First Names Rhyming PROMETHEUS
English Words Rhyming PROMETHEUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES PROMETHEUS AS A WHOLE:
| prometheus | noun (n.) The son of Iapetus (one of the Titans) and Clymene, fabled by the poets to have surpassed all mankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PROMETHEUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 9 Letters (rometheus) - English Words That Ends with rometheus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (ometheus) - English Words That Ends with ometheus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (metheus) - English Words That Ends with metheus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (etheus) - English Words That Ends with etheus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (theus) - English Words That Ends with theus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (heus) - English Words That Ends with heus:
| archeus | noun (n.) The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. |
| cepheus | noun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia. |
| corypheus | noun (n.) The conductor, chief, or leader of the dramatic chorus; hence, the chief or leader of a party or interest. |
| morpheus | noun (n.) The god of dreams. |
| orpheus | noun (n.) The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (eus) - English Words That Ends with eus:
| aculeus | noun (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. |
| | noun (n.) A sting. |
| alveus | noun (n.) The channel of a river. |
| anconeus | noun (n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm. |
| caduceus | noun (n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top. |
| cereus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili. |
| choreus | noun (n.) Alt. of Choree |
| clypeus | noun (n.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect. |
| coccosteus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles. |
| coleus | noun (n.) A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves. |
| glutaeus | noun (n.) The great muscle of the buttock in man and most mammals, and the corresponding muscle in many lower animals. |
| gluteus | noun (n.) Same as Glut/us. |
| ileus | noun (n.) A morbid condition due to intestinal obstruction. It is characterized by complete constipation, with griping pains in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, / iliac, passion. |
| malleus | noun (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. |
| | noun (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell. |
| nucleus | noun (n.) A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively. |
| | noun (n.) The body or the head of a comet. |
| | noun (n.) An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue. |
| | noun (n.) A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats. |
| | noun (n.) A body, usually spheroidal, in a cell or a protozoan, distinguished from the surrounding protoplasm by a difference in refrangibility and in behavior towards chemical reagents. It is more or less protoplasmic, and consists of a clear fluid (achromatin) through which extends a network of fibers (chromatin) in which may be suspended a second rounded body, the nucleolus (see Nucleoplasm). See Cell division, under Division. |
| | noun (n.) The tip, or earliest part, of a univalve or bivalve shell. |
| | noun (n.) The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum. |
| | noun (n.) A visceral mass, containing the stomach and other organs, in Tunicata and some mollusks. |
| paranucleus | noun (n.) Some as Nucleolus. |
| perseus | noun (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa. |
| | noun (n.) A consellation of the northern hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula. |
| pileus | noun (n.) A kind of skull cap of felt. |
| | noun (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom. |
| | noun (n.) The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape. |
| pluteus | noun (n.) The free-swimming larva of sea urchins and ophiurans, having several long stiff processes inclosing calcareous rods. |
| pronucleus | noun (n.) One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. |
| proteus | noun (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of aquatic eel-shaped amphibians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak. |
| | noun (n.) A changeable protozoan; an amoeba. |
| reflueus | adjective (a.) Refluent. |
| scarabaeus | noun (n.) Same as Scarab. |
| | noun (n.) A conventionalized representation of a beetle, with its legs held closely at its sides, carved in natural or made in baked clay, and commonly having an inscription on the flat underside. |
| trinucleus | noun (n.) A genus of Lower Silurian trilobites in which the glabella and cheeks form three rounded elevations on the head. |
| uraeus | noun (n.) A serpent, or serpent's head and neck, represented on the front of the headdresses of divinities and sovereigns as an emblem of supreme power. |
| zeus | noun (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH PROMETHEUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 9 Letters (prometheu) - Words That Begins with prometheu:
Rhyming Words According to First 8 Letters (promethe) - Words That Begins with promethe:
| promethea | noun (n.) A large American bombycid moth (Callosamia promethea). Its larva feeds on the sassafras, wild cherry, and other trees, and suspends its cocoon from a branch by a silken band. |
