| procyonid | (noun) plantigrade carnivorous mammals | - |
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| prod | (noun) a pointed instrument that is used to prod into a state of motion | Synonyms: goad |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
| prodding | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, spur, spurring, urging |
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| prodigal | (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: profligate, squanderer |
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| prodigality | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: extravagance, high life, highlife, lavishness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, profligacy |
| prodigy | (noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality | - |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication |
| (noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration | - |
| prodroma | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodrome |
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| prodrome | (noun) an early symptom that a disease is developing or that an attack is about to occur | Synonyms: prodroma |
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| produce | (noun) fresh fruits and vegetable grown for the market | Synonyms: garden truck, green goods, green groceries |
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| producer | (noun) something that produces | - |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: manufacturer |
| (noun) someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work) | - |
| product | (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: production |
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| (noun) items for sale to the individual consumer | Synonyms: merchandise, ware |
| (noun) a quantity obtained by multiplication | Synonyms: mathematical product |
| (noun) the set of elements common to two or more sets | Synonyms: Cartesian product, intersection |
| (noun) a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances | - |
| (noun) a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction | - |
| production | (noun) the act or process of producing something | - |
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| (noun) (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law | - |
| (noun) (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale | - |
| (noun) the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services | - |
| (noun) an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | Synonyms: product |
| (noun) a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television | - |
| (noun) a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated | - |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, yield |
| productiveness | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productivity |
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| productivity | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productiveness |
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| (noun) (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time | - |
| proenzyme | (noun) any of a group of compounds that are inactive precursors of enzymes and require some change (such as the hydrolysis of a fragment that masks an active enzyme) to become active | Synonyms: zymogen |
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| prof | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: professor |
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| profanation | (noun) blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character | Synonyms: blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege |
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| (noun) degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening | - |
| profaneness | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: unsanctification |
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| (noun) an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity | - |
| profanity | (noun) vulgar or irreverent speech or action | - |
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| professing | (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: profession |
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| profession | (noun) an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences) | - |
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| (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: professing |
| (noun) affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith | - |
| (noun) the body of people in a learned occupation | - |
| professional | (noun) a person engaged in one of the learned professions | Synonyms: professional person |
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| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: master |
| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: pro |
| professionalisation | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalization |
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| professionalism | (noun) the expertness characteristic of a professional person | - |
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| professionalization | (noun) the social process whereby people come to engage in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalisation |
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| professor | (noun) someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university | Synonyms: prof |
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| professorship | (noun) the position of professor | Synonyms: chair |
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| proffer | (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proposition, suggestion |
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| proficiency | (noun) the quality of having great facility and competence | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: technique |
| profile | (noun) biographical sketch | - |
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| (noun) an analysis (often in graphical form) representing the extent to which something exhibits various characteristics | - |
| (noun) a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers | - |
| (noun) an outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side) | - |
| (noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: visibility |
| profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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| profit | (noun) the advantageous quality of being beneficial | Synonyms: gain |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits |
| profitability | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitableness |
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| profitableness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitability |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity |
| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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| profits | (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit |
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| (noun) something won (especially money) | Synonyms: win, winnings |
| profligacy | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality |
| profligate | (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
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| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| profoundness | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profundity |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profundity |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profundity |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profundity, reconditeness |
| (noun) extremeness of degree | - |
| profundity | (noun) the quality of being physically deep | Synonyms: deepness, profoundness |
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| (noun) intellectual depth, penetrating knowledge, keen insight, etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence" | Synonyms: profoundness |
| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: astuteness, deepness, depth, profoundness |
| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, reconditeness |
| profuseness | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness |
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| profusion | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profuseness, richness |
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| progenitor | (noun) an ancestor in the direct line | Synonyms: primogenitor |
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| progeny | (noun) the immediate descendants of a person | Synonyms: issue, offspring |
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| progeria | (noun) a rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child | - |
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| progesterone | (noun) a steroid hormone (trade name Lipo-Lutin) produced in the ovary; prepares and maintains the uterus for pregnancy | Synonyms: Lipo-Lutin |
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| progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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| progestogen | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestin |
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| prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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| prognosis | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prospect |
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| (noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: forecast |
| prognostic | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
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| prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
| prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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| program | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: programme |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, programme |
| (noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: programme |
| (noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: programme |
| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, programme |
| (noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, programme |
| (noun) a document stating the aims and principles of a political party | Synonyms: platform, political platform, political program |
| (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, programme, syllabus |
| programing | (noun) creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | Synonyms: computer programing, computer programming, programming |
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| (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programming, scheduling |
| programma | (noun) an edict that has been publicly posted | - |
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| programmability | (noun) the abstract capability of being programmable. | - |
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| programme | (noun) a performance (or series of performances) at a public presentation | Synonyms: program |
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| (noun) a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished | Synonyms: plan, program |
| (noun) a system of projects or services intended to meet a public need | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) an announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting event | Synonyms: program |
| (noun) a radio or television show | Synonyms: broadcast, program |
| (noun) (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute | Synonyms: computer program, computer programme, program |
| (noun) an integrated course of academic studies | Synonyms: course of study, curriculum, program, syllabus |
| programmer | (noun) a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | Synonyms: coder, computer programmer, software engineer |
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| programming | (noun) creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | Synonyms: computer programing, computer programming, programing |
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| (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, scheduling |
| progress | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: advancement |
| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progression |
| progression | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress |
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| (noun) a movement forward | Synonyms: advance, progress |
| (noun) a series with a definite pattern of advance | Synonyms: patterned advance |
| progressive | (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| progressiveness | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressivity |
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| progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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| progressivity | (noun) advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods | Synonyms: progressiveness |
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| progymnosperm | (noun) an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived | - |
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| prohibition | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, inhibition |
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| (noun) a decree that prohibits something | Synonyms: ban, proscription |
| (noun) refusal to approve or assent to | - |
| (noun) a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages | - |
| (noun) the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment | Synonyms: prohibition era |
| prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| project | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, task, undertaking |
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| (noun) a planned undertaking | Synonyms: projection |
| projectile | (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: missile |
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| (noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: rocket |
| projection | (noun) the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting | Synonyms: ejection, expulsion, forcing out |
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| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, protrusion |
| (noun) any structure that branches out from a central support | - |
| (noun) the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction | - |
| (noun) a planned undertaking | Synonyms: project |
| (noun) a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations | - |
| (noun) the projection of an image from a film onto a screen | - |
| (noun) the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality | Synonyms: acoustic projection, sound projection |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else | - |
| (noun) any solid convex shape that juts out from something | - |
| projectionist | (noun) the person who operates the projector in a movie house | - |
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| projector | (noun) an optical instrument that projects an enlarged image onto a screen | - |
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| (noun) an optical device for projecting a beam of light | - |
| prokaryote | (noun) a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | Synonyms: procaryote |
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| prolactin | (noun) gonadotropic hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary; in females it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation after parturition | Synonyms: lactogenic hormone, luteotropin |
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| prolamine | (noun) a simple protein found in plants | - |
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| prolapse | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapsus |
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| prolapsus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapse |
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| prole | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: proletarian, worker |
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| prolegomenon | (noun) a preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise | - |
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| prolepsis | (noun) anticipating and answering objections in advance | - |
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| proletarian | (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
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| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| proletariat | (noun) a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages | Synonyms: labor, labour, working class |
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| proliferation | (noun) growth by the rapid multiplication of parts | - |
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| (noun) a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons) | - |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| proline | (noun) an amino acid that is found in many proteins (especially collagen) | - |
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| prolixity | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixness, windiness, wordiness |
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| prolixness | (noun) boring verbosity | Synonyms: long-windedness, prolixity, windiness, wordiness |
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| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| prolongation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, protraction |
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| (noun) amount or degree or range to which something extends | Synonyms: extension, lengthiness |
| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, protraction |
| prolonge | (noun) a rope fitted with a hook and used for towing a gun carriage | - |
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| prolusion | (noun) exercising in preparation for strenuous activity | Synonyms: tune-up, warm-up |
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| (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, preface |
| prom | (noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: promenade |
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| promenade | (noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place) | Synonyms: amble, perambulation, saunter, stroll |
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| (noun) a march of all the guests at the opening of a formal dance | - |
| (noun) a square dance figure; couples march counterclockwise in a circle | - |
| (noun) a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk | Synonyms: mall |
| (noun) a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year | Synonyms: prom |
| promethazine | (noun) antihistamine (trade name Phenergan) used to treat allergies; also an antiemetic used to treat motion sickness | Synonyms: Phenergan |
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| promethium | (noun) a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium | Synonyms: atomic number 61, Pm |
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| prominence | (noun) relative importance or fame | - |
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| (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
| (noun) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent | - |