prelude (n.)
- antecedence
- antecedency
- anteriority
- breakthrough
- descant
- dominion
- exordium
- foreword
- frontispiece
- innovation
- introduction
- leap
- overture
- postulate
- preamble
- precedence
- precedency
- precession
- precursor
- preface
- preference
- prefix
- prefixation
- preliminary
- premise
- presupposition
- priority
- prolegomenon
- prolepsis
- prologue
- superiority
- urgency
- vamp
- verse
- voluntary
