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2035 words beginning with p

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premature invitation - Inviting a girl you meet at a bar back to your apartment way too early.

e.g., "What happened to that chick you were talking to?" "She ditched me, premature invitation."

submitted by David

premature obamination - The new commander-in-chief has nominated a number of people to fill cabinet-level positions, subject to approval bu the Senate. In his first 16 days on the job, these Obama nominees, or obamanees, have been of such questionable or objectionable character or qualifications that four have withdrawn their names from consideration prior to a Senate confirmation hearing, ostensibly to avoid embarrasing the establishment. We can conclude that they would invite further scrutiny into their lives, dealings, or taxes, and were going to "bomb-out" in front of the Senate committee, anyway. A phenomenon that repeats with such an alarming frequency surely deserves a descriptive word. What do you call an Obaminee that withdraws prior to confirmation? A premature obamination, of course.

e.g., Tom Daschle is just the latest in a string of four premature obaminations, by obaminees who withdrew prior to Senate confirmation to avoid further scrutiny and embarrassment.

submitted by Glen Sorensen

premature roller - One who unrolls Tim Hortons take-out coffee cups during "Roll up the rim to win" with coffee still in the cup

e.g., If you weren't such a premature roller, you wouldn't have coffee all over you.

submitted by jessica q

premature submification - The verb pertaining to when you submit a form on a website before you've finished filling it out.

e.g., Yeah, in IE, if you accidentally hit return when filling in fields, you are likely to experience premature submification. (Nothing to be self-conscious about though. Everyone experiences it at one time or another.)

submitted by Garret Thomson - (www)

preme - Cross between supreme and premium. usually used to describe food. Perfect, awesome, delicious.

e.g., This sandwich is preme.

submitted by Katie K

premish - To back out of plans made. (Named after a friend who always did so, Prem.)

e.g., Backing out of lunch, eh? Sounds a little premish to me....

submitted by Peter Bonzani, Jr.

premo - Emo-like music created before the advent of the word "emo."

e.g., Fountains of Wayne is premo.

submitted by BigAssFries

premoted - The change in status caused by taking command of the TV Control.

e.g., When she had to leave the room I premoted myself and watched the news.

submitted by Hammerton

premuflection - PREM-YOU-FLECK-SHUN. A non-denominational and therefore politically correct reference to a moment of silence that can be used for prayer, meditation, or reflection. Coined during a family dinner.

e.g., And now let us pause for premuflection.

submitted by Anne-Marie J. Leake

premythe - (n., pronounced PREH-mith) a flawed, faulty, or false assumption, leading one into all sorts of erroneous conclusions.

e.g., "If you're not wealthy, you're not successful." "Whoa, man, you don't mean that, do you?" "Sure I do." "Well, what about Jesus? Mother Theresa? Buddha? Gandhi? Everyone who's ever raised a family without a ton of bling? ---I think you need to rethink your world."

submitted by Scott M. Ellsworth

prenasal care - Prior to the formation of the nose of the fetus in the womb of the mother she must yogicly concentrate on the spot between her eyes and above her nose for best alignment of energies and cells destined to become the unborn child's smelling and breathing apparatus.

e.g., Effective prenasal care via ancient tried and true methods, viz Yoga or Joga, will surely guarantee the finest instrument of smelling in the entire Universe, Krishna be praised, for the baby, the little one who forms easily and naturally in the womb, and comes out finally when it is quite prepared. (We think that you knose wwhat we mean.)

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

prentzel - An occasional (childhood) mispronunciation of pretzel?

e.g., Prentzel rhymes with pencil -- the one has salt, the other doesn't.

submitted by Paul Edic - (www)

preop - Short for preoperational--meaning has too little knowledge.

e.g., Bob's a bit too preop for the job.

submitted by Fiona

prep aganda - A political entity's initial use of statistics and biased data, designed to favorably present new, and controversial, legislation.

e.g., When the Federal government wants to take over the cosmetics industry, be prepared to start hearing case studies and other prep aganda about the epidemic of pimples and their personal toll on the lives of the untreated millions.

submitted by Charlie Lesko

prephaint - To pretend to faint to try and get out of doing something.

