Parboiling is a cooking method that involves partially cooking food in boiling water or other liquid before finishing it off with another cooking method. The term PARBOIL can be broken down into three separate words: COOK (4 letters), PRECOOK (7 letters), and SCALD (5 letters). COOK is the general term for preparing food, while PRECOOK is the act of partially cooking something before finishing it off with another method. SCALD is the process of heating a liquid to just below the boiling point. All three of these terms are related to the cooking method of parboiling.