| 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 | - |
| profanatory | (adjective) profaning or tending to desecrate | - |
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| profane | (adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: secular |
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| (adjective) characterized by profanity or cursing | Synonyms: blasphemous, blue |
| (adjective) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred | Synonyms: blasphemous, sacrilegious |
| (adjective) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled | Synonyms: unconsecrated, unsanctified |
| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profaned | (adjective) treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | Synonyms: violated |
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| profanely | (adverb) in an irreverent or profane manner | - |
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| (adverb) with curses | - |
| 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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| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| professed | (adjective) openly declared as such | Synonyms: avowed |
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| (adjective) professing to be qualified | - |
| (adjective) claimed with intent to deceive | - |
| professedly | (adverb) with pretense or intention to deceive | - |
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| (adverb) by open declaration | Synonyms: avowedly |
| 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 | (adjective) engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to a profession | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or suitable as a profession | - |
| (adjective) engaged in by members of a profession | - |
| (noun) a person engaged in one of the learned professions | Synonyms: professional person |
| (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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| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
| 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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| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
| professionally | (adverb) in a professional manner | - |
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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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| professorial | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of professors | - |
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| professorially | (adverb) in a professorial manner | - |
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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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| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
| 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 |
| proficient | (adjective) of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | Synonyms: technical |
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| (adjective) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude | Synonyms: adept, expert, good, practiced, skilful, skillful |
| proficiently | (adverb) in a proficient manner | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
| (verb) write about | - |
| 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 |
| (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| profitability | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, lucrativeness, profitableness |
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| profitable | (adjective) yielding material gain or profit | - |
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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 |
| profitably | (adverb) in a productive way | Synonyms: fruitfully, productively |
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| profiteer | (noun) someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) | - |
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| (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
| profiterole | (noun) a small hollow pastry that is typically filled with cream and covered with chocolate | - |
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| profitless | (adjective) without profit or reward | - |
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| profitlessly | (adverb) without gain or profit | Synonyms: gainlessly, unprofitably |
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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 | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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| (adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
| (noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
| (noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
| profligately | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: dissolutely |
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| profound | (adjective) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth | - |
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| (adjective) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed | Synonyms: unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded |
| (adjective) (of sleep) deep and complete | Synonyms: heavy, sound, wakeless |
| (adjective) of the greatest intensity; complete | - |
| (adjective) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something | Synonyms: fundamental |
| (adjective) coming from deep within one | - |
| profoundly | (adverb) to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | Synonyms: deeply, intensely |
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| 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 |
| profuse | (adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance | Synonyms: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, riotous |
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| profusely | (adverb) in an abundant manner | Synonyms: abundantly, copiously, extravagantly |
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| 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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| progestational | (adjective) preceding and favoring gestation; of or relating to physiological changes associated with ovulation and formation of the corpus luteum | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to progesterone (or to a drug with effects like those of progesterone) | - |
| 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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| prognathic | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathous |
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| prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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| prognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: hypognathous, prognathic |
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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 | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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| (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| 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 |
| prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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| 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 |
| (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: programme |
| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: programme |
| 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 |
| (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
| 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 |
| (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| 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 | (adjective) favoring or promoting progress | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate increases as the amount of income increases | - |
| (adjective) advancing in severity | - |
| (adjective) gradually advancing in extent | - |
| (adjective) favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) | Synonyms: reform-minded, reformist |
| (adjective) (of a card game or a dance) involving a series of sections for which the participants successively change place or relative position | - |
| (noun) a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | Synonyms: liberal, liberalist |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive tense |
| progressively | (adverb) advancing in amount or intensity | Synonyms: increasingly, more and more |
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| 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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| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| prohibited | (adjective) forbidden by law | Synonyms: banned |
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| (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, proscribed, taboo, tabu, verboten |
| 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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| prohibitive | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitory |
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| prohibitively | (adverb) to a prohibitive degree | - |
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| prohibitory | (adjective) tending to discourage (especially of prices) | Synonyms: prohibitive |
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| proinflammatory | (adjective) tending to cause inflammation | Synonyms: pro-inflammatory |
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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 |
| (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| projected | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| projectile | (adjective) impelling or impelled forward | - |
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| (noun) a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | Synonyms: missile |
| (noun) any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine | Synonyms: rocket |
| projecting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| 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 | - |