English words: proencephalic to progenitress
300 English words, part 175 of 213 of the words starting with P, A to Z. 43 have a page of their own.
English words proencephalic to progenitress
- proencephalic adjective: at the front of the head or of the encephalon
- proendocrine adjective: Relating to the production of endocrine secretions.
- proenforcement adjective: In favour of enforcement.
- proenkephalin noun: A precursor of leuenkephalin and metenkephalin.
- proenlargement adjective: Supporting or favouring a policy of enlargement.
- proenvironmental adjective: That seeks to protect the natural environment
- proenzymatic adjective: Relating to proenzymes
- proenzyme noun: Any inactive precursor of an enzyme that is converted to an enzyme by proteolysis; a zymogen.
- proepicardial adjective: Of or pertaining to the proepicardium.
- proepicardium noun: An embryonic group of progenitor cells that forms near the venous pole of the heart and gives rise to the epicardium.
- proepileptic adjective: That promotes an episode of epilepsy
- proepiplexis noun: A figure in which the speaker blames or reproaches oneself beforehand in order to secure the attention or favor of the audience; a form of protherapeia.
- proepisternal adjective: Relating to the proepisternum
- proepisternum noun: The episternum of the prothorax of an insect
- proepithelin noun: A growth factor and regulator of proliferation, that is converted to epithelins
- proepizeuxis noun: Synonym of prozeugma
- proequality adjective: Supporting or favouring equality between people or groups.
- proerythroblast noun: The earliest stage in the development of a normoblast
- proerythroblastic adjective: Relating to proerythroblasts
- proerythrocyte noun: reticulocyte
- proerythropoietic adjective: That promotes erythropoiesis
- proestrous adjective: Leading to estrus.
- proestrus noun: A phase of the oestrus cycle, prior to sexual receptivity, during which one or more follicles of the ovary begin to grow.
- proethnic adjective /pɹəʊˈɛθ.nɪk/: of or pertaining to the period prior to the split of the Proto-Indo-European language into the Indo-European language family
- proethnically adverb: In a proethnic manner.
- proetid adjective, noun: Any trilobite of the order †Proetida.
- proette noun: A female professional golfer.
- proeutectoid adjective, noun: That forms (on cooling) above the eutectoid temperature
- prof noun /pɹɑf/: Abbreviation of Professor.
- Prof'l noun: Abbreviation of professional.
- prof. ord. noun: Abbreviation of professor ordinarius.
- proface interjection: A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served.
- profaculty adjective: Supporting or favouring the faculty.
- profadol noun: An opioid analgesic.
- profamily adjective: In favour of the traditional social construct of the family.
- profanable adjective: Able to be profaned.
- profanate verb: To profane; to make profane.
- profanation noun /pɹɒfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/: The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
- profanatory adjective: Involving or relating to profanation.
- profane adjective, noun, verb /pɹəˈfeɪn/: Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- profaned adjective, verb: Treated with irreverence or without due respect.
- profanely adverb: In a profane manner, irreverently, with marked disrespect for the sacred.
- profanement noun: profanation
- profaneness noun: The quality of being profane; profanity.
- profaner adjective, noun: One who profanes; a person who desecrates or defiles.
- profanic adjective: Profane.
- profaning noun, verb: profanation
- profanism noun: Profanity; a profane or blasphemous attitude.
- profanity noun /pɹəˈfænɪti/: The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
- profanity delay noun: Synonym of broadcast delay.
- profanize verb: To make profane.
- profanum vulgus noun: The profane rabble.
- profarmer adjective: Supporting or assisting farmers.
- profarming adjective: Supporting or favouring farming.
- profascist adjective, noun: In favour of fascism.
- profect noun, verb: Profit.
- profection noun: A setting out, going forward, advance or progression.
- profectional adjective: Of or relating to profection.
- profectitious adjective /ˌpɹɒfɪkˈtɪʃəs/: Proceeding from, or as if from, a parent; derived, as from an ancestor.
- profeminism noun: Support for feminism.
- profeminist noun: A supporter of feminism.
- profemoral adjective: anterior to the femur (of an insect)
- -profen suffix /ˈpɹəʊ.fən/: Used to form names of ibuprofen derivatives used as anti-inflammatory agents.
