| PRETELLING | • pretelling v. Present participle of pretell. • PRETELL v. to tell beforehand. |
| PRETENDANT | • pretendant n. A pretender; a claimant. • PRETENDANT n. a pretender; a claimant, also PRETENDENT. |
| PRETENDENT | • pretendent n. Alternative form of pretendant. • PRETENDENT n. a pretender; a claimant, also PRETENDANT. |
| PRETENDERS | • pretenders n. Plural of pretender. • PRETENDER n. one who lays claim to something. |
| PRETENDING | • pretending n. The act of imagining; make-believe. • pretending v. Present participle of pretend. • PRETEND v. to make believe. |
| PRETENSION | • pretension n. A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality. • pretension n. Pretentiousness. • pretension v. To apply tension to an object before some other event or process. |
| PRETENSIVE | • pretensive adj. (Now rare) Pretended; feigned. • pretensive adj. (Chiefly US) Pretentious. • PRETENSIVE adj. pretentious. |
| PRETERISTS | • preterists n. Plural of preterist. • PRETERIST n. a person who holds that the prophecies of the Apocalypse have been already fulfilled. |
| PRETERITES | • preterites n. Plural of preterite. • PRETERITE n. the grammatical tense signifying past time or a completed action, also PRETERIT. |
| PRETERMITS | • pretermits v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pretermit. • PRETERMIT v. to omit, neglect to mention. |
| PRETESTING | • pretesting v. Present participle of pretest. • PRETEST v. to give a preliminary test to. |
| PRETEXTING | • pretexting v. Present participle of pretext. • PRETEXTING n. the act of alleging as an excuse. |