- preclude: To prevent.
- precocious: Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
- precursor: A forerunner or herald.
- predatory: Prone to pillaging.
- predecessor: An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
- predicament: A difficult, trying situation or plight.
- predicate: To state as belonging to something.
- predict: To foretell.
- prediction: A prophecy.
- predominance: Ascendancy or preponderance.
- predominant: Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree.
- predominate: To be chief in importance, quantity, or degree.
- preeminence: Special eminence.
- preempt: To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
- preemption: The right or act of purchasing before others.
- preengage: To preoccupy.
- preestablish: To settle or arrange beforehand.
- preexist: To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
- preexistence: Existence antecedent to something.
- preface: A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
- prefatory: Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
- prefer: To hold in higher estimation.
- preferable: More desirable than others.
- preference: An object of favor or choice.
- preferential: Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.
- preferment: Preference.
- prefix: To attach at the beginning.
- prehensible: Capable of being grasped.
- prehensile: Adapted for grasping or holding.
- prehension: The act of laying hold of or grasping.
- prejudice: A judgment or opinion formed without due examination of the facts.
- prelacy: A system of church government.
- prelate: One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
- prelude: An introductory or opening performance.
- premature: Coming too soon.
- premier: First in rank or position.
- premise: A judgment as a conclusion.
- premonition: Foreboding.
- preoccupation: The state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied.
- preoccupy: To fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects.
- preordain: To foreordain.
- preparation: An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event.
- preparatory: Having to do with what is preliminary.
- preponderant: Prevalent.
- preponderate: To exceed in influence or power.
- prepossession: A preconceived liking.
- preposterous: Utterly ridiculous or absurd.
- prerogative: Having superior rank or precedence.
- presage: To foretell.
- prescience: Knowledge of events before they take place.