Index of English words, starting with "pr"

(1) - Priority (a.) Precedence; superior rank.
(2) - Priority (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.

(1) - Priorly (adv.) Previously.

(1) - Priory (n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.

(1) - Prism (n.) A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.
(2) - Prism (n.) A transparent body, with usually three rectangular plane faces or sides, and two equal and parallel triangular ends or bases; -- used in experiments on refraction, dispersion, etc.
(3) - Prism (n.) A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.

(1) - Prismatic (a.) Alt. of Prismatical