11-letter words starting with pro
- profanation — the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
- profanatory — tending to desecrate; profaning.
- profeminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- professedly — allegedly; pretendedly: He is only professedly poor.
- proficiency — the state of being proficient; skill; expertness: proficiency in music.
- profiterole — a small cream puff with a sweet or savory filling, as of cream and chocolate sauce.
- profits tax — tax charged on the profits made by a company, individual, etc
- profusively — profuse; lavish; prodigal: profusive generosity.
- progenitive — capable of having offspring; reproductive.
- progeniture — procreation
- progestogen — progestin.
- prognathism — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- prognathous — having protrusive jaws; having a gnathic index over 103.
- programable — capable of being programmed.
- programming — a plan of action to accomplish a specified end: a school lunch program.
- progressing — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- progression — the act of progressing; forward or onward movement.
- progressism — the philosophy of a progressist
- progressist — a person favoring progress, as in politics; progressive.
- progressive — favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform, as opposed to wishing to maintain things as they are, especially in political matters: a progressive mayor.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- prohibitive — serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
- prohibitory — prohibitive.
- project mac — (project) A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was MIT Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's Multics development and Marvin Minsky's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use CTSS and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also Early PL/I, MacLisp, MACSYMA, MDL, Multipop-68, OCAL.
- projectable — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
- projectment — a design or projection
- prokaryotes — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokaryotic — any cellular organism that has no nuclear membrane, no organelles in the cytoplasm except ribosomes, and has its genetic material in the form of single continuous strands forming coils or loops, characteristic of all organisms in the kingdom Monera, as the bacteria and blue-green algae.
- prokopyevsk — a city in the S central Russian Federation in Asia, NW of Novokuznetsk.
- prolegomena — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- proletariat — common people, working class
- proletarize — to proletarianize.
- proliferate — spread
- proliferous — proliferating.
- prolificacy — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolificity — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- prolocution — an introductory remark or speech
- prolocutrix — a female prolocutor
- prolongable — able to be lengthened
- prolongated — to prolong.
- prolongment — to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- promenading — a stroll or walk, especially in a public place, as for pleasure or display.
- promilitary — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
- prominently — standing out so as to be seen easily; conspicuous; particularly noticeable: Her eyes are her most prominent feature.
- promiscuity — the state of being promiscuous.
- promiscuous — characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or association, especially having sexual relations with a number of partners on a casual basis.
- promiseless — without promise
- promisingly — giving favorable promise; likely to turn out well: a promising young man; a promising situation.
- promo video — a video or short film that promotes or advertises something