9-letter words starting with PR
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter PR. This section showcases how PR at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with PR, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| president | 12 | the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | - |
| professor | 14 | someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | - |
| principal | 15 | the educator who has executive authority for a school | she sent unruly pupils to see the principal |
| precisely | 16 | indicating exactness or preciseness | he was doing precisely (or exactly) what she had told him to do |
| preparing | 14 | - | - |
| procedure | 14 | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | - |
| protected | 14 | guarded from injury or destruction | - |
| promotion | 13 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | - |
| practical | 15 | guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory | completely practical in his approach to business |
| principle | 15 | (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature) | the principles of internal-combustion engines |
| pregnancy | 17 | the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | - |
| programme | 16 | an integrated course of academic studies | - |
| privilege | 15 | bestow a privilege upon | - |
| promising | 14 | likely to turn out well in the future | the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career |
| primitive | 16 | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | - |
| pretended | 13 | adopted in order to deceive | a pretended interest |
| pronounce | 13 | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | She pronounces French words in a funny way |
| preferred | 15 | preferred above all others and treated with partiality | - |
| probation | 13 | a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself | - |
| producing | 15 | - | - |
| prettiest | 11 | - | - |
| practiced | 16 | skillful after much practice | - |
| priceless | 13 | having incalculable monetary, intellectual, or spiritual worth | - |
| providing | 16 | - | - |
| preserved | 15 | kept intact or in a particular condition | - |
| privately | 17 | kept private or confined to those intimately concerned | it was discussed privately between the two men |
| processed | 14 | freed from impurities by processing | - |
| protector | 13 | a person who cares for persons or property | - |
| prejudice | 21 | a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation | - |
| precision | 13 | the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | note the meticulous precision of his measurements |
| proposing | 14 | - | - |
| prototype | 16 | a standard or typical example | he is the prototype of good breeding |
| premature | 13 | too soon or too hasty | a premature judgment |
| prominent | 13 | conspicuous in position or importance | a prominent citizen |
| preaching | 17 | an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) | - |
| promoting | 14 | - | - |
| primarily | 16 | of primary import | this is primarily a question of economics |
| presently | 14 | at this time or period; now | he is presently our ambassador to the United Nations |
| prescribe | 15 | issue commands or orders for | - |
| projector | 20 | an optical device for projecting a beam of light | - |
| prosecute | 13 | carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in | - |
| provoking | 19 | causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | a provoking delay at the airport |
| priestess | 11 | a woman priest | - |
| proximity | 23 | a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) objects or events that are near to one another (in space or time) are perceived as belonging together as a unit | - |
| precedent | 14 | (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions | - |
| prolonged | 13 | relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | a prolonged and bitter struggle |
| propeller | 13 | a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water | - |
| pressured | 12 | - | - |
| projected | 21 | extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | massive projected buttresses |
| presenter | 11 | person who makes a gift of property | - |
| provision | 14 | supply with provisions | - |
