preliminary /pri-limˈi-nə-ri or -in-ri/

1. Introductory
2. Preparatory
3. Preceding or preparing for the main matter

1. An introductory or preparatory measure, activity, statement, etc (often in pl)
2. A preliminary or entrance examination

• clothe
• cloth-eared
• cloth-ears
• clothed
• clothed on with
• clothed upon with
• clothe in words
• clothes
• clothes-basket
• clothes-baskets
• clothes-brush
• clothes-brushes
• clothes-conscious
• clothes-horse
• clothes-horses
• clothes-line
• clothesline
• clotheslined
• clothes-lines
• clotheslines
• clotheslining
• clothes moth
• clothes moths
• clothes-peg
• clothes-pegs