| promethean | noun (n.) An apparatus for automatic ignition. |
| | noun (n.) A kind of lucifer match. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Prometheus. See Prometheus. |
| | adjective (a.) Having a life-giving quality; inspiring. |
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (prometh) - Words That Begins with prometh:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (promet) - Words That Begins with promet:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (prome) - Words That Begins with prome:
| promenade | noun (n.) A walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. |
| | noun (n.) A place for walking; a public walk. |
| | verb (v. i.) To walk for pleasure, display, or exercise. |
| promenading | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promenade |
| promenader | noun (n.) One who promenades. |
| promerops | noun (n.) Any one of several species of very brilliant birds belonging to Promerops, Epimarchus, and allied genera, closely related to the paradise birds, and mostly native of New Guinea. They have a long curved beak and a long graduated tail. |
| promerphological | adjective (a.) Relating to promorphology; as, a promorphological conception. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (prom) - Words That Begins with prom:
| promanation | noun (n.) The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. |
| prominence | noun (n.) Alt. of Prominency |
| prominency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. |
| | noun (n.) That which is prominent; a protuberance. |
| prominent | adjective (a.) Standing out, or projecting, beyond the line surface of something; jutting; protuberant; in high relief; as, a prominent figure on a vase. |
| | adjective (a.) Hence; Distinctly manifest; likely to attract attention from its size or position; conspicuous; as, a prominent feature of the face; a prominent building. |
| | adjective (a.) Eminent; distinguished above others; as, a prominent character. |
| promiscuity | noun (n.) Promiscuousness; confusion. |
| promiscuous | adjective (a.) Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. |
| | adjective (a.) Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse. |
| promiscuousness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being promiscuous. |
| promise | adjective (a.) In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specified act; a declaration which gives to the person to whom it is made a right to expect or to claim the performance or forbearance of a specified act. |
| | adjective (a.) An engagement by one person to another, either in words or in writing, but properly not under seal, for the performance or nonperformance of some particular thing. The word promise is used to denote the mere engagement of a person, without regard to the consideration for it, or the corresponding duty of the party to whom it is made. |
| | adjective (a.) That which causes hope, expectation, or assurance; especially, that which affords expectation of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise. |
| | adjective (a.) Bestowal, fulfillment, or grant of what is promised. |
| | verb (v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To afford reason to expect; to cause hope or assurance of; as, the clouds promise rain. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make declaration of or give assurance of, as some benefit to be conferred; to pledge or engage to bestow; as, the proprietors promised large tracts of land; the city promised a reward. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give assurance by a promise, or binding declaration. |
| | verb (v. i.) To afford hopes or expectation; to give ground to expect good; rarely, to give reason to expect evil. |
| promising | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promise |
| | adjective (a.) Making a promise or promises; affording hope or assurance; as, promising person; a promising day. |
| promisee | noun (n.) The person to whom a promise is made. |
| promiser | noun (n.) One who promises. |
| promisor | noun (n.) One who engages or undertakes; a promiser. |
| promissive | adjective (a.) Making a promise; implying a promise; promising. |
| promissory | adjective (a.) Containing a promise or binding declaration of something to be done or forborne. |
| promont | noun (n.) Promontory. |
| promontory | noun (n.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. |
| | noun (n.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear. |
| promorphologist | noun (n.) One versed in the science of promorphology. |
| promorphology | noun (n.) Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See Tectology. |
| promoting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promote |
| promoter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. |
| | noun (n.) Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation, a joint-stock company, or the like. |
| | noun (n.) One who excites; as, a promoter of sedition. |
| | noun (n.) An informer; a makebate. |
| promottion | noun (n.) The act of promoting, advancing, or encouraging; the act of exalting in rank or honor; also, the condition of being advanced, encouraged, or exalted in honor; preferment. |
| promotive | adjective (a.) Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. |
| promover | noun (n.) A promoter. |
| prompt | noun (n.) A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note. |
