| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| probabilism | noun | The doctrine of the probabilists. |
| probabilist | noun | One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions., One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable. |
| probability | noun | The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood., That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth., Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5. |
| probational | adjective | Probationary. |
| probationer | noun | One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice., A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach. |
| problematic | adjective | Alt. of Problematical |
| proboscidea | noun pl. | An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons. |
| proboscides | plural | of Proboscis |
| procatarxis | noun | The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. |
| procephalic | adjective | Pertaining to, or forming, the front of the head. |
| procerebrum | noun | The prosencephalon. |
| prochronism | noun | The dating of an event before the time it happened; an antedating; — opposed to metachronism. |
| prochronize | verb t. | To antedate. |
| procidentia | noun | A falling down; a prolapsus. |
| proclaiming | present participle & vb. noun | of Proclaim |
| proconsular | adjective | Alt. of Proconsulary |
| procrastine | verb t. | To procrastinate. |
| procreating | present participle & vb. noun | of Procreate |
| procreation | noun | The act of begetting; generation and production of young. |
| procreative | adjective | Having the power to beget; generative. |
| procrustean | adjective | Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes. |
| proctodaeum | noun | See Mesenteron. |
| proctorical | adjective | Proctorial. |
| proctorship | noun | The office or dignity of a proctor; also, the term of his office. |
| procuracies | plural | of Procuracy |
| procuration | noun | The act of procuring; procurement., The management of another’s affairs., The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy., A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; — called also proxy. |
| procuratory | adjective | Tending to, or authorizing, procuration. |
| procurement | noun | The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment., Efficient contrivance; management; agency. |
| prodigality | noun | Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; — opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony. |
| prodigalize | verb i. | To act as a prodigal; to spend liberally., To expend lavishly. |
| producement | noun | Production. |
| productible | adjective | Capable of being produced; producible. |
| productress | noun | A female producer. |
| proeguminal | adjective | Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease. |
| proemptosis | noun | The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. |
| profanation | verb t. | The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God., The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy. |
| profaneness | noun | The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language. |
| professedly | adverb | By profession. |
| proficience | noun | Alt. of Proficiency |
| proficiency | noun | The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music. |
| profuseness | noun | Extravagance; profusion. |
| progenerate | verb t. | To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. |
| progeniture | noun | A begetting, or birth. |
| prognathism | noun | Projection of the jaws. |
| prognathous | adjective | Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; — opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. |
| programmata | plural | of Programma |
| progressing | present participle & vb. noun | of Progress |
| progression | noun | The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward., Course; passage; lapse or process of time., Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic., A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key. |
| progressist | noun | One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist. |
| progressive | adjective | Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; — opposed to retrograde., Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. |
| prohibiting | present participle & vb. noun | of Prohibit |
| prohibition | noun | The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict., Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. |
| prohibitive | adjective | That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive. |
| prohibitory | adjective | Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. |
| projectment | noun | Design; contrivance; projection. |
| prolegomena | plural | of Prolegomenon |
| proleptical | adjective | Of or pertaining to prolepsis; anticipative., Previous; antecedent., Anticipating the usual time; — applied to a periodical disease whose paroxysms return at an earlier hour at every repetition. |
| proletarian | adjective | Of or pertaining to the proletaries; belonging to the commonalty; hence, mean; vile; vulgar., A proletary. |
| proletariat | noun | The indigent class in the State; the body of proletarians. |
| proletaries | plural | of Proletary |
| proliferate | verb t. | To produce or form cells; especially, to produce cells rapidly., To produce zooids by budding. |
| proliferous | adjective | Bearing offspring; — applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae., Producing young by budding., Producing sexual zooids by budding; — said of the blastostyle of a hydroid., Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; — said of corals. |
| prolificacy | noun | Prolificness. |
| prolificate | verb t. | To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. |
| prolongable | adjective | Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. |
| prolongated | imp. & past participle | of Prolongate |
| prolongment | noun | Prolongation. |
| promanation | noun | The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. |
| promenading | present participle & vb. noun | of Promenade |
| prominently | adverb | In a prominent manner. |
| promiscuity | noun | Promiscuousness; confusion. |
| promiscuous | adjective | Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass., Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse. |
| prompt-book | noun | The book used by a prompter of a theater. |
| promptitude | adjective | The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. |
| prompt-note | noun | A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods. |
| promulgated | imp. & past participle | of Promulgate |
| promulgator | noun | One who promulgates or publishes. |
| pronounging | present participle & vb. noun | of Pronounce |
| pronouncing | adjective | Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary. |
| proof-proof | adjective | Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. |
| proostracum | noun | The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous. See Illust. of Phragmocone. |
| propagating | present participle & vb. noun | of Propagate |
| propagation | noun | The act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants., The spreading abroad, or extension, of anything; diffusion; dissemination; as, the propagation of sound; the propagation of the gospel. |
| propagative | adjective | Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth. |
| propendency | noun | Propensity., Attentive deliberation. |
| properation | noun | The act of hastening; haste. |
| prophesying | present participle & vb. noun | of Prophesy |
| prophetical | adjective | Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; — used with of before the thing foretold. |
| prophylaxis | noun | The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment. |
| propination | noun | The act of pledging, or drinking first, and then offering the cup to another. |
| propinquity | noun | Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity., Nearness in time., Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. |
| propithecus | noun | A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris. |
| propitiable | adjective | Capable of being propitiated. |
| propitiated | imp. & past participle | of Propitiate |
| propitiator | noun | One who propitiates or appeases. |
| proplastics | noun | The art of making molds for castings. |
| propodialia | plural | of Propodiale |
