English words: printer's ream to private law

300 English words, part 170 of 213 of the words starting with P, A to Z. 27 have a page of their own.

English words printer's ream to private law

printer's ream noun: Twenty-one and a half quires of paper, i.e. 516 sheets.
printerdom noun: The world of printers and printing.
printeress noun: A female printer.
printerless adjective: Without a printer.
printerlike adjective: Resembling a printer.
printers' flower noun: Synonym of fleuron
printery noun: A printworks.
printhead noun: Alternative spelling of print head.
printing noun, verb /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/: The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology.
printing form noun: An object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface.
printing frame noun: A shallow box, usually having a glass front, in which prints are made by exposure to light.
printing house noun: An institution or commercial company chiefly devoted to printing.
printing in noun: A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered...
printing ink noun: A rapidly drying type of ink designed specifically for printing machines.
printing out noun, verb: A method of printing in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light, without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
printing paper noun: Any type of paper designed for use in printing processes, excluding newsprint.
printing press noun: A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly.
printing-press money noun: Money printed by the government.
printing roll noun: In offset printing and flexography, a cylinder carrying the printing form.
printing shop noun: A workshop used primarily for printing.
printing telegraph noun: Synonym of teletype
printless adjective: without an imprint.
printlessness noun: Absence of print or prints.
printlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of print.
printline noun: A single standard line of type printed once, used in calculating the cost of print advertising.
printmaker noun: A person who makes prints of works of art, (particularly) a self-employed craftsman.
printmaking noun: The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transfer of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.
printo noun: An error made during printing.
printoff noun: Synonym of printout.
printout noun /ˈpɹɪntˌaʊt/: Something printed on paper, usually a copy generated by a printer (machine).
printress noun: Alternative form of printeress.
printscript noun: Block letters.
printseller noun: A person who sells prints.
printshop noun /ˈpɹɪnt.ʃɒp/: A shop that sells prints.
printwheel noun: In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text.
printworker noun: A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks.
printworks noun: Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial publisher or a building where printing takes place.
printworthiness noun: The quality of being printworthy.
printworthy adjective /ˈpɹɪntˌwɜːði/: Of sufficient worth to be printed.
Printz proper noun: A surname.
Prinz proper noun: A surname from German.
Prinzmetal's angina noun: A syndrome typically consisting of angina (cardiac chest pain) at rest that occurs in cycles and is caused by vasospasm.
prinzregententorte noun: A Bavarian torte having thin layers of sponge cake separated by chocolate buttercream, topped with apricot jam and covered in a dark chocolate glaze.
prio noun: Abbreviation of priority.
prio queue noun: Clipped compound of priority queue.
priodontine noun /praɪəˈdɒnˌtaɪn/: The giant armadillo or any of its extinct relatives.
Prioleau proper noun: A surname.
Priolo proper noun: A surname.
prion noun /ˈpɹiːɒn/: A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
prion disease noun: Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.
prion protein noun: A protein found on the surface of many mammalian cell types, especially neurons. The normal function of the prion protein is not known.
prionaemia noun: The presence of prion proteins in the blood.
prionemia noun: Alternative form of prionaemia.
prionic adjective: Of, pertaining to or caused by a prion.
prionisation noun: Alternative form of prionization.
prionization noun: The misfolding of a protein to form a prion
prionlike adjective: Similar to a prion.
prionoceratid noun: Any ammonite in the family Prionoceratidae.
prionocerid noun: Any beetle in the family Prionoceridae.
prionochezia noun: The excretion of prions in the feces.
prionogenesis noun: The formation and development of prions.
prionogenic adjective: That generate prions.
prionogenicity noun: The condition of being prionogenic
prionoid noun: Any misfolded protein similar to a prion
prionopathy noun: Any prion-related disease.
prionopid noun: Any bird in the family Prionopidae; a helmetshrike.
prionopterous adjective: Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies).
prionose adjective: Related to prionoses.
prionosis noun: Any degenerative disease caused by a prion.
prionsialia noun: The presence of prions in the saliva.
prionuria noun: The presence of prions in the urine
prior adjective, adverb, noun /ˈpɹaɪ.ə/: Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
prior art noun: In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a...