| | verb (v. t.) To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite. |
| | verb (v. t.) To suggest; to dictate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To remind, as an actor or an orator, of words or topics forgotten. |
| prompting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prompt |
| prompter | noun (n.) One who, or that which, prompts; one who admonishes or incites to action. |
| | noun (n.) One who reminds another, as an actor or an orator, of the words to be spoken next; specifically, one employed for this purpose in a theater. |
| promptitude | adjective (a.) The quality of being prompt; quickness of decision and action when occasion demands; alacrity; as, promptitude in obedience. |
| promptness | noun (n.) Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. |
| | noun (n.) Cheerful willingness; alacrity. |
| promptuary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to preparation. |
| | adjective (a.) That from which supplies are drawn; a storehouse; a magazine; a repository. |
| prompture | adjective (a.) Suggestion; incitement; prompting. |
| promulgating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promulgate |
| promulgation | noun (n.) The act of promulgating; publication; open declaration; as, the promulgation of the gospel. |
| promulgator | noun (n.) One who promulgates or publishes. |
| promulging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Promulge |
| promulger | noun (n.) One who promulges or publishes what was before unknown. |
| promuscis | noun (n.) The proboscis of hemipterous insects. See Illust. under Hemiptera. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (pro) - Words That Begins with pro:
| pro | adjective (a.) A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth. |
| | adverb (adv.) For, on, or in behalf of, the affirmative side; -- in contrast with con. |
| proa | noun (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known. |
| proatlas | noun (n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles. |
| probabiliorism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the probabiliorists. |
| probabiliorist | noun (n.) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right. |
| probabilism | noun (n.) The doctrine of the probabilists. |
| probabilist | noun (n.) One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions. |
| | noun (n.) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable. |
| probability | noun (n.) The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. |
| | noun (n.) That which is or appears probable; anything that has the appearance of reality or truth. |
| | noun (n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5. |
| probable | adjective (a.) Capable of being proved. |
| | adjective (a.) Having more evidence for than against; supported by evidence which inclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. |
| | adjective (a.) Rendering probable; supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating; as, probable evidence; probable presumption. |
| probacy | noun (n.) Proof; trial. |
| probal | adjective (a.) Approved; probable. |
| probality | noun (n.) Probability. |
| probang | noun (n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc. |
| probate | noun (n.) Proof. |
| | noun (n.) Official proof; especially, the proof before a competent officer or tribunal that an instrument offered, purporting to be the last will and testament of a person deceased, is indeed his lawful act; the copy of a will proved, under the seal of the Court of Probate, delivered to the executors with a certificate of its having been proved. |
| | noun (n.) The right or jurisdiction of proving wills. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, a probate record. |
| | verb (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will. |
| probation | noun (n.) The act of proving; also, that which proves anything; proof. |
| | noun (n.) Any proceeding designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation. |
| | noun (n.) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. |
| | noun (n.) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. |
| | noun (n.) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state. |
| probational | adjective (a.) Probationary. |
| probationary | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. |
| probationer | noun (n.) One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. |
| | noun (n.) A student in divinity, who, having received certificates of good morals and qualifications from his university, is admitted to several trials by a presbytery, and, on acquitting himself well, is licensed to preach. |
| probationership | noun (n.) The state of being a probationer; novitiate. |
| probationship | noun (n.) A state of probation. |
| probative | adjective (a.) Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. |
| 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. |
| probatory | adjective (a.) Serving for trial; probationary. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or serving for, proof. |
| probing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Probe |
| probe | noun (n.) An instrument for examining the depth or other circumstances of a wound, ulcer, or cavity, or the direction of a sinus, of for exploring for bullets, for stones in the bladder, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe. |
| | verb (v. t.) Fig.: to search to the bottom; to scrutinize or examine thoroughly. |
| probeagle | noun (n.) See Porbeagle. |
| probity | noun (n.) Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. |
| problem | noun (n.) A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt. |
| | noun (n.) Anything which is required to be done; as, in geometry, to bisect a line, to draw a perpendicular; or, in algebra, to find an unknown quantity. |
| problematic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Problematical |
| problematical | adjective (a.) Having the nature of a problem; not shown in fact; questionable; uncertain; unsettled; doubtful. |
| problematist | noun (n.) One who proposes problems. |
| proboscidate | adjective (a.) Having a proboscis; proboscidial. |
| proboscidea | noun (n. pl.) An order of large mammals including the elephants and mastodons. |
| proboscidean | adjective (a.) Proboscidian. |
| proboscidial | adjective (a.) Proboscidate. |
| proboscidian | noun (n.) One of the Proboscidea. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Proboscidea. |
| proboscidifera | noun (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle. |
| | noun (n. pl.) A subdivision of the taenioglossate gastropods, including the fig-shells (Pyrula), the helmet shells (Cassis), the tritons, and allied genera. |
| proboscidiform | adjective (a.) Having the form or uses of a proboscis; as, a proboscidiform mouth. |
| proboscis | noun (n.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk. |
| | noun (n.) By extension, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded. |
| | noun (n.) The nose. |
| procacious | adjective (a.) Pert; petulant; forward; saucy. |
| procacity | noun (n.) Forwardness; pertness; petulance. |
| procambium | noun (n.) The young tissue of a fibrovascular bundle before its component cells have begun to be differentiated. |
| procatarctic | adjective (a.) Beginning; predisposing; exciting; initial. |
| procatarxis | noun (n.) The kindling of a disease into action; also, the procatarctic cause. |
| procedendo | noun (n.) A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there. |
| | noun (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment. |
| | noun (n.) A writ by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. |
| procedure | noun (n.) The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct. |
| | noun (n.) A step taken; an act performed; a proceeding; the steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding. |
| | noun (n.) That which results; issue; product. |
| proceeding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proceed |
| | noun (n.) The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding. |
| | noun (n.) The course of procedure in the prosecution of an action at law. |
| proceed | noun (n.) See Proceeds. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. |
| | verb (v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument. |
| | verb (v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process. |
| proceeder | noun (n.) One who proceeds. |
| proceeds | noun (n. pl.) That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH PROMETHEUS:
English Words which starts with 'prom' and ends with 'heus':
English Words which starts with 'pro' and ends with 'eus':
English Words which starts with 'pr' and ends with 'us':
| prasinous | adjective (a.) Grass-green; clear, lively green, without any mixture. |
| preambulous | noun (n.) See Perambulatory. |
| precarious | adjective (a.) Depending on the will or pleasure of another; held by courtesy; liable to be changed or lost at the pleasure of another; as, precarious privileges. |
| | adjective (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes. |
| precautious | adjective (a.) Taking or using precaution; precautionary. |
| precedaneous | adjective (a.) Preceding; antecedent; previous. |
| precious | adjective (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone. |
| | adjective (a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections. |
| | adjective (a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice. |
| | adjective (a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice; overrefined. Cf. Precieuse, Preciosity. |
| precipitious | adjective (a.) Precipitous. |
| precipitous | adjective (a.) Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain. |
| | adjective (a.) Headlong; as, precipitous fall. |
| | adjective (a.) Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. |
| precocious | adjective (a.) Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees. |
| | adjective (a.) Developed more than is natural or usual at a given age; exceeding what is to be expected of one's years; too forward; -- used especially of mental forwardness; as, a precocious child; precocious talents. |
| preconscious | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness. |
| predaceous | adjective (a.) Living by prey; predatory. |
| preludious | adjective (a.) Preludial. |
| premious | adjective (a.) Rich in gifts. |
| prenuncious | adjective (a.) Announcing beforehand; presaging. |
| preposterous | adjective (a.) Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. |
| | adjective (a.) Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted. |
| presagious | adjective (a.) Foreboding; ominous. |
| presentaneous | adjective (a.) Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. |
| prestigious | adjective (a.) Practicing tricks; juggling. |
