| pro | (noun) an argument in favor of a proposal | - |
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| (noun) an athlete who plays for pay | Synonyms: professional |
| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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| probabilism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action | - |
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| (noun) a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable | - |
| probability | (noun) the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event | - |
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| (noun) a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible | Synonyms: chance |
| probable | (noun) an applicant likely to be chosen | - |
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| probate | (noun) the act of proving that an instrument purporting to be a will was signed and executed in accord with legal requirements | - |
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| (noun) a judicial certificate saying that a will is genuine and conferring on the executors the power to administer the estate | Synonyms: probate will |
| probation | (noun) (law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court | - |
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| (noun) a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself | - |
| (noun) a trial period during which your character and abilities are tested to see whether you are suitable for work or for membership | - |
| probationer | (noun) someone released on probation or on parole | Synonyms: parolee |
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| (noun) a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period | Synonyms: student nurse |
| probe | (noun) an exploratory action or expedition | - |
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| (noun) an investigation conducted using a flexible surgical instrument to explore an injury or a body cavity | - |
| (noun) a flexible slender surgical instrument with a blunt end that is used to explore wounds or body cavities | - |
| (noun) an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities | Synonyms: investigation |
| probenecid | (noun) a uricosuric drug that reduces the level of uric acid in the blood; used to treat gout | - |
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| probiotic | (noun) a beneficial bacterium found in the intestinal tract of healthy mammals; often considered to be a plant | Synonyms: probiotic bacterium, probiotic flora, probiotic microflora |
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| (noun) A dietary supplement containing live bacteria, usually taken after a course of antibiotics to replenish the damaged gastrointestinal flora. | - |
| probity | (noun) complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles | - |
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| problem | (noun) a source of difficulty | Synonyms: trouble |
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| (noun) a question raised for consideration or solution | - |
| (noun) a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved | Synonyms: job |
| problematics | (noun) the uncertainties or difficulties inherent in a situation or plan. | - |
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| proboscidean | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidian |
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| proboscidian | (noun) massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk | Synonyms: proboscidean |
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| proboscis | (noun) a long flexible snout as of an elephant | Synonyms: trunk |
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| (noun) the human nose (especially when it is large) | - |
| procaine | (noun) a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine | Synonyms: Ethocaine |
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| procarbazine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| procaryote | (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: prokaryote |
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| procedure | (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: process |
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| (noun) a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings | - |
| (noun) a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work | Synonyms: operation |
| (noun) a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program | Synonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutine |
| proceeding | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceedings |
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| proceedings | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceeding |
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| (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, transactions |
| proceeds | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, return, take, takings, yield |
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| process | (noun) a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states | Synonyms: physical process |
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| (noun) a particular course of action intended to achieve a result | Synonyms: procedure |
| (noun) a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant | Synonyms: appendage, outgrowth |
| (noun) (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents | Synonyms: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation |
| (noun) a mental process that you are not directly aware of | Synonyms: unconscious process |
| (noun) a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant | Synonyms: summons |
| processing | (noun) preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | - |
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| procession | (noun) the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation | - |
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| (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, progress, progression |
| (noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: emanation, rise |
| processional | (noun) religious music used in a procession | Synonyms: prosodion |
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| processor | (noun) (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing | Synonyms: C.P.U., central processing unit, central processor, CPU, mainframe |
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| (noun) a business engaged in processing agricultural products and preparing them for market | - |
| (noun) someone who processes things (foods or photographs or applicants etc.) | - |
| prochlorperazine | (noun) antipsychotic and antiemetic drug used to treat schizophrenia and to combat nausea and vomiting | - |
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| proclamation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, declaration |
| proclitic | (noun) a clitic that is associated with a following word. | - |
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| proclivity | (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
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| proconsul | (noun) an anthropoid ape of the genus Proconsul | - |
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| (noun) a provincial governor of consular rank in the Roman Republic and Roman Empire | - |
| (noun) an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power | - |
| proconsulate | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulship |
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| proconsulship | (noun) the position of proconsul | Synonyms: proconsulate |
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| proconvertin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: cothromboplastin, factor VII, stable factor |
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| procrastination | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, shillyshally |
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| (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: dilatoriness |
| procrastinator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, postponer |
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| procreation | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, reproduction |
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| proctalgia | (noun) pain in the rectum | - |
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| proctitis | (noun) inflammation of the rectum; marked by bloody stools and a frequent urge to defecate; frequently associated with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis | - |
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| proctocele | (noun) protrusion or herniation of the rectum into the vagina; can occur if pelvic muscles are weakened by childbirth | Synonyms: rectocele |
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| proctologist | (noun) a doctor specializing in diseases of the rectum and anus | - |
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| proctology | (noun) the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus | - |
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| proctoplasty | (noun) reconstructive surgery of the anus or rectum | Synonyms: rectoplasty |
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| proctor | (noun) someone who supervises (an examination) | Synonyms: monitor |
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| proctorship | (noun) the position of proctor | - |
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| proctoscope | (noun) an endoscope for examining the rectum | - |
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| proctoscopy | (noun) visual examination of the rectum and the end of the colon by means of a proctoscope | - |
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| procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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| procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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| procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
| procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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| procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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| (noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
| procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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| procyclidine | (noun) drug (trade name Kemadrin) used to reduce tremors in Parkinsonism | Synonyms: Kemadrin |
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| 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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