| proposition | noun | The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering., That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted., A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss., A complete sentence, or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white., A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated, or of an operation to be performed., That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration., The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it. |
| propounding | present participle & vb. noun | of Propound |
| proprietary | noun | A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right., A body proprietors, taken collectively., A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession., Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. |
| proprieties | plural | of Propriety |
| propterygia | plural | of Propterygium |
| propugnacle | noun | A fortress. |
| propylidene | noun | See Propidene. |
| prorogation | noun | The act of counting in duration; prolongation., The act of proroguing; the ending of the session of Parliament, and postponing of its business, by the command of the sovereign. |
| proscolices | plural | of Proscolex |
| proscribing | present participle & vb. noun | of Proscribe |
| prosecuting | present participle & vb. noun | of Prosecute |
| prosecution | noun | The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the prosecution of war., The institution and carrying on of a suit in a court of law or equity, to obtain some right, or to redress and punish some wrong; the carrying on of a judicial proceeding in behalf of a complaining party, as distinguished from defense., The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information., The party by whom criminal proceedings are instituted. |
| prosecutrix | noun | A female prosecutor. |
| proselyting | present participle & vb. noun | of Proselyte |
| proselytism | noun | The act or practice of proselyting; the making of converts to a religion or a religious sect, or to any opinion, system, or party., Conversion to a religion, system, or party. |
| proselytize | verb t. | To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like; to bring, or cause to come, over; to proselyte., To make converts or proselytes. |
| proseminary | noun | A seminary which prepares pupils for a higher institution. |
| prosenchyma | noun | A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as the principal cells of ordinary wood. |
| prosiliency | noun | The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. |
| prosobranch | noun | One of the Prosobranchiata. |
| prosocoelle | plural | of Prosocoelia |
| prosocoelia | noun | Same as Prosocoele. |
| prosodiacal | adjective | Prosodical. |
| prosopalgia | noun | Facial neuralgia. |
| prosopop/ia | noun | A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification. |
| prospecting | present participle & vb. noun | of Prospect |
| prospection | noun | The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight. |
| prospective | noun | Of or pertaining to a prospect; furnishing a prospect; perspective., Looking forward in time; acting with foresight; — opposed to retrospective., Being within view or consideration, as a future event or contingency; relating to the future: expected; as, a prospective benefit., The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect., A perspective glass. |
| prostatitis | noun | Inflammation of the prostate. |
| prostituted | imp. & past participle | of Prostitute |
| prostitutor | noun | One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. |
| prostrating | present participle & vb. noun | of Prostrate |
| prostration | noun | The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body., The act of falling down, or of bowing in humility or adoration; primarily, the act of falling on the face, but usually applied to kneeling or bowing in reverence and worship., The condition of being prostrate; great depression; lowness; dejection; as, a postration of spirits., A latent, not an exhausted, state of the vital energies; great oppression of natural strength and vigor. |
| prosylogism | noun | A syllogism preliminary or logically essential to another syllogism; the conclusion of such a syllogism, which becomes a premise of the following syllogism. |
| protagonist | noun | One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. |
| protandrous | adjective | Proterandrous. |
| proteaceous | adjective | Of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia. |
| protectoral | adjective | Of or pertaining to a protector; protectorial; as, protectoral power. |
| protectress | noun | Alt. of Protectrix |
| proteolysis | noun | The digestion or dissolving of proteid matter by proteolytic ferments. |
| proteolytic | adjective | Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. |
| proterandry | noun | The condition of being proterandrous. |
| protestancy | noun | Protestantism. |
| protestator | noun | One who makes protestation; a protester. |
| prothallium | noun | Same as Prothallus. |
| protonotary | noun | A chief notary or clerk., Formerly, a chief clerk in the Court of King’s Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master., A register or chief clerk of a court in certain States of the United States., Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications., The chief secretary of the patriarch of Constantinople., Same as Prothonotary. |
| prothoracic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the prothorax. |
| protocercal | adjective | Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal. |
| protococcus | noun | A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis). |
| protocolist | noun | One who draughts protocols. |
| proto-doric | adjective | Pertaining to, or designating, architecture, in which the beginnings of the Doric style are supposed to be found. |
| protogynous | adjective | Same as Proterogynous. |
| protohippus | noun | A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small. |
| protomartyr | noun | The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; — applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr. |
| protomerite | noun | The second segment of one of the Gregarinae. |
| protonemata | plural | of Protonema |
| protoplasta | noun pl. | A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known. |
| protopodite | noun | The basal portion, or two proximal and more or less consolidated segments, of an appendage of a crustacean. |
| protopterus | noun | See Komtok. |
| protosomite | noun | One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal. |
| prototheria | noun pl. | Same as Monotremata. |
| protoxidize | verb t. | To combine with oxygen, as any elementary substance, in such proportion as to form a protoxide. |
| protracting | present participle vb. noun | of Protract |
| protractile | adjective | Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile. |
| protraction | noun | A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate., The act or process of making a plot on paper., A plot on paper. |
| protractive | adjective | Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. |
| protrudable | adjective | That may be protruded; protrusile. |
| protuberant | adjective | Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. |
| protuberate | verb i. | To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. |
| protuberous | adjective | Protuberant. |
| providently | adverb | In a provident manner. |
| provinciate | verb t. | To convert into a province or provinces. |
| provisioned | imp. & past participle | of Provision |
| provisional | adjective | Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; — used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. |
| provisorily | adverb | In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. |
| provocation | noun | The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger., That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation., Incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth., Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress., An appeal to a court. [A Latinism] |
| provocative | adjective | Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting., Anything that is provocative; a stimulant; as, a provocative of appetite. |
| provocatory | adjective | Provocative. |
| provokement | noun | The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. |
| provostship | noun | The office of a provost. |
| proximately | adverb | In a proximate manner, position, or degree; immediately. |