| processor | 13 | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | - |
| practised | 14 | skillful after much practice | - |
| profiling | 15 | recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
| prognosis | 12 | a prediction of the course of a disease | - |
| promenade | 14 | a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | - |
| precipice | 17 | a very steep cliff | - |
| preschool | 16 | an educational institution for children too young for elementary school | - |
| predatory | 15 | characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | predatory warfare |
| profanity | 17 | vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
| proactive | 16 | descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on events or stimuli or processes that occur subsequently | proactive inhibition |
| pragmatic | 16 | concerned with practical matters | a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem |
| preceding | 15 | of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | - |
| preserves | 14 | fruit preserved by cooking with sugar | - |
| propelled | 14 | - | - |
| procreate | 13 | have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | The Bible tells people to procreate |
| prophetic | 18 | foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention | prophetic writings |
| propriety | 16 | correct or appropriate behavior | - |
| profusely | 17 | in an abundant manner | he thanked her profusely |
| prostrate | 11 | get into a prostrate position, as in submission | - |
| prankster | 15 | someone who plays practical jokes on others | - |
| precursor | 13 | something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone | - |
| propagate | 14 | become distributed or widespread | - |
| prevalent | 14 | most frequent or common | - |
| pretender | 12 | a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | - |
| professed | 15 | openly declared as such | her professed love of everything about that country |
| premiered | 14 | - | - |
| prompting | 16 | persuasion formulated as a suggestion | - |
| precincts | 15 | - | - |
| preserver | 14 | rescue equipment consisting of a buoyant belt or jacket to keep a person from drowning | - |
| procuring | 14 | - | - |
| provident | 15 | careful in regard to your own interests | wild squirrels are provident |
| proboscis | 15 | a long flexible snout as of an elephant | - |
| presuming | 14 | - | - |
| proponent | 13 | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | - |
| protester | 11 | a person who dissents from some established policy | - |
| proofread | 15 | read for errors | I should proofread my manuscripts |
| predicate | 14 | involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well |
| prelaunch | 16 | - | - |
| profiteer | 14 | make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| predictor | 14 | someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | - |
| privatize | 23 | change from governmental to private control or ownership | The oil industry was privatized |
| probative | 16 | tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation | evidence should only be excluded if its probative value was outweighed by its prejudicial effect |
| profusion | 14 | the property of being extremely abundant | the profusion of detail |
| provolone | 14 | - | - |
| prescient | 13 | perceiving the significance of events before they occur | extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations |
| prevision | 14 | the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | - |
| primavera | 16 | - | - |
| privateer | 14 | an officer or crew member of a privateer | - |
| privatise | 14 | change from governmental to private control or ownership | - |
| preventer | 14 | - | - |
| principia | 15 | - | - |
| presidium | 14 | a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session | - |
| prudently | 15 | in a prudent manner | I had allotted my own bedroom for necking, prudently removing both the bed and the key, and taken both myself and my typewriter into my son's bedroom. |
| preflight | 18 | - | - |
| preoccupy | 20 | engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
| prismatic | 15 | exhibiting spectral colors formed by refraction of light through a prism | prismatic light |