| presumptuous | adjective (a.) Full of presumption; presuming; overconfident or venturesome; audacious; rash; taking liberties unduly; arrogant; insolent; as, a presumptuous commander; presumptuous conduct. |
| | adjective (a.) Founded on presumption; as, a presumptuous idea. |
| | adjective (a.) Done with hold design, rash confidence, or in violation of known duty; willful. |
| pretentious | adjective (a.) Full of pretension; disposed to lay claim to more than is one's; presuming; assuming. |
| previous | adjective (a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. |
| primevous | adjective (a.) Primeval. |
| primigenious | adjective (a.) Alt. of Primigenous |
| primigenous | adjective (a.) First formed or generated; original; primigenial. |
| primiparous | adjective (a.) Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time. |
| primulaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to an order of herbaceous plants (Primulaceae), of which the primrose is the type, and the pimpernel, the cyclamen, and the water violet are other examples. |
| primus | noun (n.) One of the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, who presides at the meetings of the bishops, and has certain privileges but no metropolitan authority. |
| procellous | adjective (a.) Stormy. |
| prociduous | adjective (a.) Falling from its proper place. |
| proclivous | adjective (a.) Inclined; tending by nature. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the incisor teeth directed forward. |
| procoelous | adjective (a.) Same as Procoelian. |
| prodigious | adjective (a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. |
| | adjective (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder. |
| proditorious | adjective (a.) Treacherous; perfidious; traitorous. |
| | adjective (a.) Apt to make unexpected revelations. |
| prodromous | adjective (a.) Precursory. |
| prodromus | noun (n.) A prodrome. |
| | noun (n.) A preliminary course or publication; -- used esp. in the titles of elementary works. |
| productus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. |
| profectitious | adjective (a.) Proceeding from, as from a parent; derived, as from an ancestor. |
| proficuous | adjective (a.) Profitable; advantageous; useful. |
| prognathous | adjective (a.) Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; -- opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. |
| prolapsus | noun (n.) Prolapse. |
| proletaneous | adjective (a.) Having a numerous offspring. |
| proliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae. |
| | adjective (a.) Producing young by budding. |
| | adjective (a.) Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid. |
| | adjective (a.) Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals. |
| prolixious | adjective (a.) Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. |
| propithecus | noun (n.) A genus including the long-tailed, or diadem, indris. See Indris. |
| propitious | adjective (a.) Convenient; auspicious; favorable; kind; as, a propitious season; a propitious breeze. |
| | adjective (a.) Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity. |
| prospectus | noun (n.) A summary, plan, or scheme of something proposed, affording a prospect of its nature; especially, an exposition of the scheme of an unpublished literary work. |
| prosperous | adjective (a.) Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful. |
| | adjective (a.) Being prospered; advancing in the pursuit of anything desirable; making gain, or increase; thriving; successful; as, a prosperous voyage; a prosperous undertaking; a prosperous man or nation. |
| prostibulous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes or prostitution; meretricious. |
| protandrous | adjective (a.) Proterandrous. |
| proteaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Proteaceae, an order of apetalous evergreen shrubs, mostly natives of the Cape of Good Hope or of Australia. |
| proteinaceous | adjective (a.) Of or related to protein; albuminous; proteid. |
| proteinous | adjective (a.) Proteinaceuos. |
| proterandrous | adjective (a.) Having the stamens come to maturity before the pistil; -- opposed to proterogynous. |
| proteranthous | adjective (a.) Having flowers appearing before the leaves; -- said of certain plants. |
| proterogynous | adjective (a.) Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens; protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous. |
| proterosaurus | noun (n.) An extinct genus of reptiles of the Permian period. Called also Protosaurus. |
| prothallus | noun (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc. |
| protococcus | noun (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis). |
| protogynous | adjective (a.) Same as Proterogynous. |
| protohippus | noun (n.) A genus of fossil horses from the Lower Pliocene. They had three toes on each foot, the lateral ones being small. |
| protopterus | noun (n.) See Komtok. |
| protuberous | adjective (a.) Protuberant. |
| proventriulus | noun (n.) The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. |
| proximious | adjective (a.) Proximate. |
| pruinous | adjective (a.) Frosty; pruinose. |
| pruniferous | adjective (a.) Bearing plums. |
| prunus | noun (n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. |
| pruriginous | adjective (a.) Tending to, or caused by, prurigo; affected by, or of the nature of, prurigo. |
| pruritus | noun (n.) Itching. |
