Words starting with probabl

8 letter words starting with probabl

• probable — likely to occur or prove true: He foresaw a probable business loss. He is the probable writer of the article.
• probably — in all likelihood; very likely: He will probably attend.
• probable cause — reasonable ground for a belief, as, in a criminal case, that the accused was guilty of the crime, or, in a civil case, that grounds for the action existed: used especially as a defense to an action for malicious prosecution.
• probable error — a quantity formerly used as a measure of variability: equal to 0.6745 times the standard deviation. A normally distributed population has half of its elements within one probable error of the mean.
• probable maximum loss — Probable maximum loss is the maximum amount of loss that can be expected under normal circumstances.