13-letter words containing pro
- drink problem — If someone is said to have a drink problem, they are thought to drink too much alcohol
- drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
- e-proposition — a universal negative proposition
- eproctophilia — Sexual arousal from flatulence.
- expropriating — Present participle of expropriate.
- expropriation — The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to private property; the act of depriving of private propriety rights.
- flameproofing — Present participle of flameproof.
- flavoproteins — Plural form of flavoprotein.
- foundry proof — a proof pulled for a final checking before printing plates are made.
- glycoproteins — Plural form of glycoprotein.
- gödel's proof — a proof that in a formal axiomatic system such as logic or mathematics it is impossible to prove consistency without using methods from outside the system, demonstrated by Kurt Gödel (1906–78)
- haber process — a process for synthesizing ammonia from gaseous nitrogen and hydrogen under high pressure and temperature in the presence of a catalyst.
- heart problem — a defect or disease of the heart
- hyperproducer — an increased or rapid producer
- hyperprosexia — a condition in which the whole attention is occupied by one object or idea to the exclusion of others
- i-proposition — a particular affirmative proposition
- improbability — the quality or condition of being improbable; unlikelihood.
- improgressive — (archaic) Not progressive.
- improprieties — Plural form of impropriety.
- improvability — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- improvidently — In an improvident manner.
- improvisation — the art or act of improvising, or of composing, uttering, executing, or arranging anything without previous preparation: Musical improvisation involves imagination and creativity.
- improvisatore — An individual who recites impromptu verse, as from a song or poem.
- improvisatori — Plural form of improvisatore.
- improvisatory — of, relating to, or characteristic of an improvisation or improvisator.
- in proportion — balanced
- inappropriate — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inner product — Also called dot product, scalar product. the quantity obtained by multiplying the corresponding coordinates of each of two vectors and adding the products, equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors and the cosine of the angle between them.
- interproximal — situated toward the point of origin or attachment, as of a limb or bone. Compare distal (def 1).
- irreciprocity — lack or absence of reciprocity
- isoproterenol — a beta-adrenergic receptor agonist, C 11 H 17 NO 3 , used as a bronchodilator.
- jet-propelled — propelled by a jet engine or engines.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- lactoproteins — Plural form of lactoprotein.
- lambda prolog — (language) An extension of standard Prolog defined by Dale A. Miller and Gopalan Nadathur in 1986, in which terms are strongly typed lambda terms. Clauses are higher order hereditary Harrop formulas. The main novelties are universal quantification on goals and implication. The Prolog/Mali compiler compiles Lambda Prolog for the MALI abstract memory system. Mailing list: [email protected]
- legal process — court procedure
- lost property — lost and found.
- major prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
- malapropistic — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
- meat products — foods that consist of or contain meat
- mesi protocol — (processor) Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- methylpropane — (organic compound) isobutane.
- methylpropene — (organic compound) IUPAC name for isobutylene.
- microprocesor — (spelling) It's spelled microprocessor.
- microprograms — Plural form of microprogram.
- milk products — dairy produce, items made with milk
- milos process — The MILOS process is a process that uses an additional riser in the FCC, which gives the refiner options to simultaneously maximize production of diesel and propylene.
- minor prophet — any of a group of Old Testament prophets, including Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
- mispronounced — Said wrongly.