9 Letter Words for Precursor
precursor, procurers
8 Letter Words for Precursor
croupers, procerus, procurer, procures
7 Letter Words for Precursor
corresp, coupers, courser, crouper, croupes, cruores, cuprose, procure, recoups, recours, repours, scorper, scourer, sprucer, spurrer
6 Letter Words for Precursor
cepous, cerous, copers, corers, corpse, corpus, corrup, corser, couper, coupes, coures, course, crores, croupe, croups, crouse, cruors, cuerpo, curers, curser, cursor, errors, percur, porers, poseur, poucer, pouser, prores, proser, purrer, purser, recoup, recour, recrop, recurs, repour, repros, ropers, rouper, rouser, scorer, sorcer, souper, source, sourer, spruce, spruer, uprose
5 Letter Words for Precursor
ceros, coper, copes, copse, copus, corer, cores, corps, corse, coupe, coups, coure, cours, crops, crore, crose, croup, crues, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, currs, curse, ecrus, error, euros, orcus, pecos, pocus, porer, pores, porus, poser, pouce, pours, prore, prose, pucer, puces, puers, purer, purre, purrs, purse, recur, repos, repro, resup, roper, ropes, rores, roser, roues, roups, rouse, ruers, rurps, scope, score, scoup, scour, sorer, souce, spore, sprue, sucre, super, surer
4 Letter Words for Precursor
ceps, cero, coes, cope, copr, cops, core, corp, corr, cors, cose, coue, coup, cour, cpus, cres, crop, crpe, crue, crup, crus, cues, cups, cure, curr, curs, cusp, ecru, ecus, epos, eros, errs, eruc, esop, euro, opec, opes, opus, orcs, ores, oups, ours, pecs, pers, peru, peso, porc, pore, porr, pose, pour, prec, pres, proc, pros, psec, puce, puer, pure, purr, purs, recs, repo, repr, reps, resp, rocs, roer, roes, rope, rose, roue, roup, rous, rucs, ruer, rues, rurp, ruse, scop, scup, scur, seco, seor, sero, serr, soce, sope, sore, soup, sour, spec, spor, spue, spur, suer, supe, supr, sure, ures, urps, user
3 Letter Words for Precursor
ceo, cep, cer, cop, cor, cos, cpo, cpr, cps, cpu, cro, crs, cru, csp, cue, cup, cur, eco, ecu, eos, err, ers, esc, esp, esr, esu, oer, oes, ope, ops, orc, ore, ors, ose, oup, our, ous, pec, per, pes, por, pos, prc, pre, pro, prs, pur, pus, rec, rep, res, roc, roe, ros, rps, ruc, rue, scr, sec, sep, ser, soc, sop, sou, sue, sup, sur, upo, ups, ure, urp, urs, use
Definitions for Precursor
[1] a person or thing that precedes, as in a job, a method, etc.; predecessor.
[2] a person, animal, or thing that goes before and indicates the approach of someone or something else; harbinger: The first robin is a precursor of spring.
[3] Chemistry , Biochemistry . a chemical that is transformed into another compound, as in the course of a chemical reaction, and therefore precedes that compound in the synthetic pathway: Cholesterol is a precursor of testosterone.
[4] Biology . a cell or tissue that gives rise to a variant, specialized, or more mature form.
[5] a person or thing that precedes and shows or announces someone or something to come; harbinger
[6] a predecessor or forerunner
[7] a chemical substance that gives rise to another more important substance
Words related to Precursor
forerunner, harbinger, prototype, herald, usher, vanguard, messenger, outrider, predecessor, antecedent, parent, forebear, pioneer, originator, ancestor, original, antecessor
Words nearby Precursor
precordium, precostal anastomosis, precrime, precritical, precuneus, precursor, precursory, precursory cartilage, precut, precycle, pred.
Origin of Precursor
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin praecursor forerunner. See pre-, cursor
Word origin for Precursor
C16: from Latin praecursor one who runs in front, from praecurrere, from prae in front + currere to run
Synonyms for Precursor
forerunner, harbinger, herald, messenger, outrider, usher, vanguard
