.) Ending quickly in death
  • (n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold
  • (v. i.) To dash or fall headlong.
  • (v. t.) To separate from a solution, or other medium, in the form of a precipitate

    Precipitation
  • (n.) A deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow

    Precipitous
  • (a.) Hasty

    Precise
  • (a.) Having determinate limitations

    Precisian
  • (n.) An overprecise person

    Precision
  • (n.) The quality or state of being precise

    Preclude
  • (v.) To put a barrier before

    Precocious
  • (a.) Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age

    Precognition
  • (n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.

    Preconceive
  • (v. t.) To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand

    Preconception
  • (n.) The act of preconceiving

    Preconcert
  • (n.) Something concerted or arranged beforehand
  • (v. t.) To concert or arrange beforehand

    Precondition
  • (n.) A previous or antecedent condition

    Preconscious
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

    Precursive
  • (a.) Preceding

    Precursor
  • (n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach

    Predate
  • (v. t.) To date anticipation

    Predation
  • (n.) The act of pillaging.

    Predatory
  • (a.) Characterized by plundering

    Predecease
  • (n.) The death of one person or thing before another.
  • (v. t.) To die sooner than.

    Predecessor
  • (n.) One who precedes

    Predella
  • (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar

    Predestinarian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to predestination
  • (n.) One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.

    Predestinate
  • (a.) Predestinated
  • (v. t.) To predetermine or foreordain

    Predestination
  • (n.) The act of predestinating.

    Predestine
  • (v. t.) To decree beforehand

    Predeterminate
  • (a.) Determined beforehand

    Predetermine
  • (v. i.) To determine beforehand.
  • (v. t.) To determine (something) beforehand.

    Predial
  • (a.) Attached to land or farms

    Predicable
  • (a.) Capable of being predicated or affirmed of something
  • (n.) Anything affirmable of another

    Predicament
  • (n.) A class or kind described by any definite marks

    Predicant
  • (a.) Predicating
  • (n.) One who predicates, affirms, or proclaims

    Predicate
  • (a.) Predicated.
  • (v. i.) To affirm something of another thing
  • (v. t.) That which is affirmed or denied of the subject. In these propositions, "Paper is white," "Ink is not white," whiteness is the predicate affirmed of paper and denied of ink

    Predicatory
  • (a.) Affirmative

    Predict
  • (n.) A prediction.
  • (v. t.) To tell or declare beforehand

    Predigest
  • (v. t.) To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

    Predilection
  • (n.) A previous liking

    Predispose
  • (v. t.) To dispose or incline beforehand

    Predisposition
  • (n.) Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose

    Predominance
  • (n.) The quality or state of being predominant

    Predominant
  • (a.) Having the ascendency over others

    Predominate
  • (v. i.) To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority
  • (v. t.) To rule over

    Preeminent
  • (a.) Eminent above others

    Preempt
  • (v. t. & i.) To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States

    Preen
  • (n.) A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

    Preestablish
  • (v. t.) To establish beforehand.

    Preexist
  • (v. i.) To exist previously

    Preface
  • (n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay
  • (v. i.) To make a preface.
  • (v. t.) To introduce by a preface

    Prefatory
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface

    Prefect
  • (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc

    Prefer
  • (v. t.) To carry or bring (something) forward, or before one

    Prefiguration
  • (n.) The act of prefiguring, or the state of being prefigured.

    Prefigure
  • (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes

    Prefix
  • (n.) That which is prefixed
  • (v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing

    Preform
  • (v. t.) To form beforehand, or for special ends.

    Prefrontal
  • (a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull
  • (n.) A prefrontal bone or scale.

    Preglacial
  • (a.) Prior to the glacial or drift period.

    Pregnable
  • (a.) Capable of being entered, taken, or captured

    Pregnancy
  • (n.) Figuratively: The quality of being heavy with important contents, issue, significance, etc

    Pregnant
  • (a.) Affording entrance
  • (n.) A pregnant woman.

    Prehensile
  • (n.) Adapted to seize or grasp

    Prehension
  • (n.) The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.

    Prehistoric
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a period before written history begins

    Preignition
  • (n.) Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed

    Prejudge
  • (v. t.) To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination

    Prejudice
  • (n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment

    Prejudicial
  • (a.) Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices

    Prelacy
  • (n.) The office or dignity of a prelate

    Prelate
  • (n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy
  • (v. i.) To act as a prelate.