prior authorization noun: A requirement by a health insurance companies that patients obtain approval before receiving certain medical services, procedures, or medications.
prior claustral noun: Synonym of prior (“the person ranking just after the abbot in an abbey, appointed as his deputy”).
prior conventual noun: Synonym of prior (“the head of a priory or some other minor or smaller monastery”).
prior knowledge noun: Knowledge of a set of circumstances sufficient to make actions based on those circumstances wrongful.
prior probability noun: The probability of an event obtained without the knowledge of occurrence of other events that bear on it.
prior restraint noun: A restriction on expression imposed before the fact against particular speech or ideas (as opposed to restrictions against general subject matter or imposed...
prior to preposition: Before, previous to.
priorable adjective: Of a prior offense: eligible to affect sentencing for a subsequent offense.
prioracy noun: The office of a prior.
priorate noun /ˈpɹaɪəɹət/: The dignity, office, or government of a prior.
Priore proper noun: A surname from Italian.
prioress noun: A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.
Priorian adjective: Of or relating to Arthur Prior (1914–1969), logician and philosopher who founded tense logic.
prioristic adjective: Of or belonging or pertaining to the Prior Analytics of Aristotle.
prioritarian noun: One who subscribes to prioritarianism.
prioritarianism noun: The view that the goodness of an outcome is a function of overall well-being across all individuals, with extra weight given to those who are worse off.
prioritied adjective: Having (the specified) priority.
priorities interjection, noun /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ɪ.tiz/: An expression, chiefly unfriendly, remarking disagreement with someone else's order of priorities; that someone takes the wrong action compared to something...
prioritisation noun: Alternative form of prioritization.
prioritise verb: UK standard spelling of prioritize.
prioritiser noun: Alternative form of prioritizer.
prioritizable adjective: Capable of being prioritized.
prioritization noun /prʌɪˌɒrətʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/: The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.
prioritize verb /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/: To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things.
prioritized adjective, verb: with priority, having priority
prioritizer noun: One who prioritizes.
priority noun /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/: An item's relative importance.
priority queue noun: An abstract data type similar to a regular queue or stack abstract data type.
priority road noun: a road or street on which vehicles have priority (right of way) at all junctions
priority seat noun: A seat on public transport reserved for use by people with disabilities, the elderly, pregnant women and others in need.
priorly adverb: Previously.
priorship noun: The state or office of prior.
priory noun /ˈpɹaɪəɹ.i/: A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
Pripyat proper noun: A river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper.
PRIS noun: Abbreviation of propofol infusion syndrome.
prisage noun /ˈpɹaɪzɪd͡ʒ/: A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more: one before and one behind the mast.
Prisca proper noun: An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian.
priscan adjective: ancient
Priscian proper noun: A Latin grammarian, Priscianus Caesariensis
Priscilla proper noun /pɹɪˈsɪlə/: A female given name from Latin of biblical origin.
Priscillian noun: Synonym of Priscillianist.
Priscillianism noun: The beliefs of the Priscillianists.
Priscillianist adjective, noun: Of or pertaining to Priscillianism.
Prisco proper noun: A surname from Italian.
prise noun, verb /pɹaɪz/: To force (open) with a lever; to pry.
prise de fer noun: An engagement of the blades that attempts to control the opponent's weapon.
prisebar noun: A crowbar.
priser noun: A tool for prising something open.
prisiadka noun: An East Slavic dance move in which a man squats and thrusts each foot out alternately.
prism noun /ˈpɹɪz(ə)m/: An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1).
prism glass noun: Glass with one smooth side and the other side formed into sharp-edged ridges so as to reflect the light that passes through, used at windows to throw the...
prism train noun: A series of dioptric prisms used with a spectroscope to increase dispersion.
