"<b>prelude</b>", "<b>prelude</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An introductory or opening performance." "<b>premature</b>", "<b>premature</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Coming too soon." "<b>premier</b>", "<b>premier</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />First in rank or position." "<b>premise</b>", "<b>premise</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A judgment as a conclusion." "<b>premonition</b>", "<b>premonition</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Foreboding." "<b>preoccupation</b>", "<b>preoccupation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied." "<b>preoccupy</b>", "<b>preoccupy</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects." "<b>preordain</b>", "<b>preordain</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To foreordain." "<b>preparation</b>", "<b>preparation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event." "<b>preparatory</b>", "<b>preparatory</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Having to do with what is preliminary." "<b>preponderant</b>", "<b>preponderant</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Prevalent." "<b>preponderate</b>", "<b>preponderate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To exceed in influence or power." "<b>prepossession</b>", "<b>prepossession</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A preconceived liking." "<b>preposterous</b>", "<b>preposterous</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Utterly ridiculous or absurd." "<b>prerogative</b>", "<b>prerogative</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Having superior rank or precedence." "<b>presage</b>", "<b>presage</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To foretell." "<b>prescience</b>", "<b>prescience</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Knowledge of events before they take place." "<b>prescient</b>", "<b>prescient</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Foreknowing." "<b>prescript</b>", "<b>prescript</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Prescribed as a rule or model." "<b>prescriptible</b>", "<b>prescriptible</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Derived from authoritative direction." "<b>prescription</b>", "<b>prescription</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An authoritative direction." "<b>presentient</b>", "<b>presentient</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Perceiving or feeling beforehand." "<b>presentiment</b>", "<b>presentiment</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Foreboding." "<b>presentment</b>", "<b>presentment</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Semblance." "<b>preservation</b>", "<b>preservation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Conservation." "<b>presumption</b>", "<b>presumption</b> <i>(n)</i><br />That which may be logically assumed to be true until disproved." "<b>presumptuous</b>", "<b>presumptuous</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Assuming too much." "<b>pretension</b>", "<b>pretension</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A bold or presumptuous assertion." "<b>pretentious</b>", "<b>pretentious</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Marked by pretense, conceit, or display." "<b>preternatural</b>", "<b>preternatural</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Extraordinary." "<b>pretext</b>", "<b>pretext</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A fictitious reason or motive." "<b>prevalence</b>", "<b>prevalence</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Frequency." "<b>prevalent</b>", "<b>prevalent</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Of wide extent or frequent occurrence." "<b>prevaricate</b>", "<b>prevaricate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention." "<b>prevention</b>", "<b>prevention</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Thwarting." "<b>prickle</b>", "<b>prickle</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To puncture slightly with fine, sharp points." "<b>priggish</b>", "<b>priggish</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Conceited." "<b>prim</b>", "<b>prim</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Stiffly proper." "<b>prima</b>", "<b>prima</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />First." "<b>primer</b>", "<b>primer</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An elementary reading-book for children." "<b>primeval</b>", "<b>primeval</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Belonging to the first ages." "<b>primitive</b>", "<b>primitive</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Pertaining to the beginning or early times." "<b>principal</b>", "<b>principal</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Most important." "<b>principality</b>", "<b>principality</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The territory of a reigning prince." "<b>principle</b>", "<b>principle</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A general truth or proposition." "<b>priory</b>", "<b>priory</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A monastic house." "<b>pristine</b>", "<b>pristine</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Primitive." "<b>privateer</b>", "<b>privateer</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war." "<b>privilege</b>", "<b>privilege</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A right or immunity not enjoyed by all, or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions." "<b>privity</b>", "<b>privity</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter." "<b>privy</b>", "<b>privy</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction." "<b>probate</b>", "<b>probate</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Relating to making proof, as of a will." "<b>probation</b>", "<b>probation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like." "<b>probe</b>", "<b>probe</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To search through and through." "<b>probity</b>", "<b>probity</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed." "<b>procedure</b>", "<b>procedure</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A manner or method of acting." "<b>proceed</b>", "<b>proceed</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption." "<b>proclamation</b>", "<b>proclamation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any announcement made in a public manner." "<b>procrastinate</b>", "<b>procrastinate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To put off till tomorrow or till a future time." "<b>procrastination</b>", "<b>procrastination</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Delay." "<b>proctor</b>", "<b>proctor</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An agent acting for another." "<b>prodigal</b>", "<b>prodigal</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property." "<b>prodigious</b>", "<b>prodigious</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Immense." "<b>prodigy</b>", "<b>prodigy</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities." "<b>productive</b>", "<b>productive</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Yielding