| proportionable | (adjective) proportionate | - |
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| proportional | (adjective) properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to' | Synonyms: relative |
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| (adjective) having a constant ratio | - |
| (noun) one of the quantities in a mathematical proportion | - |
| proportionality | (noun) harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) | Synonyms: balance, proportion |
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| (noun) a ratio of two quantities that is constant | - |
| proportionally | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionately |
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| proportionate | (adjective) being in due proportion | - |
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| (adjective) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities | Synonyms: harmonious, symmetrical |
| (adjective) agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree | - |
| proportionately | (adverb) to a proportionate degree | Synonyms: proportionally |
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| (adverb) in a way that is in correspondence among the constituents of another entity | - |
| (adverb) in a way that agrees in amount, magnitude or degree | Synonyms: pro rata |
| proportionateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: commensurateness, correspondence |
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| proposal | (noun) something proposed (such as a plan or assumption) | - |
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| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposition |
| (noun) an offer of marriage | Synonyms: marriage offer, marriage proposal, proposal of marriage |
| propose | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: project |
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| (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, purport, purpose |
| (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, suggest |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question |
| (verb) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position | Synonyms: nominate |
| proposer | (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: mover |
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| (noun) someone who advances a suggestion or proposal | Synonyms: suggester |
| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| (verb) suggest sex to | - |
| propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| propoxyphene | (noun) a mildly narcotic analgesic drug (trade name Darvon) related to methadone but less addictive | Synonyms: Darvon, propoxyphene hydrochloride |
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| propranolol | (noun) the first beta blocker (trade name Inderal) used in treating hypertension and angina pectoris and essential tremor | Synonyms: Inderal |
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| proprietary | (adjective) protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights | - |
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| (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietorship |
| proprietor | (noun) (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | Synonyms: owner |
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| proprietorship | (noun) an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits | Synonyms: proprietary |
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| proprietress | (noun) a woman proprietor | - |
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| propriety | (noun) correct or appropriate behavior | Synonyms: correctitude, properness |
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| proprioception | (noun) the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts | - |
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| proprioceptive | (adjective) of or relating to proprioception | - |
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| proprioceptor | (noun) special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body | - |
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| proprionamide | (noun) the amide of propionic acid (C2H5CONH2) | Synonyms: propanamide |
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| props | (noun) proper respect | - |
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| propulsion | (noun) the act of propelling | Synonyms: actuation |
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| (noun) a propelling force | - |
| propulsive | (adjective) having the power to propel | - |
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| (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propelling |
| propyl | (noun) the monovalent organic group C3H7- obtained from propane | Synonyms: propyl group, propyl radical |
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| propylene | (noun) a flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis | Synonyms: propene |
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| propylthiouracil | (noun) a crystalline compound used as an antithyroid drug in the treatment of goiter | - |
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| sapropel | (noun) sludge (rich in organic matter) that accumulates at the bottom of lakes or oceans | - |
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| saprophagous | (adjective) (of certain animals) feeding on dead or decaying animal matter | Synonyms: saprozoic |
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| saprophyte | (noun) an organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium | Synonyms: saprophytic organism |
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| saprophytic | (adjective) obtaining food osmotically from dissolved organic material | - |
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| (adjective) (of some plants or fungi) feeding on dead or decaying organic matter | - |
| turboprop | (noun) an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine | Synonyms: propjet, turbo-propeller plane |
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| unprophetic | (adjective) not prophetic; not foreseeing correctly | - |
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| unpropitious | (adjective) not propitious | - |
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| unpropitiously | (adverb) in an inauspicious manner | Synonyms: inauspiciously |
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| unpropitiousness | (noun) the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result | Synonyms: inauspiciousness |
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