PRISMA proper noun: A standardised method of selecting articles for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
prismal adjective: Relating to a prism; prismatic.
prismane noun: a polycyclic hydrocarbon, C₆H₆, having the shape of a regular triangular prism; any derivative of this compound
prismated adjective: Synonym of prismatic
prismatic adjective /pɹɪzˈmætɪk/: Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
prismatic coefficient noun: The ratio between the total submerged volume of a ship's or boat's hull, on the one hand, and the product of the length of the submerged portion of the hull...
prismatic colors noun: Colors visible when white light is split in a prism.
prismatic colours noun: Colours visible when white light is split in a prisma.
prismatic compass noun: A compass, equipped with a small prism, that allows the heading to be read while sighting
prismatic powder noun: Synonym of pebble (“a form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains”).
prismatical adjective: Alternative form of prismatic.
prismatically adverb: In a prismatic way.
prismatine noun: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.
prismatization noun: The process of prismatizing.
prismatize verb: To separate (light) by means of a transparent prism.
prismatoid noun: Any polyhedron whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes
prismatoidal adjective: Having the shape of a prismatoid.
prismatomerin noun: A cytotoxic iridoid found in Prismatomeris tetrandra.
prismatoolithid noun: Any fossil egg of the oofamily Prismatoolithidae.
prismed adjective: Containing prisms
prismenchyma noun: prismatic cellular tissue
prismic adjective: Synonym of prismatic
prismless adjective: Without a prism.
prismlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a prism.
prismodic adjective: Like that of a prism, especially a transparent one.
prismoid adjective, noun: Resembling a prism.
prismoidal adjective: Having the form of a prismoid.
prismy adjective: Pertaining to or resembling a prism.
prison noun, verb /ˈpɹɪzn̩/: A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or...
prison bars noun: Alternative form of prisoners' bars (“the game”).
prison base noun: Synonym of prisoners' bars (“the game”).
prison-bound adjective: Destined for prison, by leading a life of crime.
prison break noun: Synonym of jail break.
prison breaker noun: One who escapes or flees a penal institution.
prison breaking noun: Synonym of jail break.
prison camp noun: A camp in which either prisoners of war or political prisoners are interned.
prison cell noun: The room to which a prisoner is confined in a prison.
prison chaser noun: A prison guard; particularly one who guards military prisoners on fatigue duty.
prison farm noun: A large correctional facility in which convicts are forced to do manual labor, largely in open air.
prison fever noun: Typhus.
prison flower noun: A flower that traps its insect visitors until fertilization is effected.
prison gay adjective: Synonym of gay for the stay.
prison guard noun: An armed person working to provide order, security, discipline, punishment, and prevent escapes of prisoners in a jail that answers to a warden.
prison hooch noun: Synonym of pruno.
prison house noun: prison; jailhouse
prison–industrial complex noun: The socioeconomic combination of prisons and the private businesses that supply them with goods and services.
prison justice noun: The civil power of dealing with the reformation of the prison system.
prison labor noun: Work which one is compelled to perform due to lack of options, by choice while in prison, or outright against one's will, while in a condition of...
prison napalm noun: A mixture of boiling water and sugar, thrown to cause injuries.
prison officer noun: A person responsible for the supervision and security of prisoners.
prison pocket noun: The anus, rectum, or vagina, used to hide or smuggle items.
prison psychosis noun: Synonym of Ganser syndrome.
prison purse noun: Synonym of prison pocket.
prison ring noun: A ring worn on the finger and fashioned by hand in a prison, commonly from a celluloid item such as a toothbrush or a pen.
prison sentence noun: Confinement in prison as punishment for a crime.
prison state noun: A state that severely restricts the freedom of its citizens.
prison wall noun: A large barrier that separates prisoners from the free community.
prison wallet noun: Synonym of prison pocket.
prison wine noun: Synonym of pruno.
prisonable adjective: Synonym of imprisonable (“carrying a sentence of imprisonment”).
prisondom noun: The world or sphere of prisons.
prisoner noun /ˈpɹɪzənə/: A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
prisoner at large noun: A member of the military who is being disciplined by being forbidden to leave the barracks or ship on which they are stationed.
prisoner exchange noun: Synonym of prisoner swap.
prisoner of conscience noun: Anyone imprisoned because of their race, religion, or political views.
prisoner of hope noun: One who remains hopeful in spite of circumstances that seem hopeless.
prisoner of war noun /ˈpɹɪz.(ə).nə əv ˈwɔː/: A combatant or soldier who is captured by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
prisoner-of-war camp noun: A camp in which prisoners of war are interned.