e.g., Suba prephainted to get out of the English test.

submitted by Jada

prepone - to reschedule a meeting or event for an earlier time

e.g., Can we prepone the meeting from 7 to 6?

submitted by Colin

preposterity - Something ridiculous that will be remembered for a long time. A combination of "preposterous" and "posterity," in case you didn't figure out.

e.g., The teacher's request that we do a 600-page paper by the next day would live on in preposterity.

submitted by adam sontag - (www)

prepular - a person, mainly a girl or teenager that acts snobby, preppy, and is popular.

e.g., Look at her she is sooo prepular!

submitted by Samantha

prequel - 1. A follow-up to a movie whose timeline takes place before the movie that it is made after. 2. The last ditch attempt to make money off of a played-out franchise.

e.g., I think that Dumb and Dumberer is a better prequel than Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace because at least Dumb and Dumberer didn't have Jar Jar Binks in it.

submitted by SamL.

presact - Meaning precisely or exact

e.g., I'm such a perfectionist, I need to make sure everything is presactly right.

submitted by JaJiner

preschool - More oldschool than oldschool.

e.g., Hey, man, I just ordered the unreleased Silverchair demos from 1993. They're preschool.

submitted by Adam

prescrumptious - Anticipated delight

e.g., I'm looking forward to that prescrumptious post prandial pecan pie.

submitted by bob keith

presentate - To make a presentation.

e.g., I am going to presentate in front of the class.

submitted by Jason Evert

presentee - A person who is physically at work, but not working -- unlike an absentee, who’s not there at all.

e.g., Brian shows up for work every day, but he’s only “sorta there,” if you know what I mean. His presenteeism has started to be a problem for his department.

submitted by natalie63

presevere - Mispronunciation of "persevere" overheard while attending a water polo match.

e.g., "We are LA Trade Tech, and we will presevere."

submitted by Charles Bozonier

presh - Appreciate. 1. Anything that one considers appreciated; e.g., "I'd like to presh" is like saying "I'd like to enjoy." 2. Appreciating something. E.g., "Don't bother me, I'm preshing." 3. To show appreciation. E.g., your friend buys you a shot at the bar, you say, "Presh." This says that you appreciate the action performed by the other.

e.g., Say you drive by a hot chick in the car or see one at the bar, you can point and say, Presh." OR Instead of "Thank you," just say, "Presh." There are hundreds of instances and circumstance that are acceptable uses of this pseudo-word. Hope you can clarify my mangled definition. Thanks.

submitted by Brad

presidentiable - Filipino, president-wannabe, one who could potentially be the next president

e.g., Heaven knows why some sectors of society still believe deposed Philippine President Joseph Estrada could still be included in 2004s list of presidentiables.

submitted by Mylene Segundera-Bass - (www)

presidue - The general nastiness (used gums, ticky mystery goop, etc.) accumulated over time in a public place.

e.g., Julie and I just rode the Zipper, and my seat was so covered in presidue I swear I almost yakked.

submitted by Lauren Walsensmictzensiegleheimer - (www)

presocstetos - A prospectus. A summary of a proposed project, venture, or investment.

e.g., Kyle, always read the presocstetos before making an investment.

submitted by Jeff

presser - Press conference.

e.g., "E.g., in a joint presser (if you can call taking two questions a 'presser') with the Mexican president, Obama again offered a vague, wishy-washy worry about the [Arizona anti-illegal-immigration] law."

submitted by HD Fowler - (www)

pressifixion - Crucifixion by the press, the mass media.

e.g., Some people in the midst of a public scandal actually go into hiding to try to avoid pressifixion.

submitted by natalie

presstitute - A bought journalist.

e.g., What we need is presstitute alerts when she shows up as a guest on a "news" program. At least we know what to expect from someone's defense lawyer.

submitted by Bingo Knight - (www)

pressumed guilty - Assumed guilty by the press. Clearly portrayed by the press as guilty as the same time as the press overuses the word alleged. Sometimes used in conjunction with "person of interest."

e.g., When a story breaks that a celebrity may have committed a criminal act, most of them are pressumed guilty. Ever wonder why?