- profenamine noun: A phenothiazine derivative used as an antiparkinsonian agent.
- profenofos noun: An organophosphate insecticide.
- profer verb /pɹəʊˈfɜː/: To utter; to pronounce.
- proferens noun: The person who proposes a contract (or one of its clauses)
- profersonal adjective: Combining professional and personal aspects.
- profert noun: The production or display of recorded evidence in court.
- profesh adjective, noun: Clipping of professional.
- profess verb /pɹəˈfɛs/: To administer the vows of a religious order to (someone); to admit to a religious order.
- professable adjective: That can be professed.
- professed adjective, verb /pɹəˈfɛst/: Openly declared or acknowledged.
- professedly adverb /pɹəˈfɛsɪdli/: In a professed manner.
- professer noun: Alternative form of professor (“one who professes something”).
- profession noun /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/: A promise or vow made on entering a religious order.
- profession of faith noun: A creed; a (typically formulaic) statement of the beliefs of one's religion, often recited during public prayers or liturgies.
- professional adjective, noun /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ə.nəl/: A person who belongs to a profession.
- professional class noun: A social and economic demographic, commonly identified as part of the upper middle class.
- professional deformation noun: A tendency to view things from the point of view of one's own profession or expertise, rather than from a broader or humane perspective.
- professional engineer noun: An engineer who holds a license granted by a regulatory body of engineering.
- professional foul noun: An intentional foul, usually committed to prevent a scoring opportunity.
- professional politician noun: A person whose sole employment is political in nature; usually elected to office and paid a salary, but may collect donations from individuals,...
- professional rescuers doctrine noun: Synonym of fireman's rule.
- professional secrecy noun: The legal protection of confidentiality for disclosures made to certain professionals by their clients.
- professional service noun: A service provided by one acting in an occupational domain regulated due to the required advanced expertise.
- professional sport noun: Sport in which athletes receive payment for their performance.
- professional student noun: Someone who takes college classes to avoid having to assume adult responsibilities after graduating from high school.
- professional suicide noun: An action by a person that is expected to ruin their own career.
- professional support lawyer noun: A member of a legal organisation that carries out research and other support duties
- professional university noun: Synonym of university of applied sciences.
- professional wrestler noun: A performer in the professional wrestling business.
- professional wrestling noun: A form of sports entertainment characterized by the performance of choreographed wrestling matches with predetermined outcomes.
- professionalese noun: Characteristically professional language or jargon
- professionalisation noun: Alternative spelling of professionalization.
- professionalise verb: Alternative spelling of professionalize.
- professionalish adjective: Somewhat professional; having a professional air.
- professionalism noun /pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/: The status, methods, character or standards expected of a professional or of a professional organization, such as reliability, discretion, evenhandedness,...
- professionalist noun: A person or organisation that supports a professional attitude.
- professionality noun: The condition of being professional.
- professionalization noun /pɹəˌfɛʃn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃən/: The act or process of professionalizing, or becoming professional.
- professionalize verb: To make something professional.
- professionalizer noun: One who professionalizes.
- professionally adverb: As a professional; for one's paid career.
- professionalness noun: The quality of being professional.
- professionalship noun: The condition, status, degree, or office of a professional.
- professionary adjective: Relating to a profession or occupation; professional.
- professionist noun: A professional; one who follows a profession.
- professionize verb: To advance (an occupation) to the level of a profession.
- professionless adjective: Lacking a profession.
- professionym noun /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ənɪm/: A term, title, or form of address used to designate or identify a person or group by their profession.
- professly adverb: Professedly (in a professed manner).
- professor noun /pɹəˈfɛs.ə/: The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
- Professor Cube noun: Alternative form of Professor's Cube.
- Professor Moriarty noun: Alternative form of Moriarty (“An archenemy or nemesis, especially a highly intelligent one.”).
- professor ordinarius noun: A professor with a chair, representing a given area.
- Professor's Cube noun: A variety of Rubik's Cube with 98 cubies arranged as a 5×5×5 cube.
- professorate noun: Alternative form of professoriate.
