| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| procacious | adjective | Pert; petulant; forward; saucy. |
| procambium | noun | The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. |
| procedendo | noun | A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there., In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment., A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. |
| proceeding | present participle & vb. noun | of Proceed, The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding., The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. |
| procellous | adjective | Stormy. |
| proception | noun | Preoccupation. |
| procession | noun | The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course., That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor’s procession., An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without., An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling., To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands., To march in procession., To honor with a procession. |
| processive | adjective | Proceeding; advancing. |
| prochordal | adjective | Situated in front of the notochord; — applied especially to parts of the cartilaginous rudiments in the base of the skull. |
| procidence | noun | Alt. of Procidentia |
| prociduous | adjective | Falling from its proper place. |
| proclaimed | imp. & past participle | of Proclaim |
| proclaimer | noun | One who proclaims. |
| proclivity | noun | Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency., Readiness; facility; aptitude. |
| proclivous | adjective | Inclined; tending by nature., Having the incisor teeth directed forward. |
| procoeliae | plural | of Procoelia |
| procoelian | adjective | Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebrae, which have the anterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex., A reptile having procoelian vertebrae; one of the Procoelia. |
| procoelous | adjective | Same as Procoelian. |
| procreated | imp. & past participle | of Procreate |
| procreator | noun | One who begets; a father or sire; a generator. |
| procrustes | noun | A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; — whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes. |
| proctocele | noun | Inversion and prolapse of the mucous coat of the rectum, from relaxation of the sphincter, with more or less swelling; prolapsus ani. |
| proctorage | noun | Management by a proctor, or as by a proctor; hence, control; superintendence; — in contempt. |
| proctorial | adjective | Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial. |
| proctotomy | noun | An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture. |
| procumbent | adjective | Lying down, or on the face; prone., Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem. |
| procurable | adjective | Capable of being procured; obtainable. |
| procurator | noun | One who manages another’s affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor., A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. |
| prodigally | adverb | In a prodigal manner; with profusion of expense; extravagantly; wasteful; profusely; lavishly; as, an estate prodigally dissipated. |
| prodigence | noun | Waste; profusion; prodigality. |
| prodigious | adjective | Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous., Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. |
| prodromous | adjective | Precursory. |
| producible | adjective | Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. |
| productile | adjective | Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile. |
| production | noun | The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness., That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor; as, the productions of the earth; the productions of handicraft; the productions of intellect or genius., The act of lengthening out or prolonging. |
| productive | adjective | Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products., Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements., Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable. |
| profection | noun | A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression. |
| professing | present participle & vb. noun | of Profess |
| profession | verb | The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith., That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere., That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one’s self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry., The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him., The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order. |
| professory | adjective | Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. |
| proffering | present participle & vb. noun | of Proffer |
| proficient | noun | One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc., Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept, |
| proficuous | adjective | Profitable; advantageous; useful. |
| profitable | adjective | Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. |
| profitless | adjective | Without profit; unprofitable. |
| profligacy | adjective | The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness. |
| profligate | adjective | Overthrown; beaten; conquered., Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch., An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person., To drive away; to overcome. |
| profluence | noun | Quality of being profluent; course. |
| profoundly | adverb | In a profound manner. |
| profulgent | adjective | Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. |
| profundity | noun | The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. |
| progenitor | noun | An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. |
| proglottid | noun | Proglottis. |
| proglottis | noun | One of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence. |
| prognathic | adjective | Prognathous. |
| prognostic | adjective | Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing; aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease; prognostic signs., That which prognosticates; a sign by which a future event may be known or foretold; an indication; a sign or omen; hence, a foretelling; a prediction., A sign or symptom indicating the course and termination of a disease., To prognosticate. |
| progressed | imp. & past participle | of Progress |
| prohibited | imp. & past participle | of Prohibit |
| prohibiter | noun | One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter. |
| projecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Project |
| projectile | adjective | Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force., Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion., A body projected, or impelled forward, by force; especially, a missile adapted to be shot from a firearm., A part of mechanics which treats of the motion, range, time of flight, etc., of bodies thrown or driven through the air by an impelling force. |
| projection | noun | The act of throwing or shooting forward., A jutting out; also, a part jutting out, as of a building; an extension beyond something else., The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan., The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each., Any method of representing the surface of the earth upon a plane. |
| projecture | noun | A jutting out beyond a surface. |
| prolapsion | noun | Prolapse. |
| proleptics | noun | The art and science of predicting in medicine. |
| proletaire | noun | One of the common people; a low person; also, the common people as a class or estate in a country. |
| prolifical | adjective | Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific. |
| prolixious | adjective | Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. |
| prolixness | noun | Prolixity. |
| prolocutor | noun | One who speaks for another., The presiding officer of a convocation. |
| prologizer | noun | One who prologizes. |
| prologuing | present participle & vb. noun | of Prologue |
| prolonging | present participle & vb. noun | of Prolong |
| prolongate | verb t. | To prolong; to extend in space or in time. |
| promenaded | imp. & past participle | of Promenade |
| promenader | noun | One who promenades. |
| promethean | adjective | Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus., Having a life-giving quality; inspiring., An apparatus for automatic ignition., A kind of lucifer match. |
| prometheus | noun | The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver. |
| prominence | noun | Alt. of Prominency |
| prominency | noun | The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness., That which is prominent; a protuberance. |
| promissive | adjective | Making a promise; implying a promise; promising. |
| promissory | adjective | Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. |
| promontory | noun | A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape., A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear. |
| promottion | noun | The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. |
| promptness | noun | Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action., Cheerful willingness; alacrity. |
| promptuary | adjective | Of or pertaining to preparation., That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. |
| promulgate | verb t. | To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council. |
| promulging | present participle & vb. noun | of Promulge |
| pronephric | adjective | Of or pertaining to the pronephros. |
| pronephros | noun | Alt. of Pronephron |
| pronephron | noun | The head kidney. See under Head. |
| pronominal | adjective | Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun. |
| pronounced | imp. & past participle | of Pronounce, Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism] |
| pronouncer | noun | One who pronounces, utters, or declares; also, a pronouncing book. |
| pronucleus | noun | One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. |
| pronuncial | adjective | Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative. |
| proostraca | plural | of Proostracum |
| propagable | adjective | Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production., Capable of being spread or extended by any means; — said of tenets, doctrines, or principles. |
| propaganda | noun | A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions., The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world., Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles. |
| propagated | imp. & past participle | of Propagate |
| propagator | noun | One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies. |
| propagulum | noun | A runner terminated by a germinating bud. |
| propelling | present participle & vb. noun | of Propel |
| propendent | adjective | Inclining forward or toward. |
| propension | noun | The quality or state of being propense; propensity. |
| propensity | noun | The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. |
| propeptone | noun | A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose. |
| properness | noun | The quality of being proper., Tallness; comeliness. |
| propertied | adjective | Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. |
| properties | plural | of Property |
| prophecies | plural | of Prophecy |
| prophesier | noun | A prophet. |
| prophesied | imp. & past participle | of Prophesy |
| prophetess | noun | A female prophet. |
| prophetize | verb i. | To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy. |
| prophragma | noun | An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects. |
| propiolate | noun | A salt of propiolic acid. |
| propionate | noun | A salt of propionic acid. |
| propitiate | verb t. | To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate., To make propitiation; to atone. |
| propitious | adjective | Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze., Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; — said of a person or a divinity. |
| proplastic | adjective | Forming a mold. |
| propodiale | noun | The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur. |
| proportion | noun | The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body., Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion., The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot., A part considered comparatively; a share., The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; — called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth., The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional., To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income., To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body., To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion. |
| propounded | imp. & past participle | of Propound |
| propounder | noun | One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. |
| proprietor | noun | One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. |
| proproctor | noun | A assistant proctor. |
| propulsion | noun | The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion., An impelling act or movement. |
| propulsive | adjective | Tending, or having power, to propel; driving on; urging. |
| propulsory | adjective | Propulsive. |
| propylaeum | noun | Any court or vestibule before a building or leading into any inclosure. |