| privation | 14 | a state of extreme poverty | - |
| proximate | 20 | closest in degree or order (space or time) especially in a chain of causes and effects | news of his proximate arrival |
| predation | 12 | an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | - |
| preseason | 11 | a period prior to the beginning of the regular season which is devoted to training and preparation | - |
| proconsul | 13 | an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul | - |
| procuress | 13 | a woman pimp | - |
| prothesis | 14 | - | - |
| proudness | 12 | - | - |
| precooked | 18 | cooked partially or completely beforehand | frozen precooked meals from the supermarket |
| propylene | 16 | a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | - |
| prostatic | 13 | relating to the prostate gland | - |
| practicum | 17 | - | - |
| preassure | 11 | - | - |
| prickling | 18 | a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | - |
| primipara | 15 | (obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time | - |
| princesse | 13 | - | - |
| printable | 13 | fit for publication because free of material that is morally or legally objectionable | printable language |
| profaning | 15 | - | - |
| programed | 15 | - | - |
| prolactin | 13 | gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | - |
| protruded | 13 | - | - |
| provender | 15 | food for domestic livestock | - |
| pracharak | 20 | - | - |
| practicer | 15 | - | - |
| practices | 15 | - | - |
| practicks | 19 | - | - |
| practique | 22 | - | - |
| practiser | 13 | - | - |
| practises | 13 | - | - |
| practolol | 13 | - | - |
| praeamble | 15 | - | - |
| praecipes | 15 | - | - |
| praecoces | 15 | - | - |
| praedials | 12 | - | - |
| praefects | 16 | - | - |
| praelects | 13 | - | - |
| praeludia | 12 | - | - |
| praenomen | 13 | the first name of a citizen of ancient Rome | - |
| praesidia | 12 | - | - |
| praiseach | 16 | - | - |
| praiseful | 14 | full of or giving praise | - |
| praisings | 12 | - | - |
| pranayama | 16 | - | - |
| prancings | 14 | - | - |
| prancking | 18 | - | - |
| prankiest | 15 | - | - |
| prankings | 16 | - | - |
| prankling | 16 | - | - |
| pranksome | 17 | - | - |
| pratfalls | 14 | - | - |
| pratingly | 15 | - | - |
| pratiques | 20 | - | - |
| prattlers | 11 | - | - |
| prattling | 12 | - | - |
| prauncing | 14 | - | - |
| pravities | 14 | - | - |
| prayerful | 17 | disposed to pray or appearing to pray | - |
| prayingly | 18 | - | - |
| preabsorb | 15 | - | - |
| preaccuse | 15 | - | - |
| preachers | 16 | - | - |
| preachier | 16 | - | - |
| preachify | 22 | speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | - |
| preachily | 19 | - | - |
| preacting | 14 | - | - |
| preadamic | 16 | - | - |
| preadapts | 14 | - | - |
| preadjust | 19 | - | - |
| preadmits | 14 | - | - |
| preadopts | 14 | - | - |
| preadults | 12 | - | - |
| preallots | 11 | - | - |
| prealters | 11 | - | - |
| preambled | 16 | - | - |
| preambles | 15 | - | - |
| prearming | 14 | - | - |
| preassign | 12 | - | - |
| preassing | 12 | - | - |
| preatomic | 15 | - | - |
| preattune | 11 | - | - |
| preaudits | 12 | - | - |
| prebaking | 18 | - | - |
| prebattle | 13 | - | - |
| prebendal | 14 | - | - |
| prebidden | 15 | - | - |
| prebilled | 14 | - | - |
| prebiotic | 15 | - | - |
| prebirths | 16 | - | - |
| preboards | 14 | - | - |
| preboiled | 14 | - | - |
| prebooked | 18 | - | - |
| prebought | 17 | - | - |
| prebudget | 15 | - | - |
| prebuilds | 14 | - | - |
| prebuttal | 13 | - | - |
| prebuying | 17 | - | - |
| precancel | 15 | - | - |
| precancer | 15 | - | - |
| precariat | 13 | - | - |
| precative | 16 | expressing entreaty or supplication | - |
| precatory | 16 | expressing entreaty or supplication | precatory overtures |
| precaudal | 14 | - | - |
| precavals | 16 | - | - |
| precensor | 13 | - | - |
| precented | 14 | - | - |
| precentor | 13 | the musical director of a choir | - |
| precepits | 15 | - | - |
| preceptor | 15 | teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) | - |
| precessed | 14 | - | - |
| precesses | 13 | - | - |
| precharge | 17 | - | - |
| prechecks | 22 | - | - |
| prechills | 16 | - | - |
| prechoose | 16 | - | - |
| prechosen | 16 | - | - |
| precieuse | 13 | - | - |
| precisest | 13 | - | - |
