PRIOR
First name PRIOR's origin is Other. PRIOR means "servant of the priory". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with PRIOR below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of prior.(Brown names are of the same origin (Other) with PRIOR and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming PRIOR
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES PRİOR AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH PRİOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rior) - Names That Ends with rior:
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ior) - Names That Ends with ior:
dior seniorRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (or) - Names That Ends with or:
amaor rigmor hathor nassor senghor antor blamor escalibor zigor thor donkor tor gaynor agenor alphenor anthor castor elpenor fedor kirkor mentor polymestor andor gabor rendor sandor tabor vidor tudor fyodor ifor amor blancheflor caylor dohtor elienor elinor ellinor flor leonor lysanor mor noor taylor anzor ator auctor avidor branor cador calibor cathmor chancellor christofor connor conor cristofor dunmor ector ektor elidor elmoor eskor gregor hector heitor ivor konnor lalor macgregor moor nestor nicanor pryor rainor raynor sagremor salvador saylor skylor sumernor telfor teodor trevor tylor victor whitmoor winsor xalbador xalvador viktor ivankor ixidor feodor etor alastor windsor salhforNAMES RHYMING WITH PRİOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (prio) - Names That Begins with prio:
priourRhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (pri) - Names That Begins with pri:
priam priapus pridwyn priest priestly primavera primeiro prince princeton priscilla priyana priyankaRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (pr) - Names That Begins with pr:
pramlocha pranav pranay prasutagus pratham praza prentice prentiss preost preostcot preostu preruet prescot prescott presley pressley prestin preston prewitt procne procrustes proinsias prokopios prometheus promyse prospero protesilaus proteus prudencia pruet pruie pruitt prunella prunellie pryderi prydwynNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PRİOR:
First Names which starts with 'pr' and ends with 'or':
First Names which starts with 'p' and ends with 'r':
palmer papandr parker parr peadar pedar peer pekar pellanor pepper per peredur peter petr philander pilar piper porter porteur portierEnglish Words Rhyming PRIOR
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PRİOR AS A WHOLE:
apriorism | noun (n.) An a priori principle. |
apriority | noun (n.) The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning. |
prior | adjective (a.) Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage. |
adjective (a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity. | |
adjective (a.) First, precedent, or superior in the order of cognition, reason or generality, origin, development, rank, etc. |
priorate | noun (n.) The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. |
prioress | noun (n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess. |
priority | adjective (a.) The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. |
adjective (a.) Precedence; superior rank. |
priorship | noun (n.) The state or office of prior; priorate. |
priory | noun (n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. |
subprior | noun (n.) The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PRİOR (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rior) - English Words That Ends with rior:
anterior | adjective (a.) Before in time; antecedent. |
adjective (a.) Before, or toward the front, in place; as, the anterior part of the mouth; -- opposed to posterior. |
exterior | noun (n.) The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside. |
noun (n.) Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion. | |
adjective (a.) External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. | |
adjective (a.) External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. | |
adjective (a.) Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. |
inferior | noun (n.) A person lower in station, rank, intellect, etc., than another. |
adjective (a.) Lower in place, rank, excellence, etc.; less important or valuable; subordinate; underneath; beneath. | |
adjective (a.) Poor or mediocre; as, an inferior quality of goods. | |
adjective (a.) Nearer the sun than the earth is; as, the inferior or interior planets; an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus. | |
adjective (a.) Below the horizon; as, the inferior part of a meridian. | |
adjective (a.) Situated below some other organ; -- said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx. | |
adjective (a.) On the side of a flower which is next the bract; anterior. | |
adjective (a.) Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. |
interior | noun (n.) That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside. |
noun (n.) The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. | |
adjective (a.) Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; -- opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball. | |
adjective (a.) Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. |
posterior | adjective (a.) Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. |
adjective (a.) Situated behind; hinder; -- opposed to anterior. | |
adjective (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal. | |
adjective (a.) On the side next the axis of inflorescence; -- said of an axillary flower. |
superior | noun (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English. |
noun (n.) The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like. | |
adjective (a.) More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image. | |
adjective (a.) Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility. | |
