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

• crookedness
• crookednesses
• crooker
• Crookes glass
• crookest
• Crookes tube
• crooking
• crooks
• crook the elbow
• croon
• crooned
• crooner
• crooners
• crooning
• croonings
• croons
• croove
• crooves
• crop
• cropbound
• crop circle
• crop circles
• cropduster
• cropdusters
• crop-dusting