10-Letter Words Containing: __EEMP

• designed or having the power to deter or prevent an anticipated situation or occurrence

• a high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from bidding

• acquire for oneself before others can do so

• take the place of or have precedence over

• gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)

• make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge

• the judicial principle asserting the supremacy of federal over state legislation on the same subject

• the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)

• the right to purchase something in advance of others

• a prior appropriation of something

• someone who acquires land by preemption

• a bidder in bridge who makes a preemptive bid