preferent
— Adjective
– English
～ preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
preferential
— Adjective
– English
～ manifesting partiality; "a discriminatory tax"; "preferential tariff rates"; "preferential treatment"; "a preferential shop gives priority or advantage to union members in hiring or promoting"
preferentially
— Adverb
– English
～ in a preferential manner; "he was treated preferentially"
preferment
— Noun
– English
～ the act of preferring; "the preferment went to the younger candidate"
preferment
— Noun
– English
～ the act of making accusations; "preferment of charges"
preferred
— Adjective
– English
～ more desirable than another; "coffee is preferable to tea"; "Danny's preferred name is `Dan'"
preferred
— Adjective
– English
～ preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child"
prefiguration
— Noun
– English
～ the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
prefiguration
— Noun
– English
～ an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come
prefigurative
— Adjective
– English
～ indistinctly prophetic
prefigure
— Verb
– English
～ imagine or consider beforehand; "It wasn't as bad as I had prefigured"
prefigure
— Verb
– English
～ indicate, as with a sign or an omen; "These signs bode bad news"
prefix
— Noun
– English
～ an affix that is added in front of the word
prefix notation
— Noun
– English
～ a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands
prefix
— Verb
– English
～ attach a prefix to; "prefixed words"
prefixation
— Noun
– English
～ formation of a word by means of a prefix
preform
— Verb
– English
～ form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand
preform
— Verb
– English
～ form into a shape resembling the final, desired one
preformation
— Noun
– English
～ a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
prefrontal lobotomy
— Noun
– English
～ surgical interruption of nerve tracts to and from the frontal lobe of the brain; often results in marked cognitive and personality changes