adjective (a.) Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery. | |
adjective (a.) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to. | |
adjective (a.) More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species. | |
adjective (a.) Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior. | |
adjective (a.) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle. |
trior | noun (n.) Same as Trier, 2 and 3. |
ulterior | noun (n.) Ulterior side or part. |
adjective (a.) Situated beyond, or on the farther side; thither; -- correlative with hither. | |
adjective (a.) Further; remoter; more distant; succeeding; as, ulterior demands or propositions; ulterior views; what ulterior measures will be adopted is uncertain. |
warrior | noun (n.) A man engaged or experienced in war, or in the military life; a soldier; a champion. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ior) - English Words That Ends with ior:
behavior | noun (n.) Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. |
excelsior | noun (n.) A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair. |
verb (v. t.) More lofty; still higher; ever upward. |
havior | noun (n.) Behavior; demeanor. |
junior | noun (n.) Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life. |
noun (n.) A younger person. | |
noun (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course. | |
adjective (a.) Less advanced in age than another; younger. | |
adjective (a.) Lower in standing or in rank; later in office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain. | |
adjective (a.) Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2. |
misbehavior | noun (n.) Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. |
pavior | noun (n.) One who paves; a paver. |
noun (n.) A rammer for driving paving stones. | |
noun (n.) A brick or slab used for paving. |
seignior | noun (n.) A lord; the lord of a manor. |
noun (n.) A title of honor or of address in the South of Europe, corresponding to Sir or Mr. in English. |
senior | noun (n.) A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life. |
noun (n.) One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade. | |
noun (n.) An aged person; an older. | |
noun (n.) One in the fourth or final year of his collegiate course at an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at a seminary. | |
adjective (a.) More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools. |
signior | noun (n.) Sir; Mr. The English form and pronunciation for the Italian Signor and the Spanish Se–or. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PRİOR (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (prio) - Words That Begins with prio:
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pri) - Words That Begins with pri:
prigidity | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being frigid; coldness; want of warmth. |
noun (n.) Want of ardor, animation, vivacity, etc.; coldness of affection or of manner; dullness; stiffness and formality; as, frigidity of a reception, of a bow, etc. | |
noun (n.) Want of heat or vigor; as, the frigidity of old age. |
prial | noun (n.) A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n. |
prian | noun (n.) A fine, white, somewhat friable clay; also, the ore contained in a mixture of clay and pebbles. |
priapean | noun (n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. |
priapism | noun (n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire. |
priapulacea | noun (n. pl.) A suborder of Gephyraea, having a cylindrical body with a terminal anal opening, and usually with one or two caudal gills. |
pricasour | noun (n.) A hard rider. |
price | noun (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost. |
noun (n. & v.) Value; estimation; excellence; worth. | |
noun (n. & v.) Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. | |
verb (v. t.) To pay the price of. | |
verb (v. t.) To set a price on; to value. See Prize. | |
verb (v. t.) To ask the price of; as, to price eggs. |
pricing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Price |
priced | adjective (a.) Rated in price; valued; as, high-priced goods; low-priced labor. |
(imp. & p. p.) of Price |
priceite | noun (n.) A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon. |
priceless | adjective (a.) Too valuable to admit of being appraised; of inestimable worth; invaluable. |
adjective (a.) Of no value; worthless. |
pricking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick |
noun (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. | |
noun (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. | |
noun (n.) Same as Nicking. | |
noun (n.) A sensation of being pricked. | |
noun (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. | |
noun (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking. |
prick | noun (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. |
noun (n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. | |
noun (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. | |
noun (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. | |
noun (n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. | |
noun (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. | |
noun (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. | |
noun (n.) To render acid or pungent. | |
noun (n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. | |
noun (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. | |
noun (n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. | |
noun (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. | |
noun (n.) To nick. | |
verb (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. | |
verb (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. | |
verb (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. | |
