Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z printerless Without a printer. printerlike Resembling a printer. printery A printworks. printing The process or business of producing printed material by means of inked type and a printing press or similar technology. printless without an imprint. printlessness Absence of print or prints. printlike Resembling or characteristic of print. printline A single standard line of type printed once, used in calculating the cost of print advertising. printmaker A person who makes prints of works of art, (particularly) a self-employed craftsman. printmaking 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 An error made during printing. printoff Synonym of printout. printout Something printed on paper, usually a copy generated by a printer (machine). printscript Block letters. printseller A person who sells prints. printshop A shop that sells prints. Printup A surname. printwheel In early printers, a disk bearing impressions of characters around its rim; these are struck against the page to produce text. printworker A person who works in the printing industry, particularly as an employee at a printing house or printworks. printworks Synonym of printing house, an institutional or commercial publisher or a building where printing takes place. printworthiness The quality of being printworthy. printworthy Of sufficient worth to be printed. Printz A surname. Prinz A surname from German. prinzregententorte A Bavarian torte having thin layers of sponge cake separated by chocolate buttercream, topped with apricot jam and covered in a dark chocolate glaze. priodontine The giant armadillo or any of its extinct relatives. Prioleau A surname. Priolo A surname. prion A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue. prionaemia The presence of prion proteins in the blood. prionic Of, pertaining to or caused by a prion. prionization The misfolding of a protein to form a prion prionlike Similar to a prion. prionoceratid Any ammonite in the family Prionoceratidae. prionocerid Any beetle in the family Prionoceridae. prionochezia The excretion of prions in the feces. prionogenesis The formation and development of prions. prionogenic That generate prions. prionogenicity The condition of being prionogenic prionoid Any misfolded protein similar to a prion prionopathy Any prion-related disease. prionopid Any bird in the family Prionopidae; a helmetshrike. prionopterous Having the costal edge of the forewing serrate and thickened (in butterflies). prionose Related to prionoses. prionosis Any degenerative disease caused by a prion. prionsialia The presence of prions in the saliva. prionuria The presence of prions in the urine prior Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous. priorable Of a prior offense: eligible to affect sentencing for a subsequent offense. prioracy The office of a prior. priorate The dignity, office, or government of a prior. Priore A surname from Italian. prioress A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior. Priorian Of or relating to Arthur Prior (1914–1969), logician and philosopher who founded tense logic. prioristic Of or belonging or pertaining to the Prior Analytics of Aristotle. prioritarian One who subscribes to prioritarianism. prioritarianism 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 Having (the specified) priority. priorities An expression, chiefly unfriendly, remarking disagreement with someone else's order of priorities; that someone takes the wrong action compared to something else, or in the wrong order. Get your priorities straight. prioritise Non-Oxford British standard spelling of prioritize. prioritizable Capable of being prioritized. prioritization The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks. prioritize To value, do, or choose something first, or before other things. prioritized with priority, having priority prioritizer One who prioritizes. priority An item's relative importance. priorly Previously. priorship The state or office of prior. Priorslee A suburb of Telford in St Georges and Priorslee parish, Telford and Wrekin district, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ7110). priory A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress. Pripyat A river in Eastern Europe, flowing east through Ukraine and Belarus, draining into the Dnieper. prisage 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 An alternative name for Priscilla, an early Christian. priscan ancient Priscian A Latin grammarian, Priscianus Caesariensis Priscilla A female given name from Latin of biblical origin. Priscillian Synonym of Priscillianist. Priscillianism The beliefs of the Priscillianists. Priscillianist Of or pertaining to Priscillianism. Prisco A surname from Italian. prise To force (open) with a lever; to pry. prisebar A crowbar. priser A tool for prising something open. prisiadka An East Slavic dance move in which a man squats and thrusts each foot out alternately. Prislam A variety of Islam to which its adherents converted in prison. prism An object having the shape of a geometrical prism (sense 1). PRISMA A standardised method of selecting articles for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. prismal Relating to a prism; prismatic. prismane a polycyclic hydrocarbon, C₆H₆, having the shape of a regular triangular prism; any derivative of this compound prismated Synonym of prismatic prismatic Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms. prismatically In a prismatic way. prismatine An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, boron, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon. prismatization The process of prismatizing. prismatize To separate (light) by means of a transparent prism. prismatoid Any polyhedron whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes prismatoidal Having the shape of a prismatoid. prismatomerin A cytotoxic iridoid found in Prismatomeris tetrandra. prismatoolithid Any fossil egg of the oofamily Prismatoolithidae. prismed Containing prisms prismenchyma prismatic cellular tissue prismic Synonym of prismatic prismless Without a prism. prismlike Resembling or characteristic of a prism. prismodic Like that of a prism, especially a transparent one. prismoid Resembling a prism. prismoidal Having the form of a prismoid. prismy Pertaining to or resembling a prism. Prisneyland A prison, especially one that provides inmates with more freedoms and better facilities than is traditional. prison 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 otherwise considered undesirable by the government. prisonable Synonym of imprisonable (“carrying a sentence of imprisonment”). prisondom The world or sphere of prisons. prisoner A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence. prisonerlike Resembling or characteristic of a prisoner. prisonful Enough to fill a prison. prisonhouse The main building of a prison. prisonization The process of assimilation to the customs, social norms, etc. of a prison. prisonize To make like a prison, or adapt to the conditions of a prison. prisonless Without prisons. prisonlike Resembling or characteristic of a prison prisonment Imprisonment. prisonous Resembling or characteristic of a prison. prisonwear Clothes to be worn by inmates of a prison. prisoptometer A device containing a double prism, used to measure refraction and thus diagnose anomalies in a patient's vision. priss A prissy person prissify To make prissy. prissily In a prissy manner; in a manner that is excessively prim or proper. prissiness The state or quality of being excessively prim or proper. prisspot A very prissy person. prissy Prim and fussy; too precise; overparticular. pristane A natural saturated terpenoid alkane, 2,6,10,14-tetramethylpentadecane, used as a lubricant, an anticorrosion agent, and in medical research pristanic Of or pertaining to pristanic acid or its derivatives. pristanoyl The acyl radical derived from pristanic acid. pristella A fish, Pristella maxillaris (the only species in its genus). pristerognathid Any therocephalian of the genus Pristerognathus pristid Any fish in the family Pristidae; a sawfish. pristigasterid Any fish in the family Pristigasteridae. pristiglomid Any member of the Pristiglomidae, certain saltwater clams. Pristina The capital and largest city of Kosovo. pristinamycin An antibiotic used primarily in the treatment of staphylococcal infections, and to a lesser extent streptococcal infections. pristinate pristine; primitive pristine Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied. pristinely In a way that is pristine pristineness The state or condition of being pristine. pristinin A posttranslationally modified peptide present in Streptomyces pristinaespiralis pristiophorid Any shark in the family Pristiophoridae. pristiophoriform Any sawshark of the order Pristiophoriformes pristolepidid Any leaffish of the family Pristolepididae Priston A village and civil parish in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST6960). Pritam A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.