| proratable | adjective | Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately. |
| proreption | noun | A creeping on. |
| proroguing | present participle & vb. noun | of Prorogue |
| proruption | noun | The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. |
| prosaicism | noun | The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. |
| proscenium | noun | The part where the actors performed; the stage., The part of the stage in front of the curtain; sometimes, the curtain and its framework. |
| proscribed | imp. & past participle | of Proscribe |
| proscriber | noun | One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits. |
| prosecuted | imp. & past participle | of Prosecute |
| prosecutor | noun | One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business., The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. |
| proselyted | imp. & past participle | of Proselyte |
| proslavery | adjective | Favoring slavery., Advocacy of slavery. |
| prosocoele | noun | The entire cavity of the prosencephalon. |
| prosodical | adjective | Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody. |
| prospected | imp. & past participle | of Prospect |
| prospector | noun | One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals. |
| prospectus | noun | A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work. |
| prospering | present participle & vb. noun | of Prosper |
| prosperity | noun | The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. |
| prosperous | adjective | Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful., Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation. |
| prosphysis | noun | A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. |
| prosternum | noun | The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect. |
| prosthesis | noun | The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; — called also prothesis., The prefixing of one or more letters to the beginning of a word, as in beloved. |
| prosthetic | adjective | Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word. |
| prostitute | verb t. | To offer, as a woman, to a lewd use; to give up to lewdness for hire., To devote to base or unworthy purposes; to give up to low or indiscriminate use; as, to prostitute talents; to prostitute official powers., Openly given up to lewdness; devoted to base or infamous purposes., A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot., A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. |
| prostomium | noun | That portion of the head of an annelid situated in front of the mouth. |
| prostrated | imp. & past participle | of Prostrate |
| protandric | adjective | Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. |
| protecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Protect |
| protection | noun | The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection., That which protects or preserves from injury; a defense; a shield; a refuge., A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport., A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; — opposed to free trade. |
| protective | adjective | Affording protection; sheltering; defensive. |
| protectrix | noun | A woman who protects. |
| proteiform | adjective | Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an amoeba. |
| proteinous | adjective | Proteinaceuos. |
| protending | present participle & vb. noun | of Protend |
| protension | noun | A drawing out; extension. |
| protensive | adjective | Drawn out; extended. |
| protervity | noun | Peevishness; petulance. |
| protesting | present participle & vb. noun | of Protest |
| protestant | verb | One who protests; — originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; — now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church., Making a protest; protesting., Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as, Protestant writers. |
| prothallia | plural | of Prothallium |
| prothallus | noun | The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc. |
| protoconch | noun | The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods. |
| protopapas | noun | A protopope. |
| protophyte | noun | Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division. |
| protoplasm | noun | The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called ” physical basis of life;” the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc. |
| protoplast | noun | The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original., A first-formed organized body; the first individual, or pair of individuals, of a species. |
| protracted | imp. & past participle | of Protract, Prolonged; continued. |
| protracter | noun | A protractor. |
| protractor | noun | One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction., A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular., An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound., A muscle which extends an organ or part; — opposed to retractor., An adjustable pattern used by tailors. |
| protruding | present participle & vb. noun | of Protrude |
| protrusile | adjective | Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive. |
| protrusion | noun | The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit., The state of being protruded, or thrust forward. |
| protrusive | adjective | Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion., Capable of being protruded; protrusile. |
| protureter | noun | The duct of a pronephros. |
| provection | noun | A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename. |
| proveditor | noun | One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. |
| provencial | adjective | Of or pertaining to Provence in France. |
| proverbial | adjective | Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial., Of or pertaining to proverbs; resembling a proverb. |
| providence | noun | The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation., Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience., A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction., Prudence in the management of one’s concerns; economy; frugality. |
| provincial | adjective | Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect., Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal., Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod., Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal., A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial., A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. |
| provokable | adjective | That may be provoked. |
| proximally | adverb | On or toward a proximal part; proximad. |
| proximious | adjective | Proximate. |