    Prelatism
  • (n.) Prelacy

    Prelect
  • (v. i.) To discourse publicly
  • (v. t.) To read publicly, as a lecture or discourse.

    Prelibation
  • (n.) A pouring out, or libation, before tasting.

    Preliminary
  • (a.) Introductory
  • (n.) That which precedes the main discourse, work, design, or business

    Prelude
  • (v. i.) To play an introduction or prelude
  • (v. t.) An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter

    Premature
  • (a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence

    Premaxilla
  • (n.) A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone

    Premeditate
  • (a.) Premeditated
  • (v. i.) To think, consider, deliberate, or revolve in the mind, beforehand.
  • (v. t.) To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand

    Premeditation
  • (n.) The act of meditating or contriving beforehand

    Premier
  • (a.) First
  • (n.) The first minister of state

    Premillennial
  • (a.) Previous to the millennium.

    Premise
  • (n.) A piece of real estate
  • (v. i.) To make a premise

    Premiss
  • (n.) Premise.

    Premium
  • (n.) A reward or recompense

    Premolar
  • (a.) Situated in front of the molar teeth.
  • (n.) An anterior molar tooth which has replaced a deciduous molar.

    Premonition
  • (n.) Previous warning, notice, or information

    Prenatal
  • (a.) Being or happening before birth.

    Prenotion
  • (n.) A notice or notion which precedes something else in time

    Preoccupancy
  • (n.) The act or right of taking possession before another

    Preoccupation
  • (n.) Anticipation of objections.

    Preoccupy
  • (v. t.) To prepossess

    Preordain
  • (v. t.) To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain.

    Preparation
  • (n.) Accomplishment

    Preparative
  • (a.) Tending to prepare or make ready
  • (n.) That which has the power of preparing, or previously fitting for a purpose

    Preparatory
  • (a.) Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation

    Prepare
  • (n.) Preparation.
  • (v. i.) To make all things ready
  • (v. t.) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition

    Prepay
  • (v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand

    Prepense
  • (v. i.) To deliberate beforehand.
  • (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand

    Preponderant
  • (a.) Preponderating

    Preponderate
  • (v. i.) To exceed in weight
  • (v. t.) To cause to prefer

    Preposition
  • (n.) A proposition

    Prepositive
  • (a.) Put before
  • (n.) A prepositive word.

    Prepossess
  • (v. t.) To preoccupy, as ground or land

    Preposterous
  • (a.) Contrary to nature or reason

    Prepotency
  • (n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring

    Prepotent
  • (a.) Characterized by prepotency.

    Prepuce
  • (n.) The foreskin.

    Prerequisite
  • (a.) Previously required
  • (n.) Something previously required, or necessary to an end or effect proposed.

    Prerogative
  • (n.) An exclusive or peculiar privilege

    Presage
  • (v. i.) To form or utter a prediction
  • (v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power

    Presbyterate
  • (n.) A presbytery

    Presbyterial
  • (a.) Presbyterian.

    Presbyterian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a presbyter, or to ecclesiastical government by presbyters
  • (n.) One who maintains the validity of ordination and government by presbyters

    Presbytery
  • (n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.

    Prescience
  • (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place

    Prescient
  • (a.) Having knowledge of coming events

    Prescind
  • (v. t.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.

    Prescribe
  • (v. i.) To claim by prescription
  • (v. t.) To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient

    Prescript
  • (a.) Directed
  • (n.) A medical prescription.

    Preselect
  • (v. t.) To select beforehand.

    Presence
  • (n.) An assembly, especially of person of rank or nobility

    Present
  • (a.) A present tense, or the form of the verb denoting the present tense.
  • (n.) Anything presented or given
  • (v. i.) To appear at the mouth of the uterus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination

    Preservable
  • (a.) Capable of being preserved

    Preservation
  • (n.) The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe

    Preservative
  • (a.) Having the power or quality of preserving
  • (n.) That which preserves, or has the power of preserving

    Preserve
  • (n.) A place in which game, fish, etc., are preserved for purposes of sport, or for food.
  • (v. i.) To make preserves.
  • (v. t.) To keep or save from injury or destruction

    Preside
  • (v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority

    Presidio
  • (n.) A place of defense

    Presignify
  • (v. t.) To intimate or signify beforehand

    Press
  • (n.) A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
  • (v.) To drive with violence
  • (v. i.) To exert pressure

