protactinium | (noun) a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead | Synonyms: atomic number 91, Pa, protoactinium |
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protagonism | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: advocacy |
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protagonist | (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, supporter |
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(noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: agonist |
protamine | (noun) a simple protein found in fish sperm; rich in arginine; simpler in composition than globulin or albumin; counteracts the anticoagulant effect of heparin | - |
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protanopia | (noun) dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue | Synonyms: red-blindness |
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protanopic | (adjective) inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green | Synonyms: red-blind |
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protea | (noun) any tropical African shrub of the genus Protea having alternate rigid leaves and dense colorful flower heads resembling cones | - |
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protean | (adjective) taking on different forms | - |
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protease | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | Synonyms: peptidase, proteinase, proteolytic enzyme |
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protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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(verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
protected | (adjective) kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss | - |
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(adjective) guarded from injury or destruction | Synonyms: saved |
protecting | (adjective) shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort | - |
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protection | (noun) the activity of protecting someone or something | - |
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(noun) payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | Synonyms: tribute |
(noun) kindly endorsement and guidance | Synonyms: aegis, auspices |
(noun) the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition | Synonyms: trade protection |
(noun) a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury | Synonyms: protective cover, protective covering |
(noun) defense against financial failure; financial independence | Synonyms: security |
(noun) the condition of being protected | Synonyms: shelter |
protectionism | (noun) the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition | - |
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protectionist | (noun) an advocate of protectionism | - |
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protective | (adjective) intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind | - |
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(adjective) showing care | - |
(adjective) (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful | - |
protectively | (adverb) in a protective manner | - |
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protectiveness | (noun) the quality of providing protection | - |
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(noun) a feeling of protective affection | - |
protector | (noun) a person who cares for persons or property | Synonyms: defender, guardian, shielder |
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protectorate | (noun) a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs; protectorates are established by treaty | Synonyms: associated state |
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protectorship | (noun) the position of protector | - |
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protege | (noun) a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career | - |
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protegee | (noun) a woman protege | - |
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protein | (noun) any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes | - |
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proteinaceous | (adjective) relating to or of the nature of protein | - |
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proteinase | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | Synonyms: peptidase, protease, proteolytic enzyme |
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proteinuria | (noun) the presence of excessive protein (chiefly albumin but also globulin) in the urine; usually a symptom of kidney disorder | Synonyms: albuminuria |
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proteolysis | (noun) the hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids by cleavage of their peptide bonds | - |
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proteolytic | (adjective) of or relating to proteolysis | - |
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proteome | (noun) the full complement of proteins produced by a particular genome | - |
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proteomics | (noun) the branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome | - |
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proteosome | (noun) a form of vaccine that can be administered by an inhaler | Synonyms: proteosome vaccine |
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proterozoic | (adjective) formed in the later of two divisions of the Precambrian era | - |
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protest | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: dissent, objection |
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(noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protestation |
(noun) the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval | - |
(verb) utter words of protest | - |
(verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
(verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
protestant | (adjective) protesting | - |
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protestation | (noun) a strong declaration of protest | - |
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(noun) a formal and solemn declaration of objection | Synonyms: protest |
protester | (noun) someone who participates in a public display of group feeling | Synonyms: demonstrator |
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(noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector |
prothalamion | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamium |
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prothalamium | (noun) a song in celebration of a marriage | Synonyms: prothalamion |
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prothorax | (noun) the anterior part of an insect's thorax; bears the first pair of legs | - |
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prothrombin | (noun) a protein in blood plasma that is the inactive precursor of thrombin | Synonyms: factor II |
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prothrombinase | (noun) coagulation factor that is converted to an enzyme that converts prothrombin to thrombin in a reaction that depends on calcium ions and other coagulation factors | Synonyms: factor X |
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protip | (noun) an insightful bit of advice | - |
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protirelin | (noun) hormone released by the hypothalamus that controls the release of thyroid-stimulating hormone from the anterior pituitary | Synonyms: thyrotropin-releasing factor, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, TRF, TRH |
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protist | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protistan |
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protistan | (noun) free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes | Synonyms: protist |
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proto | (adjective) indicating the first or earliest or original | - |
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protoactinium | (noun) a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead | Synonyms: atomic number 91, Pa, protactinium |
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protoanthropology | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protohistory |
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protoarchaeology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarcheology |
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protoarcheology | (noun) the study of prehistoric human artifacts and human fossils | Synonyms: protoarchaeology |
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protoavis | (noun) most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs | - |
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protoceratops | (noun) small horned dinosaur | - |
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protocol | (noun) code of correct conduct | - |
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(noun) forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state | - |
(noun) (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data | Synonyms: communications protocol |
protoctist | (noun) any of the unicellular protists | - |
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protogeometric | (adjective) characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece | - |
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protoheme | (noun) a complex red organic pigment containing iron and other atoms to which oxygen binds | Synonyms: haem, haemitin, hematin, heme |
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protohemin | (noun) a reddish-brown chloride of heme; produced from hemoglobin in laboratory tests for the presence of blood | Synonyms: hemin |
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protohippus | (noun) Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size | - |
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protohistory | (noun) the study of humans prior to the invention of writing | Synonyms: protoanthropology |
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protology | (noun) the study of origins and first things | - |
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protomammal | (noun) probably warm-blooded; considered direct ancestor of mammals | Synonyms: therapsid |
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proton | (noun) a stable particle with positive charge equal to the negative charge of an electron | - |
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protoplasm | (noun) the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) | Synonyms: living substance |
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protoplast | (noun) a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | Synonyms: energid |
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prototherian | (noun) primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea | - |
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prototypal | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypic, prototypical |
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prototype | (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, image, paradigm |
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prototypic | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypical |
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prototypical | (adjective) representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | Synonyms: archetypal, archetypical, prototypal, prototypic |
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protozoal | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoan, protozoic |
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protozoan | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoal, protozoic |
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(noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoon |
protozoic | (adjective) of or relating to the Protozoa | Synonyms: protozoal, protozoan |
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protozoological | (adjective) concerning the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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protozoologist | (noun) a zoologist who studies protozoans | - |
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protozoology | (noun) the branch of zoology that studies protozoans | - |
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protozoon | (noun) any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic | Synonyms: protozoan |
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protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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protracted | (adjective) relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | Synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged |
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protractedly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: lingeringly |
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protractible | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractile |
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protractile | (adjective) able to be extended | Synonyms: protractible |
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protraction | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, perpetuation, prolongation |
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(noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: continuation, lengthiness, prolongation |
protractor | (noun) drafting instrument used to draw or measure angles | - |
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protriptyline | (noun) tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression | - |
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protrude | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, pouch |
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(verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, start |
(verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, project, stick out |
protruding | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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protrusible | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusile |
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protrusile | (adjective) capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | Synonyms: protrusible |
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protrusion | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, jutting, projection |
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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, prominence, protuberance, swelling |
protrusive | (adjective) thrusting outward | - |
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protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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(noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
protuberant | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy |
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protuberate | (verb) form a rounded prominence | - |
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(verb) cause to bulge out or project | - |
proturan | (noun) any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head; inhabit damp soil or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: telsontail |
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