AADILNPR

Word of the Week: 

A feature wherein TileHead highlights a word that is is especially interesting or unusual (and, incidentally, useful in Scrabble play):

AADILNPR

(unscramble the letters to form this week's word...)

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This week's word is...

PRANDIAL adj.

• Definition: of or pertaining to a meal

• Front hooks: (none)
• Back hooks: (none)
• Anagrams: (none)
• Longer extensions: PRE-, POST-
• Wraparounds: (none)
• Other Spellings: (none)
• Related Forms: (none)

TileHead says:

• The Latin prandium was a light meal, usually eaten around noon, but the modern English word PRANDIAL can refer to any meal and is probably used most often to refer to dinner. 
• The pre- and post- forms of the word are more common and more flexible: one might refer to "a preprandial drink," "preprandial preparations," and so on; or to "a postprandial speech," "a postprandial stupor," or perhaps (especially among readers of this blog) to some postprandial wordplay!