prisoner's base noun: Alternative form of prisoners' bars (“the game”).
prisoner's cinema noun: The visual phenomenon of seeing colours, which may resolve into human or other figures, when kept in darkness or otherwise deprived of visual stimulation.
prisoner's friend noun: An officer acting as counsel for the defendant in a court-martial.
prisoner swap noun: A deal between opposing sides in a conflict, in which each side agrees to release prisoners.
prisoner visa noun: A residency visa that does not permit the bearer to find employment, especially as the spouse of someone with a work visa.
prisonerlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner.
prisoners' bars noun: A playground game in which two teams chase and capture any opponents running from their home area.
prisonful noun: Enough to fill a prison.
prisonguard noun: Alternative form of prison guard.
prisonhouse noun: The main building of a prison.
prisonization noun: The process of assimilation to the customs, social norms, etc. of a prison.
prisonize verb: To make like a prison, or adapt to the conditions of a prison.
prisonless adjective: Without prisons.
prisonlike adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a prison
prisonment noun /ˈpɹɪzənmənt/: Imprisonment.
prisonous adjective: Resembling or characteristic of a prison.
prisonwear noun: Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison.
prisoptometer noun: A device containing a double prism, used to measure refraction and thus diagnose anomalies in a patient's vision.
priss noun, verb /pɹɪs/: A prissy person
priss around verb: To act in a prissy manner.
prissify verb: To make prissy.
prissily adverb: In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper.
prissiness noun: The state or quality of being excessively prim or proper.
prisspot noun: A very prissy person.
prissy adjective, noun /ˈpɹɪsi/: Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular.
pristane noun: A natural saturated terpenoid alkane, 2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane, used as a lubricant, an anticorrosion agent, and in medical research
pristanic adjective /pɹɪˈstæn.ɪk/: Of or pertaining to pristanic acid or its derivatives.
pristanic acid noun: The diterpenoid acid 2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecanoic acid found in many animal lipids
pristanoyl noun, prefix: Derivative such as an ester, of pristanic acid
pristella noun: A fish, Pristella maxillaris (the only species in its genus).
pristerognathid noun: Any therocephalian of the genus Pristerognathus
pristid noun: Any fish in the family Pristidae; a sawfish.
pristigasterid noun: Any fish in the family Pristigasteridae.
pristiglomid noun: Any member of the Pristiglomidae, certain saltwater clams.
-pristin suffix /ˈpɹɪ.stɪn/: Used to form names of streptogramin antibacterials, pristinamycin derivatives acting as protein synthesis inhibitors.
Pristina proper noun /prɪʃˈtinə/: The capital and largest city of Kosovo.
pristinamycin noun: An antibiotic used primarily in the treatment of staphylococcal infections, and to a lesser extent streptococcal infections.
pristinamycine noun: Alternative spelling of pristinamycin.
pristinate adjective /ˈpɹɪstɪnət/: pristine; primitive
pristine adjective /ˈpɹɪstiːn/: Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
pristinely adverb: In a way that is pristine
pristineness noun: The state or condition of being pristine.
pristinin noun: A posttranslationally modified peptide present in Streptomyces pristinaespiralis
pristiophorid noun: Any shark in the family Pristiophoridae.
pristiophoriform noun: Any sawshark of the order Pristiophoriformes
pristolepidid noun: Any leaffish of the family Pristolepididae
Pritam proper noun: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
pritch noun, verb: pique; offence
Pritchard proper noun /ˈpɹɪt͡ʃɚd/: A surname from Welsh.
pritchel noun, verb /ˈpɹɪt͡ʃəl/: A metal punch or shaping tool with a round shank, designed to fit in a pritchel hole in an anvil.
pritchel hole noun: A round hole in an anvil designed to hold a pritchel or other round-shanked blacksmithing tool.
Pritchett proper noun: A surname.
pritelivir noun: A particular antiherpetic drug.
prithee interjection /ˈpɹɪði/: please; used to make a question or request more polite or more forceful.