submitted by Miss Speller - (www)

pressureful - A way to describe a pressure-filled situation when you are too lazy to do the verbal gymnastics required to fully enunciate.

e.g., Talking the SAT was so pressureful, I thought someone's head might explode.

submitted by Melanie

prestidigitalization - Any particularly clever or unbelieveable act performed on a computer, esp. the creation of impossible "photographs" in image-manipulation programs; "digital prestidigitation" or "computer magic."

e.g., Through the magic of prestidigitalization, I now own the only photograph of Elvis Presley kissing Richard Nixon on the lips in Times Square.

submitted by Andrew Hollandbeck - (www)

prestigurgitation - LL., presitregugitatio. Spontaneous vomiting, as if by magic.

e.g., Mid-sentence he prestigurgitated his partially eaten meatball onto his plate.

submitted by rocky chrysler - (www)

prestodigitater - Electronic eliminator.

e.g., A new Sicilian-American terminator device. To finger the unfortunate one, simply press the appropriate button on the Prestodigitater.

submitted by S. Berliner, III - (www)

prestodigitation - How "prestidigitation" should be spelled -- for "hand is quicker than the eye" "magic."

e.g., "He was the man who had sat alone in a room for hundreds and hundreds of hours, his fingers manipulating cards and coins until he had learned and could perfectly reproduce every form of prestodigitation found in books of magic lore."

submitted by Miss Speller

prestodigitator - On-line hitman.

e.g., A prestodigitator fingers a guy by simply pressing the appropriate button on the Prestodigitater (q.v.).

submitted by S. Berliner, III - (www)

prestopolymorphonic - Adjective meaning your last name is your chief personality characteristic or occupation (rare use.)

e.g., Ric Happy, an acutal happy smiley person, his last name really is Happy. My last name really is Generous and I think I really am a caring unselfish person. Jon Baker actually is a baker. We are all prestopolymorphonic. Get it?

submitted by Suzanne Generous

prestupnikim - Criminals. From Russian and Hebrew. Extensively used in Jerusalem in the early 80s. Invented by Alex Sadovsky.

e.g., Chris had dropped out of school, and was hanging out only with prestupnikim ve-prestupnikot.

submitted by Garick

pretaliate - To retaliate against a future injury or insult.

e.g., I knew he was about to insult me so I pretaliated by throwing my drink on him.

submitted by Wendy White

preteentious - The wierd, often outrageous behavior of children just as they enter the self-aware, and self-conscious, stage of their teen years.

e.g., Just before her 13th birthday, Amanda started dressing, and wearing cosmetics, all in black. She also spent, hour after hour, practicing several types of frowns before her mirror. Her mother wondered if she was "flipping out," but I assured her that Amanda was just acting preteentious.

submitted by Charlie Lesko

pretendinitis - A phony or faked injury or illness to gain attention

submitted by eggs

pretiful - A combination of beautiful and pretty. Used as slang at elementary school or by the junior high girls.

e.g., Ooooh, what a pretiful dress.

submitted by Karen Christ

pretire - The process of announcing one's intention to retire from a job or position at a certain time in the future.

e.g., Darrell Green pretired before the season started, but later changed his mind.

submitted by adam sontag - (www)

prettexyful - A combination of pretty, sexy and beautiful, when none of those words alone will do.

e.g., Baby, you look so prettexyful tonight. I'm so glad to be yours.

submitted by Chris

prettiful - Better than pretty, not quite beautiful.

e.g., She was a lovely girl, with prettiful eyes.

submitted by hugo furst

prettiful - A combination of pretty and beautiful, with a touch of cute.

e.g., Oh, my...that is the most prettiful outfit I have ever laid eggs on.

submitted by Kimberli

pretty - Dictionary.com: "Informal. considerable; fairly great: This accident will cost him a pretty sum. "

e.g., I've also noticed some idiosyncracies with both «link us up» and «send to friend», at least some of which should be adjusted. What is displayed for «send to friend» is not what gets sent -- the HTML for the entry gets sent as text and that can be . . . pretty ugly, to use (what appears on first glance to be) an oxymoron.

submitted by HD Fowler - (www)

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