verb (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. | |
verb (v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. | |
verb (v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. | |
verb (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. | |
verb (v.) The footprint of a hare. | |
verb (v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. | |
verb (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. | |
verb (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback. | |
verb (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. | |
verb (v. i.) To aim at a point or mark. |
pricker | noun (n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. |
noun (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman. | |
noun (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery. | |
noun (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. |
pricket | noun (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. |
prickle | noun (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. |
noun (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. | |
noun (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds. | |
verb (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points. |
prickleback | noun (n.) Alt. of Pricklefish |
pricklefish | noun (n.) The stickleback. |
prickliness | noun (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles. |
prickling | adjective (a.) Prickly. |
pricklouse | noun (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt. |
prickly | adjective (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. |
prickmadam | noun (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop. |
prickpunch | noun (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal. |
prickshaft | noun (n.) An arrow. |
prickwood | noun (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree. |
pricky | adjective (a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly. |
pride | noun (n.) A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper. |
noun (n.) The quality or state of being proud; inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, rank, etc., which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others. | |
noun (n.) A sense of one's own worth, and abhorrence of what is beneath or unworthy of one; lofty self-respect; noble self-esteem; elevation of character; dignified bearing; proud delight; -- in a good sense. | |
noun (n.) Proud or disdainful behavior or treatment; insolence or arrogance of demeanor; haughty bearing and conduct; insolent exultation; disdain. | |
noun (n.) That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self-gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. | |
noun (n.) Show; ostentation; glory. | |
noun (n.) Highest pitch; elevation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. | |
noun (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast. | |
verb (v. t.) To indulge in pride, or self-esteem; to rate highly; to plume; -- used reflexively. | |
verb (v. i.) To be proud; to glory. |
priding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pride |
prideful | adjective (a.) Full of pride; haughty. |
prideless | adjective (a.) Without pride. |
pridian | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. |
prie | noun (n.) The plant privet. |
verb (v. i.) To pry. |
priedieu | noun (n.) A kneeling desk for prayers. |
prief | noun (n.) Proof. |
prier | noun (n.) One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive. |
priest | noun (n.) A presbyter elder; a minister |
noun (n.) One who is authorized to consecrate the host and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest order possessing this power. | |
noun (n.) A presbyter; one who belongs to the intermediate order between bishop and deacon. He is authorized to perform all ministerial services except those of ordination and confirmation. | |
noun (n.) One who officiates at the altar, or performs the rites of sacrifice; one who acts as a mediator between men and the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests. | |
verb (v. t.) To ordain as priest. |
priestcap | noun (n.) A form of redan, so named from its shape; -- called also swallowtail. |
priestcraft | noun (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. |
priestery | noun (n.) Priests, collectively; the priesthood; -- so called in contempt. |
priestess | noun (n.) A woman who officiated in sacred rites among pagans. |
priesthood | noun (n.) The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. |
noun (n.) Priests, taken collectively; the order of men set apart for sacred offices; the order of priests. |
priesting | noun (n.) The office of a priest. |
priestism | noun (n.) The influence, doctrines, principles, etc., of priests or the priesthood. |
priestless | adjective (a.) Without a priest. |
priestlike | adjective (a.) Priestly. |
priestliness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being priestly. |
priestly | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. |
prigging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prig |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PRİOR:
English Words which starts with 'pr' and ends with 'or':
praetor | noun (n.) See Pretor. |
precentor | noun (n.) A leader of a choir; a directing singer. |
noun (n.) The leader of the choir in a cathedral; -- called also the chanter or master of the choir. | |
noun (n.) The leader of the congregational singing in Scottish and other churches. |
preceptor | noun (n.) One who gives commands, or makes rules; specifically, the master or principal of a school; a teacher; an instructor. |
noun (n.) The head of a preceptory among the Knights Templars. |
precessor | noun (n.) A predecessor. |
precipitator | noun (n.) One who precipitates, or urges on with vehemence or rashness. |
precursor | noun (n.) One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger. |
