1. preferred stock stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
  2. preferment the act of liking one thing more than another
  3. preferred shares stock whose holders are guaranteed priority in the payment of dividends but whose holders have no voting rights
  4. powder method a process for identifying minerals or crystals
  5. preferred more desirable than another
  6. Read method a method of natural childbirth that assumes it is a normal process and that the pain is largely psychological; involves education and breathing exercises to foster relaxation and other exercises
  7. perforated having a number or series of holes
  8. Bradley method a method that prepares a mother for natural childbirth by providing education and exercises and nutrition and techniques of breathing and relaxation (with the assistance of the father)
  9. whole-word method teaching reading by training beginners to associate printed words with spoken words
  10. preformation a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
  11. pervert corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
  12. preferent preferred above all others and treated with partiality
  13. prevaricate be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  14. refractometer measuring instrument for measuring the refractive index of a substance
  15. prevaricator a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
  16. powdered mustard a substance such that one to three tablespoons dissolved in a glass of warm water is a homemade emetic
  17. performance the act of doing something successfully
  18. preference the right or chance to choose
  19. referred pain pain that is felt at a place in the body different from the injured or diseased part where the pain would be expected
  20. Leboyer method a method of childbirth that tries to minimize the trauma for the newborn; delivery occurs in a quiet dimly lit room and the infant's head is not pulled and immediate bonding between mother and child is encouraged