- professordom noun: The realm or sphere of professors; professors, collectively.
- professoress noun: A female professor.
- professorial adjective /ˌprɒfəˈsɔːɹiəl/: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
- professorialism noun: The manners or habits of a professor.
- professoriality noun: The quality of being professorial, or holding the post of professor.
- professorially adverb: In a professorial manner.
- professoriat noun: Alternative form of professoriate (“professors in general”).
- professoriate noun: Professors considered as a group or body.
- professorine noun: A female professor.
- professoring noun: Acting as a professor.
- professorish adjective: Characteristic of a professor.
- professorless adjective: Without a professor or professors.
- professorlike adjective: Resembling a professor, characteristic of a professor.
- professorling noun: a young and unexperienced professor
- professorly adjective: Professorial; having the manner or appearance of a professor or professors.
- professorship noun: The office of a professor.
- professory adjective: Of, relating to, or similar to a professor; professorial.
- profestrix noun: A female professor.
- Profeta proper noun: A surname from Italian.
- proffee noun /ˈpɹɒf.i/: Coffee mixed with a protein shake or protein powder, creating a drink that provides both caffeine and protein.
- proffer noun, verb /ˈpɹɒfə(ɹ)/: An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender.
- proffer letter noun: A written agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant or prospective witness, allowing the latter to give the prosecutor information about an alleged...
- proffer up verb: To proffer (something); to offer or make available (something).
- profferer noun: Someone who proffers something.
- proffering noun, verb: The act by which something is proferred.
- Proffit proper noun: A surname.
- Proffitt proper noun: A surname.
- profibril noun: A cluster of fibrin molecules that becomes a protofibril
- profibrillatory adjective: That leads to fibrillation
- profibrinogenic adjective: That promotes fibrinogenesis
- profibrinolysin noun: Synonym of plasminogen.
- profibrinolytic adjective: Promoting fibrinolysis.
- profibroblast noun: A structure that develops into a fibroblast
- profibrogenesis adjective: Alternative form of profibrogenic.
- profibrogenetic adjective: Alternative form of profibrogenic.
- profibrogenic adjective: That promotes fibrogenesis
- profibrogenically adverb: In a profibrogenic manner
- profibrosis adjective: Synonym of profibrotic.
- profibrotic adjective: That promotes fibrosis
- profic noun: Professionally published fiction, especially tie-in fiction based on a media property.
- profichi noun: The crop of caprifig collected in the spring
- proficience noun: Alternative form of proficiency.
- proficiency noun /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/: Ability, skill, competence.
- proficiency badge noun: An insignia or badge awarded by the Girl Scouts to indicate special achievement.
- proficient adjective, noun /pɹəˈfɪʃ.ənt/: Good at something; skilled; fluent; practiced, especially in relation to a task or skill.
- proficiently adverb: In a proficient manner.
- proficientness noun: proficiency
- proficuous adjective: Useful or profitable.
- proficuously adverb: In a proficuous manner.
- profil perdu noun: A view of the subject from partially behind, such that only one side of the face is visible.
- profilable adjective: Able to be profiled.
- profilaggrin noun: A polymeric precursor of filaggrin present in keratohyalin granules in cells of the stratum granulosum.
- profilamentous adjective: Forming filaments.
- profile noun, verb /ˈpɹəʊ.faɪl/: The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- profile picture noun: A graphical representation of a user or persona in a digital space.
- profiled adjective, verb: That has undergone profiling
- profilee noun: A person who is profiled.
- profiler noun: A mechanical device that cuts complex, irregular shapes by tracing a pattern.
- profilin noun: An actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton, found in all eukaryotic organisms in most cells.
- profiling noun, verb: The forensic science of constructing an outline of a person's individual characteristics.
- profilist noun: An artist who draws or paints profiles
- profilograph noun: An instrument for automatically recording the profile of the ground it traverses.
- profilometer noun: A device designed to measure the profile, and hence the roughness, of a surface.
- profilometric adjective: Of or pertaining to profilometry.
- profilometrical adjective: Alternative form of profilometric.
- profilometrically adverb: In a profilometric manner
- profilometry noun: The use of a technique in the measurement and profiling of an object.
- profinite adjective: Describing certain topological groups formed from finite groups
- profinite group noun: A topological group that is isomorphic to the inverse limit of some inverse system of discrete finite groups; equivalently, a topological group that is also...
- profisetinidin noun: A tannin composed of fisetinidin units.
- profit noun, verb /ˈpɹɒfɪt/: Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and...
- profit a prendre noun: A nonpossessory interest in land which grants the legal right to enter onto another person's real property (real estate) for the purpose of taking from its...
- profit and loss noun: A profit-and-loss statement; an income statement.
- profit and loss statement noun: Synonym of income statement.
- profit center noun: A unit or department of a company which is expected to make an identifiable contribution to the organization's profits.
- profit centre noun: UK and Canada standard spelling of profit center.
- profit crop noun: Synonym of cash crop
- profit margin noun: The ratio of net income to net sales of a company expressed as a percentage.
- profit monger noun: A person, business, or profession marked by avarice and greed.
- profit motive noun: The pursuit of financial gain as a motivation for individuals and firms to conduct business.
- profit sharing noun: A system in which some of the profit of an enterprise are divided among the workers, giving them an incentive for profits without an equity interest.
- profit taking noun: Alternative form of profit taking.
- profit warning noun: An announcement by a company to its shareholders and other investors that its profits are likely to be less than expected.
- profitability noun /ˌpɹɒf.ɪ.təˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/: The state or quality of being profitable; capacity to make a profit.
- profitable adjective /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/: Producing a profit.
- profitableness noun: The quality of being profitable; gainfulness; usefulness; advantageousness.
- profitably adverb /ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bli/: In a profitable manner, in a way that achieves profit or gain.
- profiteer noun, verb /ˌpɹɒfɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/: One who makes an unreasonable profit not justified by cost or risk, a rent-seeker.
- profiteering noun, verb: The act of making an unreasonable profit not justified by the corresponding assumption of risk, or by doing so unethically or opportunistically.
- profiter noun: One who profits.
- profiterole noun /pɹəˈfɪtəɹoʊl/: A small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling.
- profiting noun, verb: The making of a profit.
- profitless adjective: not yielding profit
- profitlessly adverb: In a profitless manner.
- profitlessness noun: The state or condition of being profitless.
- profitmaking adjective: That makes a profit; profitable.
- profitmonger noun: Alternative form of profit monger.
- profitmongering noun: The activities of a profit monger.
- profits warning noun: Alternative form of profit warning.
- profitseeking adjective: Aiming to make a profit.
- profitsome adjective: Characterised or marked by profit
- Profitt proper noun: A surname.
- profitwise adverb: In terms of profit.
- profixigenal adjective: Relating to or situated on the anterior part of the fixigena of a trilobite.
- proflavin noun: Alternative form of proflavine.
- proflavine noun: A disinfectant, acridine-3,6-diamine, bacteriostatic against many gram-positive bacteria
- proflazepam noun: A benzodiazepine drug.
- profligacy noun /ˈpɹɑflɪɡəsi/: Careless wastefulness.
- profligate adjective, noun, verb /ˈpɹɒflɪɡət/: Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly.
- profligately adverb: In a profligate manner.
- profligateness noun: The state or condition of being profligate; wastefulness.
- profligation noun: defeat; rout; overthrow
- profligatory adjective: Tending to or encouraging wastefulness.
- profluence noun /ˈpɹəʊflʊəns/: Onward flow; current.
- profluent adjective /ˈpɹɒfluənt/: Flowing smoothly as if in a stream.
- profluorescent adjective: Leading to and preceding fluorescence.
- profluralin noun: A dinitroaniline herbicide with IUPAC name (N-(cyclopropylmethyl)-2,6-dinitro-N-propyl-4-(trifluoromethyl)aniline.
- profluvious adjective: Relating to profluvium
- profluvium noun: A copious discharge of fluid, especially a bodily fluid.
- profonde noun: A secret pocket in a magician's coat, used in vanishing tricks etc.
- proforeign adjective: Supporting or favouring what is foreign.
- proform noun: Alternative spelling of pro-form.
- proforma adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of pro forma.
- profound adjective, noun, verb /pɹəˈfaʊnd/: Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to great depth; deep.
- profoundly adverb /pɹəˈfaʊndli/: With depth, meaningfully.
- profoundness noun: The quality of being profound; profundity
- profulgent adjective /pɹəˈfʌld͡ʒənt/: Shining out; gleaming.
- profunctor noun: A generalization of a relation in category theory
- profunda noun: A deep-seated artery, as of the arm, neck, or leg.
- profunda femoris artery noun: Synonym of deep femoral artery.
- profundal adjective, noun: Relating to the deep zone of an inland body of water where very little sunlight penetrates; located between the limnetic and the benthic zones.
- profundaplasty noun: A surgical procedure that enlargens the junction of the deep femoral artery.
- profundicate verb /pɹəˈfʌndɪˌkeɪt/: To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
- profundify verb /pɹəˈfʌndɪfaɪ/: To make profound; to make a concept unnecessarily complicated.
- profunditude noun: profundity
- profundity noun /pɹəˈfʌndɪti/: The state of being profound; magnitude, gravity, or intensity.
- profundulid noun: Any fish in the family Profundulidae.
- profurca noun: A bundle of muscles in the thorax of some insects
- profurcal adjective: Relating to the profurca
- profurcasternal adjective: Relating to the profurcasternum
- profurcasternum noun: The posterior part of the prosternum of some insects
- profuse adjective, verb /pɹəˈfjuːs/: abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
- profused adjective, verb: abundant, copious, profuse
- profusely adverb /pɹəˈfjusli/: In great quantity or abundance; in a profuse manner.
- profuseness noun /pɹoʊˈfjus.nəs/: The quality of being profuse; profusion
- profusion noun /pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/: abundance; the state of being profuse; a cornucopia
- profusive adjective: profuse; lavish; prodigal
- profusively adverb: In a profusive manner.
- profusiveness noun: The quality of being profusive.
- prog adjective, noun, verb /pɹɒɡ/: Clipping of progressive.
- prog-like adjective: Similar to, or reminiscent of, progressive rock.
- prog rock noun: Clipped compound of progressive rock.
- progabide noun: An analogue and prodrug of gamma-aminobutyric acid, used in the treatment of epilepsy.
- progambling adjective: In favour of gambling.
- progamer noun: Alternative form of pro-gamer.
- progametal adjective: Of or relating to a progamete.
- progametangial adjective: Relating to the progametangium.
- progametangium noun: The structure, in some fungi, that develops into the gametangium.
- progamete noun: A cell that divides to form gametes, or occasionally passes into a gamete.
- progamic adjective: That promotes fertilization.
- progamous adjective: Synonym of progamic.
- progastrin noun: The inactive precursor of gastrin
- progay adjective: Alternative spelling of pro-gay.
- progelatinase noun: A precursor of gelatinases
- progemmation noun: The situation where stylospores are given off from basidia, new terminal cells being developed from older or basal cells.
- progenate noun, verb: To have children.
- progenation noun: The act of progenating
- progenerate verb: To beget; to generate; to produce.
- progeneration noun: The act of begetting; propagation, bearing children, or reproduction.
- progenerative adjective: Of or relating to progeneration.
- progenesis noun: precocious sexual reproduction (especially in nematodes)
- progenetic adjective: Of or pertaining to progenesis
- progenital adjective: Deriving from or otherwise related to progeny or a progenitor or the anatomical region employed for progeneration.
- progenitally adverb: In progenital terms.
- progenitive adjective: Being able to produce offspring; reproductive.
- progenitiveness noun: The state or quality of being progenitive (able to produce offspring).
- progenitor noun /pɹəʊˈd͡ʒɛn.ɪ.tə/: A forefather, any of a person's direct ancestors.
- progenitor cell noun: A form of stem cell that is specialised to differentiate into a single type of cell.
- progenitorial adjective: Relating to a progenitor.
- progenitorship noun: The state of being a progenitor.
- progenitress noun: a female progenitor
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0): each word's first meaning. A word with a page of its own links to it; for the rest, this line is PlainSpell's entry. Total under P: 63,631 words, in 213 parts.