These are the meanings of the letters PRETERTIARY when you unscramble them.
- Parterre (n.)
An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.
- Parterre (n.)
The pit of a theater; the parquet.
- Patterer (n.)
One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.
- Preterit (a.)
Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
- Preterit (a.)
Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
- Preterit (n.)
The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
- pretreat (unknown)
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- prettier (unknown)
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- Rareripe (a.)
Early ripe; ripe before others, or before the usual season.
- Rareripe (n.)
An early ripening fruit, especially a kind of freestone peach.
- Repairer (n.)
One who, or that which, repairs, restores, or makes amends.
- Tertiary (a.)
Being of the third formation, order, or rank; third; as, a tertiary use of a word.
- Tertiary (a.)
Growing on the innermost joint of a bird's wing; tertial; -- said of quills.
- Tertiary (a.)
Later than, or subsequent to, the Secondary.
- Tertiary (a.)
Possessing some quality in the third degree; having been subjected to the substitution of three atoms or radicals; as, a tertiary alcohol, amine, or salt. Cf. Primary, and Secondary.
- Tertiary (n.)
A member of the Third Order in any monastic system; as, the Franciscan tertiaries; the Dominican tertiaries; the Carmelite tertiaries. See Third Order, under Third.
- Tertiary (n.)
One of the quill feathers which are borne upon the basal joint of the wing of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
- Tertiary (n.)
The Tertiary era, period, or formation.