| precisian | 13 | - | - |
| precising | 14 | - | - |
| precisive | 16 | - | - |
| precleans | 13 | - | - |
| preclears | 13 | - | - |
| precluded | 15 | - | - |
| precludes | 14 | - | - |
| precocial | 15 | (of hatchlings) covered with down and having eyes open; capable of leaving the nest within a few days | - |
| precocity | 18 | intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules | - |
| precoding | 15 | - | - |
| precoital | 13 | - | - |
| preconise | 13 | - | - |
| preconize | 22 | - | - |
| precooker | 17 | - | - |
| precooled | 14 | cooled in advance | - |
| precrease | 13 | - | - |
| precrisis | 13 | - | - |
| precuring | 14 | - | - |
| precurrer | 13 | - | - |
| precursed | 14 | - | - |
| precurses | 13 | - | - |
| precycled | 19 | - | - |
| precycles | 18 | - | - |
| predacity | 17 | - | - |
| predating | 13 | - | - |
| predatism | 14 | - | - |
| predative | 15 | - | - |
| predators | 12 | - | - |
| predeaths | 15 | - | - |
| predebate | 14 | - | - |
| prededuct | 15 | - | - |
| predefine | 15 | - | - |
| predellas | 12 | - | - |
| predesign | 13 | - | - |
| predevote | 15 | - | - |
| predicant | 14 | - | - |
| predicted | 15 | - | - |
| predicter | 14 | - | - |
| predigest | 13 | digest (food) beforehand | - |
| predikant | 16 | - | - |
| predilect | 14 | - | - |
| predinner | 12 | - | - |
| predoomed | 15 | - | - |
| predrafts | 15 | - | - |
| predrills | 12 | - | - |
| predrying | 16 | - | - |
| preedited | 13 | - | - |
| preelects | 13 | - | - |
| preempted | 16 | - | - |
| preemptor | 15 | someone who acquires land by preemption | - |
| preenacts | 13 | - | - |
| preerects | 13 | - | - |
| preexcite | 20 | - | - |
| preexempt | 22 | - | - |
| preexilic | 20 | - | - |
| preexists | 18 | - | - |
| preexpose | 20 | - | - |
| prefabbed | 19 | - | - |
| prefacers | 16 | - | - |
| prefacial | 16 | - | - |
| prefacing | 17 | - | - |
| prefading | 16 | - | - |
| prefatory | 17 | serving as an introduction or preface | - |
| preferrer | 14 | - | - |
| prefeudal | 15 | - | - |
| prefigure | 15 | indicate, as with a sign or an omen | - |
| prefiling | 15 | - | - |
| prefilled | 15 | - | - |
| prefiring | 15 | - | - |
| prefixing | 22 | - | - |
| prefixion | 21 | - | - |
| preformat | 16 | - | - |
| preformed | 17 | - | - |
| prefranks | 18 | - | - |
| prefreeze | 23 | - | - |
| prefrozen | 23 | - | - |
| prefunded | 16 | - | - |
| pregaming | 15 | - | - |
| preggiest | 13 | - | - |
| pregnable | 14 | - | - |
| pregnance | 14 | - | - |
| pregrowth | 18 | - | - |
| preguided | 14 | - | - |
| preguides | 13 | - | - |
| prehallux | 21 | - | - |
| prehandle | 15 | - | - |
| preharden | 15 | - | - |
| preheated | 15 | - | - |
| preheater | 14 | - | - |
| prehended | 16 | - | - |
| prehensor | 14 | the anterior pair of legs of a centipede that are modified to seize prey and inject venom from the toxicognaths | - |
| prehiring | 15 | - | - |
| prehnites | 14 | - | - |
| prehumans | 16 | - | - |
| preimpose | 15 | - | - |
| preinform | 16 | - | - |
| preinsert | 11 | - | - |
| preinvite | 14 | - | - |
| prejudged | 21 | - | - |
| prejudger | 20 | - | - |
| prejudges | 20 | - | - |
| prejudize | 28 | - | - |
| prelacies | 13 | - | - |
| prelatess | 11 | - | - |
| prelatial | 11 | - | - |
| prelaties | 11 | - | - |
| prelation | 11 | - | - |
| prelatise | 11 | - | - |
| prelatish | 14 | - | - |
| prelatism | 13 | - | - |
| prelatist | 11 | - | - |
| prelatize | 20 | - | - |
| prelature | 11 | prelates collectively | - |
| prelected | 14 | - | - |
| prelector | 13 | - | - |
| prelimits | 13 | - | - |
| preloaded | 13 | - | - |
| prelocate | 13 | - | - |
| preluders | 12 | - | - |
| preludial | 12 | - | - |
| preluding | 13 | - | - |
| preludios | 12 | - | - |
| prelusion | 11 | - | - |
| prelusive | 14 | - | - |
| prelusory | 14 | - | - |
| premaking | 18 | - | - |
| premarket | 17 | - | - |
| premedics | 16 | - | - |
| premerger | 14 | - | - |
| premieres | 13 | - | - |
| premising | 14 | - | - |
| premissed | 14 | - | - |
| premisses | 13 | - | - |
| premixing | 21 | - | - |
| premodern | 14 | - | - |
| premodify | 20 | - | - |
| premolars | 13 | - | - |
| premolded | 15 | - | - |
| premonish | 16 | - | - |
| premosaic | 15 | - | - |
| premotion | 13 | - | - |
| premoulds | 14 | - | - |
| premoving | 17 | - | - |
