8-letter words containing pro
- proclaim — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
- proclive — having an inclination towards an action; prone
- procurer — a person who procures, especially a pander or pimp.
- prodding — to poke or jab with or as if with something pointed: I prodded him with my elbow.
- prodigal — wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
- proditor — a traitor
- prodnose — an inquisitive person
- prodomos — an open vestibule, as a pronaos.
- prodrome — a premonitory symptom.
- produced — to bring into existence; give rise to; cause: to produce steam.
- producer — a person who produces.
- proemial — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- profaned — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profaner — characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
- profiled — the outline or contour of the human face, especially the face viewed from one side.
- profiler — any of several types of machine tools for reproducing shapes in metal or other materials from a master form.
- profiter — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- proforma — according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
- profound — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
- profuser — someone or something that is very wasteful of money
- progeria — a rare congenital abnormality characterized by premature and rapid aging, the affected individual appearing in childhood as an aged person and having a shortened life span.
- proggins — a university proctor
- prognose — to predict the course of (disease)
- prograde — to (cause to) advance towards the sea by progradation
- programs — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- prograph — (language) A visual dataflow programming language and environment from the Technical University of Halifax. Prograph is an entirely graphical visual programming language, other than for the text of method names, and supports the program development process in a highly-interactive fashion. Operation icons are connected by data links through which information flows. It supports object orientation via class-based data abstraction with single inheritance. Prograph is available for the Macintosh, and soon for Windows and Unix, from TGS Systems.
- progreso — a city in NW Honduras.
- progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- prohibit — to forbid (an action, activity, etc.) by authority or law: Smoking is prohibited here.
- prolabor — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
- prolamin — any of the class of simple proteins, as gliadin, hordein, or zein, found in grains, soluble in dilute acids, alkalis, and alcohols, and insoluble in water, neutral salt solutions, and absolute alcohol.
- prolapse — Pathology. a falling down of an organ or part, as the uterus, from its normal position.
- prolifer — opposed to legalized abortion; right-to-life.
- prolific — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolog-2 — An implementation of Edinburgh Prolog by Nick Henfrey, ESL.
- prologue — a preliminary discourse; a preface or introductory part of a discourse, poem, or novel.
- prolonge — a rope having a hook at one end and a toggle at the other, used for various purposes, as to draw a gun carriage.
- prometal — a type of cast iron with high heat resistance
- promised — a declaration that something will or will not be done, given, etc., by one: unkept political promises.
- promisee — a person to whom a promise is made.
- promisor — a person who makes a promise.
- promoted — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
- promoter — a person or thing that promotes, furthers, or encourages.
- prompted — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- prompter — Commerce. a limit of time given for payment for merchandise purchased, the limit being stated on a note of reminder (prompt note) the contract setting the time limit.
- promptly — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
- promulge — to promulgate.
- pronator — Anatomy, Zoology. any of several muscles that permit pronation of the hand, forelimb, or foot.
- pronotal — relating to an insect's pronotum
- pronotum — the dorsal sclerite of the prothorax of an insect.