in abundance." "<b>profession</b>", "<b>profession</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines." "<b>professor</b>", "<b>professor</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college." "<b>proffer</b>", "<b>proffer</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To offer to another for acceptance." "<b>proficiency</b>", "<b>proficiency</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science." "<b>proficient</b>", "<b>proficient</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science, or industry." "<b>profile</b>", "<b>profile</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An outline or contour." "<b>profiteer</b>", "<b>profiteer</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One who profits." "<b>profligacy</b>", "<b>profligacy</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Shameless viciousness." "<b>profligate</b>", "<b>profligate</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Abandoned to vice." "<b>profuse</b>", "<b>profuse</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Produced or displayed in overabundance." "<b>progeny</b>", "<b>progeny</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Offspring." "<b>progression</b>", "<b>progression</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A moving forward or proceeding in course." "<b>prohibition</b>", "<b>prohibition</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A decree or an order forbidding something." "<b>prohibitionist</b>", "<b>prohibitionist</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages." "<b>prohibitory</b>", "<b>prohibitory</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Involving or equivalent to prohibition, especially of the sale of alcoholic beverages." "<b>projection</b>", "<b>projection</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A prominence." "<b>proletarian</b>", "<b>proletarian</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A person of the lowest or poorest class." "<b>prolific</b>", "<b>prolific</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Producing offspring or fruit." "<b>prolix</b>", "<b>prolix</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Verbose." "<b>prologue</b>", "<b>prologue</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance." "<b>prolong</b>", "<b>prolong</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To extend in time or duration." "<b>promenade</b>", "<b>promenade</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To walk for amusement or exercise." "<b>prominence</b>", "<b>prominence</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The quality of being noticeable or distinguished." "<b>prominent</b>", "<b>prominent</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Conspicuous in position, character, or importance." "<b>promiscuous</b>", "<b>promiscuous</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex)." "<b>promissory</b>", "<b>promissory</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Expressing an engagement to pay." "<b>promontory</b>", "<b>promontory</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea." "<b>promoter</b>", "<b>promoter</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager." "<b>promulgate</b>", "<b>promulgate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To proclaim." "<b>propaganda</b>", "<b>propaganda</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system." "<b>propagate</b>", "<b>propagate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To spread abroad or from person to person." "<b>propel</b>", "<b>propel</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To drive or urge forward." "<b>propellant</b>", "<b>propellant</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Propelling." "<b>propeller</b>", "<b>propeller</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One who or that which propels." "<b>prophecy</b>", "<b>prophecy</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any prediction or foretelling." "<b>prophesy</b>", "<b>prophesy</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance." "<b>propitious</b>", "<b>propitious</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Kindly disposed." "<b>proportionate</b>", "<b>proportionate</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Being in proportion." "<b>propriety</b>", "<b>propriety</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles." "<b>propulsion</b>", "<b>propulsion</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A driving onward or forward." "<b>prosaic</b>", "<b>prosaic</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Unimaginative." "<b>proscenium</b>", "<b>proscenium</b> <i>(n)</i><br />That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra." "<b>proscribe</b>", "<b>proscribe</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation." "<b>proscription</b>", "<b>proscription</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege." "<b>proselyte</b>", "<b>proselyte</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One who has been won over from one religious belief to another." "<b>prosody</b>", "<b>prosody</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The science of poetical forms." "<b>prospector</b>", "<b>prospector</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals." "<b>prospectus</b>", "<b>prospectus</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking." "<b>prostrate</b>", "<b>prostrate</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Lying prone, or with the head to the ground." "<b>protagonist</b>", "<b>protagonist</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A leader in any enterprise or contest." "<b>protection</b>", "<b>protection</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Preservation from harm, danger, annoyance, or any other evil." "<b>protective</b>", "<b>protective</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Sheltering." "<b>protector</b>", "<b>protector</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A defender." "<b>protege</b>", "<b>protege</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person." "<b>Protestant</b>", "<b>Protestant</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment." "<b>protomartyr</b>", "<b>protomartyr</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The earliest victim in any cause." "<b>protocol</b>", "<b>protocol</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty." "<b>protoplasm</b>", "<b>protoplasm</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell." "<b>prototype</b>", "<b>prototype</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit." "<b>protract</b>", "<b>protract</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To prolong." "<b>protrude</b>", "<b>protrude</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To push out or thrust forth." "<b>protrusion</b>", "<b>protrusion</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The act of protruding." "<b>protuberance</b>", "<b>protuberance</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Something