predecessor | noun (n.) One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position. |
predestinator | noun (n.) One who predestinates, or foreordains. |
noun (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of predestination; a predestinarian. |
predictor | noun (n.) One who predicts; a foreteller. |
preemtor | noun (n.) One who preempts; esp., one who preempts public land. |
prelector | noun (n.) A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. |
premonitor | noun (n.) One who, or that which, gives premonition. |
premonstrator | noun (n.) One who, or that which, premonstrates. |
preparator | noun (n.) One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. |
prepositor | noun (n.) A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor. |
prepossessor | noun (n.) One who possesses, or occupies, previously. |
prepostor | noun (n.) See Prepositor. |
pressor | adjective (a.) Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. |
prestidigitator | noun (n.) One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler. |
prestigiator | noun (n.) A juggler; prestidigitator. |
presultor | noun (n.) A leader in the dance. |
pretor | noun (n.) A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans. |
noun (n.) Hence, a mayor or magistrate. |
prevaricator | noun (n.) One who prevaricates. |
noun (n.) A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution. | |
noun (n.) One who betrays or abuses a trust. |
primogenitor | noun (n.) The first ancestor; a forefather. |
probator | noun (n.) An examiner; an approver. |
noun (n.) One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence. |
procrastinator | noun (n.) One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything. |
procreator | noun (n.) One who begets; a father or sire; a generator. |
proctor | noun (n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another. |
noun (n.) A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar. | |
noun (n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity. | |
noun (n.) A representative of the clergy in convocation. | |
noun (n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution. | |
verb (v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent. |
procurator | noun (n.) One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. |
noun (n.) A governor of a province under the emperors; also, one who had charge of the imperial revenues in a province; as, the procurator of Judea. |
proitor | noun (n.) A traitor. |
professor | noun (n.) One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. |
noun (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy. |
progenitor | noun (n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. |
prognosticator | noun (n.) One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs. |
projector | noun (n.) One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. |
noun (n.) An optical instrument for projecting a picture upon a screen, as by a magic lantern or by an instrument for projecting (by reflection instead of transmission of light) a picture of an opaque object, as photographs, picture post-cards, insects, etc., in the colors of the object itself. In this latter form the projection is accomplished by means of a combination of lenses with a prism and a mirror or reflector. Specific instruments have been called by different names, such as radiopticon, mirrorscope, balopticon, etc. |
prolocutor | noun (n.) One who speaks for another. |
noun (n.) The presiding officer of a convocation. |
promisor | noun (n.) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. |
promulgator | noun (n.) One who promulgates or publishes. |
pronator | noun (n.) A muscle which produces pronation. |
pronunciator | noun (n.) One who pronounces; a pronouncer. |
propagator | noun (n.) One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies. |
propitiator | noun (n.) One who propitiates or appeases. |
propretor | noun (n.) A magistrate who, having been pretor at home, was appointed to the government of a province. |
proprietor | noun (n.) One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill. |
proproctor | noun (n.) A assistant proctor. |
prorector | noun (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university. |
prosector | noun (n.) One who makes dissections for anatomical illustration; usually, the assistant of a professional anatomist. |
prosecutor | noun (n.) One who prosecutes or carries on any purpose, plan, or business. |
noun (n.) The person who institutes and carries on a criminal suit against another in the name of the government. |
prospector | noun (n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals. |
prostitutor | noun (n.) One who prostitutes; one who submits himself, of or offers another, to vile purposes. |
protector | noun (n.) One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron. |
noun (n.) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent. | |
noun (n.) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc. |
protestator | noun (n.) One who makes protestation; a protester. |
protractor | noun (n.) One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction. |
noun (n.) A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular. | |
noun (n.) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound. | |
noun (n.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor. | |
noun (n.) An adjustable pattern used by tailors. |
proveditor | noun (n.) One employed to procure supplies, as for an army, a steamer, etc.; a purveyor; one who provides for another. |
provisor | noun (n.) One who provides; a purveyor. |
noun (n.) The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. | |
noun (n.) One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision, 5. | |
noun (n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6. |