This page gathers the 4,436 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Rare” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 31 of 45: from “precaution” to “pull up”.
- precaution verb To take precaution against.
- predeparture noun The time or preparations leading up to one's departure.
- predict verb To direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
- predownload noun A download made in advance.
- prefecundation noun The collective changes or conditions preceding fecundation, especially those affecting the ovum.
- prefeminism adj Before feminism.
- preformant noun Chiefly in Semitic languages: Synonym of preformative (“a formative letter, syllable, etc., at the beginning of a word”).
- pregage adj Before gauging.
- pregenital adj Before birth; prenatal.
- premedial adj Premeditated.
- premove verb To incite or cause someone to do something.
- prenunciative adj announcing beforehand
- preominate verb To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
- preparate verb To prepare.
- prepend verb To premeditate; to weigh up mentally.
- prepone verb To place or set (something) before.
- prerhotic adj Occurring before the letter ⟨r⟩ or before any one of the sounds that letter tends to represent (e.g., [r], [ɽ], [ɹ], [ɻ], [ʀ], [ʁ], etc.).
- presbyterate verb To constitute or organize according to the Presbyterian system, or along Presbyterian lines.
- prescientific adj Exhibiting or relating to prescience; prescient.
- presentative adj Of or pertaining to an act of presenting or giving an object to someone.
- presently adv At present; now; currently.
- presidentress noun A female president.
- presocialism noun Synonym of utopian socialism.
- presocialist noun Synonym of utopian socialist.
- press gaggle noun A noisy crowd of journalists.
- pressurize verb To coerce, put under duress; to pressure.
- prest noun A payment of wages in advance
- pretender noun One who intends or purposes.
- priceless adj Without a price assigned; unpriced.
- priestdom noun Political rule or sweeping social control exercised by a class of priests; a ruling class of priests.
- priesting noun The ordination of a priest.
- primage noun Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
- primatal adj Pertaining to primates.
- prime ministress noun The wife of a prime minister.
- primer adj First in position, foremost.
- prince verb To behave or act like a prince.
- princessly adv In the manner of a princess.
- principal part noun The noun, verb, or adverb.
- principicide noun The killing of a prince.
- princy adj Synonym of princely.
- prissy noun A person who is prissy.
- procreationist noun Someone who believes that sexual activity should only be done for the purpose of procreation.
- Procrustean assignment noun A form of assignment to fixed-length string variables in which a shorter value is padded to the necessary length while a longer one is…
- proctocracy noun Government or management by “arseholes” (i.e., inconsiderate, obnoxious, or otherwise highly objectionable people).
- prodrome noun A precursor or harbinger; also a warning event.
- productible adj productive
- productionist noun someone who produces something; a producer
- profilee noun A program undergoing profiling.
- profit à prendre noun Rare form of profit à prendre.
- profluence noun The progression or flow (of time, events etc.).
- progenate verb To have children.
- prognostic noun prognosis
- programme noun Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”).
- proinflammatory noun An inflammatory substance.
- project manager noun Rare form of project manager.
- proletarianism noun Proletarians regarded as a class; the proletariat.
- prolix verb To be tediously lengthy.
- Promethean adj Of or pertaining to the promethea silkmoth (Callosamia promethea).
- prommy verb To promise.
- pronto adj Quick, prompt.
- proofread noun Synonym of proofreading.
- properispomenon adj A linguistic unit marked by a particular accentual or tonal pattern in which prominence falls just before the final syllable.
- property noun A produced stage play, movie, or the like.
- propreantepenult noun The last syllable but four; the fifth-to-last syllable (of a word or other utterance); a word’s or other utterance’s propreantepenultimate…
- proprietarian noun A stickler for proprieties.
- prosodiac adj Synonym of prosodic.
- prosopopesis noun A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.
- protection noun Synonym of adult protection (“adult incontinence wear”).
- protective pants noun Synonym of incontinence briefs (“thin briefs-style diaper for adults suffering from mild urine drip or leakage”).
- proteranthous adj Of a plant: having flowers that appear earlier than the leaves.
- Protestant work ethic noun A strong work ethic.
- proto-photon noun A theoretical but not yet detected particle proposed to explain, among other things, the mechanisms of gravity; a gauge boson.
- protocause noun The cause of another cause.
- protoplast noun A prototype or archetype; a model.
- prototype verb To imitate or emulate.
- protrude verb To cause (something) to emerge.
- protuberate verb To cause to bulge outward.
- Proxima Centaurian adj Of or relating to Proxima Centauri.
- pseudo-chromesthesia noun A type of synesthesia when sounds trigger involuntary, subjective sensations of color; during which a person might see colors when they…
- pseudo-organizational adj Falsely organizational.
- pseudoaligner noun A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
- pseudoanthropomorphic adj Apparently, but not really, pertaining to attribution of human characteristics to non-human creatures or concepts.
- pseudoinnocent noun A person who conveys a false air of innocence.
- Pseudomacedonism noun The practice of appropriating to Slavic Macedonia the name, symbolism and history of ancient (Greek) Macedonia.
- pseudomuslim adj Rare form of pseudo-Muslim.
- pseudoneutral noun Something that merely appears neutral.
- pseudoracism noun Discrimination which is similar to but not necessarily the same as racism, for example because it occurs between castes or between members…
- psychodrama noun A dramatic work focusing on the psychology of its characters
- psycholagny noun The ability to achieve orgasm without any physical stimulation of the genitalia, usually achieved through mental stimulation or fantasy…
- psychomedicine noun Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
- psychoprophylaxis noun The prevention of disease by psychological means.
- psyop verb To manipulate or influence someone's thoughts, emotions, or behavior in a surreptitious or strategic way.
- ptyalize verb To spit.
- pubes noun The pubic hair.
- pudsy adj Slightly fat; pudgy, chubby.
- puella noun A young girl.
- puerpera noun A woman who has recently given birth.
- pug noun A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
- pulchritudinous adj That endows pulchritude; beautifying.
- pull up verb To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.