that swells out from a surrounding surface." "<b>protuberant</b>", "<b>protuberant</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Bulging." "<b>protuberate</b>", "<b>protuberate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface." "<b>proverb</b>", "<b>proverb</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience." "<b>provident</b>", "<b>provident</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies." "<b>providential</b>", "<b>providential</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Effected by divine guidance." "<b>provincial</b>", "<b>provincial</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Uncultured in thought and manner." "<b>proviso</b>", "<b>proviso</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional." "<b>provocation</b>", "<b>provocation</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment." "<b>prowess</b>", "<b>prowess</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle." "<b>proximately</b>", "<b>proximately</b> <i>(adv)</i><br />Immediately." "<b>proxy</b>", "<b>proxy</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter." "<b>prudence</b>", "<b>prudence</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Caution." "<b>prudential</b>", "<b>prudential</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Proceeding or marked by caution." "<b>prudery</b>", "<b>prudery</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An undue display of modesty or delicacy." "<b>prurient</b>", "<b>prurient</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires." "<b>pseudapostle</b>", "<b>pseudapostle</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A pretended or false apostle." "<b>pseudonym</b>", "<b>pseudonym</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer." "<b>pseudonymity</b>", "<b>pseudonymity</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The state or character of using a fictitious name." "<b>psychiatry</b>", "<b>psychiatry</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease." "<b>psychic</b>", "<b>psychic</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Pertaining to the mind or soul." "<b>psychopathic</b>", "<b>psychopathic</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Morally irresponsible." "<b>psychotherapy</b>", "<b>psychotherapy</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The treatment of mental disease." "<b>pudgy</b>", "<b>pudgy</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Small and fat." "<b>puerile</b>", "<b>puerile</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Childish." "<b>pugnacious</b>", "<b>pugnacious</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Quarrelsome." "<b>puissant</b>", "<b>puissant</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Possessing strength." "<b>pulmonary</b>", "<b>pulmonary</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Pertaining to the lungs." "<b>punctilious</b>", "<b>punctilious</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom." "<b>punctual</b>", "<b>punctual</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Observant and exact in points of time." "<b>pungent</b>", "<b>pungent</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Affecting the sense of smell." "<b>pungency</b>", "<b>pungency</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The quality of affecting the sense of smell." "<b>punitive</b>", "<b>punitive</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Pertaining to punishment." "<b>pupilage</b>", "<b>pupilage</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The state or period of being a student." "<b>purgatory</b>", "<b>purgatory</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering." "<b>purl</b>", "<b>purl</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To cause to whirl, as in an eddy." "<b>purloin</b>", "<b>purloin</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To steal." "<b>purport</b>", "<b>purport</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Intent." "<b>purveyor</b>", "<b>purveyor</b> <i>(n)</i><br />one who supplies" "<b>pusillanimous</b>", "<b>pusillanimous</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Without spirit or bravery." "<b>putrescent</b>", "<b>putrescent</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors." "<b>pyre</b>", "<b>pyre</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body." "<b>pyromania</b>", "<b>pyromania</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An insane propensity to set things on fire." "<b>pyrotechnic</b>", "<b>pyrotechnic</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture." "<b>pyx</b>", "<b>pyx</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved." "<b>quackery</b>", "<b>quackery</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Charlatanry" "<b>quadrate</b>", "<b>quadrate</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To divide into quarters." "<b>quadruple</b>", "<b>quadruple</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To multiply by four." "<b>qualification</b>", "<b>qualification</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege." "<b>qualify</b>", "<b>qualify</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions." "<b>qualm</b>", "<b>qualm</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A fit of nausea." "<b>quandary</b>", "<b>quandary</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A puzzling predicament." "<b>quantity</b>", "<b>quantity</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Magnitude." "<b>quarantine</b>", "<b>quarantine</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease." "<b>quarrelsome</b>", "<b>quarrelsome</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Irascible." "<b>quarter</b>", "<b>quarter</b> <i>(n)</i><br />One of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided." "<b>quarterly</b>", "<b>quarterly</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Occurring or made at intervals of three months." "<b>quartet</b>", "<b>quartet</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A composition for four voices or four instruments." "<b>quarto</b>", "<b>quarto</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An eight-page newspaper of any size." "<b>quay</b>", "<b>quay</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it." "<b>querulous</b>", "<b>querulous</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Habitually complaining." "<b>query</b>", "<b>query</b> <i>(v)</i><br />To make inquiry." "<b>queue</b>", "<b>queue</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance." "<b>quibble</b>", "<b>quibble</b> <i>(n)</i><br />An utterly trivial distinction or objection." "<b>quiescence</b>", "<b>quiescence</b> <i>(n)</i><br />Quiet." "<b>quiescent</b>", "<b>quiescent</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Being in a state of repose or inaction." "<b>quiet</b>", "<b>quiet</b> <i>(adj)</i><br />Making no noise." "<b>quietus</b>", "<b>quietus</b> <i>(n)</i><br />A silencing, suppressing, or ending." "<b>quintessence</b>", "<b>quintessence</b> <i>(n)</i><br />The most essential part of anything."
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