Prithvi proper noun: Name of deity Prithvi or Mother Earth
Priti proper noun: A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Pritt proper noun: A British surname; variant of Pratt.
pritumumab noun: A human monoclonal antibody used in treating brain cancer.
Pritzker proper noun: A surname.
Prius noun: Ellipsis of Toyota Prius, a compact/small family liftback (supermini/subcompact sedan until 2003) produced by Toyota.
priv adjective, noun /pɹɪv/: Clipping of privilege.
priv. doc. noun: Abbreviation of private docent.
privacity noun: Techniques used to maintain one's privacy.
privacy noun /ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/: The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others.
privacy coin noun: Any cryptocurrency designed to protect users' anonymity and confidentiality.
privacy policy noun: A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization,...
privacy seal noun: An online branded trust mark or logo used by third-party site verification entities to protect online consumers by identifying trustworthy web sites.
privado noun /pɹɪˈveɪdəʊ/: A trusted friend; a confidant.
privat-docent noun: A lecturer who may teach without supervision by a professor
privatdocent noun: Alternative form of privatdozent.
privatdozent noun: In some European countries, an academic who holds all formal qualifications (doctorate and habilitation) to become a tenured university professor.
private adjective, noun, verb /ˈpɹaɪ.vɪt/: Belonging or pertaining to an individual person, group of people, or entity that is not the state.
private ambulance noun: A privately-owned non-emergency vehicle, generally used for scheduled patient transport or the transportation of the deceased to a mortuary.
private area noun: The region of the human body consisting of the sex organs.
private attorney general noun: An attorney who brings a lawsuit advocating it to be in the public interest on behalf of a citizen or group of citizens.
private bank noun: A bank involved in private banking
private banking noun: Banking offered to high-income people, including personalized advice and concierge service; bespoke banking.
private benefits noun: Refers to the benefits received by a firm or consumer, as part of its economic activity.
private bill noun: A parliamentary bill promoted by an organisation such as a local authority or company in order to obtain powers to do something.
private branch exchange noun: A telecommunications switching system, physically located at a customer's place of business, that provides internal communication between users and also...
private brand noun: Synonym of own brand.
private candidate noun: One who enters an examination without being enrolled as a student at the educational establishment where it is given.
private car noun: A car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.
private cost noun: A cost incurred in the production process by the producer; including tax and profit margins that are anticipated.
private credit noun: An aspect of the shadow banking system involving assets defined by non-bank lending where the debt is not issued or traded on the public markets, unlike...
private detective noun: Person who is not a government official who is hired to provide information about a person or group that is not widely available
private dick noun: A private investigator; a private detective.
private docent noun: An associate professor (in a university) who has obtained a doctorate, written a habilitation thesis and given a lecture in the hope of becoming a full...
private enterprise noun: enterprise owned by private owners, investors or shareholders
private enterprise number noun: A unique number assigned by IANA to identify objects that are defined by an enterprise.
private equity noun: Capital stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public.
private eye noun: A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.
private first class noun: An enlisted rank in the United States Army, of rank E-3, ranking above a private and below a corporal or specialist.
private good noun: A good that is rivalrous and excludable.
private house noun: An informal, residential space, such as a sharecropper's cabin, a rural shack, or a converted family home, that was repurposed into a grassroots...
private international law noun: The law of a state that decides the law of which state is applied to legal relationships in civil and commercial matters that contain foreign elements.
private investigator noun: An agent detective hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.
private investment banker noun: An investment banker who manages the portfolio of a private individual.
private joke noun: Synonym of inside joke (“a joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details”).
private judgment noun: Assumption of judgment by individual reason on matters which are not amenable to a lower tribunal than the universal reason of the race.
private key noun: The unpublished key in asymmetric cryptography.
private label noun, verb: Synonym of own brand.
private language noun: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see private, language.
private language argument noun: The argument, famously made by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), that a private language cannot exist.
private language problem noun: The problem, considered by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and other philosophers, of whether it is possible for a private language to exist.
private language thesis noun: The thesis or contention that a private language cannot exist.
private law noun: The area of law pertaining to the relationships between private persons (natural or legal persons including corporations), as opposed to relations between...

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under P: 63,631 words, in 213 parts.