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préformationisme: preformationism
préforme: blank (piece of metal)
préformer: to preform
préfrontal: prefrontal
préfète: A female prefect.; A female director of an athenaeum.; A female spouse of a male prefect.
préférable: preferable
préférablement: preferably
préférence: preference; like (something that a given person likes)
préférences: preferences (user-specified settings of parameters in a computer program)
préférentiel: preferential (related to preference)
préférentiellement: preferentially
préférer: to prefer
préféré: favourite
prégabaline: pregabalin
préglaciaire: preglacial
prégnance: salience; predominance
prégnant: heavy with content, significant, forceful, especially in its effect on the mind; apposite; meaningful; pregnant
prégustation: foretaste
prégénital: pregenital
préhellénique: prehellenic
préhenseur: prehensile
préhensible: prehensible.
préhensile: prehensile; having the ability to grip or to be gripped
préhension: prehension
préhilbertien: pre-Hilbert
préhistoire: prehistory
préhistorien: prehistorian
préhistorique: prehistoric; prehistoric, antiquated
préimage: preimage
préimplantatoire: pre-implant
préindustriel: preindustrial
préinscription: preregistration
préislamique: pre-Islamic
préjudice: a harm, a damage
préjudiciable: prejudicial (to); harmful (to)
préjudiciel: prejudicial
préjudiciellement: prejudicially
préjudicier: to prejudice
préjuger: to prejudge; to foresee; say in advance
préjugé: a prejudice, a bias
prélart: tarpaulin
prélasser: to sprawl, to lounge, to laze
prélat: prelate
prélatin: pre-Latin
prélature: prelateship
prélavage: precleaning, prewash
prélever: to take (sur from); to take (blood), remove (an organ), harvest (an organ); to take out, withdraw (money); to deduct, to subtract (numbers, or percentages)
préleveur: withdrawer; sampler
préliminaire: preliminary (part before the main part); foreplay
préliminaire: preliminary, prelim
préliminairement: preliminarily
préliminaires: plural of préliminaire; foreplay
prélogique: prelogical
prélude: prelude
préluder: to introduce or be a prelude (to)
prélèvement: sampling; deduction, levying
prématurer: to do (something) prematurely
prématurité: prematurity
prématuré: premature baby, premmie (infant born prematurely)
prématuré: hasty, premature; premature, born early