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Showing words for PRECEDING using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Preceding

preceding

8 Letter Words for Preceding

creeping, decreing, pincered, receding

7 Letter Words for Preceding

cedrine, creeing, crepine, creping, cringed, deeping, dereign, dnieper, dreeing, energic, energid, generic, greined, grieced, griecep, increep, peering, percine, percing, perinde, pierced, precide, predine, preeing, princed, reeding, reigned, repined, ripened

6 Letter Words for Preceding

ceding, cedrin, cendre, ceride, cerine, cering, cerned, cierge, cinder, creped, crined, cringe, decern, decerp, decine, deeing, deicer, denier, dering, diener, dingee, dinger, edenic, edgier, edirne, engird, engrid, epigne, gender, genepi, gerned, girned, griece, griped, idence, incede, neiper, nereid, peeing, peirce, peneid, penide, perced, percen, percid, perdie, perine, picene, pieced, piecen, piecer, pierce, pincer, pinder, pinged, pinger, pirned, priced, prince, recide, recipe, reding, reiced, reined, renied, repine, ringed

5 Letter Words for Preceding

ceder, cedre, cegep, cered, cerge, cerin, cerne, cider, creed, creen, creep, crepe, cried, crine, cripe, deice, deign, deric, derig, dicer, diene, digne, diner, dinge, dirge, dreep, dreng, drice, edger, egrid, eider, eigne, ender, eneid, ering, erned, genep, genic, genie, genip, genre, gerip, gerne, ginep, gnide, grece, greed, green, grein, grice, gride, grind, gripe, inger, irene, neger, neper, nicer, nidge, niece, niger, peine, pence, pened, penie, perce, piece, piend, pined, piner, pinge, preed, preen, price, pride, pried, prine, recip, redig, redip, regie, regin, reice, reign, reneg, renig, repeg, repen, repic, repin, riced, riden, ridge, ringe, riped, ripen

4 Letter Words for Preceding

cede, cedi, cene, cepe, cere, cern, cide, cine, cire, cred, crig, crin, crip, crpe, deen, deep, deer, dene, deni, depe, depr, dere, dern, dice, dier, dine, ding, dire, dree, dreg, drie, drip, eden, edge, eger, eide, eine, eire, ende, ened, engr, epic, ered, eric, erie, erin, erne, geed, geep, geer, geic, gein, geir, gene, gere, gied, gien, gird, gire, girn, gpcd, gree, gren, grid, grin, grip, iced, icer, idee, incr, inde, ired, irpe, need, neep, neer, nerd, nice, nide, nied, peed, peen, peer, pend, pene, peng, peni, pere, peri, pern, pice, pied, pien, pier, pind, pine, ping, pirn, pnce, prec, pred, pree, prie, prig, prin, recd, rede, reed, reen, regd, rein, rend, rgen, rice, ride, rind, rine, ring, ripe

3 Letter Words for Preceding

cdg, cdr, cee, cen, cep, cer, cid, cie, cig, cir, cpd, cpi, cpr, dec, dee, deg, dei, den, dep, der, die, dig, din, dip, dir, dpi, ecg, edp, eec, eeg, een, eer, eir, enc, end, ene, eng, epi, erd, ere, erg, ern, gcd, gdp, ged, gee, gen, ger, gid, gie, gin, gnp, gpd, ice, ide, idp, ign, inc, ind, ing, ipr, ire, ned, nee, neg, nei, nep, nid, nie, nig, nip, pci, pdn, pec, ped, pee, peg, pen, per, pic, pid, pie, pig, pin, pir, prc, pre, prn, rcd, rec, red, ree, reg, rei, rep, rid, rie, rig, rin, rip, rnd

Definitions for Preceding

[1] that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
[2] to go before, as in place, order, rank, importance, or time.
[3] to introduce by something preliminary; preface: to precede one's statement with a qualification.
[4] to go or come before.
[5] Journalism . copy printed at the beginning of a news story presenting late bulletins, editorial notes, or prefatory remarks.
[6] (prenominal) going or coming before; former
[7] to go or be before (someone or something) in time, place, rank, etc
[8] (tr) to preface or introduce

Words related to Preceding

prior, introductory, previous, head, lead, leading, foregoing, forward, pioneer, front, pioneering, aforesaid, antecedent, anterior, before, erstwhile, former, heretofore, other, past

Words nearby Preceding

precedence, precedency, precedent, precedented, precedential, preceding, precent, precentor, precentral area, precentral cerebellar vein, precentral gyrus

Origin of Preceding

e1325–75; Middle English preceden < Latin praecēdere. See pre-, cede

Words that may be confused with Preceding

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, precedeprecede, proceed

Other words from Preceding

pre·ced·a·ble , adjective
un·pre·ced·ed , adjective

Word origin for Preceding

eC14: via Old French from Latin praecēdere to go before, from prae before + cēdere to move

Synonyms for Preceding

introductory, previous, prior, foregoing, forward, front, head, lead, leading, pioneer, pioneering, above-mentioned, above-named, aforeknown, aforementioned, aforesaid, ahead of, antecedent, anterior, before, erstwhile, forerunning, former, heretofore, one time, other, past, precedent, precursive, precursory, preexistent, prefatory, preliminary, preparatory, prevenient, prodromal, supra