English words: progenitrix to projectise
300 English words, part 176 of 213 of the words starting with P, A to Z. 45 have a page of their own.
English words progenitrix to projectise
- progenitrix noun: A female progenitor, a foremother, any of a person's direct female ancestors (ancestresses).
- progeniture noun: procreation
- progenome noun: An RNA transcript of a genome
- progenote noun: Any (hypothesised) primordial organism in which the relationship between genotype and phenotype was still evolving.
- progeny noun /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/: Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
- progeria noun /pɹoʊˈd͡ʒɪ(ə)ɹiə/: An extremely rare genetic condition wherein symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age.
- progeric adjective: Having or relating to progeria.
- progerin noun: A truncated version of the protein lamin A, involved in progeria.
- progeroid adjective: Resembling old age.
- progeroid syndrome of De Barsy noun: Synonym of De Barsy syndrome
- progestagen noun: Alternative spelling of progestogen.
- progestational adjective: Describing the phase of the menstrual cycle before gestation and after ovulation, during which progesterone is secreted.
- progesterone noun /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛstəɹəʊn/: A steroid hormone, secreted by the ovaries, whose function is to prepare the uterus for the implantation of a fertilized ovum and to maintain pregnancy.
- progesteronic adjective: Relating to, or characteristic of progesterone
- progestin noun: A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.
- progestin-only adjective: Synonym of progestogen-only.
- progestinic adjective: Relating to or composed of progestin.
- progestogen noun /pɹəˈdʒɛs.tə.dʒən/: The steroid hormone progesterone.
- progestogen-only adjective: Of a contraceptive drug, containing progesterone or other (typically synthetic) progestogens (progestins) without estrogens.
- progestogenic adjective: Relating to, or using a progestogen
- progestomimetic adjective: Mimicking the action of progesterone.
- progg noun: A left-wing, anticommercial musical movement in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s.
- progger noun: A progressive rocker
- proggie noun /ˈpɹɒɡi/: A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.
- proggins noun: proctor
- proggy adjective, noun: Characteristic of progressive rock music.
- proghead noun: A fan of progressive rock music.
- proghrelin noun: Any of a class of peptides produced by ghrelin cells of the gastric mucosa
- ProgID noun: Abbreviation of programmatic identifier (string that represents the underlying Clsid).
- proglacial adjective: Situated in front, or outside the margins, of a glacier or ice sheet (and formed from its meltwaters).
- proglike adjective: Alternative spelling of prog-like.
- proglottic adjective: Of or pertaining to a proglottid.
- proglottid noun: A segment of a tapeworm; they contain both male and female reproductive organs
- proglottidization noun: The development of proglottid segments of a tapeworm.
- proglottis noun: proglottid
- proglucagon noun: Any of a group of polypeptides that are cleaved to produce glucagon.
- proglumetacin noun: A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.
- proglumide noun: A cholecystokinin antagonist drug that inhibits gastrointestinal motility and reduces gastric secretions.
- proglutelin noun: A glutelin precursor
- proglycolytic adjective: That produces glycolysis
- prognathia noun: Prognathism.
- prognathic adjective: Synonym of prognathous.
- prognathism noun: An abnormal projection of the jaws.
- prognathous adjective /ˈprɑɡnəθəs/: Having a jaw that projects forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw.
- prognathy noun: Alternative form of prognathia.
- prognose verb: To make a prognosis.
- prognosis noun /pɹɒɡˈnəʊsɪs/: A forecast of the future course or outcome of a situation based on what is presently known; a prediction.
- prognostes noun: A prognosticator.
- prognostic adjective, noun /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪk/: Of, pertaining to or characterized by prognosis or prediction.
- prognosticable adjective: Capable of being prognosticated or foretold; predictable.
- prognostical adjective: Alternative form of prognostic.
- prognostically adverb: In prognostic terms.
- prognosticant adjective, noun /pɹəɡˈnɒstɪkənt/: Synonym of prognosticatory.
- prognosticate verb /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪt/: To predict or forecast, especially through the application of skill.
- prognosticating adjective, verb: Of something that predicts or forecasts.
- prognostication noun: A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.
- prognosticative adjective: Serving to prognosticate.
- prognosticator noun /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkeɪtə(ɹ)/: One who prognosticates or makes predictions; one who forecasts or guesses.
- prognosticatory adjective /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkətəɹi/: That prognosticates or makes predictions about the future; predictive.
- prognosticous adjective: Prognostic.
- prognostics noun /pɹɑɡˈnɑstɪks/: An engineering discipline focused on predicting the time at which a system or a component will no longer perform its intended function.
- prognostification noun: Alternative form of prognostication.
- prognostify verb: To prognosticate.
- prognostize verb: To prognosticate.
- progoitrin noun: A glycoside of 1,5-vinyl-2-thiooxazolidone present in the foliage of brassicas.
- progovernment adjective: In favour of the government.
- progradation noun: The growth of a river delta farther out into the sea over time, as it gains more sediment
- progradational adjective: Relating to progradation
- progradationally adverb: In a progradational manner.
- prograde adjective, verb /ˈpɹəʊɡɹeɪd/: Moving in a forward direction, especially with respect to other bodies in the same system.
- program noun, verb /ˈpɹəʊ̯ˌɡɹæm/: A set of structured activities; a plan of action.
- program cabinet noun: Synonym of cabinet (“a cabinet-level agency in the executive branch”).
- program committee noun: A group of experts responsible for reviewing scientific conference submissions and drafting the conference program.
- program counter noun: A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.
- program evaluation and review technique noun: A method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.
- program evaluation review technique noun: Alternative form of program evaluation and review technique.
- program guide noun: A usually weekly periodical that guides the reader through the programs being broadcast on radio or TV; often supplemented with celebrity gossip and other...
- program music noun: A form of art music, generally without vocal parts, that attempts to convey a scene, image, or mood.
- program slicer noun: A software analysis tool that displays data links and related characteristics to enable a programmer to track the effects of proposed changes.
- program trading noun: High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by brokerage firms'...
- programable adjective: Alternative form of programmable.
- programed verb: Alternative spelling of programmed.
- programer noun: Alternative spelling of programmer.
- programing verb: Alternative spelling of programming.
- programist noun: Alternative form of programmist.
- programistic adjective: Alternative form of programmistic.
- programless adjective: Without programs.
- programlessness noun: The quality of being programless.
- programm noun: Same as programme.
- programma noun: Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection before being proposed to the general assembly of the...
- programmability noun: The abstract capability of being programmable.
- programmable adjective, noun /pɹəʊˈɡɹæməbəl/: Capable of being programmed.
- programmable logic array noun: Is a kind of programmable logic device used to implement combinational logic circuits.
- programmable logic controller noun: A programmable electronic device used in industrial automation to provide logic and sequencing controls for machinery.
- programmable matter noun: Matter which can change its physics properties in a programmable way.
- programmable read only memory noun: A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.
- programmably adverb: In a programmable manner
- programmatic adjective /ˌpɹəʊ.ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪk/: Of, relating to, or using a step-by-step program–especially a computer program.
- programmatical adjective: programmatic
- programmatically adverb /pɹoʊɡɹəˈmætɪk(ə)li/: In a programmatic manner.
- programmatism noun: Support for a programme or schedule, especially politically.
- programmatist noun: Synonym of programmist.
- programme noun, verb /ˈpɹoʊˌɡɹæm/: UK, New Zealand, and India standard spelling of program.
- programme-maker noun: A person responsible for the creation of television or radio programmes.
- programme music noun: Alternative form of program music.
- programme parade noun: A block of airtime used to list and describe the upcoming programming schedule.
- programme trading noun: Alternative form of program trading.
- programmed adjective, verb: having a minister or pastor who conducts religious services.
- programmed cell death noun: The regulated death of a cell, mediated by an intracellular program.
- programmed function key noun: A function key whose function can be assigned by the user or by a program.
- programmed obsolescence noun: planned obsolescence implemented through deliberate limitations in software or hardware
- programmed random occurrence noun: A proc.
- programmer noun /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmə/: One who writes computer programs.
- programmer art noun: Crude or ugly visuals created by a developer as placeholders.
- programmer socks noun: Synonym of programming socks.
- programming noun, verb /ˈpɹəʊɡɹəmɪŋ/: The designing, scheduling or planning of a radio or television program/programme.
- programming by contract noun: Synonym of design by contract.
- programming in the large noun: Designing a complex software system as a composition of smaller parts.
- programming in the small noun: Writing individual lines of code in a programming language.
- programming interface noun: Ellipsis of application programming interface.
- programming language noun /ˈpɹəʊɡɹæmɪŋ læŋɡwɪdʒ/: A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.
- programming socks noun: Particularly feminine thigh-highs, facetiously touted as a way to improve one's programming by transfemmes and femboys in the computing community.
- programming style noun: The conventions and patterns used in writing source code, resulting in a consistent and readable codebase.
- programmist noun: One who supports a programme or schedule, especially politically.
- programmistic adjective: Of or relating to program music.
- programwide adjective, adverb: Throughout a program.
- progranulin noun: A precursor protein to granulin.
- progranulocyte noun: promyelocyte
- progranulocytic adjective: That promotes the growth of granulocytes
- progravitational adjective: That is aligned with gravitational forces
- progredience noun: The quality of being progredient.
- progrediency noun: The quality of being progredient.
- progredient adjective: Of the course of an illness, progressive.
- Progreso proper noun: A barangay of Aglipay, Quirino, Philippines.
- progress noun, verb /ˈpɹəʊ.ɡɹɛs/: Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
- progress bar noun: A bar that indicates the progression of a task by gradually filling its empty space with solid colour.
- Progress Pride flag noun: A variant of the rainbow flag consisting of the original six horizontal bars with the addition of a large chevron to the hoist featuring three stripes of...
- progress report noun /ˈpɹəʊɡɹɛs ɹɪˈpɔːt/: a report made to document the work done on a project
- progressable adjective: Alternative form of progressible.
- progresser noun: Alternative form of progressor.
- progressible adjective: Capable of being progressed.
- progression noun /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃn̩/: The act of moving from one thing to another.
- progressional adjective: Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
- progressionally adverb: progressively
- progressionary adjective: Synonym of progressional.
- progressionism noun: The belief in a progressive trend, especially in aspects of nature or the cosmos.
- progressionist noun: An advocate of social progress, ideally towards perfection.
- progressism noun: Synonym of progressivism.
- progressist noun: Synonym of progressionist (“one who makes or supports progress”).
- progressive adjective, noun /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪv/: Favouring or promoting progress; advanced.
- progressive aspect noun: A grammatical aspect that expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress.
- progressive assimilation noun: An assimilation whereby a sound becomes more like the preceding sound.
- progressive bluegrass noun: A genre of bluegrass that subverts tradition by adding drums, electric guitar and other modern elements of popular music.
- Progressive Conservative adjective, noun: A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
- progressive creationism noun: A type of Old Earth creationism which posits that God created new forms of life gradually over a period of hundreds of millions of years.
- progressive creationist adjective, noun: Of or related to progressive creationism.
- progressive dinner noun: A dinner party in which each successive course is prepared and eaten at the residence of a different host.
- progressive education noun: A pedagogical movement that began in the late 19th century and replaced classically-based rote learning with hands-on experience, critical thinking, and...
- progressive enhancement noun: A philosophy in which a website's functionality is enhanced by JavaScript, rather than wholly reliant on JavaScript.
- progressive freefall noun: A training method designed to quickly teach a beginner solo freefall skills under instructor supervision.
- progressive grid noun: A starting grid where competitors are positioned according to the finishing order of a previous race.
- progressive house noun: A house music genre originating from the late 1990s.
- progressive infantile poliodystrophy noun: Alpers' disease.
- progressive jazz noun: A form of big band music that is more complex or experimental, originating in the 1940s.
- progressive longways formation noun: A country dance, most often specifically a type of New England line dance.
- progressive love noun: A committed open relationship based on boosting the love and affection opportunities available for one's partner
- progressive metal noun: a subgenre of heavy metal with progressive rock influences
- progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy noun: a brain infection caused by reactivation of latent JC virus
- progressive overload noun: A gradual increase of stress on a muscle as it grows in strength.
- progressive rap noun: Synonym of conscious rap.
- progressive rock noun: A rock music genre originating from the late 1960s and early 1970s, heavily influenced by classical music and jazz.
- progressive scan noun: A method of displaying or transmitting an image or film in which all horizontal lines of a frame are drawn in sequence.
- progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy noun: Alpers' disease
- progressive stack noun: A list of speakers arranged so that people from marginalized groups get the chance to speak first.
- progressive supper noun: Synonym of progressive dinner.
- progressive tax noun: a tax whose percentage increases as a person's wealth increases.
- progressive tense noun: Synonym of continuous tense.
- progressive verb noun: A form of a verb in which its gerund (or present participle) is used with any form of the verb "to be"
- progressive war noun: A military strategy where only enemy combatants are targeted and civilian collateral damage and casualties are kept to a minimum.
- progressive web app noun: Synonym of progressive web application.
- progressive web application noun: A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.
- progressively adverb /pɹəˈɡɹɛsɪvli/: In a progressive manner.
- progressiveness noun: The quality of being progressive
- progressivism noun /prəˈɡrɛsᵻvɪz(ə)m/: A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.
- progressivist adjective, noun: An advocate of progressivism.
- progressivistic adjective: Relating to, or supporting, progressivism.
- progressivity noun: The condition of being progressive.
- progressless adjective: devoid of progress
- progresslessness noun: Absence of progress.
- progressophobe noun: One who is pessimistic about the collateral damage of progress.
- progressor noun: A person who makes progress, or facilitates progress in others.
- proguanil noun: A prophylactic antimalarial drug effective against sporozoites.
- progue noun, verb: A sharp point; a goad.
- progun adjective: Supportive of guns, especially widespread firearm training.
- progymnasium noun: A German classical school without the higher classes; a school preparatory to a gymnasium.
- progymnasmata noun: A series of preliminary rhetorical exercises originated in Ancient Greece, aiming to prepare students for writing declamations after they had completed...
- progymnastic adjective: Relating to the progymnasmata.
- progymnosperm noun: A very early form of plant that produced both wood (like trees) and spores (like ferns).
- progymnospermous adjective: Of or relating to progymnosperms.
- prohaemocyte noun: Alternative form of prohemocyte.
- prohairesis noun: The Stoic principle that people have a choice in how they judge, and are affected by, externalities.
- prohairetic adjective: Relating to prohairesis.
- prohaptor noun: An anterior haptor.
- prohaptoral adjective: Relating to the prohaptor
- Prohaska proper noun: A surname.
- prohead noun: A procapsid.
- prohedonic adjective: That seeks to maintain or increase positive effects
- prohedria noun: Alternative form of proedria.
- prohemocyte noun: A form of invertebrate stem cell that becomes a hemocyte
- prohemocytic adjective: Relating to prohemocytes
- prohemolysin noun: A precursor of hemolysin
- prohemostatic adjective: That promotes hemostasis
- prohepatogenic adjective: That promotes hepatogenesis
- prohepcidin noun: A propeptide that is a precursor of hepcidin
- proheptazine noun: A particular narcotic painkiller.
- proherbicide noun: A natural product that may be used commercially as a herbicide
- proheterocyst noun: A structure, in cyanobacteria, that develops into a heterocyst
- prohi noun: A prohibitionist; a Prohibition agent.
- prohibit verb /pɹəˈhɪbɪt/: To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
- prohibitable adjective: Capable of being prohibited.
- prohibited adjective, verb /pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪd/: Forbidden; banned; unallowed.
- prohibitedness noun: The quality of being prohibited.
- prohibiter noun: Someone who prohibits or forbids.
- prohibitin noun: A protein, found in almost all living things, thought to have multiple functions.
- prohibition noun /ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/: An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
- prohibitional adjective: Relating to prohibition; serving to forbid or ban.
- prohibitionary adjective: Serving to prohibit something.
- prohibitionism noun: The doctrine that people will refrain from certain actions if they are deemed unlawful (prohibited)
- prohibitionist noun: A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
- prohibitionistic adjective: Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
- prohibitive adjective, noun /pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/: Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
- prohibitive mood noun: The negative imperative mood.
- prohibitively adverb: In a prohibitive manner.
- prohibitiveness noun: The quality of being prohibitive.
- prohibitor noun: One who prohibits.
- prohibitorily adverb: In a prohibitory manner.
- prohibitory adjective: That serves to prohibit or forbid
- proholiday adjective: In favour of a public holiday.
- prohormonal adjective: Relating to prohormones.
- prohormone noun: A substance that is a precursor to a hormone, usually having minimal hormonal effect by itself
- prohypertensive adjective: That produces hypertension
- prohypertrophic adjective: That leads to hypertrophy
- proictal adjective: That leads to an ictal attack
- proictogenic adjective: That leads to ictogenesis
- proimmunogenic adjective: That leads to immunogenesis
- proimperialist adjective, noun: Alternative spelling of pro-imperialist.
- proincest adjective: Alternative form of pro-incest.
- proinclusion adjective: Supporting or favouring a policy of inclusion.
- proindustrial adjective: Favoring industry
- proindustry adjective: In favour of industry.
- proinflammation adjective: proinflammatory
- proinflammationary adjective: Alternative form of proinflammatory.
- proinflammatory adjective, noun /ˌpɹoʊ.ɪnˈflæm.əˌtɔɹ.i/: Producing or promoting inflammation.
- proinhibitor noun: Any substance that initiates inhibition
- proinjunction adjective: In favour of an injunction.
- proinsulin noun: A polypeptide that is the prohormone precursor of insulin
- prointervention adjective: In favour of intervention.
- prointerventionist adjective, noun: Supporting an intervention or interventionism.
- proinvasive adjective: That leads to invasion
- proinvestment adjective: In favour of investment.
- proirrigation adjective: In favour of irrigation.
- proisocortex noun: An area of the neocortex
- proisocortical adjective: relating to the proisocortex
- proj. noun: Abbreviation of project.
- projabber noun: Alternative form of pro-jabber.
- projapygid noun: Any dipluran in the family Projapygidae.
- project noun, verb /ˈpɹɒd͡ʒ.ɛkt/: A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- project accounting noun: A type of managerial accounting oriented toward the goals of project management and delivery.
- project-based learning noun: An educational approach centered on student empowerment, where individuals delve into real-world complexities over an extended period.
- project box noun: A casing or enclosure for electronic components, used by hobbyists to house what they build.
- project engineer noun: An engineer who designs and coordinates engineering aspects of a construction project
- project evaluation and review technique noun: Synonym of program evaluation and review technique.
- project evaluation review technique noun: Synonym of program evaluation and review technique.
- project fire noun: A large fire requiring special firefighting measures.
- project manage verb: To carry out project management.
- project management noun: The discipline of organizing and managing resources (e.g. people) in such a way that a project is completed within defined scope, quality, time and cost...
- project manager noun: One who manages projects.
- project nation noun: Synonym of micronation.
- project-oriented adjective: Focusing on delivering a product within a set time frame, budget, and scope.
- projectability noun: The condition of being projectable
- projectable adjective: Able to be projected.
- projectably adverb: In a projectable manner
- projected adjective, verb /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪd/: displayed
- projectedly adverb: According to a projection.
- projectible adjective: Alternative form of projectable.
- projectile adjective, noun /pɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛktʌɪl/: An object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon.
- projectile point noun: The head or tip of a shaft that is thrown (that is, projected away from the user) as a weapon.
- projectile vomit noun, verb: To vomit with great expulsive force, so that the material expelled is projected away from the source.
- projecting adjective, noun, verb /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛktɪŋ/: Sticking out.
- projectingly adverb: In a projecting way.
- projection noun /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/: Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
- projection matrix noun: A transformation matrix whose associated transformation is a projection.
- projection microscope noun: A type of microscope designed to cast magnified images onto a wall or screen for an audience, rather than for use by a single observer at an eyepiece.
- projectional adjective: Of or relating to projection.
- projectionally adverb: By means of projection
- projectionism noun: The idea that individuals form an idea of the external world by projecting their own internal beliefs onto it.
- projectionist noun: A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.
- projectionless adjective: In which 0 and 1 are the only projections.
- projectisation noun: Alternative spelling of projectization
- projectise verb: Alternative form of projectize.
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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.