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12-letter words starting with pro

  • professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
  • proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
  • profile drag — the sum of the surface friction drag and the form drag for a body moving subsonically through a fluid
  • profile plan — a diagrammatic fore-and-aft elevation of the hull of a vessel, showing bow and buttock lines, stations, water lines, diagonals, decks, bulwarks, etc.
  • profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
  • profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
  • profoundness — penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge; having deep insight or understanding: a profound thinker.
  • progenitress — a female progenitor (parent or ancestor)
  • progesterone — Biochemistry. a hormone, C 2 1 H 3 0 O 2 , that prepares the uterus for the fertilized ovum and maintains pregnancy.
  • progradation — seaward growth of a beach, delta, fan, etc., by progressive deposition of sediment by rivers or shoreline processes.
  • program note — A program note is an article written in a program for a play or concert that gives information about the performance or production.
  • programmable — capable of being programmed.
  • programmatic — of, relating to, consisting of, or resembling program music.
  • progymnasium — (in Europe) a school that prepares pupils for secondary education (the gymnasium)
  • project note — a short-term municipal note issued by a local government housing agency to finance a public housing project.
  • projectivity — of or relating to projection.
  • prolegomenon — a preliminary discussion; introductory essay, as prefatory matter in a book; a prologue.
  • prolifically — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • prolog-linda — 1. Prolog extended with Linda-style parallelism. Proc 4th Australian Conf on Artif Intell. 2. Neil MacDonald, U Edinburgh 1989. Another Prolog extended with Linda, implemented on a Computing Surface.
  • prolongation — the act of prolonging: the prolongation of a line.
  • prom monitor — (operating system)   a small program stored in PROM (or ROM), responsible for both loading the OS and providing some means to analyse OS crashes. It may also have some sort of user interface which can be used to examine and change the contents of memory, control the boot process (specifying arguments to the kernel, or changing where to look for the it), and so forth. The main difference between a PROM monitor and a bootstrap loader is that the PROM monitor regains control when the OS terminates. This may enable a wizard to find out what went wrong if the OS crashed, although it is usually of little help for the average sysadmin.
  • promethazine — a phenothiaxine derivative, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 2 S, used for the symptomatic relief of allergies and in the management of motion sickness.
  • promissorily — (in law) in a promissory way
  • promulgation — to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
  • promuscidate — shaped like a proboscis
  • pronouncedly — strongly marked: a pronounced fishy taste.
  • pronouncings — utterances, esp of an official or judgmental nature
  • proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
  • proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
  • proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
  • proof theory — (logic)   The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
  • proofreading — correction of text
  • propaedeutic — pertaining to or of the nature of preliminary instruction.
  • propagandism — the art, system, or use of propaganda
  • propagandist — a person involved in producing or spreading propaganda.
  • propagandize — to propagate or publicize (principles, dogma, etc.) by means of propaganda.
  • propanedioic — malonic.
  • propenseness — propensity
  • proper class — a class which cannot itself be a member of other classes
  • proper psalm — a psalm used only on a particular day or feast
  • proper value — characteristic root.
  • property law — the branch of law dealing with issues relating to land and houses
  • property man — a member of the stage crew in charge of the stage properties
  • property tax — a tax levied on real or personal property.
  • propertyless — that which a person owns; the possession or possessions of a particular owner: They lost all their property in the fire.
  • prophesyings — gatherings held to expound the prophecies of the Scriptures
  • propheticism — the actions or characteristics of a prophet
  • prophylactic — defending or protecting from disease or infection, as a drug.
  • propitiation — the act of propitiating; conciliation: the propitiation of the wrathful gods.
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