    Prestidigitation
  • (n.) Legerdemain

    Prestige
  • (v.) Delusion

    Prestigious
  • (a.) Practicing tricks

    Prestissimo
  • (adv.) Very quickly

    Presto
  • (a.) Quickly

    Presumable
  • (a.) Such as may be presumed or supposed to be true

    Presumably
  • (adv.) In a presumable manner

    Presume
  • (v. i.) To suppose or assume something to be, or to be true, on grounds deemed valid, though not amounting to proof
  • (v. t.) To assume or take beforehand

    Presumption
  • (n.) Ground for presuming

    Presumptive
  • (a.) Based on presumption or probability

    Presumptuous
  • (a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty

    Presuppose
  • (v. t.) To suppose beforehand

    Presystolic
  • (a.) Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart

    Pretence
  • (n.) Intention

    Pretend
  • (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing
  • (v. t.) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something else

    Pretension
  • (n.) A claim made, whether true or false

    Pretentious
  • (a.) Full of pretension

    Preterhuman
  • (a.) More than human.

    Preterit
  • (a.) Belonging wholly to the past
  • (n.) The preterit

    Pretermit
  • (v. t.) To pass by

    Preternatural
  • (a.) Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous

    Pretext
  • (n.) Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive

    Pretor
  • (n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

    Pretty
  • (adv.) In some degree
  • (superl.) Affectedly nice

    Pretzel
  • (n.) A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.

    Prevail
  • (v. i.) To be in force

    Prevalence
  • (n.) The quality or condition of being prevalent

    Prevalent
  • (a.) Gaining advantage or superiority

    Prevaricate
  • (v. i.) To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution
  • (v. t.) To evade by a quibble

    Prevarication
  • (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it

    Prevenient
  • (a.) Going before

    Prevent
  • (v. i.) To come before the usual time.
  • (v. t.) To be beforehand with

    Previous
  • (a.) Going before in time

    Previse
  • (v. t.) To foresee.

    Prevision
  • (n.) Foresight

    Prey
  • (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence

    Priapism
  • (n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire

    Price
  • (n. & v.) Reward
  • (v. t.) To ask the price of

    Pricker
  • (n.) A priming wire

    Pricket
  • (n.) A buck in his second year.

    Prickle
  • (n.) A kind of willow basket
  • (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

    Prickly
  • (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles

    Pride
  • (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one
  • (v. i.) To be proud
  • (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem

    Prier
  • (n.) One who pries

    Priest
  • (n.) A presbyter
  • (v. t.) To ordain as priest.

    Prig
  • (n.) A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow.
  • (v. i.) To haggle about the price of a commodity
  • (v. t.) To cheapen.

    Prill
  • (n.) A nugget of virgin metal.
  • (v. i.) To flow.

    Prim
  • (a.) Formal
  • (n.) The privet.
  • (v. i.) To dress or act smartly.
  • (v. t.) To deck with great nicety

    Prince
  • (a.) A title belonging to persons of high rank, differing in different countries. In England it belongs to dukes, marquises, and earls, but is given to members of the royal family only
  • (v. i.) To play the prince.

    Principal
  • (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree
  • (n.) A capital sum of money, placed out at interest, due as a debt or used as a fund

    Principate
  • (n.) Principality

    Principle
  • (n.) A fundamental truth
  • (v. t.) To equip with principles

    Prink
  • (v. t.) To dress or adjust one's self for show

    Print
  • (n.) A core print.
  • (v. i.) To publish a book or an article.
  • (v. t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.

    Prior
  • (a.) First, precedent, or superior in the order of cognition, reason or generality, origin, development, rank, etc

    Prise
  • (n.) An enterprise.

    Prism
  • (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis.

    Prison
  • (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty
  • (v. t.) To bind (together)

    Pristine
  • (a.) Belonging to the earliest period or state

    Prithee
  • (interj.) A corruption of pray thee

    Privacy
  • (n.) A place of seclusion from company or observation

    Private
  • (a.) Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or interest
  • (n.) A common soldier

    Privation
  • (n.) The act of depriving, or taking away

    Privative
  • (a.) Causing privation
  • (n.) A privative prefix or suffix.

    Privet
  • (n.) An ornamental European shrub (Ligustrum vulgare), much used in hedges

    Privilege
  • (n.) A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor
  • (v. t.) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger

    Privily
  • (adv.) In a privy manner

    Privity
  • (a.) A connection, or bond of union, between parties, as to some particular transaction

    Privy
  • (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction
  • (n.) A necessary house or place

    Prize
  • (n.) A contest for a reward
  • (v. t.) To move with a lever


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