Nouns starting with P

• preparation — Noun – English ～ the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them in readiness"; "their preparation was more than adequate"
• preparation — Noun – English ～ the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose; "preparations for the ceremony had begun"
• preparation fire — Noun – English ～ fire delivered on a target in preparation for an assault
• preparation — Noun – English ～ activity leading to skilled behavior
• preparation — Noun – English ～ the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife"
• preparation — Noun – English ～ (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord; "the resolution of one dissonance is often the preparation for another dissonance"
• preparedness — Noun – English ～ the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action); "putting them in readiness"; "their preparation was more than adequate"
• prepayment — Noun – English ～ payment in advance
• preponderance — Noun – English ～ superiority in power or influence; "the preponderance of good over evil"; "the preponderance of wealth and power"
• preponderance — Noun – English ～ exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight; "the least preponderance in either pan will unbalance the scale"
• preponderance — Noun – English ～ a superiority in numbers or amount; "a preponderance of evidence against the defendant"
• preposition — Noun – English ～ (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)
• preposition — Noun – English ～ 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
• prepositional phrase — Noun – English ～ a phrase beginning with a preposition
• prepositional object — Noun – English ～ the object governed by a preposition
• prepossession — Noun – English ～ the condition of being prepossessed; "the king's prepossession in my favor is very valuable"
• prepossession — Noun – English ～ an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence; "he did not even try to confirm his preconceptions"
• prepotency — Noun – English ～ the state of being predominant over others
• prepuberty — Noun – English ～ a period of two years immediately prior to the onset of puberty when growth and changes leading to sexual maturity occur
• prepuce — Noun – English ～ a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis

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