| prenasals | 11 | - | - |
| prenatals | 11 | - | - |
| prenomens | 13 | - | - |
| prenomina | 13 | - | - |
| prenotify | 17 | - | - |
| prenotion | 11 | - | - |
| prenticed | 14 | - | - |
| prentices | 13 | - | - |
| prenubile | 13 | - | - |
| prenumber | 15 | - | - |
| preobtain | 13 | - | - |
| preocular | 13 | - | - |
| preoption | 13 | - | - |
| preordain | 12 | foreordain or determine beforehand | - |
| preorders | 12 | - | - |
| prepacked | 20 | prepared and wrapped beforehand and ready for sale | - |
| preparers | 13 | - | - |
| prepasted | 14 | - | - |
| prepastes | 13 | - | - |
| prepaving | 17 | - | - |
| prepaying | 17 | - | - |
| prepensed | 14 | - | - |
| prepenses | 13 | - | - |
| preplaced | 16 | - | - |
| preplaces | 15 | - | - |
| prepollex | 20 | - | - |
| preponing | 14 | - | - |
| preposing | 14 | - | - |
| prepostor | 13 | - | - |
| prepotent | 13 | - | - |
| preppiest | 15 | - | - |
| prepriced | 16 | - | - |
| preprices | 15 | - | - |
| preprints | 13 | - | - |
| prepueblo | 15 | - | - |
| preputial | 13 | - | - |
| prerecord | 14 | record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
| prerectal | 13 | - | - |
| prereform | 16 | - | - |
| prereturn | 11 | - | - |
| prereview | 17 | - | - |
| prerinsed | 12 | - | - |
| prerinses | 11 | - | - |
| presagers | 12 | - | - |
| presaging | 13 | - | - |
| presbyope | 18 | a person with presbyopia; someone who is farsighted resulting from the progressive loss with aging of the elasticity of the crystalline lens | - |
| presbyopy | 21 | - | - |
| presbyter | 16 | an elder in the Presbyterian Church | - |
| presbytes | 16 | langurs | - |
| presbytic | 18 | - | - |
| prescinds | 14 | - | - |
| prescious | 13 | - | - |
| prescored | 14 | - | - |
| prescores | 13 | - | - |
| prescreen | 13 | - | - |
| prescript | 15 | prescribed guide for conduct or action | - |
| prescutum | 15 | - | - |
| preselect | 13 | - | - |
| presences | 13 | - | - |
| presenile | 11 | - | - |
| presented | 12 | - | - |
| presentee | 11 | - | - |
| presettle | 11 | - | - |
| preshaped | 17 | - | - |
| preshapes | 16 | - | - |
| preshowed | 18 | - | - |
| preshrank | 18 | - | - |
| preshrink | 18 | - | - |
| preshrunk | 18 | - | - |
| presiders | 12 | - | - |
| presidial | 12 | - | - |
| presiding | 13 | - | - |
| presidios | 12 | - | - |
| presifted | 15 | - | - |
| presignal | 12 | - | - |
| presliced | 14 | - | - |
| preslices | 13 | - | - |
| presoaked | 16 | - | - |
| presolved | 15 | - | - |
| presolves | 14 | - | - |
| presorted | 12 | - | - |
| pressback | 19 | - | - |
| pressfats | 14 | - | - |
| pressfuls | 14 | - | - |
| pressgang | 13 | - | - |
| pressings | 12 | - | - |
| pressions | 11 | - | - |
| pressmark | 17 | a mark consisting of characters written on a book; used to indicate shelf location | - |
| pressroom | 13 | - | - |
| pressruns | 11 | - | - |
| pressures | 11 | - | - |
| presswork | 18 | - | - |
| prestamps | 15 | - | - |
| presterna | 11 | - | - |
| prestiges | 12 | - | - |
| prestored | 12 | - | - |
| prestores | 11 | - | - |
| prestress | 11 | - | - |
| prestrike | 15 | - | - |
| presumers | 13 | - | - |
| presummit | 15 | - | - |
| presurvey | 17 | - | - |
| pretaping | 14 | - | - |
| pretasted | 12 | - | - |
| pretastes | 11 | - | - |
| pretences | 13 | - | - |
| pretenses | 11 | - | - |
| preterist | 11 | a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) have already been fulfilled | - |
| preterite | 11 | a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense | - |
| preterits | 11 | - | - |
| pretermit | 13 | leave undone or leave out | - |
| pretested | 12 | - | - |
| pretexted | 19 | - | - |
| pretorial | 11 | of or relating to a Roman praetor | - |
| pretorian | 11 | characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality | - |
| pretrains | 11 | - | - |
| pretravel | 14 | - | - |
| pretreats | 11 | - | - |
| pretrials | 11 | - | - |
| prettying | 15 | - | - |
| prettyish | 17 | - | - |
| prettyism | 16 | - | - |
| pretyping | 17 | - | - |
| preunions | 11 | - | - |
| preunited | 12 | - | - |
| preunites | 11 | - | - |
| prevailed | 15 | - | - |
| prevailer | 14 | - | - |
| prevalued | 15 | - | - |
| prevalues | 14 | - | - |
| prevening | 15 | - | - |
| prevented | 15 | - | - |
| preverbal | 16 | - | - |
