| 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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| prokaryotic | (adjective) having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei | Synonyms: procaryotic |
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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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| (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
| prolapsus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: descensus, prolapse |
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| prolate | (adjective) having the polar diameter greater than the equatorial diameter | Synonyms: watermelon-shaped |
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| (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, ovate, oviform, ovoid |
| 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 | (adjective) belonging to or characteristic of the proletariat | - |
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| (noun) a member of the working class (not necessarily employed) | Synonyms: prole, worker |
| 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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| proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
| 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) | - |
| prolific | (adjective) bearing in abundance especially offspring | Synonyms: fertile |
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| (adjective) intellectually productive | Synonyms: fecund, fertile |
| 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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| prolix | (adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Synonyms: verbal |
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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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| prologise | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologize, prologuize |
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| prologize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologuize |
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| prologue | (noun) an introduction to a play | - |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| prolong | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, protract |
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| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, sustain |
| 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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| prolonged | (adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: elongated, extended, lengthened |
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| (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted |
| 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 |
| prolusory | (adjective) of or relating to or having the character of a prolusion | - |
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| 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 |
| (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| 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 | - |
| prominent | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) conspicuous in position or importance | Synonyms: big, large |
| prominently | (adverb) in a prominent way | Synonyms: conspicuously |
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| promiscuity | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuousness, sleeping around |
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| promiscuous | (adjective) not selective of a single class or person | - |
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| (adjective) casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior | Synonyms: easy, light, loose, sluttish, wanton |
| promiscuously | (adverb) in a licentious and promiscuous manner | Synonyms: licentiously, wantonly |
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| (adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: indiscriminately |
| promiscuousness | (noun) indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations | Synonyms: promiscuity, sleeping around |
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| promise | (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: hope |
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| (noun) a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: assure |
| (verb) promise to undertake or give | - |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
| (verb) give grounds for expectations | - |
| promisee | (noun) a person to whom a promise is made | - |
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| promiser | (noun) a person who makes a promise | Synonyms: promisor |
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| promising | (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, hopeful |
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| (adjective) showing possibility of achievement or excellence | - |
| promisingly | (adverb) in a manner that gives hope | - |
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| promisor | (noun) a person who makes a promise | Synonyms: promiser |
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| promissory | (adjective) relating to or having the character of a promise | - |
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| promo | (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
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| promontory | (noun) a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | Synonyms: foreland, head, headland |
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| promote | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push |
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| (verb) change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent | - |
| (verb) be changed for a superior chess or checker piece | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further |
| promoter | (noun) someone who is an active supporter and advocate | Synonyms: booster, plugger |
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| (noun) a sponsor who books and stages public entertainments | Synonyms: impresario, showman |
| promotion | (noun) act of raising in rank or position | - |
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| (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, furtherance |
| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotional material, publicity |
| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, furtherance |
| promotional | (adjective) of or relating to serving as publicity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to advancement | - |
| promotive | (adjective) tending to further or encourage | - |
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| promposal | (noun) The act of asking someone to go to a prom with you | - |
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| prompt | (adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: immediate, quick, straightaway |
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| (adjective) according to schedule or without delay; on time | - |
| (adjective) ready and willing or quick to act | - |
| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompting |
| (noun) (computer science) a symbol that appears on the computer screen to indicate that the computer is ready to receive a command | Synonyms: command prompt |
| (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| promptbook | (noun) the copy of the playscript used by the prompter | Synonyms: prompt copy |
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| prompter | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: autocue |
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| (noun) someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech | Synonyms: theater prompter |
| prompting | (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: suggestion |
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| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompt |
| promptitude | (noun) the characteristic of doing things without delay | Synonyms: promptness |
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| promptly | (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: pronto, readily |
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| (adverb) at once (usually modifies an undesirable occurrence) | Synonyms: right away |
| (adverb) with little or no delay | Synonyms: quick, quickly |
| promptness | (noun) the characteristic of doing things without delay | Synonyms: promptitude |
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| (noun) the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time | Synonyms: punctuality |
| promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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| (verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
| promulgated | (adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: published |
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| promulgation | (noun) the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice | Synonyms: proclamation |
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| (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: announcement |
| (noun) the official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effect | - |
| promulgator | (noun) (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution) | - |
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| promycelium | (noun) the basidium of various fungi | - |
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| promythium | (noun) A section of text that comes before the story. | - |
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| pronate | (verb) turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards | - |
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| pronation | (noun) rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward | - |
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| pronator | (noun) a muscle that produces or assists in pronation | - |
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| prone | (adjective) having a tendency (to); often used in combination | - |
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| (adjective) lying face downward | Synonyms: prostrate |
| proneness | (noun) being disposed to do something | - |
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| prong | (noun) a pointed projection | - |
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| prongbuck | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, pronghorn, pronghorn antelope |
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| pronged | (adjective) having prongs or tines; usually used in combination | Synonyms: tined |
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| (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, prongy |
| pronghorn | (noun) fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns | Synonyms: American antelope, Antilocapra americana, prongbuck, pronghorn antelope |
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| prongy | (adjective) resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches | Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged |
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| pronk | (verb) jump straight up | - |
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| pronominal | (adjective) relating to pronouns | - |
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| (noun) a phrase that functions as a pronoun | Synonyms: pronominal phrase |
| pronoun | (noun) a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase | - |
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| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| pronounceable | (adjective) capable of being uttered or pronounced | - |
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| pronounced | (adjective) strongly marked; easily noticeable | Synonyms: marked |
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| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| pronto | (adverb) in a punctual manner | Synonyms: promptly, readily |
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| pronucleus | (noun) the nucleus of the ovum or sperm after fertilization but before they fuse to form the nucleus of the zygote | - |
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| pronunciamento | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: manifesto |
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| pronunciation | (noun) the manner in which someone utters a word | - |
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| (noun) the way a word or a language is customarily spoken | Synonyms: orthoepy |
| proof | (adjective) (used in combination or as a suffix) able to withstand | - |
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| (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: substantiation, validation |
| (noun) a trial photographic print from a negative | - |
| (noun) any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something | Synonyms: cogent evidence |
| (noun) a formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from it | - |
| (noun) (printing) an impression made to check for errors | Synonyms: test copy, trial impression |
| (noun) a measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume) | - |
| (verb) make resistant (to harm) | - |
| (verb) activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk | - |
| (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proofread |
| (verb) knead to reach proper lightness | - |
| (verb) make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset | - |
| proofed | (adjective) treated so as to become resistant | - |
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| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| proofreader | (noun) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | Synonyms: reader |
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| prop | (noun) a support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling | - |
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| (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, airscrew |
| (noun) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie | Synonyms: property |
| (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
| propaedeutic | (adjective) preceding and preparing for something | Synonyms: preparative, preparatory |
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| (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutics |
| propaedeutics | (noun) a course that provides an introduction to an art or science (or to more advanced study generally) | Synonyms: propaedeutic |
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| propaganda | (noun) information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
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| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |