Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/66

prevail upon

• prevail upon, argue into, bring over, bring round, bring to reason, captivate, charm, con, convince, draw over, gain, gain over, hook, hook in, outtalk, persuade, prevail on, prevail with, sell, sell one on, sway, talk into, talk over, wangle, wangle into, wear down, win, win over

prevail

• prevail, abide, affect, argue into, be, be blooded, be extant, be found, be in, be in existence, be in force, be met with, be present, be successful, be the case, be the rage, be the rule, be the thing, be there, be victorious, beat, best, bestride, better, bide, break the record, breathe, bring around, bring round, cap, carry on, catch on, click, come off, connect, continue, continue the same, continue to be, convince, defeat time, defy time, dictate, dispose, dominate, domineer, drag along, drag on, draw, drone, dwell, endure, exceed, excel, exist, extend, farewell, get, go, go great guns, go off, go on, go one better, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, happen to be, have being, have place, have the ascendancy, hold, hold on, hold out, hum, impress, improve on, incline, induce, influence, keep, keep on, last, last long, last out, live, live on, live through, maintain, make a hit, master, meet with success, obtain, occur, outweigh, overbalance, overbear, overcome, overpass, overtop, pass, perdure, perennate, perfect, persist, persuade, play first fiddle, predominate, preponderate, prompt, prosper, qualify, reign, remain, rule, rule the roost, run, run on, run through, stand, stay, stay on, subsist, succeed, surpass, survive, sustain, sway, take, take the lead, talk into, tarry, tide over, top, tower above, tower over, transcend, triumph, trump, twist, wear, wear the pants, wear well, win, win out, win over, work well, work wonders

prevailing

• prevailing, abounding, abundant, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, ado, affecting, affluent, afloat, afoot, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, arch, ascendant, average, banner, besetting, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, circumstantial, common, commonplace, conquering, conventional, copious, crowning, current, customary, defeating, diffuse, doing, dominant, dominating, effective, effectual, effuse, epidemic, eventuating, everyday, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, familiar, fat, fertile, first, flush, flushed with success, focal, forceful, foremost, full, galore, general, generous, going on, great, habitual, happening, headmost, hegemonic, household, in ascendancy, in hand, in plenty, in quantity, in the ascendant, in the wind, incidental, inexhaustible, influential, lavish, leading, liberal, luxuriant, magisterial, main, many, master, maximal, much, normal, normative, numerous, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, on the throne, ongoing, opulent, ordinary, overcoming, overflowing, overruling, pandemic, paramount, passing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, popular, potent, powerful, predominant, predominating, preeminent, prepollent, preponderant, prepotent, prescriptive, prevalent, primal, primary, prime, principal, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, ranking, regnant, regular, regulation, reigning, replete, resultant, rich, rife, riotous, routine, ruling, running, running over, sovereign, standard, star, stellar, stereotyped, stock, successful, superabundant, supereminent, swaying, taking place, teeming, telling, topflight, triumphal, triumphant, under way, universal, usual, vanquishing, vernacular, victorious, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, widespread, winning, wonted

prevalence

• prevalence, abundance, acceptance, accustomedness, affluence, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, ascendancy, avalanche, averageness, bon ton, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bumper crop, common occurrence, commonality, commonness, commonplaceness, confirmedness, control, copiousness, currency, customariness, extensiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fashionableness, fertility, fixedness, flood, flow, foison, frequence, frequency, full measure, fullness, generality, generosity, generousness, great abundance, great plenty, gush, habitualness, incidence, inveteracy, inveterateness, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mastery, maximum, modishness, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, normality, numerousness, oftenness, omnipresence, opulence, opulency, ordinariness, outpouring, overflow, pervasiveness, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, popularity, practice, predominance, primacy, prodigality, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, quantities, rampantness, reign, relative incidence, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rifeness, riot, riotousness, routineness, rule, run, scads, settledness, shower, spate, standardness, stream, stylishness, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, sway, sweepingness, teemingness, ubiquity, universality, usualness, voguishness, wealth, widespreadness, wontedness

prevalent

• prevalent, abounding, abundant, accepted, accidental, accompanying, ado, affluent, afloat, afoot, all the rage, all the thing, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, ascendant, at the head, average, being, besetting, boss, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, catholic, chief, circumstantial, commanding, common, commonplace, conformable, consuetudinary, controlling, conventional, copious, current, customary, diffuse, doing, dominant, effuse, epidemic, established, eventuating, everyday, exhaustless, existent, existing, extant, extensive, extravagant, exuberant, familiar, fashionable, fat, fertile, flush, frequent, frequentative, full, galore, general, generally accepted, generous, going on, governing, habitual, happening, head, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hip, in ascendancy, in being, in charge, in chief, in effect, in existence, in fashion, in force, in hand, in plenty, in quantity, in style, in the ascendant, in the wind, in vogue, incidental, inexhaustible, lavish, leading, liberal, living, luxuriant, many, many times, master, maximal, mod, modern, much, new, newfashioned, normal, not rare, numerous, obtaining, occasional, occurring, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, omnipresent, on, on foot, ongoing, opulent, ordinary, overbearing, overflowing, pandemic, paramount, passing, pervasive, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, popular, predominant, predominate, predominating, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prescribed, prescriptive, present, prevailing, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, rampant, received, recurrent, regnant, regular, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory, reigning, replete, resultant, rich, rife, riotous, routine, ruling, running, running over, set, smart, sovereign, standard, stereotyped, stock, subsistent, subsisting, superabundant, supreme, taking place, teeming, thick-coming, time-honored, traditional, trendy, ubiquitous, under the sun, under way, universal, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, usual, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, widespread, wonted

prevaricate

• prevaricate, around the bush, back and fill, be untruthful, beat about, beg the question, belie, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, deceive, dodge, draw the longbow, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, exaggerate, falsify, fence, fib, garble, hedge, hem and haw, hum and haw, lie, lie flatly, mince the truth, mince words, mislead, misrepresent, mystify, nitpick, obscure, palter, parry, pick nits, pussyfoot, quibble, shift, shuffle, shy, sidestep, speak falsely, split hairs, story, stretch the truth, tell a lie, tergiversate, waffle, weasel

prevarication

• prevarication, bickering, blague, boggling, bouncer, canard, captiousness, caviling, chicane, chicanery, cock-and-bull story, coloring, confabulation, distortion, dodging, equivocation, evasion, exaggeration, fairy tale, false coloring, false swearing, falsehood, falsification, falsifying, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fencing, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, ghost story, hairsplitting, half-truth, hedging, legal fiction, lie, little white lie, logic-chopping, mendacity, miscoloring, misconstruction, misrepresentation, misstatement, nit-picking, paltering, parrying, perjury, perversion, pettifoggery, pious fiction, pussyfooting, quibbling, shifting, shuffle, shuffling, sidestepping, slight stretching, story, straining, subterfuge, suppressio veri, tale, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tergiversation, trichoschistism, trumped-up story, untruth, weasel words, white lie, yarn

prevaricator

• prevaricator, Ananias, Baron Munchausen, Father of Lies, Satan, Sir John Mandeville, captious critic, caviler, consummate liar, dirty liar, equivocator, fabricator, fabulist, false witness, falsifier, fibber, fibster, habitual liar, hairsplitter, hedger, liar, mystificator, mystifier, mythomaniac, nitpicker, obscurantist, palterer, pathological liar, perjurer, pettifogger, picayune critic, pseudologist, pseudologue, pussyfoot, pussyfooter, quibbler, shuffler, spinner of yarns, storyteller, tergiversator, yarn spinner, yarner

prevent

• prevent, abort, anticipate, arrest, avert, avoid, baffle, balk, ban, bar, block, check, control, curb, dam, debar, deflect, delay, deny, deter, disallow, discourage, dishearten, embargo, enjoin, estop, exclude, exclude from, fend, fend off, foil, forbid, foreclose, forestall, frustrate, hamper, help, hinder, impede, inhibit, intercept, interdict, interrupt, keep from, keep off, mitigate, obstruct, obviate, outlaw, preclude, prohibit, proscribe, refuse, reject, repel, repress, restrain, retard, rule out, save, say no to, shut out, slow, stave off, suppress, taboo, thwart, turn aside, ward, ward off

prevention

• prevention, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abortion, anticipation, arrest, arrestation, arresting, avoidance, avoiding, avoiding reaction, balk, balking, ban, banning, bar, barring, block, blocking, check, checking, circumvention, contraband, control, controlling, curb, curbing, debarment, debarring, defense mechanism, delay, delaying, denial, determent, deterrence, disallowance, discouragement, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, embargo, enjoining, equivocation, escape, estoppel, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, exclusion, foiling, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, foreclosure, forestalling, forestallment, frustrating, frustration, getting around, halt, halting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, impedance, impeding, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibiting, inhibition, injunction, intercepting, interception, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, interdictum, jink, law, mitigating, mitigation, neutrality, no-no, nonintervention, noninvolvement, obstructing, obstruction, obviation, preclusion, prohibiting, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribing, proscription, refraining, refusal, rejection, repression, restraining, restraint, restrictive covenants, retardation, ruling out, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, slowing, statute, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, the runaround, thwarting, zigzag, zoning, zoning laws

preventive

• preventive, aegis, antacid, anticipative, anticipatory, antidote, arm guard, backstop, barrier, block, buffer, bulwark, bumper, contraceptive, copyright, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, counterirritant, countermeasure, covering, crash helmet, curb, cushion, custodial, dashboard, defensive, deterrent, deterring, discouraging, dodger, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, forbidding, forestalling, fostering, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardian, guarding, guardrail, hampering, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, hindering, hindrance, immunizing, impediment, impeding, inadmissible, inhibiting, inhibition, inhibitive, inhibitory, inoculant, inoculum, insular, insulation, interdictive, interdictory, interlock, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, narrow, neutralizer, nose guard, nullifier, obstacle, obstruction, offset, pad, padding, palladium, parental, parochial, patent, pilot, precautionary, preclusive, prescriptive, preventative, prevention, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, prophylactic, proscriptive, protecting, protection, protective, protective clothing, protective umbrella, remedy, repressive, restraining, restrictive, safeguard, safeguarding, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, screen, screening, seat belt, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, serum, sheltering, shield, shielding, shin guard, snobbish, sun helmet, suppressive, tutelary, umbrella, vaccine, vigilant, watchful, windscreen, windshield, xenophobic

preview

• preview, 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Technicolor, Western, animated cartoon, anticipation, be a gas, be a hit, bill, black-and-white film, bomb, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, contemplation, creepie, dekko, discretion, documentary, documentary film, dramatize, educational film, envisagement, envisionment, eye, eyeful, fail, farseeingness, farsightedness, feature, film, flick, flicker, flop, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, headline, horror picture, horse opera, leer, leering look, longsightedness, look, look-in, looking ahead, lustful leer, make a hit, melodramatize, motion picture, motion-picture show, mount, movie, moving picture, newsreel, nudie, open, open a show, opening, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, prediction, premiere, preparation, prepublication, present, prevision, produce, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prudence, put on, readiness, regard, sagacity, scenarize, scene, set the stage, short, sidelong look, sight, silent, silent film, skin flick, sly look, sneak preview, spaghetti Western, stage, star, succeed, talkie, talking picture, theatricalize, thriller, trailer, try out, underground film, vernissage, view

previous

• previous, a bit previous, above, advanced, aforementioned, aforesaid, ahead, ancient, ante, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, before, beforehand, ci-devant, earlier, early, elder, erstwhile, far ahead, first, fore, foregoing, former, forward, half-baked, half-cocked, hasty, ill-considered, immemorial, impulsive, in advance, late, not firm, old, olden, older, once, onetime, overhasty, oversoon, past, precedent, preceding, precipitate, precocious, precurrent, preexistent, prehistoric, premature, previous to, prime, primeval, primitive, prior, prior to, quondam, recent, rushed, senior, sometime, soon, then, too early, too soon, uncrystallized, unjelled, unmatured, unmeditated, unpremeditated, unprepared, unripe, untimely, whilom

previously

• previously, aforetime, already, at one time, before, before all, before now, beforehand, beforetime, earlier, early, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, erstwhile, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in olden times, in the past, in times past, once, only yesterday, or ever, prehistorically, priorly, recently, some time ago, then, theretofore, whilom, yesterday, yet

prewar

• prewar, ante-bellum, antediluvian, antemundane, before the Fall, before the Flood, before the war, pre-Aryan, pre-Christian, pre-Renaissance, pre-Roman, preclassical, precultural, prehistoric, prelapsarian, premillenarian, premundane, prerevolutionary, preromantic, protohistoric

prey

• prey, aim, bamboozle, beasts of venery, big game, bully, burden, butt, by-end, by-purpose, casualty, chase, cheat, consume, cozen, defraud, depress, destination, destroy, devour, distress, dupe, eat, end, end in view, exploit, fall guy, feed on, final cause, flimflam, game, go after, goal, gull, hoodwink, hunt, intimidate, kill, mark, martyr, mug, object, object in mind, object of compassion, objective, oppress, outfox, outsmart, outwit, poor devil, prey on, pursue, pursuit, pushover, quarry, quintain, reason for being, rook, seize, snooker, stalk, strain, sufferer, swindle, take advantage of, target, teleology, the hunted, trick, ultimate aim, underdog, use, venery, vex, victim, victimize, weigh on, weigh upon, worry, wretch

Priapus

• Priapus, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Baal, Cailleac, Ceres, Demeter, Dionysus, Faunus, Frey, Isis, Pan, Vidar, Vitharr, aphrodisiomaniac, corn spirit, dirty old man, eroticomaniac, erotomaniac, faun, fertility god, field spirit, forest god, goat, gynecomaniac, lecher, old goat, panisc, panisca, paniscus, satyr, silenus, sylvan deity, the goat god, vegetation spirit, whoremaster, whoremonger

price cut

• price cut, abatement, agio, allowance, bank discount, break, breakage, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, cheapening, concession, cut, decline, deduction, deflation, depreciation, devaluation, discount, dive, drawback, kickback, lowering, markdown, nose dive, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, plummet, plummeting, plunge, premium, price cut, price fall, price reduction, rebate, rebatement, reduction, refund, rollback, sag, salvage, setoff, slash, slump, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, write-off

price support

• price support, TLC, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, autarky, bimetallism, bounty, bread, care, daily bread, depletion allowance, dole, economic self-sufficiency, economic support, endowment, fair trade, fair-trade agreement, fair-trading, fellowship, financial assistance, flexible supports, free enterprise, free trade, governmentalism, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, keep, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, livelihood, living, localism, maintenance, managed currency, managed prices, manna, meat, mothering, noninterference, nonintervention, nourishment, nullification, nurture, old-age insurance, party line, party principle, pecuniary aid, pension, planned economy, policy, polity, position, price controls, price supports, price-fixing, protection, protectionism, provision, public assistance, public policy, public welfare, pump-priming, relief, rent control, retirement benefits, rigid supports, scholarship, sectionalism, stipend, subsidization, subsidy, subsistence, subvention, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, tax benefit, tender loving care, upkeep, valorization, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments

price tag

• price tag, amount, billhead, book stamp, bookplate, brand, broad arrow, cachet, charge, check, colophon, cost, counterfoil, countermark, damage, docket, expenditure, expense, figure, government mark, government stamp, hallmark, imprint, label, letterhead, logo, logotype, masthead, plate, price, rate, registered trademark, running head, running title, score, seal, sigil, signet, stamp, sticker, stub, tab, tag, tally, tariff, ticket, title page, token, trade name, trademark, trademark name

price

• price, amends, amount, appraisal, appraise, asking price, assay, assess, atonement, bank rate, bearish prices, bid price, blood money, bonus, book value, bounty, bullish prices, call price, charge, closing price, compensation, compensatory interest, compound interest, consequence, consideration, cost, cost out, damages, dearness, decline, discount rate, equivalent odds, evaluate, evaluation, even break, even chance, exorbitant interest, expenditure, expense, extraordinary worth, face value, fair-trade, fee, figure, fixed price, flash price, flurry, flutter, good chance, great price, great value, gross interest, guerdon, high, honorarium, hundred-to-one shot, indemnification, indemnity, interest, interest rate, invaluableness, issue par, issue price, long odds, long shot, low, lucrative interest, market price, market value, meed, mortgage points, net interest, no chance, nominal value, odds, offering price, opening price, outlay, par, par value, parity, payment, penal interest, penal retribution, penalization, penalty, penance, preciousness, premium, price of money, price tag, priceless, pricelessness, prize, punishment, put price, quittance, quotation, quote a price, quoted price, rally, rate, rate of interest, recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution, retribution, return, reward, sacrifice, salvage, satisfaction, settling price, short odds, simple interest, small chance, smart money, solatium, square odds, stated value, swings, tab, tariff, toll, usury, valorize, valuableness, valuate, valuation, value, wergild, worth

priceless

• priceless, absurd, amusing, beyond price, bizarre, cherished, comical, costly, dear, droll, eccentric, expensive, funny, golden, good as gold, high-priced, hilarious, humorous, hysterical, incalculable, incongruous, inestimable, invaluable, irreplaceable, laughable, ludicrous, of great price, precious, prized, quaint, quizzical, rich, ridiculous, riotous, risible, screaming, treasured, unique, valuable, valued, whimsical, witty, worthy

pricey

• pricey, costly, dear, dear-bought, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, extortionate, fancy, high, high-priced, luxurious, not affordable, of great cost, outrageous, premium, rich, steep, stiff, sumptuous, top, unpayable

prick

• prick, aculeus, acuminate, acumination, acute pain, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, auger, barb the dart, be keen, birthmark, bit, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, bore, borer, boring pain, brand, bristle with, broach, bruise, bugger, burn, cage, caste mark, chafe, chalk, chalk up, charley horse, check, check off, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, convulse, corral, countersink, cramp, cramps, crick, crucify, cusp, cut, cut up, dapple, darting pain, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, distress, dot, drill, drive, drove, earmark, egg on, empierce, engrave, engraving, enter, excite, excruciate, exhort, fester, fix, fleck, flick, flog, freckle, fret, fulgurant pain, gad, gadfly, gall, gash, girdle pain, give pain, gnaw, gnawing, goad, gore, gouge, gouge out, grate, graving, grieve, grind, gripe, griping, hack, harrow, hatch, have an edge, herd, hitch, hole, honeycomb, hurt, hurt the feelings, impale, impress, imprint, inflame, inflict pain, irritate, itch, jab, jag, jot, jumping pain, kill by inches, kink, lacerate, lance, lancinating pain, lash, lentigo, line, macula, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, martyr, martyrize, mole, mottle, mucro, neb, needle, nevus, nib, nick, nip, notch, nudge, oxgoad, pain, pang, paroxysm, patch, pencil, penetrate, pepper, perforate, perforation, pierce, pinch, pinhole, pink, pinprick, pique, point, poke, polka dot, prickle, print, prod, prolong the agony, prompt, propel, punch, punch cattle, punctuate, puncture, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, ream, ream out, riddle, ride herd on, round up, rowel, rub, run through, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, scum, seal, seam, seizure, sharp pain, shepherd, shit, shithead, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, sic, skewer, skunk, slash, slit, smart, snake, spasm, spear, speck, speckle, spike, spit, splash, splotch, spot, spur, stab, stabbing pain, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, stimulate, sting, stinker, stitch, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, tap, tattoo, tattoo mark, thrill, throes, tick, tick off, tingle, tip, tittle, toad, tormen, torment, torture, trace, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, turd, tweak, twinge, twist, twist the knife, twitch, underline, underscore, watermark, whip, whiplash, wound, wrangle, wrench, wring

prickle

• prickle, aculeus, acumination, adherent, adhesive, auger, barb, barnacle, bit, borer, bramble, brier, bristle, bulldog, burr, buzz, cactus, catchweed, cement, cleavers, cusp, decal, decalcomania, drill, glue, goose grass, gunk, itch, itchiness, jab, leech, limpet, molasses, mucilage, mucro, neb, needle, nettle, nib, paresthesia, paste, pine needle, pins and needles, plaster, point, prick, pricking, prickles, prickliness, prickling, prong, quill, remora, scratch, smart, spicule, spiculum, spike, spikelet, spine, spur, stick, sticker, sting, stinging, syrup, thistle, thorn, thrill, tine, tingle, tingling, tip, urtication, yucca

prickly heat

• prickly heat, acne, acne vulgaris, breaking out, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, diaper rash, drug rash, eczema, efflorescence, elephantiasis, epithelioma, eruption, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hives, impetigo, itch, jungle rot, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lupus, lupus vulgaris, miliaria, nettle rash, papular rash, pemphigus, pruigo, pruritus, psora, rash, ringworm, rupia, scabies, shingles, skin cancer, skin eruption, tetter, urticaria, vaccine rash

prickly

• prickly, acanaceous, acanthoid, aciculate, aculeate, aculeolate, agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, annoying, atingle, bad-tempered, barbed, bothersome, brambly, briery, bristly, cantankerous, complex, complicated, contentious, cranky, crawling, crawly, delicate, difficult, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, fractious, fretful, goosy, hard, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inflammable, intricate, irascible, irritable, itchy, knotty, mettlesome, miffy, muricate, nervous, nettlesome, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, pricking, prickling, pricky, refined, responsive, sensitive, setaceous, setose, short-tempered, skittish, snappish, spiculate, spiky, spinous, spiny, startlish, stinging, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, thistly, thorny, ticklish, tingling, tingly, touchy, troublesome, volcanic, waspish

pride

• pride, Olympian detachment, Olympian loftiness, acedia, anger, army, arrogance, arrogantness, assumption of superiority, assurance, assuredness, avarice, avaritia, be proud of, belief, best, bighead, boast, boastfulness, brag, bunch, catch, celebrate, certitude, circumstance, cockiness, cocksureness, colony, conceit, condescendence, condescension, confidence, confidentness, congratulate, conviction, courage, crow, deadly sin, delight in, diamond, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, drift, drive, drove, egoism, egotism, envy, faith, felicitate, find, flock, flower, formality, gam, gang, gasconade, gem, glory in, gluttony, godsend, good thing, greed, gula, haughtiness, haughty airs, hauteur, heraldry, herd, high horse, hoity-toitiness, hoity-toity, honor, host, hubris, invidia, ira, jewel, kennel, litter, loftiness, lust, luxuria, overbearing pride, overbearingness, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweening pride, overweeningness, pack, patronization, patronizing, patronizing attitude, pearl, pique, plum, plume, pod, poise, pomp, pomposity, positiveness, preen, pride and joy, prize, proudness, purse-pride, revel in, school, security, self-admiration, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, settled belief, shoal, side, skulk, sloth, smugness, snobbery, snobbishness, solemnity, state, stiff-necked pride, subjective certainty, superbia, sureness, surety, take pride in, toploftiness, treasure, trip, troop, trophy, trouvaille, trust, uppishness, uppityness, vainglory, vanity, vaunt, windfall, winner, wrath

prideful

• prideful, erect, house-proud, independent, proud, proud as Lucifer, proud-blooded, proud-looking, proud-minded, proud-spirited, proudful, proudhearted, purse-proud, self-confident, self-esteeming, self-reliant, self-respecting, self-sufficient, stiff-necked

priest

• priest, Aaronic priesthood, Levite, Melchizedek priesthood, Seventy, abbe, abbess, abbot, acolyte, acolytus, apostle, baal kore, bishop, cantor, cassock, celibataire, celibate, chief rabbi, churchman, churchwoman, clergyman, clergywoman, cleric, confessor, curate, cure, deacon, diaconus, divine, doorkeeper, ecclesiastic, elder, evangelist, exorcist, exorcista, father, father confessor, father in Christ, gallach, high priest, holy man, holy orders, kohen, lector, major orders, man of God, minor orders, misogamist, misogynist, missionary, monastic, monk, mother, nun, ostiarius, padre, parish priest, patriarch, penitentiary, preacher, presbyter, rabbi, rabbin, reader, reverend, scribe, servant of God, single, spiritual director, spiritual father, subdeacon, subdiaconus, teacher, unmarried, vicar

priesthood

• priesthood, Sacred College, apostleship, call, care of souls, clergy, clerical order, clericalism, clericals, episcopalianism, holy orders, ministry, pastorage, pastoral care, pastorate, prelacy, presbytery, priestery, priestism, priestship, rabbinate, sacerdotalism, sacred calling, the church, the cloth, the desk, the ministry, the pulpit, ultramontanism, vocation

priestly

• priestly, abbatial, abbatical, archiepiscopal, canonical, capitular, capitulary, churchly, clerical, ecclesiastic, episcopal, episcopalian, evangelistic, hieratic, ministerial, missionary, pastoral, prelatial, prelatic, priest-ridden, priestish, rabbinic, sacerdotal, ultramontane

prig

• prig, Brahmin, Grundy, Victorian, bluenose, clout, conformist, cop, egghead, elitist, filch, filcher, formalist, genteel, goody-goody, heist, highbrow, larcener, larcenist, mandarin, mid-Victorian, nab, name-dropper, nick, old maid, pedant, pilfer, pilferer, precisian, precisionist, priggish, prissy, prude, prudish, purist, puritan, puritanical, purloiner, snob, stealer, stick-in-the-mud, straitlaced, stuffed shirt, stuffy, thieve, tufthunter

priggish

• priggish, Quakerish, Victorian, abusive, blackening, blameful, censorious, choicy, choosy, condemnatory, condescending, conformist, conscientious, contemptuous, critical, damnatory, demure, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, derisive, discriminating, discriminative, disparaging, exacting, execrating, execrative, execratory, fastidious, formal, formalistic, fussy, goody-goody, hidebound, high-hat, invective, inveighing, judgmental, meticulous, mid-Victorian, narrow, nit-picking, objurgatory, old-maidish, overmodest, particular, patronizing, pedantic, perfectionistic, picky, precious, precise, precisianistic, prig, prim, prissy, prudish, punctilious, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, sanctimonious, scoffing, scrupulous, selective, self-complacent, self-contented, self-esteeming, self-loving, self-righteous, self-satisfied, sensitive, severe, smug, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stick-in-the-mud, stiff-necked, strait-laced, straitlaced, strict, stuffy, uptight, vilifying, vituperative

prim

• prim, Quakerish, Victorian, bluenosed, buckram, censorious, ceremonial, ceremonious, chipper, conventional, correct, decorous, demure, formal, genteel, hidebound, in buckram, mid-Victorian, narrow, neat, nice, old-maidish, orderly, overmodest, precise, prig, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, sanctimonious, shipshape, smug, snug, spick-and-span, starch, starched, stiff, stiff-necked, stilted, straight, straitlaced, stuffy, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-groomed, wooden

prima ballerina

• prima ballerina, danseur noble, diva, feature attraction, first tragedian, headliner, heavy lead, hero, heroine, jeune premier, lead, leading lady, leading man, prima donna, principal, protagonist, singer, star, superstar

prima donna

• prima donna, Heldentenor, Meistersinger, alto, aria singer, baritenor, baritone, bass, basso, basso buffo, basso cantante, basso profundo, blues singer, canary, cantatrice, cantor, caroler, chanter, chantress, chief, coloratura soprano, comic bass, contralto, countertenor, crooner, danseur noble, deep bass, diva, dramatic soprano, electronics king, feature attraction, first tragedian, headliner, heavy lead, hero, heroic tenor, heroine, honcho, hymner, improvisator, jeune premier, king, lead, lead singer, leading lady, leading light, leading man, lieder singer, luminary, master spirit, melodist, mezzo-soprano, opera singer, paramount, prima ballerina, principal, protagonist, psalm singer, rock-and-roll singer, singer, singstress, songbird, songster, songstress, soprano, star, superstar, tenor, top dog, torch singer, vocalist, vocalizer, voice, warbler, yodeler

prima facie

• prima facie, apparently, as it seems, as seen, at a glance, at first sight, at sight, by eyeball, by sight, on the surface, ostensibly, outwardly, seemingly, superficially, to all appearances, to all seeming, to the eye, visibly, visually

primacy

• primacy, abbacy, accent, acme, archbishopric, archdeaconry, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, ascendance, ascendancy, authority, authorization, balance of power, be-all and end-all, bishopdom, bishopric, blue ribbon, canonicate, canonry, cardinalship, championship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, command, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, control, curacy, deaconry, deaconship, deanery, deanship, directorship, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, effectiveness, eminent domain, emphasis, episcopacy, episcopate, excellence, exquisiteness, first place, first prize, headship, hegemony, height, high order, high rank, highest, imperium, import, importance, influence, interest, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, lordship, magnificence, management, mark, marvelousness, mastership, mastery, matchlessness, materiality, maximum, merit, moment, most, ne plus ultra, new high, note, overlordship, palms, paramountcy, pastorate, pastorship, peerlessness, power, prebend, prebendaryship, precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, prelacy, prelateship, prelature, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, presbyterate, presbytery, presidency, principality, priority, record, rectorate, rectorship, rule, say, self-importance, significance, sovereignty, splendidness, splendiferousness, stress, superbness, supereminence, superexcellence, superfineness, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, top spot, unsurpassedness, upper hand, value, vicariate, vicarship, weight, whip hand, worth, zenith

primal

• primal, ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, antenatal, arch, atavistic, austere, autochthonous, banner, bare, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, bodily, born, budding, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chaste, chief, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constituent, constitutional, constitutive, creative, crowning, crucial, dominant, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, fetal, first, focal, foremost, formative, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, great, gut, headmost, hegemonic, hereditary, homely, homespun, homogeneous, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the blood, in the bud, inaugural, inborn, inbred, incarnate, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigenous, indivisible, infant, infantile, inherited, initial, initiative, initiatory, innate, instinctive, instinctual, introductory, inventive, irreducible, leading, magisterial, main, master, material, mere, monolithic, nascent, natal, native, native to, natural, natural to, of a piece, of the essence, organic, original, overruling, paramount, parturient, physical, plain, postnatal, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prenatal, preponderant, prevailing, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, principal, pristine, procreative, protogenic, pure, pure and simple, radical, ranking, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, sovereign, spare, star, stark, stellar, substantial, substantive, supereminent, temperamental, topflight, unadorned, uncluttered, underlying, undifferenced, undifferentiated, uniform, ur

primarily

• primarily, a fortiori, ab initio, ab ovo, aborigine, above all, all the more, at bottom, at first, at heart, at the core, at the start, au fond, basically, before everything, chiefly, dominantly, especially, essentially, even, ever so, first, first and foremost, first of all, first thing, firstly, from the beginning, fundamentally, generally, in chief, in essence, in itself, in substance, in the beginning, in the main, indeed, initially, largely, mainly, materially, more than ever, mostly, never so, no end, on the whole, originally, overall, particularly, peculiarly, per se, predominantly, primitively, primo, principally, still more, substantially, yea

primary

• primary, Maxwell triangle, Munsell scale, ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, all-absorbing, antenatal, anterior, arch, austere, autochthonous, banner, bare, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, bottom, budding, by-election, capital, cardinal, caucus, central, champion, chaste, chief, chromatic circle, chromatic spectrum, chromaticity diagram, closed primary, color circle, color cycle, color index, color mixture curve, color solid, color spectrum, color system, color triangle, complementary color, congressional election, constituent, constitutive, contested election, controlling, creative, crowning, crucial, demitint, direct, direct primary, dominant, earliest, election, elemental, elementary, embryonic, essential, fetal, first, firsthand, focal, fore, forehand, foremost, formative, forward, foundational, front, frontal, full color, fundamental, fundamental colors, general election, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, great, gut, half tint, halftone, head, headmost, hegemonic, highest, homely, homespun, homogeneous, hue cycle, immediate, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indivisible, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, irreducible, leading, magisterial, maiden, main, mandatory primary, master, material, mere, metamer, monochrome, monolithic, nascent, natal, nonpartisan primary, of a piece, of the essence, open primary, optional primary, original, overriding, overruling, paramount, partisan election, parturient, pioneer, plain, postnatal, predominant, preeminent, preference primary, pregnant, premier, prenatal, preponderant, presidential election, presidential preference primary, presidential primary, prevailing, primal, primary color, primary election, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primordial, principal, pristine, procreative, protogenic, prototypal, pure, pure and simple, pure color, radical, ranking, referendum, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, runoff, runoff election, runoff primary, secondary, secondary color, seminal, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, solar spectrum, sovereign, spare, spectral color, spectrum, spectrum color, star, stark, stellar, substantial, substantive, supereminent, supreme, tertiary, tertiary color, topflight, topmost, ultimate, unadorned, unadulterated, uncluttered, uncopied, underived, underlying, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unduplicated, unexampled, uniform, unimitated, unmixed, unprecedented, unreproduced, uppermost, ur

primate

• primate, Australanthropus, Australopithecus, Barbary ape, Bronze Age man, Cro-Magnon man, Galley Hill man, Gigantopithecus, Grand Penitentiary, Grimaldi man, Heidelberg man, Holy Father, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Neanderthal man, Oreopithecus, Paranthropus, Peking man, Pithecanthropus, Plesianthropus, Rhodesian man, Sinanthropus, Stone Age man, Swanscombe man, Zinjanthropus, aboriginal, aborigine, abuna, amphibian, ancient, angwantibo, antediluvian, anthropoid, anthropoid ape, antipope, ape, ape-man, aquatic, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, autochthon, aye-aye, baboon, back-number, behind the times, biped, bishop, bishop coadjutor, bushman, canine, cannibal, canon, capuchin, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, carnivore, cave dweller, caveman, chacma, chaplain, chimpanzee, coadjutor, cosmopolite, curate, dated, dean, diocesan, drill, ecclesiarch, entellus, eolithic man, exarch, feline, fossil man, gibbon, gnawer, gorilla, guenon, guereza, hanuman, has-been, herbivore, hierarch, high priest, hominid, humanoid, insectivore, invertebrate, langur, lemur, macaque, mammal, mammalian, man, man of old, mandrill, marmoset, marsupial, marsupialian, metropolitan, missing link, mountain gorilla, neolithic man, old hat, old-fashioned, old-timey, oldfangled, omnivore, orang, orangutan, out of fashion, out of season, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, preadamite, prebendary, prehistoric man, prehuman, prelate, primitive, proboscis monkey, protohuman, quadruped, rector, reptile, rhesus, rodent, ruminant, rural dean, saki, scavenger, styleless, subdean, suffragan, troglodyte, unfashionable, ungulate, varmint, vermin, vertebrate, vicar

prime mover

• prime mover, abettor, actor, actuator, agent, ancestors, animator, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, cajoler, catalyst, causer, coax, coaxer, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, doer, effector, encourager, energizer, engenderer, engineer, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, father, firer, founder, gadfly, galvanizer, generator, grower, impeller, inaugurator, inducer, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, medium, mother, mover, moving spirit, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master, performer, perpetrator, persuader, planner, pleader, practitioner, precursor, primum mobile, producer, prompter, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, spark, spark plug, sparker, stimulator, subject, tempter, wheedler, worker, wright

prime of life

• prime of life, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, bloom, budtime, driving age, early years, florescence, flower of age, flowering time, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, grown-upness, jeunesse, juvenescence, juvenility, legal age, legalis homo, majority, manhood, manlihood, mature age, maturity, my burning youth, my green age, prime, ripe age, riper years, salad days, seedtime of life, springtime of life, tender age, tenderness, toga virilis, virility, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion, young blood, youngness, youth, youthfulness, youthhead, youthhood, youthiness

prime

• prime, Eastertide, Mass, Maytime, abecedarian, aboriginal, acme, admirable, adolescence, adulthood, adultness, advise, age of consent, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, all-absorbing, alpha, ancestral, antecedent, antenatal, antepatriarchal, anterior, anticipatory, apply paint, apprise, arch, atavistic, aurora, autochthonous, banner, basic, bedaub, bedizen, bedtime prayer, begild, beginning, besmear, best, break of day, breaking-in, brief, brightening, brush on paint, budding, budtime, butter, calcimine, camp meeting, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chanticleer, charge, chief, choice, chosen, church, church service, ci-devant, coach, coat, cock, cockcrow, cocklight, color, complexion, compline, controlling, cover, crack of dawn, cram, cram with facts, cream, creative, crowning, dab, dandy, daub, dawn, dawning, day-peep, daybreak, daylight, dayspring, decimal, deep-dye, detonate, devotions, differential, digital, dip, discharge, distemper, divine service, dominant, double-dye, drill, driving age, drop, duty, dye, earlier, earliest, early, educate, eject, elder, elect, elemental, elementary, elite, emblazon, embryonic, enamel, engild, even, evening devotions, evensong, excellent, exceptional, excite, exercises, exponential, extraordinary, face, famous, fast-dye, fat, fell, fetal, figural, figurate, figurative, fine, finite, fire, fire off, first, first blush, first brightening, first glance, first impression, first inning, first lap, first move, first round, first sight, first stage, first step, first-class, first-rate, first-string, flower, flower of age, focal, for the best, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, formative, former, forward, foundational, fractional, fresco, front, frontal, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, fundamental, galvanize, gambit, gestatory, get ready, get up steam, gild, glaze, gloss, grain, great, greatest, greenness, grown-upness, gun, gun for, handpicked, head, headmost, hegemonic, heyday, highest, hit, hue, humanoid, illuminate, imaginary, imbue, impair, impossible, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, infinite, inform, ingrain, initial, initiative, initiatory, instruct, integral, introductory, inventive, irrational, japan, juvenility, lacquer, lauds, lay on, lay on color, le premier pas, leading, legal age, legalis homo, let fly, let off, light, liturgy, load, logarithmic, logometric, magisterial, maiden, main, majority, make ready, manhood, manlihood, master, matchless, matins, mature age, maturity, meeting, morn, morning devotions, motivate, move, nascent, natal, negative, night song, none, nones, nonesuch, nonpareil, noteworthy, notify, novena, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, office, older, opening move, optimal, optimum, ordinal, original, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paint, pair, paragon, paramount, parget, parturient, patriarchal, peak, peep of day, peerless, pelt, pepper, pick, pick off, picked, pigment, pinnacle, pioneer, pique, pistol, plug, positive, possible, postnatal, pot, potshoot, potshot, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, preadamite, preceding, precurrent, predominant, preeminent, preexistent, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, premier, prenatal, prepare, preponderant, prevailing, previous, pride, primal, primary, primavera, prime of life, prime song, primeval, primitive, primitiveness, primitivity, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, principal, prior, pristine, prize, procreative, protohistoric, protohuman, puberty, pubescence, public worship, queen, quicken, quintessence, quintessential, radical, ranking, rational, real, reciprocal, revival, revival meeting, riddle, ripe age, riper years, rudimental, rudimentary, ruling, seedtime, select, senior, service, set, sext, shade, shadow, shellac, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, slap on, slather, slop on paint, smear, smear on, snipe, sovereign, spread on, spread with, spring, springtide, springtime, stain, star, steam up, stellar, stimulate, stipple, strike, stuff with knowledge, submultiple, sunrise, sunup, supereminent, superior, superlative, supreme, surd, surpassing, take a potshot, tar, teach, tent meeting, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, tierce, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, toga virilis, tone, top, topflight, torpedo, train, transcendental, tutor, undercoat, underived, undersong, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, uppermost, ur, varnish, very best, vesper, vespers, vestibule of Day, vigils, virility, warm up, warming-up, wash, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, whitewash, wind, wind up, womanhood, womanlihood, worthy, years of discretion, youth, youthfulness, zenith

primed

• primed, abreast of, accomplished, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, at concert pitch, au courant, booted and spurred, briefed, career, coached, cocked, conversant, educated, enlightened, equipped, familiarized, finished, good and ready, groomed, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, initiate, initiated, instructed, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized, on the mark, planned, posted, practiced, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, professional, provided, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, schooled, set, skilled, taught, technical, trained, up in arms, up on, up-to-date, versed, vigilant, well-prepared, well-versed

primer

• primer, abecedarium, abecedary, alphabet, alphabet book, and arithmetic, basics, battledore, blasting cap, cap, casebook, chromogen, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, dead-color, detonating powder, detonator, distemper, drier, dye, dyestuff, electric detonator, elementary education, elements, exercise book, exploder, exterior paint, first principles, first steps, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, fulminating mercury, fuse, gradus, grammar, ground, hornbook, induction, initiation, interior paint, introduction, manual, manual of instruction, medium, mercury fulminate, opaque color, outlines, paint, percussion cap, pigment, primacord, prime coat, priming, principia, principles, propaedeutic, reader, reading, rudiments, schoolbook, speller, spelling book, squib, stain, t, tempera, text, thinner, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, vehicle, wash, wash coat, workbook, writing

primeval

• primeval, abecedarian, aboriginal, ancestral, ancient, antenatal, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, beginning, budding, central, creative, crucial, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erstwhile, fetal, fore, formative, former, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, humanoid, immemorial, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, late, nascent, natal, old, olden, once, onetime, original, parturient, past, patriarchal, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prenatal, previous, primal, primary, prime, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, prior, pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, radical, recent, rudimental, rudimentary, seminal, sometime, then, ur

priming

• priming, blasting cap, calcimining, cap, chromogen, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color filter, color gelatin, colorant, coloring, covering, cramming, dead-color, detonating powder, detonator, distemper, drier, dye, dyestuff, electric detonator, enameling, exploder, exterior paint, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, fresco, fulminating mercury, fuse, gilding, glazing, glossing, ground, interior paint, japanning, medium, mercury fulminate, opaque color, paint, painting, percussion cap, pigment, pre-education, preinstruction, primacord, prime coat, primer, shellacking, squib, stain, staining, stippling, tempera, thinner, tinction, tincture, transparent color, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, varnishing, vehicle, wash, wash coat, whitewashing

primitive

• primitive, Bronze Age man, Gothic, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Neanderthal, Stone Age man, ab ovo, abecedarian, aboriginal, aborigine, ancestral, ancient, animal, antediluvian, antenatal, antepatriarchal, anthropoid, ape-man, archaic, atavistic, autochthon, autochthonous, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, basal, basic, basilar, beginning, bestial, brutal, brutish, budding, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, central, childlike, coarse, cognate, constituent, constitutive, creative, crucial, crude, derivation, derivative, doublet, earliest, earliest inhabitant, early, elemental, elementary, embryonic, endemic, eponym, erstwhile, essential, etymon, fetal, first, first comer, fore, formative, former, fossil man, foundational, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, gestatory, gut, homebred, homegrown, hominid, humanoid, ill-bred, immemorial, impolite, in embryo, in its infancy, in ovo, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, indigene, indigenous, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, late, local, local yokel, man of old, material, missing link, naive, nascent, natal, native, native-born, noncivilized, of the essence, old, olden, once, onetime, original, outlandish, parturient, past, patriarchal, persistent, postnatal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehistoric man, prehuman, prenatal, previous, primal, primary, primate, prime, primeval, primitive settler, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, prior, pristine, procreative, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, quondam, radical, raw, recent, root, rough, rough-and-ready, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, savage, seminal, simple, simplistic, sometime, substantial, substantive, then, troglodyte, troglodytic, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, underived, underlying, undeveloped, unkempt, unlicked, unpolished, unrefined, unschooled, unsophisticated, untamed, untaught, untrained, untutored, ur, vernacular, wild

primness

• primness, Quakerishness, buckram, censoriousness, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, demureness, demurity, dignity, extrinsicality, false modesty, form, formality, formalization, gravity, hideboundness, impersonality, mauvaise honte, narrowness, overmodesty, pomp, pomposity, priggishness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, rigidness, ritual, rituality, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, smugness, solemnity, starchiness, stiff-neckedness, stiffness, stiltedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, stylization, weight

primogeniture

• primogeniture, aboriginality, age, ancien regime, ancientness, antiquity, atavism, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English, cobwebs of antiquity, coheirship, coparcenary, deanship, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, entail, gavelkind, great age, heirloom, heirship, hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance, hoary age, hoary eld, incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, inveteracy, law of succession, legacy, line of succession, mode of succession, old age, old order, old style, oldness, patrimony, postremogeniture, primitiveness, primordialism, primordiality, reversion, senility, seniority, succession, ultimogeniture, venerableness

primordial

• primordial, aboriginal, ancestral, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, central, crucial, elemental, elementary, embryonic, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, humanoid, in embryo, in ovo, original, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, pristine, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, radical, rudimentary, seminal

primp

• primp, adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fancy up, fig out, fix up, furbish, garnish, get up, grace, groom, gussy up, ornament, overdress, paint, plume, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slick, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spiff, spruce up, titivate, trick out, trick up, trim

primrose path

• primrose path, air lane, beat, circuit, course, flight path, itinerary, line, orbit, path, road, round, route, run, sea lane, shortcut, tour, track, trade route, traject, trajectory, trajet, walk

primrose

• primrose, aureate, auric, beige, buff, buff-yellow, canary, canary-yellow, choice, citron, citron-yellow, coral, cream, creamy, ecru, elite, fallow, fat, flaxen, flower, gilded, gilt, gold, gold-colored, golden, incarnadine, lemon, lemon-yellow, luteolous, lutescent, ocherish, ocherous, ochery, ochreous, ochroid, ochrous, ochry, or, pick, pink, pinkish, pinky, prime, primrose-colored, primrose-yellow, prize, rose, rose-colored, rose-hued, rose-red, roseate, rosy, saffron, saffron-colored, saffron-yellow, sallow, salmon, sand-colored, sandy, straw, straw-colored, top, xanthic, xanthous, yellow, yellowish

prince

• prince, Muslim rulers, Prinz, acceptable person, anointed king, atheling, baron, capital fellow, chief, chieftain, crown prince, crowned head, czar, diamond, dynast, emir, emperor, gem, gentleman, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, grand duke, heir apparent, heir presumptive, high chief, honest man, imperator, jewel, khan, king, king-emperor, kinglet, knez, lady, lord paramount, majesty, mensch, merchant, mirza, monarch, overlord, paramount, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, persona grata, petty king, potentate, prince consort, prince regent, princeling, princes of India, real man, right sort, rough diamond, royal, royal personage, royalty, ruler, shahzada, sheikh, sherif, sovereign, suzerain, tetrarch, tycoon, worthy

princely

• princely, Babylonian, Corinthian, ample, aristocratic, august, awe-inspiring, awful, barbaric, baronial, big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, chivalrous, courtly, deluxe, dignified, ducal, dynastic, elaborate, elegant, elevated, enormous, exalted, extravagant, fancy, fine, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, giving, glorious, gracious, grand, grandiose, grave, great, great of heart, greathearted, handsome, heroic, high, high-minded, hospitable, huge, idealistic, imperatorial, imperatorious, imperial, imperious, imposing, impressive, kinglike, kingly, knightly, ladylike, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lofty, lordly, luxurious, magisterial, magnanimous, magnificent, majestic, monarchal, monarchial, monarchic, munificent, noble, noble-minded, of gentle blood, of rank, open, openhanded, openhearted, palatial, patrician, plush, posh, princelike, profuse, proud, purple, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, regal, ritzy, royal, sedate, sober, solemn, sovereign, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, stately, statuesque, stintless, sublime, substantial, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, titled, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, venerable, worthy

princess

• princess, Kaiserin, begum, crown princess, czarina, empress, grand duchess, infanta, kumari, kunwari, maharani, malikzadi, princesse, queen, queen consort, queen regent, queen regnant, raj-kumari, rani, shahzadi, sovereign princess, sovereign queen

principal

• principal, A per se, English horn, academic dean, ace, administration, administrator, all-absorbing, arch, assets, backing, banner, bassoon, block flute, bombard, boss, bourdon, capital, capital gains distribution, capital structure, capitalization, cardinal, cash reserves, cello, central, chairman, champion, chancellor, chief, chief executive officer, circulating capital, claribel, clarinet, clarion, commander, concert flute, controlling, cornet, cornopean, corpus, cromorna, crowning, cymbel, danseur noble, dean, dean of men, dean of women, diapason, director, diva, dominant, doyen, doyenne, dulciana, electronics king, equity capital, feature attraction, first, first tragedian, fixed capital, floating capital, flute stop, focal, foremost, foundation stop, fourniture, front, fugleman, fund, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, genius, great, harmonic flute, head, headliner, headmaster, headmistress, headmost, heavy lead, hegemonic, hero, heroine, high priest, higher-up, highest, honcho, hybrid stop, important, important person, investment, jeune premier, key, king, kingfish, kingpin, koppel flute, larigot, laureate, lead, leader, leading, leading lady, leading light, leading man, luminary, magisterial, maiden, main, major, managing director, master, master spirit, melodia, mixture, money, moneyed capital, mutation stop, nazard, nonpareil, oboe, octave, organ stop, outstanding, overriding, overruling, owner, paragon, paramount, personage, piccolo, plein jeu, posaune, predominant, preeminent, premier, preponderant, president, prevailing, prima ballerina, prima donna, primal, primary, prime, prodigy, prominent, proprietor, protagonist, provost, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, ranking, rector, reed stop, register, resources, rohr flute, ruler, ruling, senior, sesquialtera, shawm, singer, sovereign, spitz flute, star, starring, stellar, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, supereminent, superintendent, superior, superman, superstar, supervisor, supreme, the greatest, the most, tierce, top dog, topflight, topmost, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, uppermost, venture capital, vibrato, vice-chancellor, viola, virtuoso, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana, working capital

principality

• principality, Kreis, aedileship, ally, angel, angel of light, angel of love, archangel, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, archiepiscopacy, archiepiscopate, aristocracy, arrondissement, ascendance, ascendancy, bailiwick, balance of power, beatified soul, bishopric, body politic, borough, buffer state, canonized mortal, canton, captive nation, celestial, chairmanship, chancellery, chancellorate, chancellorship, cherub, cherubim, chiefery, chiefry, chieftaincy, chieftainry, chieftainship, city, city-state, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, commune, congressional district, constablewick, consulate, consulship, country, county, deanery, departement, dictatorship, dictature, diocese, directorship, district, domain, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, electoral district, electorate, eminent domain, emirate, empery, empire, episcopacy, free city, government, governorship, grand duchy, hamlet, headship, heavenly being, hegemony, hierarchy, hundred, kingdom, land, leadership, lordship, magistracy, magistrateship, magistrature, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, martyr, masterdom, mastership, mastery, mayoralty, mayorship, messenger of God, metropolis, metropolitan area, metropolitanate, metropolitanship, nation, nationality, nobility, oblast, okrug, overlordship, papacy, parish, pashadom, pashalic, patriarchate, patriarchy, patron saint, polis, polity, pontificality, pontificate, popedom, popehood, popeship, possession, power, precinct, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, prefectship, prefecture, premiership, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, presidency, presidentship, primacy, prime-ministership, prime-ministry, princedom, princeship, principate, proconsulate, proconsulship, protectorate, protectorship, province, provostry, provostship, puppet government, puppet regime, realm, recording angel, rectorate, rectorship, regency, regentship, region, republic, riding, ruling class, saint, satellite, saved soul, seigniory, seneschalship, seneschalsy, seneschalty, seraph, seraphim, settlement, sheikhdom, sheriffalty, sheriffcy, sheriffdom, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, soul in glory, sovereign nation, sovereignty, stake, state, sultanate, superiority, superpower, supervisorship, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, territory, toparchia, toparchy, town, township, tribunate, upper hand, village, vizierate, viziership, wapentake, ward, whip hand

principally

• principally, above all, at bottom, basically, chiefly, especially, essentially, first and foremost, fundamentally, in essence, in the main, largely, mainly, mostly, on the whole, overall, particularly, predominantly, primarily

principle

• principle, Procrustean law, a belief, a priori truth, activity, ambition, antecedents, article of faith, aspiration, at bottom, attitude, axiom, base, basement, basically, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, belief, brocard, call, calling, campaign, canon, causation, cause, cause and effect, center, code, commandment, commitment, conscience, consideration, convention, core, credo, creed, criterion, crusade, determinant, determinative, dictate, dictum, doctrine, dogma, drive, element, elements, elixir, essence, essential, essentially, ethic, etiology, factor, faith, floor, flooring, flower, focus, fond, footing, form, formality, formula, formulary, foundation, fundament, fundamental, fundamentally, fundamentals, general principle, gist, given, goal, golden rule, grammar, gravamen, great cause, ground, grounds, groundwork, guide, guideline, guiding light, guiding principle, guiding star, hardpan, heart, honesty, hypostasis, idea, ideal, ideally, imperative, in essence, in theory, inner essence, inspiration, integrity, intention, interest, issue, kernel, law, law of nature, lifework, lodestar, mainspring, marrow, mass movement, matter, maxim, meat, mitzvah, model, moral, morality, morals, motive, movement, norm, norma, notion, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, occasion, order of nature, ordinance, pavement, philosophy, pith, point of view, postulate, precept, prescribed form, prescription, principium, principles, probity, proposition, quid, quiddity, quintessence, radical, reason, reason for being, regulation, riprap, rock bottom, rubric, rudiment, rudiments, rule, sake, sap, score, seat, self-evident truth, sentiment, set form, settled principle, sill, solid ground, solid rock, soul, source, spirit, spring, standard, standing order, stereobate, stimulus, stuff, stylobate, substance, substratum, substruction, substructure, teaching, tenet, terra firma, the nitty-gritty, theorem, theoretically, truism, truth, ulterior motive, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, universal law, universal truth, uprightness, usage, viewpoint, vocation, working principle, working rule

principled

• principled, Christian, blameless, clean, correct, creditable, decent, erect, estimable, ethical, fair, full of integrity, good, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, moralistic, noble, proper, pure, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, scrupulous, spotless, stainless, sterling, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous, worthy, yeomanly

principles

• principles, Ten Commandments, Zeitgeist, alphabet, assured probity, axiology, basics, behavioral norm, blamelessness, business ethics, character, cleanness, code, code of ethics, code of morals, course, creed, decalogue, decency, elements, erectness, estimableness, ethic, ethical system, ethics, ethos, fairness, first principles, first steps, good character, goodness, grammar, guiding principles, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, hornbook, immaculacy, induction, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, legal ethics, line, medical ethics, moral climate, moral code, moral excellence, moral principles, moral strength, morals, new morality, nobility, norm, normative system, outlines, plan of action, platform, policy, polity, position paper, primer, principia, probity, procedure, professional ethics, pureness, purity, rectitude, reputability, respectability, righteousness, rudiments, social ethics, stainlessness, standards, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness, value system, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

print

• print, Ditto copy, Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, alveolation, alveolus, aquatint, ascender, autolithograph, back, backlash, backwash, bastard type, be a printmaker, beard, bed, belly, bevel, black and white, black letter, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, block, block print, blotch, blow up, blowup, blueprint, body, boss, brand, bring out, bump, cap, capital, carve, case, catch a likeness, chalk, chalk up, character, characterize, chart, check, check off, chisel, choice of words, chromolithograph, cicatrize, clout, collage, colophon, color print, concavity, confirm, contact print, contact printing, convexity, copperplate, copperplate print, copy, counter, crayon engraving, crease, cribble, crosshatch, cut, cyanotype, cyclorama, dactylogram, dactylograph, dapple, dash, daub, deep-dye, define, delimit, delineate, demarcate, dent, descender, develop, diagram, dimple, dint, diptych, discolor, dot, draw, em, embed, embossment, en, enchase, engraft, engrave, engravement, engraving, enlarge, enlargement, entrench, establish, etch, etching, excrescence, face, facsimile, fat-faced type, fix, fleck, font, footmark, footprint, footstep, force, fossil footprint, found, freckle, fresco, furrow, gash, get out, glossy, gouge, graphotype, grave, groove, ground, hatch, hectograph, hectograph copy, hit off, hologram, honeycomb, ichnite, ichnolite, icon, illumination, illustration, image, impact, implant, impress, impression, imprint, incise, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, infix, ingrain, inscribe, issue, italic, jam, language, lantern slide, letter, letterpress, ligature, likeness, limn, line, linoleum-block print, lithograph, lodge, logotype, lower case, lump, mackle, majuscule, make a mark, make prints, map, mark, mark off, mark out, matte, mezzotint, microcopy, microprint, mimeograph, mimeograph copy, miniature, minuscule, montage, mosaic, mottle, multigraph, mural, negative, nick, notate, notch, offcut, offprint, offset, overprint, pack, pad, paint, panorama, paw print, pawmark, pencil, pepper, photo, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photostatic copy, phrasing, pi, pic, pica, picture, picturize, pimple, pit, pix, plant, pock, pockmark, point, portray, positive, prick, printed matter, process, projection printing, proof, prove, publish, pug, pugmark, pull, pull a proof, punch, punctuate, puncture, put out, put to bed, put to press, reaction, recoil, reflex, register, reissue, render, repercussion, replica, represent, representation, reprint, reproduction, response, riddle, roman, root, rotogravure, rub, rubber-block print, run, run off, sans serif, scar, scarify, schematize, score, scotch, scrape, scratch, script, sculpture, seal, seam, seat, semi-matte, set, set in, setoff, settle, shank, shoulder, sigil, signet, slide, small cap, small capital, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, stain, stained glass window, stamp, stat, steel, stem, stencil, step, stereotype, stigmatize, still life, stipple, streak, striate, strike, stripe, stud, sunken part, symbolize, tableau, take a rubbing, tapestry, tattoo, text, thumbmark, thumbprint, tick, tick off, tool, trace, trace out, trace over, transparency, triptych, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case, vestige, vignette, wall painting, wedge, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, wording, write, writing, xylograph

printed circuit

• printed circuit, amplifier circuit, astable circuit, back-to-back switching circuit, break, broken circuit, circuit, circuital field, circuitry, closed circuit, complete circuit, coupling circuit, dead circuit, equivalent circuit, flip-flop circuit, galvanic circuit, hot circuit, lateral circuit, leg, live circuit, loop, magnetic circuit, microcircuit, monostable circuit, multiple circuit, multiple series, nonsinusoidal circuit, path, rectifier circuit, semiconductor circuit, series multiple, short, short circuit, thermionic tube circuit, transistor circuit, vector field

printed matter

• printed matter, advance sheets, advertising matter, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, holograph, letter, letterpress, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, opus, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printout, production, reading matter, recension, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

printed

• printed, autograph, autographic, calligraphic, carved, chirographic, creased, cursive, cut, enchased, engraved, engrossed, flowing, furrowed, glyphic, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, graved, graven, grooved, holograph, holographic, impressed, imprinted, in longhand, in print, in shorthand, in writing, incised, inscribed, insculptured, italic, italicized, lined, longhand, manuscript, marked, on paper, penciled, penned, running, scriptorial, scriptural, sculptured, shorthand, stamped, stylographic, tooled, typeset, written

printer

• printer, Linotyper, apprentice printer, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, chief librarian, college editor, composing room, compositor, copy editor, curator, devil, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, electrotyper, executive editor, juvenile editor, keyboarder, librarian, library director, makeup man, managing editor, permissions editor, philobiblist, press, pressman, pressroom, printing office, printshop, production editor, proofer, proofroom, publisher, publishers, publishing house, reference editor, reference librarian, stereotyper, stoneman, textbook editor, trade editor, typesetter, typist, typographer

printing equipment

• printing equipment, bearer, bed, bevel, blanket, boss, box, burr, case, chase, composing stick, drawsheet, footstick, form, frame, furniture, galley, guide, gutter, matrix, overlay, platen, quoin, ratchet, turtle, tympan, underlay

printing

• printing, Italian hand, Spencerian writing, airing, alphabet, art, back number, bandying, block letter, blueprint, bold hand, book, book hand, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, chancery hand, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, circulation, collection, conventional representation, copperplate hand, copy, cursive, cursive hand, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, diffusion, display, dissemination, drama, drawing, edition, evulgation, exemplification, figuration, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, hieroglyphic, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impression, issuance, issue, law hand, letter, lettering, library, library edition, limning, logogram, logograph, longhand, majuscule script, map, minuscule script, musical notation, notation, number, painting, periodical, photography, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentment, printmaking, projection, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, realization, reissue, relief-carving, rendering, rendition, representation, reprinting, round hand, schema, school edition, score, script, series, set, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, syllabary, symbol, tablature, telecasting, text hand, trade book, trade edition, uncial, ventilation, volume, writing

printmaking

• printmaking, albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, drawing, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic artist, graphic arts, graphics, gravure, halftone engraving, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, offset, offset lithography, onset, painting, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, publication, publishing, relief printing, relief-carving, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xerography, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

printout

• printout, Flexowriter typewriter, Teleplotter, alphabetical printer, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, digital graph plotter, document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, hard copy, holograph, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, manuscript, matter, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, nonfiction, opus, original, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, production, punch cards, punched tape, reader, reading matter, readout, recension, recorder, relay register, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, tape reader, teletypewriter, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

prior

• prior, ahead, ancient, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, before, chief, ci-devant, earlier, early, elder, erstwhile, ex, exordial, first, fore, foregoing, foremost, former, forward, heading, headmost, immemorial, inaugural, initiatory, last, late, latest, leading, old, olden, older, once, onetime, past, precedent, preceding, precessional, precurrent, precursory, preexistent, prefatory, prehistoric, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, preparatory, prevenient, previous, previous to, prime, primeval, primitive, prior to, proemial, propaedeutic, quondam, recent, senior, sometime, then, till, until, whilom

priority

• priority, accent, accomplishment, antecedence, antecedency, anteposition, anteriority, arrangement, ascendancy, authority, bold front, brave face, brave front, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, deanship, display, dominion, eminence, emphasis, excellence, facade, face, facet, facia, favor, fore, forefront, foregoing, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front position, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, greatness, head, heading, high order, high rank, immediacy, import, importance, incomparability, influence, influentialness, inimitability, interest, lap, le pas, lead, leading, majority, mark, materiality, merit, moment, note, obverse, one-upmanship, order, ordering, paramountcy, precedence, precedency, preceding, precession, precursor, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preface, preference, prefix, prefixation, prelude, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primacy, privilege, prominence, proscenium, prothesis, rank, right, right-of-way, self-importance, seniority, significance, skill, stature, stress, success, superiority, supremacy, the lead, top priority, transcendence, transcendency, urgency, value, van, virtuosity, weight, weightiness, window dressing, worth

prism

• prism, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, burning glass, camera, coated lens, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, lens, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, reader, reading glass, telephoto lens, toric lens, varifocal lens, zoom lens

prismatic

• prismatic, bicolor, bicolored, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, cool, crazy, daedal, dichromatic, divers-colored, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, kaleidoscopic, many-colored, matching, medley, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, multiangular, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multilateral, parti-color, parti-colored, pigmentary, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, polygonal, polyhedral, prismal, prismoid, pyramidal, pyramidic, rainbow, shot, shot through, spectral, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, varicolored, variegated, versicolor, versicolored, warm

prison

• prison, POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, chokey, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, confine, confinement, constrain, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention, detention camp, dungeon, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, glasshouse, guardhouse, hoosegow, house of correction, house of detention, immure, incarcerate, industrial school, intern, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, jug, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, pokey, poky, prison camp, prisonhouse, quod, reform school, reformatory, slammer, sponging house, state prison, stir, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school

prisonbreak

• prisonbreak, break, breakout, deliverance, delivery, emergence, escape, escapism, evasion, extrication, flight, freeing, getaway, issuance, issue, jailbreak, leak, leakage, liberation, outlet, release, rescue, riddance, setting-free, vent

prisoner

• prisoner, POW, accused, cageling, captive, chain gang, con, convict, correspondent, defendant, detainee, detenu, ex-convict, gaolbird, internee, jailbird, libelee, lifer, parolee, political prisoner, prisoner of war, respondent, stir bird, suspect, ticket-of-leave man, ticket-of-leaver, trusty, two-time loser

prissy

• prissy, Victorian, chicken, effeminate, epicene, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, muliebrous, old-maidish, old-womanish, precious, priggish, prudish, puritanical, sissified, sissy, sissyish, soft, squeamish, strait-laced, straitlaced, stuffy, unmanly, womanish

pristine

• pristine, aboriginal, ancestral, angelic, antepatriarchal, artless, atavistic, autochthonous, basal, basic, blameless, bright, callow, central, chaste, childlike, clear, crucial, dewy, dovelike, earliest, elemental, elementary, embryonic, ever-new, evergreen, extra, faultless, first, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, fundamental, generative, genetic, germinal, green, guiltless, harmless, held back, held in reserve, held out, humanoid, immaculate, immature, in abeyance, in embryo, in hand, in ovo, in the clear, in the raw, inartificial, incorrupt, initial, innocent, intact, inviolate, lamblike, maiden, maidenly, mint, native, natural, neoteric, nestling, new, not guilty, offenseless, original, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, pregnant, prehistoric, prehuman, prelapsarian, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive, primordial, protogenic, protohistoric, protohuman, pure, put aside, put by, radical, raw, reproachless, reserve, rudimentary, sans reproche, saved, scatheless, seminal, sempervirent, sinless, spare, spotless, stored, suspended, to spare, unapplied, unbeaten, unbroken, unbruised, unconsumed, uncorrupted, undamaged, undefaced, undefiled, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, undeveloped, unemployed, unexercised, unexpended, unfaded, unfallen, unfledged, unhandled, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unlapsed, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unpolluted, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspent, unspoiled, unsullied, untapped, untarnished, untorn, untouched, untouched by evil, untried, untrodden, unused, unutilized, unwithered, unworn, vernal, virgin, virginal, waived, with clean hands, without reproach, young

prittle prattle

• prittle prattle, babble, babblement, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, coze, gab, gabble, gam, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, gossip, guff, hot air, idle talk, jabber, make conversation, mere talk, natter, nonsense talk, palaver, prate, prating, prattle, talkee-talkee, tete-a-tete, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, visit, yak, yakkety-yak

privacy

• privacy, Jim Crow, adytum, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anonymity, apartheid, apartness, ashram, celibacy, cell, clandestineness, cloister, closed meeting, concealment, confidentiality, confidentialness, covertness, den, detachment, executive session, hermitage, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, holy of holies, incognito, isolation, isolationism, ivory tower, keeping apart, lair, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, mew, monasticism, moving apart, private conference, privatism, privatization, quarantine, recess, reclusion, retirement, retreat, rustication, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, seclusion, secrecy, secret place, secretiveness, segregation, separateness, separation, sequestration, single blessedness, solitariness, solitude, splendid isolation, surreptitiousness, withdrawal

private parts

• private parts, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, beard, breasts, cervix, clitoris, cod, cods, cullions, family jewels, female organs, gonads, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, meat, nuts, nymphae, ovary, parts, penis, phallus, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, secrets, sex organs, spermary, testes, testicles, uterus, vagina, vulva, womb, yoni

private

• private, Tommy, Tommy Atkins, absolute, anonymous, antisocial, behind closed doors, buck private, certain, clandestine, closet, common soldier, concealed, concrete, confidential, confidentially, covert, covertly, deep-seated, defined, definite, detailed, determinate, different, discreet, distinct, distinguished, enlisted man, esoteric, especial, exceptional, exclusive, express, extraordinary, fixed, furtively, genitalia, genitals, grunt, hermitical, hidden, hush-hush, hushed, idiosyncratic, immanent, implanted, implicit, in camera, in private, in secret, inaccessible, inalienable, incognito, individual, indwelling, infantryman, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, interior, internal, intimate, intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, isolated, minute, noncommissioned officer, not for publication, noteworthy, off the record, on the sly, own, particular, peculiar, personal, personally, precise, private first class, privately, privileged, privy, reclusive, reserved, resident, respective, restricted, restrictive, reticent, retired, retiring, secluded, seclusive, secret, secretively, secretly, sequestered, several, sex organs, singular, sneakily, sneaking, sneakingly, solipsistic, solitary, special, specific, sub rosa, subjective, surreptitious, surreptitiously, top secret, unalienable, unchallengeable, uncommunicative, undisclosed, unofficial, unquestionable, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn

privateer

• privateer, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, freeboot, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, viking, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

privately

• privately, a huis clos, apart, aside, behind closed doors, by stealth, covertly, furtively, hugger-mugger, in camera, in chambers, in executive session, in person, in privacy, in private, in private conference, in privy, in propria persona, in the flesh, individually, januis clausis, personally, privily, stealthily, sub rosa, surreptitiously

privation

• privation, abridgment, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, bereavement, cost, curtailment, damage, dead loss, dearth, debit, default, defect, denial, denudation, deprivation, deprivement, despoilment, destitution, destruction, detriment, disburdening, disburdenment, disentitlement, dispossession, distress, divestment, empty purse, expense, forfeit, forfeiture, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, hardship, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, injury, lack, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, mendicancy, misery, mislaying, misplacement, misplacing, miss, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, penury, perdition, pinch, poorness, poverty, relieving, robbery, ruin, sacrifice, spoliation, straits, stripping, suffering, taking away, total loss, want

privilege

• privilege, accomplishment, advantage, allowance, appanage, ascendancy, authority, authorization, authorize, benefit, birthright, blank check, boon, carte blanche, certificate, certify, charter, concession, consent, copyright, deanship, diplomatic immunity, discharge, dispensation, empower, enable, enfranchise, entitle, excellence, exception, exemption, favor, franchise, freedom, give official sanction, give power, grant, greatness, immunity, incomparability, indulgence, inimitability, lead, leave, legalize, legislative immunity, legitimize, liberty, license, majority, one-upmanship, patent, permission, perquisite, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, ratify, release, right, right-of-way, sanction, seniority, skill, special favor, success, superiority, transcendence, transcendency, validate, virtuosity, warrant

privileged

• privileged, admitted, advantaged, auricular, authorized, between us, chartered, confidential, elite, empowered, enfranchised, entitled, esoteric, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, favored, franchised, honored, hush-hush, immune, in petto, indulged, inside, irresponsible, let off, licensed, not for publication, off the record, patented, permitted, powerful, private, privy, protected, released, restricted, rich, ruling, sanctioned, sealed, secret, spared, special, unaccountable, unanswerable, under privilege, unliable, unpublishable, unsubject, warranted, wealthy

privy council

• privy council, British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, advisory council, assembly, association, bench, board, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, city council, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislature, ministry, parish council, shadow cabinet, soviet, staff, syndicate, synod, tribunal

privy

• privy, WC, alive to, anonymous, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, back-door, backhouse, backstairs, basement, bathroom, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, bog, buried, can, clandestine, closet, cognizant of, comfort station, concealed, conscious of, convenience, covert, crapper, earth closet, feline, furtive, head, hep to, hidden, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, in the know, in the secret, incognito, informed of, inmost, innermost, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, jakes, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, let into, loo, mindful of, necessary, no stranger to, obscured, office, on to, outhouse, personal, powder room, private, privileged, privy to, quiet, rest room, retired, secluded, secret, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, sequestered, shifty, shrouded, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealthy, streetwise, surreptitious, toilet, toilet room, undeceived, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, urinal, washroom, water closet, wise to, withdrawn

prize

• prize, Academy Award, Nobel Prize, Oscar, accolade, accord respect to, admire, adore, aim, ambition, apotheosize, appraise, appreciate, apprize, arch, ascribe importance to, assay, assess, award, bar, barrow, beam, best, blackmail, boast, booby prize, boodle, boom, booty, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, cant hook, carrot, catch, cenotaph, champion, check a parameter, cherish, choice, chosen, class, claw bar, column, compute, consolation prize, crank, cream, cromlech, cross, crow, crowbar, cup, cyclolith, dearest wish, dearly love, defer to, deify, desideration, desideratum, desire, dial, diamond, divide, dividend, dolmen, elect, elite, entertain respect for, esteem, estimate, evaluate, exalt, excellent, fair-trade, fat, fathom, favor, figure, find, first prize, first-rate, flower, footstone, for the best, forbidden fruit, form an estimate, fulcrumage, gain, gauge, gem, get a foothold, get leverage, give an appreciation, glimmering goal, goal, godsend, golden vision, good thing, graduate, graft, grave, gravestone, greatest, guerdon, guess, handpicked, handspike, haul, headstone, hero-worship, hoarstone, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, hope, hot goods, idolize, inscription, iron crow, jackpot, jewel, jimmy, lever, leverage, limb, lodestone, look up to, loot, love to distraction, magnet, make an estimation, make much of, mark, marker, marlinespike, matchless, mausoleum, measure, meed, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, mensurate, mete, meter, monolith, monument, mound, necrology, nonesuch, nonpareil, obelisk, obituary, optimal, optimum, outrigger, outstanding, pace, paragon, paramount, pearl, peavey, pedal, peerless, perks, perquisite, pick, picked, pickings, pillar, pinch bar, plaque, plum, plumb, plunder, pork barrel, premium, price, pride, pride and joy, prime, probe, pry, public till, public trough, purse, pyramid, quantify, quantize, queen, quintessence, quintessential, quote a price, rank, rate, rate highly, receipts, reckon, regard, reliquary, remembrance, respect, revere, reverence, reward, ribbon, ripping bar, rostral column, second prize, select, set store by, shaft, shrine, size, size up, sound, span, spar, spoil, spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stakes, stealings, stela, step, stolen goods, stone, stupa, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, survey, swag, sweepstakes, tablet, take, take a reading, temptation, testimonial, the best, the best ever, the tops, the very best, think highly of, think much of, think well of, till, tomb, tombstone, top, tope, treadle, treasure, triangulate, trophy, trouvaille, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, valorize, valuate, value, venerate, very best, wedge, weigh, windfall, winner, winnings, wish, worship, wrecking bar

prized

• prized, ad valorem, admired, adored, appraised, appreciated, assessed, beloved, cherished, darling, dear, dearly beloved, esteemed, evaluated, favorite, good for, held dear, held in respect, highly considered, honored, in high esteem, loved, much-admired, pet, popular, precious, prestigious, priced, pro rata, rated, respected, revered, reverenced, treasured, valued, valued at, venerated, well-beloved, well-considered, well-liked, well-thought-of, worshiped, worth

prizefighter

• prizefighter, Chinese boxer, bantamweight, black belt, boxer, brown belt, bruiser, featherweight, fighter, fisticuffer, flyweight, heavyweight, karate expert, light heavyweight, lightweight, middleweight, palooka, pug, pugilist, savate expert, sparrer, welterweight

pro and con

• pro and con, agitate, argue, argumental, argumentative, canvass, combative, contentious, controversial, debate, dialectic, discept, disputatious, dispute, eristic, ill-humored, litigious, logomachic, pilpulistic, polemic, quarrelsome, thrash out

pro rata

• pro rata, ad valorem, appraised, assessed, distributional, distributive, distributively, each to each, equal, evaluated, even stephen, fifty-fifty, good for, half, half-and-half, halvers, in equal shares, in proportion, particular, per capita, per head, priced, prized, proportional, proportionate, proportionately, prorated, rated, respective, respectively, several, severally, valued, valued at, worth

pro

• pro, Admirable Crichton, adept, advocating, all for, approving, argument, argumentum, artisan, artist, attache, authority, aye, backing, case, con, connaisseur, connoisseur, cons, consideration, consultant, cordon bleu, crack shot, craftsman, dead shot, diplomat, diplomatist, doyen, elder statesman, elenchus, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, favorable, favoring, for, functional, gownsman, graduate, handy man, ignoratio elenchi, in favor of, industrial, interest, journeyman, marksman, master, nay, no, no slouch, official, old pro, plaidoyer, plea, pleading, politician, professional, professor, proficient, pros, pros and cons, reason, refutation, savant, seasoned professional, shark, sharp, side, special pleading, statesman, supporting, talking point, technical, technical adviser, technician, the affirmative, the negative, vocational, well-disposed, well-inclined, whiz, with

probability

• probability, a thing for, accidentality, actuarial calculation, actuarial prediction, adventitiousness, affinity, aftertime, afteryears, anticipation, apocalypse, aptitude, aptness, bare possibility, bent, best bet, bias, break, by-and-by, cast, casualness, certainty, chance, chances, conatus, conceivability, conceivableness, conduciveness, confidence, contemplation, contingency, course ahead, crystal ball, delight, destiny, determinism, diathesis, disposition, distant future, eagerness, even chance, eventuality, expectancy, expectation, fate, favorable prospect, feeling for, flukiness, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, gamble, good chance, good fortune, good luck, good opportunity, good possibility, guesswork, hap, happenstance, happy chance, heedless hap, hereafter, hope, how they fall, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, improbability, inclination, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, law of averages, leaning, liability, liableness, likelihood, likeliness, liking, lot, luck, main chance, moira, near future, obligation, odds, odds-on, odds-on chance, off chance, offing, omen, opportunity, outlook, outside chance, outside hope, penchant, possibility, possibleness, posteriority, potential, potentiality, prediction, predilection, predisposition, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, prejudice, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, presumption, principle of indeterminacy, problematicness, proclivity, prognosis, prognostication, project, promise, proneness, propensity, prophecy, prophesying, prospect, prospectus, random sample, readiness, reliance, remote possibility, risk, run of luck, sensitivity to, serendipity, small hope, soft spot, soothsay, speculation, sporting chance, statistical prediction, statistical probability, sure bet, sure thing, susceptibility, tendency, the attainable, the breaks, the feasible, the future, the morrow, the possible, the sweet by-and-by, theory of probability, thinkability, thinkableness, thought, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, tropism, turn, twist, unastonishment, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, vaticination, virtuality, warp, weakness, well-grounded hope, what is possible, what may be, what might be, whatever comes, willingness

probable

• probable, anticipatable, anticipated, apparent, approaching, apt, awaited, believable, calculable, cogitable, colorable, coming, conceivable, conceivably possible, contingent, credible, desired, destinal, destined, determined, divinable, due, earthly, emergent, eventual, evident, expected, extrapolated, fair, fatal, fated, fatidic, feasible, foreknowable, foreseeable, foreseen, foretellable, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, hopeful, humanly possible, illusory, imaginable, imminent, improbable, in prospect, in the cards, in view, indubitable, later, liable, likely, long-expected, mortal, most likely, nearing, odds-on, on the horizon, ostensible, overdue, planned, plausible, plotted, possible, potential, precognizable, predictable, predictable within limits, predicted, presumable, presumed, presumptive, projected, promised, promising, prophesied, prospective, rational, reasonable, seeming, statistically probable, thinkable, to come, to-be, ultimate, undoubted, unquestionable, verisimilar

probably

• probably, after a time, after a while, afterward, afterwards, all things considered, anon, assumably, before long, by all odds, by and by, by destiny, dollars to doughnuts, doubtless, doubtlessly, fatally, hopefully, imminently, in aftertime, in all likelihood, in all probability, in the future, indubitably, later, like enough, likely, most likely, no doubt, perhaps, possibly, predictably, presumably, presumptively, proximo, quite, soon, ten to one, tomorrow, undoubtedly, unquestionably, very like, very likely

probate

• probate, affirm, attest, attested copy, authenticate, back, back up, bear out, bequeathal, bequest, bolster, buttress, certify, circumstantiate, codicil, confirm, corroborate, devise, document, fortify, inheritance, legacy, prove, ratify, reinforce, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, testament, undergird, uphold, validate, verify, warrant, will

probation

• probation, acid test, assay, blank determination, brouillon, criterion, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, essay, feeling out, first draft, kiteflying, ordeal, proof, rough draft, rough sketch, sounding out, standard, test, test case, touchstone, trial, try, verification

probationary

• probationary, cut-and-try, empirical, experimental, heuristic, hit-or-miss, on probation, pilot, probational, probative, probatory, proving, provisional, tentative, test, testing, trial, trial-and-error, trying, verificatory

probationer

• probationer, LPN, RN, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, charge nurse, deb, debutant, district nurse, entrant, fledgling, freshman, graduate nurse, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, learner, licensed practical nurse, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, nurse, nursing sister, postulant, practical nurse, private-duty nurse, probationist, probe, public health nurse, raw recruit, recruit, registered nurse, rookie, school nurse, scrub nurse, sister, student nurse, surgical nurse, tenderfoot, trained nurse, trainee, tyro, visiting nurse

probe

• probe, ATDA, ATS, Alouette, Anna, Apollo, Ariel, Atlas-Score, Biosatellite, Comsat, Cosmos, Courier, Diapason, Discoverer, ERS, Early Bird, Echo, Elektron, Explorer, GATV, Gemini, Injun, Intelsat, LPN, Lofti, Luna, Lunar Orbiter, Lunik, Mariner, Mars probes, Mercury, Midas, Nimbus, OAO, OGO, OSO, Pageos, Pegasus, Pioneer, Proton, RN, Ranger, Relay, Samos, San Marco, Secor, Sputnik, Surveyor, Syncom, Telstar, Transit, Vanguard, Viking, Voskhod, WRESAT, Zond, amassing evidence, appraise, appreciate, artificial satellite, artificial satellites, assay, assess, barometer, calculate, calibrate, caliper, charge nurse, check a parameter, close inquiry, communications satellite, compute, delve into, delving, department of investigation, detection, detective work, dial, dig, dig into, district nurse, divide, domiciliary visit, dragnet, enquiry, estimate, evaluate, examination, examine, exhaustive study, exploration, explore, fathom, feel out, feeler, fly a kite, forage, frisk, gauge, geo probe, geodetic satellite, geophysical satellite, go, go into, graduate, graduate nurse, hearing, house-search, hunt, hunting, indagate, indagation, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, instrument carrier, investigate, investigation, investigative bureau, legislative investigation, legwork, licensed practical nurse, look into, measure, mensurate, mete, meter, navigational satellite, nurse, nursing sister, pace, peer into, perquisition, perscrutation, pilot balloon, plumb, poke, poke around, poke into, posse, practical nurse, private-duty nurse, prize, probationer, probationist, probing, prod, pry into, public health nurse, quantify, quantize, quest, random sample, ransacking, rate, read, reconnoiter, registered nurse, registering rocket, research, research rocket, research satellite, robot satellite, rummage, sample, satellite, school nurse, scrub nurse, scrutinize, scrutiny, search, search into, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, sift, sifting, sister, size, size up, sleuthing, sound, sound out, sounder, space probe, space satellite, spacecraft, span, sputnik, stalk, stalking, step, still hunt, straw vote, student nurse, study, surgical nurse, survey, take a reading, test rocket, trained nurse, trial balloon, triangulate, turning over, unmanned satellite, valuate, value, visiting nurse, weather satellite, weather vane, weathercock, weigh, witch-hunt

probing

• probing, Socratic method, asking, bringing into question, catechetical method, catechization, catechizing, challenge, deepening, delving, depression, digging, dispute, drilling, examination, excavation, fishing, in search of, inquest, inquiring, inquisition, interpellation, interrogation, investigation, loaded for bear, looking for, lowering, mining, nosy, out for, out for bear, poking, probe, prying, pumping, querying, quest, questioning, quiz, quizzing, research, searching, seeking, sinkage, sinking, tunneling

probity

• probity, angelicalness, decency, equity, fairness, godliness, goodness, honesty, honor, integrity, justice, justness, moral rectitude, morale, morality, rectitude, right conduct, righteousness, rightness, saintlikeness, saintliness, sincerity, trustworthiness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness

problem

• problem, Chinese puzzle, ado, aggravation, annoyance, anxiety, bad news, baffle, bafflement, baffling problem, basis, bedevilment, besetment, bewilderment, blemish, bone of contention, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, brain twister, bug, bugaboo, bugbear, burden, can of worms, case, catch, catechism, chapter, complication, concern, confoundment, confusion, conundrum, count, crack, crashing bore, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, crossword puzzle, crux, debating point, defect, defection, deficiency, delinquent, demand, devilment, difficult, difficulty, dilemma, disadvantage, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disturbance, disturbed, dogging, downer, drag, drawback, embarrassment, enigma, enigmatic question, essence, evil, exasperation, facer, failing, failure, fault, faute, feeler, fix, flaw, floorer, focus of attention, focus of interest, foible, frailty, gist, great ado, harassment, harrying, head, headache, heading, hole, hounding, illustration, imbroglio, imperfection, inadequacy, inconvenience, incorrigible, infirmity, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, intractable, issue, jam, jigsaw puzzle, kink, knot, knotty point, leader, leading question, little problem, living issue, main point, maladjusted, matter, matter in hand, meat, mess, mind-boggler, molestation, moot point, motif, motive, muddle, mystery, nonplus, nuisance, nut, nut to crack, obstreperous, peck of troubles, perplexed question, perplexity, persecution, perturbation, pest, pickle, plight, point, point at issue, point in question, poser, pother, predicament, pretty pickle, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quandary, query, question, question at issue, question mark, quodlibet, refractory, riddle, rift, rubric, scrape, sea of troubles, shortcoming, sixty-four dollar question, snag, something missing, stew, sticker, stumper, subject, subject matter, subject of thought, substance, taint, text, theme, topic, tough proposition, trial, trial balloon, trouble, unassuredness, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, upset, vexation, vexatiousness, vexed question, vulnerable place, weak link, weak point, weakness, why, worriment, worry

problematic

• problematic, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, ambiguous, arguable, at issue, baffling, bewildering, beyond belief, bothering, confounding, confusing, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, difficult, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, disputable, disputed, distracting, disturbing, doubtable, doubted, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, embarrassing, enigmatic, hairy, hard of belief, hard to believe, iffy, implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, incredible, indecisive, intricate, mistakable, moot, mysterious, mystifying, not deserving belief, open, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, perplexing, perturbing, precarious, preposterous, problematical, puzzling, questionable, questioned, refutable, ridiculous, sensitive, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, touchy, tricky, unbelievable, uncertain, unconvincing, undecided, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unsettled, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, upsetting

problematical

• problematical, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, arguable, at issue, baffling, bewildering, beyond belief, bothering, confounding, confusing, confutable, conjectural, contestable, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, discomposing, disconcerting, dismaying, disputable, distracting, disturbing, doubtable, doubtful, dubious, dubitable, embarrassing, enigmatic, hard of belief, hard to believe, iffy, implausible, in dispute, in doubt, in dubio, in question, inconceivable, incredible, intricate, mistakable, moot, mysterious, mystifying, not deserving belief, open to doubt, open to question, open to suspicion, passing belief, perplexing, perturbing, preposterous, problematic, puzzling, questionable, refutable, ridiculous, speculative, staggering belief, suppositional, suspect, suspicious, tall, thick, thin, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unthinkable, unworthy of belief, upsetting

proboscis

• proboscis, antlia, beak, beezer, bill, bugle, conk, muffle, muzzle, nares, neb, nib, nose, nostrils, nozzle, olfactory organ, pecker, rhinarium, rostrum, schnozzle, smeller, snoot, snout, trunk

procedure

• procedure, MO, SOP, act, action, actions, activity, acts, address, affectation, air, algorithm, approach, arrangement, attack, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, carriage, charting, common practice, comportment, conception, conduct, contrivance, course, course of action, creed, culture pattern, custom, demeanor, deportment, design, device, disposition, doing, doings, drill, enterprise, envisagement, fashion, figuring, folkway, foresight, forethought, form, game, gestures, goings-on, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, guiding principles, guise, idea, intention, layout, line, line of action, lines, lineup, long-range plan, maintien, maneuver, manner, manner of working, manners, mapping, master plan, matter of course, means, measure, method, methodology, methods, mien, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motion, motions, move, movements, moves, observable behavior, operation, operations research, order, organization, pattern, plan, plan of action, planning, planning function, platform, poise, policy, polity, port, pose, position paper, posture, practice, praxis, prearrangement, prescribed form, presence, principles, proceeding, process, program, program of action, rationalization, routine, rule, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, set form, setup, social science, standard operating procedure, standing orders, step, strategic plan, strategy, style, system, systematization, tack, tactical plan, tactics, technique, the big picture, the drill, the how, the picture, the way of, tone, tradition, way, way of life, ways, ways and means, wise, wont, working plan

proceed

• proceed, accept, accrue from, act, act on, act upon, advance, arise, arise from, assume, attack, attempt, be contingent on, be due to, bear a hand, behave, box office, buckle to, bud from, carry on, come along, come from, come on, come out of, continue, cover ground, depend on, derive from, descend from, do, do something, do something about, elapse, emanate, emanate from, embark in, embark upon, emerge from, endeavor, endure, engage in, ensue from, enter on, enter upon, expire, fall into, fall to, fare, flit, flow, flow from, flow on, fly, follow from, forge ahead, function, gain, gain ground, gate, gather head, gather way, germinate from, get ahead, get along, get on, get under way, get with it, glide, go, go about, go ahead, go along, go at, go by, go fast, go forward, go in for, go into, go on, go on with, go upon, grow from, grow out of, hang on, have at, head, hie, hinge on, income, issue, issue forth, issue from, journey, lapse, last, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lift a finger, make, make good time, make head against, make headway, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make up leeway, maneuver, march, misbehave, move, move along, move forward, move into, operate, originate, originate in, pass, pass along, pass by, pass on, pitch into, play, plunge into, practice, press on, proceed from, proceed to, proceed with, proceeds, process, profits, progress, push on, receipts, renew, repair, resume, returns, rise, roll, roll on, run, run its course, run on, run out, serve, set about, set at, set forward, set going, set to, slide, slip, spring from, sprout from, start, stem, stem from, step forward, strike a blow, tackle, take, take a hand, take action, take measures, take on, take steps, take up, travel, turn on, turn to, undertake, venture upon, wend, work, yield

proceeding

• proceeding, MO, accomplished fact, accomplishment, accounts, achievement, act, acta, action, actions, activity, acts, address, advancing, adventure, affair, affairs, affectation, air, algorithm, annals, approach, archives, attack, bearing, behavior, behavior pattern, behavioral norm, behavioral science, blow, business, carriage, celebrations, comportment, concern, concernment, conduct, coup, course, course of action, culture pattern, custom, dealings, deed, demeanor, deportment, doing, doings, effort, endeavor, enterprise, events, exploit, fait accompli, fashion, feat, folkway, form, forward, forward-looking, gest, gestures, go, go-ahead, goings-on, guise, hand, handiwork, interest, job, line, line of action, lines, maintien, maneuver, manner, manner of working, manners, matter, means, measure, method, methodology, methods, mien, minutes, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, modus vivendi, motion, motions, move, movements, moves, moving, observable behavior, oncoming, ongoing, onward, operation, order, overt act, passage, pattern, performance, poise, port, pose, posture, practice, praxis, presence, procedure, proceedings, process, production, progressing, progressive, records, reports, res gestae, routine, social science, step, stroke, stunt, style, system, tack, tactics, technique, the drill, the how, the way of, thing, thing done, tone, tour de force, transaction, transactions, turn, undertaking, way, way of life, ways, wise, work, works

proceedings

• proceedings, account, account rendered, accounting, acta, action, activeness, activism, activity, affairs, annual, brief, bulletin, business, case, cause, cause in court, census report, circumstances, concerns, condition of things, conditions, dealings, doings, election returns, goings-on, judicial process, lawsuit, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, life, litigation, march of events, matters, militancy, minutes, motion, movement, political activism, prosecution, relations, report, returns, run of things, state of affairs, statement, stir, suit, suit at law, tally, the record, the times, the world, transactions, what happens, yearbook

proceeds

• proceeds, aftermath, avails, bearing, box office, bumper crop, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, commissions, credit, credits, crop, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, filthy lucre, fruit, gain, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, harvest, hoard, income, intake, interest, killing, lucre, make, makings, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, output, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, produce, product, production, profit, profits, rake-off, receipt, receipts, receivables, return, returns, revenue, royalties, second crop, store, take, take-in, takings, throughput, unearned income, vintage, wealth, winnings, yield

process

• process, Afro, MO, act, activity, algorithm, alter, analog process, answer, approach, arrange, attack, barber, behavior pattern, bench warrant, blow up, blueprint, bob, capias, carve, caveat, change, chisel, clear for action, clear the decks, coif, coiffure, cold wave, conk, convert, course, course of action, cruise, cultivate, cure, deal with, death warrant, deploy, develop, development, digital process, dispose of, dress, enlarge, excrescence, excrescency, extract, fare, fashion, feeling, fieri facias, fix, fix up, form, function, get ready, go, grow, guise, habere facias possessionem, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, handle, harvest, headdress, hie, home permanent, hunting, injunction, input oscillation, interdict, journey, line, line of action, lines, machine, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, manage, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, manipulate, manner, manner of working, marshal, means, measure, method, methodology, mill, mine, mittimus, mobilize, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modify, modus, modus operandi, motion, natural, nisi prius, notice, notification, offset, operation, order, organize, oscillatory behavior, overcorrection of error, overshoot, pass, permanent, permanent wave, plan, pompadour, practice, prearrange, precept, prep, prepare, pretreat, print, procedure, proceed, proceeding, procure materials, prohibitory injunction, provide, pump, push on, put in shape, raise, ready, ready up, rear, refine, repair, routine, search warrant, self-excitation, settle preliminaries, shingle, smelt, step, stock, stock up, store, style, system, tack, take care of, tan, technique, the drill, the how, the way of, tone, transform, travel, treat, trim, try out, utilize, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, wave, way, wise, writ

processed

• processed, assembled, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, put together, raised, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, shaped, smelted, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

processing

• processing, accounting, analysis, architecture, arrangement, assembly, automatic electronic navigation, basic training, braking, briefing, building, casting, clearing the decks, composition, computation, construction, conversion, coordination, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, devising, elaboration, equipment, erection, extraction, fabrication, fact distribution, familiarization, fashioning, fixing, forecasts, formation, forming, formulation, foundation, framing, groundwork, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, inspection, machining, makeready, making, making ready, manipulation, manufacture, manufacturing, milling, mining, mobilization, molding, nonlinear calibrations, output measurement, planning, prearrangement, prefabrication, preliminaries, preliminary, preliminary act, preliminary step, prep, preparation, preparatory study, preparing, prepping, prerequisite, pretreatment, producing, propaedeutic, provision, raising, readying, record keeping, refining, shaping, smelting, spadework, steering, supersonic flow detection, training, treatment, trial, tryout, warm-up, workmanship

procession

• procession, caravan, cavalcade, chain, column, coming after, consecution, consecutiveness, continuation, continuity, cortege, course, cycle, descent, dress parade, extension, file, flyover, following, funeral, line, lineage, logical sequence, march, march past, motorcade, mule train, order, order of succession, pack train, parade, pomp, posteriority, postposition, progression, prolongation, promenade, review, rotation, run, sequence, series, skimmington, stream, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, train

processional

• processional, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, pax, reciting the rosary, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary

proclaim

• proclaim, advertise, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, antecede, antedate, anticipate, argue, articulate, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, be before, be early, bid, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon, blazon about, brand, broadcast, bruit about, call on, call the signals, call upon, celebrate, characterize, charge, circulate, come before, command, commission, contend, cry, cry out, declaim, declare, decree, demonstrate, dictate, direct, disseminate, dogmatize, enjoin, enunciate, evidence, evince, exhibit, express, forerun, give an order, give notice, give the word, go before, harbinger, have, herald, herald abroad, hold, illustrate, insist, instruct, issue a command, issue a manifesto, issue a writ, lay down, maintain, make known, mandate, manifest, manifesto, mark, notify, nuncupate, oracle, oraculate, ordain, order, order about, pontificate, preannounce, precede, precurse, predate, predicate, preexist, profess, promulgate, pronounce, protest, publish, put, put it, quote, recite, relate, report, rule, run before, say, say the word, set down, shout, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, thunder, thunder forth, trumpet, trumpet forth, usher in, utter, vent, ventilate, voice

proclamation

• proclamation, advertisement, advertising, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, announcing, annunciation, appointment, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, brevet, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting about, bull, bulletin board, circular, communique, conclusion, creed, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, dictum, diktat, edict, edictum, encyclical, enunciation, fiat, heralding, ipse dixit, law, manifesto, notice, notification, ordinance, ordonnance, position, position paper, positive declaration, predicate, predication, proclaiming, profession, program, programma, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, public notice, publication, publishing, report, rescript, rule, ruling, say, say-so, saying, senatus consult, senatus consultum, stance, stand, statement, ukase, utterance, vouch, white book, white paper, word

proclivity

• proclivity, a thing for, affinity, animus, aptitude, aptness, bag, bent, bias, cast, character, chosen kind, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, cup of tea, delight, diathesis, disposition, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, fancy, fascination, favor, feeling for, grain, idiosyncrasy, inclination, inclining, individualism, kidney, leaning, liability, liking, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, partiality, particular choice, penchant, personal choice, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proneness, propensity, readiness, sensitivity to, set, slant, soft spot, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, sympathy, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, thing, tropism, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, warp, weakness, willingness

proconsul

• proconsul, beg, beglerbeg, bey, burgrave, collector, dey, eparch, exarch, gauleiter, governor, governor-general, khedive, lieutenant governor, nabob, nawab, palatine, provincial, satrap, stadtholder, subahdar, tetrarch, vali, vice-king, viceroy, wali

procrastinate

• procrastinate, abandon, be dilatory, continue, cut, dally, dawdle, defer, delay, drag, drag out, draw out, dwell on, equivocate, extend, filibuster, gain time, goldbrick, goof off, hang, hang back, hang fire, hesitate, hold off, jump, lag, leave, leave loose ends, leave undone, lengthen, lengthen out, let alone, let be, let dangle, let go, let pass, let ride, let slide, let slip, linger, linger on, loiter, make time, malinger, miss, omit, pass over, pass up, pause, play for time, poke, postpone, pretermit, prolong, protract, put aside, put off, shelve, shilly-shally, shirk, skip, slack, spin out, stall, stall for time, stall off, stay, stooge around, stretch out, suspend, table, talk against time, tarry, temporize, tergiversate, trifle, vacillate, waver

procrastinating

• procrastinating, Micawberish, backward, contemplative, culpably negligent, dallying, delaying, derelict, dilatory, dillydallying, do-nothing, dormant, easygoing, foot-dragging, idle, immobile, inactive, inadvertent, inattentive, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, lax, lazy, lingering, loitering, loose, meditative, motionless, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, neuter, neutral, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overly permissive, paralytic, paralyzed, passive, permissive, procrastinative, procrastinatory, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, relaxed, remiss, scamping, shuffling, skimping, slack, slighting, slow, sluggish, slurring, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, uncircumspect, unguarded, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful, vegetable, vegetative

procrastination

• procrastination, Fabian policy, Micawberism, a wise passiveness, backwardness, contemplation, contemplative life, continuation, culpa, culpable negligence, dalliance, dallying, dawdling, default, dereliction, dilatoriness, dillydallying, disregard, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, extension, failure, hesitation, hold-off, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indolence, inertia, inertness, laches, lag, lagging, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, lapse, laxity, laxness, lengthening, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, looseness, meditation, mugwump, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, nonfeasance, noninterference, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonperformance, nonresistance, nonrestriction, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, omission, overlooking, oversight, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, permissiveness, policy, poor stewardship, prolongation, protraction, quiescence, quietism, remissness, shilly-shallying, slackness, slight, slowness, stagnancy, stagnation, stall, standpattism, stasis, tarrying, temporization, unrigorousness, vegetation, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

procrastinative

• procrastinative, Micawberish, backward, bone-lazy, cadging, dallying, dawdling, delaying, dilatory, dillydallying, do-nothing, doless, dragging, dronish, drony, easy, easygoing, ergophobic, faineant, foot-dragging, good-for-nothing, indolent, lackadaisical, laggard, lagging, lax, lazy, lingering, loitering, lollygagging, nonaggressive, parasitic, procrastinating, procrastinatory, remiss, scrounging, shiftless, shilly-shallying, shuffling, slack, slothful, slow, sluggish, sponging, tarrying, unenterprising, work-shy

procrastinator

• procrastinator, bungler, dawdle, dawdler, disregarder, dodger, drone, foot-dragger, goldbrick, goof-off, idler, ignorer, laggard, lie-abed, lingerer, loiterer, malingerer, neglecter, negligent, plodder, shirker, slacker, sleepyhead, sloven, slow goer, slow-foot, slowbelly, slowpoke, slug, sluggard, slut, snail, stick-in-the-mud, tortoise, trifler, waiter on Providence

procreate

• procreate, bear, beget, birth, blossom, breed, breed true, brew, bring forth, bring into being, bring to birth, burgeon, call into being, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, copulate, create, crossbreed, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, engender, evolve, fabricate, father, flourish, frame, gather, generate, germinate, get, give being to, give birth to, give rise to, grow, grow up, hatch, hypertrophy, improvise, inbreed, increase, invent, make, make do with, make love, make up, mature, mint, mother, multiply, mushroom, originate, outbreed, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, parent, plan, produce, progenerate, proliferate, propagate, pullulate, reproduce, reproduce in kind, shoot up, sire, spawn, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strike out, think out, think up, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wax

procreation

• procreation, abiogenesis, act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, archigenesis, ass, balling, begetting, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, breeding, budding, burgeoning, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, crossbreeding, development, diddling, digenesis, dissogeny, endogamy, engenderment, epigenesis, eumerogenesis, excrescence, fornication, gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, growth, heterogenesis, histogenesis, homogenesis, inbreeding, intercourse, intimacy, isogenesis, linebreeding, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, maturation, meat, merogenesis, metagenesis, monogenesis, multiplication, onanism, orgasm, orthogenesis, outbreeding, outgrowth, overgrowth, ovum, pangenesis, pareunia, parthenogenesis, proliferation, propagation, pullulation, relations, reproduction, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with, sperm, spontaneous generation, sprouting, upgrowth, vegetation, venery, xenogamy

procreative

• procreative, abecedarian, aboriginal, amorous, antenatal, autochthonous, beginning, budding, carnal, creative, elemental, elementary, embryonic, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, erotogenic, fecundative, fertilizing, fetal, fleshly, formative, foundational, fundamental, gamic, germinal, gestatory, heterosexual, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, introductory, inventive, libidinal, life-giving, multiparous, nascent, natal, nuptial, original, oversexed, parturient, postnatal, potent, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, procreant, propagative, reproductive, rudimental, rudimentary, seminal, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, spermatic, spermatozoic, straight, undersexed, ur, venereal, voluptuous

procrustean

• procrustean, dour, firm, fundamentalist, hard, hidebound, impliable, inexorable, inflexible, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, muscle-bound, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rockbound, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding

proctor

• proctor, Big Brother, MC, advocate, agent, amicus curiae, apprentice teacher, attorney, attorney-at-law, auditor, bailiff, barrister, barrister-at-law, boatswain, boss, butler, chief, comptroller, controller, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, croupier, curator, custodian, deputy, emcee, factor, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, friend at court, gaffer, ganger, graduate assistant, guardian, head, headman, housekeeper, inspector, intercessor, intern, landreeve, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, librarian, majordomo, master of ceremonies, monitor, mouthpiece, noncommissioned officer, overman, overseer, paraprofessional, pleader, practice teacher, praepostor, prefect, procurator, pupil teacher, sea lawyer, self-styled lawyer, seneschal, sirdar, slave driver, solicitor, steward, straw boss, student assistant, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, teaching assistant, teaching fellow, teaching intern, visitor

procurator

• procurator, MC, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, attorney, attorney-at-law, backup, backup man, bailiff, barrister, barrister-at-law, butler, champion, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, croupier, curator, custodian, deputy, dummy, emcee, executive officer, exponent, factor, figurehead, friend at court, guardian, housekeeper, intercessor, landreeve, lawyer, legal adviser, legal counselor, legal expert, legal practitioner, legalist, librarian, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, majordomo, master of ceremonies, mouthpiece, paranymph, pinch hitter, pleader, proctor, proxy, representative, sea lawyer, second in command, secondary, self-styled lawyer, seneschal, solicitor, stand-in, steward, substitute, surrogate, understudy, utility man, vicar, vicar general, vice, vicegerent

procure

• procure, accomplish, acquire, annex, appropriate, argue into, arouse, bag, be seized of, bring, bring about, bring around, bring back, bring forth, bring on, bring out, bring to light, buy, buy back, buy in, buy into, buy off, buy on credit, buy up, call for, call forth, call out, call up, capture, carry, catch, cause, chase after, come by, come in for, come into, compass, complete a purchase, contract, contrive, convince, corner, corral, decide, deduce, derive, determine, dispose, drag down, drag out, draw, draw down, draw forth, draw in, draw on, draw out, earn, educe, effect, elicit, engage, engross, enlist, enter into possession, evoke, fetch, fetch and carry, find, gain, get, get from, get out of, get to do, go after, go and get, go fetch, go for, go get, go to get, harvest, have, incline, induce, influence, inspire, instigate, interest in, land, lead, lure, make, make a buy, monopolize, motivate, net, obtain, pander, persuade, pick up, pimp, prevail, produce, prompt, prostitute, provoke, pull down, purchase, reap, rebuy, regrate, repurchase, requisition, retrieve, rouse, run after, sack, score, secure, shag, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, superinduce, sway, take, tempt, wangle, wangle out of, win, win over, winkle out, worm out, worm out of

procurement

• procurement, accession, accouterment, acquirement, acquisition, addition, armament, attainment, catering, chandlery, coming by, dragging down, earnings, endowment, equipment, finding, fitting out, furnishing, furnishment, gaining, getting, getting hold of, investment, logistics, making, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, obtainment, obtention, outfitting, preparation, procural, procurance, procuration, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, securement, selling, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, trover, victualing, winning

procurer

• procurer, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, bawd, beholder, consignee, fancy man, getter, gigolo, hearer, holder, listener, looker, madam, maquereau, obtainer, pander, panderer, payee, pimp, procuress, receiver, recipient, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer, white slaver, whoremaster

prod

• prod, activate, actuate, annoy, assault, badger, bear, bear upon, bearing, boost, buck, bull, bulldoze, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, carp at, cavil, come in contact, cram, crowd, cue, dig, drive, egg on, elbow, encourage, excite, exhort, feel, feel of, finger, flick, flog, force, gad, gadfly, goad, grope, handle, harass, head, hector, henpeck, hound, hurtle, hustle, impel, incite, instigate, irk, irritate, jab, jam, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, lash, manipulate, motivate, move, nag, needle, nudge, oxgoad, palm, palpate, paw, pester, pile drive, pique, plague, ply, poke, poke at, press, pressure, prick, prompt, propel, provoke, punch, push, quick look, ram, ram down, rattle, reminder, rouse, rowel, run, run against, shake, shoulder, shove, sic, signal, spur, stimulate, stimulus, sting, stir, stress, tamp, tap, tentative examination, thrust, thumb, touch, twiddle, urge, whip, whiplash, wield

prodigal son

• prodigal son, Magdalen, backslider, big-time spender, confessor, lost lamb, penitent, prodigal, prodigal returned, recidivist, repeater, returnee, reversioner, reversionist, spend-all, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, two-time loser, waster, wastethrift, wastrel

prodigal

• prodigal, Adamic, abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with, all-sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, backsliding, ballyhooed, bibulous, big-time spender, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, carnal, copious, crapulent, crapulous, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, erring, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fallen, fat, fecund, fertile, fleshly, flush, formless, frail, full, galore, generous, gluttonous, grandiloquent, gushing, gushy, high-flown, hyperbolic, immoderate, improvident, impure, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, indulgent, inexhaustible, infirm, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam-packed, jammed, lapsed, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnified, many, maximal, much, numerous, of easy virtue, opulent, overabundant, overbounteous, overcopious, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overexuberant, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overluxuriant, overmuch, overnumerous, overplenteous, overplentiful, overplenty, overpopulated, overpopulous, overpraised, overprolific, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, peccable, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, plethoric, populous, postlapsarian, pound-foolish, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal son, productive, profligate, profuse, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, pullulating, rampant, recidivist, recidivistic, reckless, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, self-indulgent, spend-all, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, squandering, stretched, studded, sumptuous, superabundant, superlative, swarming, swinish, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, too much, touted, unangelic, unbridled, unchaste, unclean, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfrugal, ungodly, ungood, unlimited, unmeasured, unrestrained, unrighteous, unsaintly, unthrifty, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wasteful, waster, wastethrift, wastrel, wayward, weak, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

prodigality

• prodigality, abundance, affluence, aggrandizement, amorality, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, avalanche, backsliding, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, bonanza, bounteousness, bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bumper crop, burlesque, caricature, carnality, cloud of words, copiousness, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, criminality, delinquency, deluge, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dilatation, dilation, dissipation, drunkenness, effusion, effusiveness, embarras de richesses, enhancement, enlargement, enough, evil, evil nature, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, expansion, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, gluttony, grandiloquence, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heightening, huckstering, hyperbole, hyperbolism, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, immorality, improvidence, impurity, incontinence, indiscipline, indulgence, inflation, inordinacy, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, inundation, landslide, lavishness, liberality, liberalness, logorrhea, lots, luxuriance, luxuriousness, luxury, macrology, magnification, maximum, money to burn, moral delinquency, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, numerousness, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overabundance, overaccumulation, overbounteousness, overcopiousness, overdoing, overdose, overemphasis, overestimation, overflow, overindulgence, overkill, overlavishness, overluxuriance, overmeasure, overmuchness, overnumerousness, overplentifulness, overplenty, overpopulation, overprofusion, overstatement, oversufficiency, oversupply, palilogy, peccability, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, prevalence, productiveness, productivity, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, puffery, puffing up, quantities, rampancy, rankness, recidivism, recklessness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, scads, self-indulgence, sensationalism, shower, spate, squandering, stream, stretching, substantiality, substantialness, sumptuousness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, superlative, swinishness, talkativeness, tall talk, tautology, teemingness, tirade, too much, too-muchness, touting, travesty, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, unconstraint, uncontrol, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrestraint, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, waywardness, wealth, wrongdoing

prodigious

• prodigious, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, amazing, amplitudinous, astonishing, astounding, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, boundless, bulky, colossal, cosmic, cracking, cyclopean, dumbfounding, elephantine, enchanted, enigmatic, enormous, epic, exceptional, extensive, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, flabbergasting, galactic, gargantuan, giant, giantlike, gigantic, heroic, huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, infinite, jumbo, king-size, large, legendary, leviathan, magical, mammoth, marvelous, massive, massy, mighty, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, miraculous, monster, monstrous, monumental, mortal, mountainous, mythical, necromantic, notable, noteworthy, outlandish, outsize, overgrown, passing strange, phenomenal, portentous, profound, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, sizable, spacious, spectacular, staggering, startling, strange, striking, stupefying, stupendous, surprising, thaumaturgic, titanic, towering, tremendous, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, unusual, vast, voluminous, weighty, wonder-working, wonderful, wondrous

prodigiousness

• prodigiousness, ampleness, amplitude, awesomeness, beguilingness, boundlessness, bulk, enchantingness, enormity, enormousness, enticingness, exceptionality, expanse, extraordinariness, fabulousness, fascination, formidableness, fullness, gigantism, glamorousness, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, hugeness, immensity, impossibility, inconceivability, incredibility, increditability, infinity, intensity, largeness, magnitude, marvelousness, might, mightiness, miraculousness, monstrosity, monstrousness, muchness, mysteriousness, mystery, mythicalness, numinousness, phenomenalness, plenitude, power, rareness, rarity, remarkableness, seductiveness, strength, stupendousness, tremendousness, uncommonness, uniqueness, unordinariness, unusualness, unwontedness, vastness, wonderfulness, wondrousness

prodigy

• prodigy, A per se, abnormality, ace, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, boss, brain, champion, chief, child prodigy, commander, conversation piece, crackerjack, curio, curiosity, dean, enchantment, exception, fantasy, ferlie, first-rater, fugleman, gazingstock, genius, gifted child, gifted person, good hand, great, head, higher-up, improbability, intellect, intellectual genius, intellectual prodigy, laureate, leader, leading light, luminary, magician, mahatma, man of genius, man of parts, marvel, marvelment, master, master hand, mastermind, mental genius, mental giant, miracle, museum piece, natural, nonesuch, nonpareil, oddity, paragon, past master, phenomenon, practiced hand, principal, prodigiosity, quite a thing, rarity, ruler, sage, senior, sensation, sight, sign, skilled hand, something else, spectacle, star, strange thing, stunner, superior, superman, superstar, talent, the greatest, the most, top dog, topnotcher, virtuoso, whiz, wizard, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment, wonderwork

produce

• produce, Irish potato, Kraut, accomplish, achieve, act, adduce, advance, affect, aftermath, allege, array, assemble, attain, aubergine, author, avails, baked goods, be a gas, be a hit, be productive, beans, bear, bear fruit, bearing, beget, betoken, bill, bomb, box office, brandish, breathe, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring off, bring on, bring out, bring to bear, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to light, bring to notice, bring to pass, bring up, build, bumper crop, cabbage, canned goods, cast, cause, citrus fruit, coin, collaborate, commissions, commit, compass, compose, compound, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct, construct, consummate, continue, create, credit, credits, crop, cultivate, dangle, dash off, deal with, deliver, demonstrate, deploy, develop, devise, discharge, disclose, dispatch, display, disposable income, dispose of, distribute, dividend, dividends, divulge, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, drag out, dramatize, draw, draw on, draw out, dream up, drupe, earned income, earnings, editorialize, effect, effectuate, eggplant, elaborate, elongate, embody, enact, engender, engineer, erect, establish, evidence, evince, evoke, evolve, excrete, execute, exhibit, experience imaginatively, expose to view, express, extend, extrude, fabricate, fail, fancy, fantasize, fashion, father, feature, fetch, fictionalize, flaunt, flop, flourish, food items, form, formulate, found, frame, free-lance, fructify, fruit, fruit cocktail, fruit compote, fruit soup, fudge together, fulfill, furnish, gains, gate, gate receipts, generate, gestate, get, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give out, give rise to, give sign, give token, go and do, green goods, greens, groceries, grocery, gross, gross income, gross receipts, grow, harvest, hatch, headline, highlight, ideate, illuminate, imagine, inaugurate, incarnate, income, indicate, indite, induce, industrialize, inflict, initiate, institute, intake, introduce, invent, knock off, knock out, lactate, legumes, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, love apple, mad apple, make, make a hit, make clear, make plain, make up, manage, manifest, manufacture, marshal, mass-produce, materialize, mature, mean, melodramatize, mold, mould, mount, multiply, muster up, net, net income, net receipts, novelize, occasion, offer, open, open a show, originate, output, overproduce, packaged goods, pamphleteer, parade, parent, patch together, pay, perform, perpetrate, piece together, pieplant, plead, polish off, potato, potherbs, prefabricate, premiere, prepare, present, preview, proceeds, procreate, product, production, profits, prolong, prolongate, prompt, propagate, protract, provide, pull, pull off, put away, put forth, put on, put out, put together, put up, raise, rally, realize, rear, receipt, receipts, receivables, render, represent, reproduce, returns, reveal, revenue, rhubarb, roll out, royalties, run up, scenarize, secern, second crop, secrete, secure, set afloat, set forth, set on foot, set the stage, set up, shape, show, show forth, sire, spark, spawn, spin out, spotlight, spud, stage, star, start, stone fruit, strain, stretch, stretch out, string out, succeed, supply, suppose, take, take and do, take care of, take-in, takings, tater, tauten, tear, tense, theatricalize, think up, throughput, throw on paper, tighten, tinned goods, token, tomato, trot out, truck, try out, turn out, turn the trick, unearned income, unfold, up and do, vegetables, vintage, volume-produce, water, wave, weep, white potato, whomp up, work, work out, work up, wreak, write, yield

producer

• producer, MC, actor, administrator, agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, auteur, author, ballyhoo man, barker, begetter, beginner, builder, callboy, catalyst, causer, conceiver, conductor, constructor, costume designer, costumer, costumier, craftsman, creator, deputy, designer, deviser, directeur, director, discoverer, doer, effector, emcee, engenderer, engineer, equestrian director, executant, executor, executrix, exhibitor, fabricator, farmer, father, founder, generator, governor, grower, impresario, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, inspirer, instigator, institutor, intendant, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, makeup man, manager, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, master of ceremonies, medium, mother, mover, operant, operative, operator, organizer, originator, parent, past master, performer, perpetrator, planner, playreader, practitioner, precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, processor, prompter, raiser, realizer, rector, responsible person, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, shaper, showman, sire, smith, spieler, stage director, stage manager, subject, supercargo, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, usher, usherer, usherette, worker, wright

product

• product, account, aftermath, aggregate, amount, article, article of commerce, article of merchandise, bearing, box score, bumper crop, by-product, cast, commodity, consequence, consequent, corollary, count, crop, derivation, derivative, development, difference, distillate, drug, effect, event, eventuality, eventuation, fallout, feature, fruit, goods, handiwork, harvest, issue, item, lead item, leader, legacy, logical outcome, loss leader, make, merchandise, number, offering, offshoot, offspring, outcome, outgrowth, output, precipitate, proceeds, produce, production, quantity, reckoning, result, resultant, score, second crop, seconds, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, special, spin-off, standard article, staple, staple item, sum, summation, tale, tally, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, total, turnout, upshot, vendible, vintage, ware, whole, work, x number, yield

production line

• production line, armory, arsenal, assemblage, assembly, assembly line, assembly plant, assembly-line production, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distillery, division of labor, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, industrialization, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mass production, mill, mint, modular production, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, standardization, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, volume production, winery, yard, yards

production

• production, Nachtmusik, absolute music, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adaptation, adventure, aftermath, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, anatomy, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, article, artifact, assembly, attainment, autograph, bearing, benefit, best seller, bill, blow, book, bound book, brainchild, build, building, bumper crop, carrying out, casting, chamber music, chamber orchestra, child, classic, coinage, coloring book, composition, computer printout, concoction, conformation, constitution, construction, consummation, copy, coup, creation, creature, crop, crowning achievement, dealings, debut, deed, definitive work, demonstration, descant, development, direction, discharge, dispatch, display, distillation, document, doing, doings, draft, drama, dress rehearsal, edited version, effect, effectuation, effort, electronic music, elongation, enactment, end product, end result, endeavor, engrossment, enterprise, entertainment, essay, essence, etude, execution, exercise, exhibit, exhibition, exploit, exposition, exposure, extension, extract, fabric, fabrication, fair copy, fait accompli, farewell performance, fashion, fashioning, feat, fiction, film, final draft, finished version, first draft, flesh show, flimsy, folio, forging, form, format, formation, forming, frame, fructification, fruit, fruition, fulfillment, gest, getup, go, great work, hand, handiwork, hardback, harmonization, harvest, holograph, implementation, incidental music, instrumental music, invention, issue, job, juvenile, juvenile book, lengthening, letter, limp-cover book, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, magnum opus, make, makeup, making, maneuver, manufacture, manufacturing, manuscript, masterpiece, masterwork, matter, measure, mintage, mise-en-scene, mission accomplished, mold, molding, motion picture, mounting, move, movie, moving picture, multiplication, new mintage, nocturne, nonbook, nonfiction, notebook, novel, oeuvre, offspring, opening, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, opusculum, orchestration, organic structure, organism, organization, original, origination, ostentation, outcome, outgrowth, output, overt act, paper, paperback, parchment, passage, pattern, patterning, penscript, performance, physique, picture book, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, playbook, pocket book, poem, prayer book, premiere, preparation, presentation, presentment, printed matter, printout, proceeding, proceeds, produce, producing, product, program music, projection, proliferation, prolification, prolongation, protraction, psalmbook, psalter, publication, pullulation, putting out, reading matter, realization, recension, rehearsal, representation, reproduction, res gestae, result, retrospective, ricercar, run-through, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second crop, second draft, serial, setting, setup, shape, shaping, show, showing, sketchbook, soft-cover, sonata, sonatina, songbook, stage management, stage presentation, staging, standard work, step, storybook, strain, stretch, stretching, string orchestra, string quartet, stringing out, stroke, structure, structuring, study, stunt, success, swan song, tectonics, tension, texture, the written word, theatrical performance, theme and variations, thing, thing done, tissue, title, tome, tour de force, trade book, transaction, transcript, transcription, trio, tryout, turn, turnout, typescript, undertaking, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, variation, varnishing day, vernissage, version, vintage, volume, walk-through, warp and woof, weave, web, work, works, writing, yield

productive

• productive, able, abounding, abundant, adequate, advantageous, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty, banausic, blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, breadwinning, bursting, bursting out, capable, causative, competent, conceptive, conceptual, constructive, copious, creative, demiurgic, diffuse, diffusive, dynamic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, effuse, effusive, epidemic, equal to, esemplastic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, formative, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, full, gainful, galore, generative, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, ingenious, inspired, inventive, lavish, liberal, lucrative, lush, luxuriant, many, maximal, moneymaking, much, notional, numerous, opulent, original, originative, overflowing, paying, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, pregnant, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, proficient, profitable, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, rampant, redundant, reiterative, remunerative, repetitive, replete, resourceful, rewarding, rich, rife, riotous, running over, seminal, shaping, spawning, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, up to, valuable, vigorous, visioned, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-paying, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale, worthwhile

productiveness

• productiveness, abundance, access, accession, accomplishment, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, achievement, addition, advance, affluence, aggrandizement, amperage, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplification, amplitude, appreciation, armipotence, ascent, augmentation, authority, avalanche, ballooning, beef, black power, bloating, bonanza, boom, boost, bountifulness, bountiousness, bringing to fruition, broadening, brute force, buildup, bumper crop, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, copiousness, crescendo, development, dint, doing, drive, duress, edema, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effectuation, elevation, energy, enlargement, execution, expansion, extension, extravagance, exuberance, fertility, flood, flow, flower power, foison, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, full measure, fullness, gain, generosity, generousness, great abundance, great plenty, greatening, growth, gush, hike, increase, increment, inflation, influence, jump, landslide, lavishness, leap, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, main force, main strength, mana, maximum, might, might and main, mightiness, more than enough, mounting, moxie, much, multiplication, muscle power, myriad, myriads, numerousness, operation, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, overproduction, performance, pizzazz, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prevalence, prodigality, production, productivity, profuseness, profusion, proliferation, puissance, pull, punch, push, quantities, raise, realization, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, riot, riotousness, rise, scads, shower, sinew, snowballing, spate, spread, steam, stream, strength, strong arm, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superiority, superpower, surge, swelling, teemingness, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, waxing, wealth, weight, widening

productivity

• productivity, abundance, amperage, amplitude, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, bountifulness, brute force, charge, charisma, cloud of words, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, copiousness, creativeness, creativity, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dint, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effusion, effusiveness, energy, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, flower power, fluency, force, force majeure, forcefulness, formlessness, fructiferousness, fruitfulness, full blast, full force, generousness, gush, gushing, influence, ingenuity, invention, inventiveness, logorrhea, lushness, luxuriance, macrology, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, originality, outpour, overflow, palilogy, pizzazz, plenteousness, plentifulness, pleonasm, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, pregnancy, pregnant imagination, prepotency, procreativeness, prodigality, productive capacity, productiveness, profuseness, profusion, prolificacy, prolificity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, richness, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, superiority, superpower, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teeming imagination, teeming womb, teemingness, tirade, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight

profanation

• profanation, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, befoulment, blasphemousness, blasphemy, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, disgrace, diversion, embezzlement, fouling, ignominy, impiety, infamy, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, profaneness, profanity, prostitution, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scandal, shame, terrible thing, violation

profane

• profane, Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abuse, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, bad, bawdy, befoul, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, carnal-minded, coarse, comminatory, commit sacrilege, common, contaminate, contemptuous, contumelious, convert, corrupt, cursing, damnatory, debase, defalcate, defile, defiled, degrade, denunciatory, desecrate, dirty, disbelieving, dishonor, disrespectful, divert, dysphemistic, earthly, earthy, embezzle, epithetic, ethnic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, fulminatory, gentile, godless, heathen, idolatrous, immodest, impious, imprecatory, improper, impure, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infidel, infidelic, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, lay, low, maladminister, maledictory, material, materialistic, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, mundane, nasty, naughty, nonsacred, obscene, off color, pagan, peculate, pervert, pilfer, pollute, profanatory, prostitute, raunchy, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, reprobate, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, secular, sinful, smutty, taboo, taint, temporal, terrestrial, the fleshly, the mundane, the profane, the secular, the temporal, the unholy, the worldly, tref, unbelieving, unblessed, unclean, uncouth, undutiful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unmentionable, unprintable, unregenerate, unsacred, unsanctified, unspiritual, venomous, vile, violate, vitiate, vituperative, vulgar, wicked, worldly

profanity

• profanity, bad language, billingsgate, blasphemousness, blasphemy, blue language, colorful language, cursing, cussing, desecration, dirty language, dirty talk, dysphemism, evil speaking, execration, filth, filthy language, foul language, impiety, imprecation, obscenity, profanation, profane swearing, profaneness, reprobation, ribaldry, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scatology, strong language, swearing, unblessedness, unhallowedness, unholiness, unparliamentary language, unregenerateness, unrepeatable expressions, unsacredness, unsanctitude, unsanctity, vile language, vulgar language

profess

• profess, act, act a part, affect, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, assert, assever, asseverate, assume, aver, avouch, avow, bluff, claim, confess, confirm, contend, counterfeit, cover up, declare, depose, dissemble, dissimulate, enunciate, express, express the belief, fake, feign, four-flush, gammon, have, hold, insist, issue a manifesto, lay down, let on, let on like, maintain, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, manifesto, offer, play, play a part, play possum, playact, predicate, present, pretend, pretext, proclaim, proffer, pronounce, protest, protest too much, purport, put, put forward, put it, put on, say, set down, set forth, sham, simulate, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, swear, tender, utter, vow, warrant

professed

• professed, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, alleged, allowed, announced, apparent, approved, asserted, asseverated, attested, authenticated, averred, avouched, avowed, certified, claimed, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, declared, deposed, endorsed, enunciated, granted, hypocritical, in name only, manifestoed, notarized, ostensible, pledged, predicated, pretended, pretexted, pronounced, purported, ratified, received, recognized, sealed, self-styled, signed, so-called, specious, stamped, stated, supposed, sworn, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, underwritten, validated, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted, would-be

profession

• profession, acceptance, acknowledgment, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, allowance, announcement, annunciation, appreciation, art, assertion, asseveration, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, business, calling, career, career building, careerism, claim, compurgation, concession, conclusion, confession, confession of faith, craft, creed, declaration, declaration of faith, deposition, dictum, disclosure, employment, enunciation, field, game, handicraft, instrument in proof, ipse dixit, job, legal evidence, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, manifesto, metier, mission, mystery, number, occupation, position, position paper, positive declaration, post, practice, predicate, predication, proclamation, pronouncement, proposition, protest, protestation, pursuit, racket, recognition, say, say-so, saying, situation, specialization, specialty, sphere, stance, stand, statement, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, trade, utterance, vocation, vouch, walk, walk of life, witness, word, work

professional

• professional, Admirable Crichton, Daedalian, able, academic, accomplished, adept, adroit, apt, artisan, artist, artiste, artistic, at concert pitch, attache, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, businesslike, career, clean, clever, coached, competent, connaisseur, connoisseur, conscientious, consultant, conversant, coordinated, cordon bleu, crack, crack shot, crackerjack, craftsman, cross-disciplinary, cunning, cute, daedal, dead shot, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomat, diplomatic, diplomatist, educated, efficient, elder statesman, excellent, experienced, experienced hand, expert, expert consultant, fancy, finished, functional, gifted, good, goodish, gownsman, graceful, graduate, graduate-professional, handy, handy man, industrial, ingenious, initiate, initiated, interdisciplinary, journeyman, knowledgeable, licensed, maestro, magisterial, marksman, master, masterful, masterly, maven, neat, no mean, no slouch, official, old pro, past master, pedagogical, polished, politic, politician, postgraduate, practiced, prepared, primed, pro, professor, proficient, prompt, qualified, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, savant, scholarly, scholastic, schoolish, seasoned, seasoned professional, shark, sharp, skilled, skillful, slick, some, specialist, statesman, statesmanlike, stylish, tactful, talented, technical, technical adviser, technician, the compleat, the complete, thorough, trained, veteran, virtuoso, vocational, well-done, whiz, wizard, workmanlike

professorial

• professorial, academic, bookish, devoted to studies, diligent, donnish, dryasdust, mandarin, owlish, pedagogic, pedantic, preceptorial, professorlike, rabbinic, scholarly, scholastic, schoolmastering, schoolmasterish, schoolmasterlike, schoolmasterly, schoolmistressy, schoolteacherish, schoolteachery, studious, teacherish, teacherlike, teachery, teachy, tutorial

proffer

• proffer, accord, administer, advance, afford, allot, allow, approach, asking price, award, bestow, bestow on, bid, communicate, confer, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, extend, feeler, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, hand out, heap, help to, hold forth, hold out, impart, invitation, issue, lavish, let have, mete, mete out, offer, offering, overture, pose, pour, prefer, preliminary approach, present, presentation, proposition, put up, rain, render, serve, shell out, shower, slip, snow, submission, submit, suggestion, tender, tentative approach, vouchsafe, yield

proffered

• proffered, arbitrary, autonomous, discretional, discretionary, elective, free, free will, gratuitous, independent, nonmandatory, offered, optional, self-acting, self-active, self-determined, self-determining, spontaneous, unasked, unbesought, unbidden, uncalled-for, uncoerced, uncompelled, unforced, uninfluenced, uninvited, unpressured, unprompted, unrequested, unrequired, unsolicited, unsought, voluntary, volunteer, willful

proficiency

• proficiency, ability, ableness, address, adeptness, adequacy, adroitness, advancement, airmanship, all-knowingness, anabasis, aptitude, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, competency, condition, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cross-disciplinary knowledge, cunning, deep knowledge, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficacy, efficiency, encyclopedic knowledge, expertise, expertness, extensive knowledge, facility, faculty, finesse, fitness, fittedness, flair, general knowledge, genius, grace, grip, handiness, headway, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know-how, march, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, maturity, omniscience, ongoing, pansophy, polyhistory, polymathy, practical ability, preparedness, profound knowledge, progress, prowess, qualification, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, ripeness, savoir faire, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seasoning, skill, skillfulness, special knowledge, style, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, susceptibility, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempering, the goods, the stuff, timing, trim, virtuosity, what it takes, wit, wizardry, workmanship

proficient

• proficient, Daedalian, able, accomplished, ace, adapted, adept, adequate, adjusted, adroit, apt, archetypical, artist, artiste, artistic, au fait, authoritative, authority, bravura, brilliant, capable, checked out, classic, clean, clever, competent, consummate, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, deft, developed, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, equal to, excellent, exemplary, exercised, experienced, expert, fancy, finished, first-rate, fit, fitted, fully developed, gifted, good, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, knowledgeable, magisterial, master, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, neat, no mean, past master, perfected, polished, politic, practiced, productive, professional, qualified, quick, quintessential, quite some, ready, refined, resourceful, ripe, ripened, skilled, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, suited, tactful, talented, the compleat, the complete, top-notch, up to, veteran, virtuoso, well-done, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, well-versed, whiz, wizard, workmanlike

profile

• profile, Clio, Muse of history, adventures, analysis, annals, autobiography, bank, beam, biographical sketch, biography, blueprint, border, broad lines, broadside, brouillon, cameo, cartoon, case history, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, characterization, chart, cheek, chop, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, coast, confessions, configuration, contour, copy, curriculum vitae, delineate, delineation, depiction, describe, description, design, details, diagram, diary, draft, draw, drawing, ebauche, elevation, esquisse, evocation, examination, experiences, features, figuration, figure, flank, fortunes, framework, galbe, gestalt, graph, graphic account, ground plan, hagiography, hagiology, hand, handedness, haunch, head, hip, historiography, history, house plan, ichnography, image, imagery, impression, itemization, journal, jowl, laterality, legend, life, life and letters, life story, limn, limning, line, lineaments, lineation, lines, list, main features, many-sidedness, martyrology, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, miniature, multilaterality, necrology, obituary, outline, particularization, pattern, photobiography, photograph, picture, planking, plot, portrait, portraiture, portrayal, projection, quarter, record, relief, rendering, rendition, representation, resume, rough, shapes, shore, side, siding, silhouette, skeleton, sketch, specification, statistics, story, study, survey, table, temple, theory of history, tournure, unilaterality, vignette, vivid description, word painting, working drawing

profit by

• profit by, benefit from, capitalize on, carpe diem, cash in, cash in on, exploit, improve, improve the occasion, make capital of, make hay, not be behindhand, put to advantage, seize the day, take advantage of, trade on, turn to account, turn to profit, turn to use, use to advantage

profit sharing

• profit sharing, collective farm, collectivism, collectivity, collegiality, common ownership, communal effort, communion, communism, community, cooperation, cooperative society, democracy, kibbutz, kolkhoz, public ownership, sharecropping, socialism, state ownership, town meeting

profit

• profit, advance, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, aid, answer, appropriateness, avail, avails, bait, be handy, be of use, be right, befit, befitting, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, benison, bestead, blessing, boon, box office, break no bones, bribe, capital gains, capitalize on, carrot, cash in on, clean up, cleaning, cleanup, clear, clear profit, coin money, commercialize, commissions, convenience, credit, credits, decency, desirability, disposable income, dividend, dividends, do, do good, do no harm, do the trick, earn, earned income, earnings, encouragement, excess, expedience, expediency, exploit, favor, feasibility, fill the bill, fillip, filthy lucre, fit, fitness, fittingness, forward, fruitfulness, further, gain, gain by, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gettings, give good returns, gleanings, good, gravy, gross, gross income, gross profit, gross receipts, help, hoard, improve, incentive, incitement, income, inducement, intake, interest, invitation, killing, lucre, lure, make, make a killing, make money, make money by, makings, maximize, neat profit, net, net income, net profit, net receipts, not come amiss, opportuneness, output, paper profits, pay, pay off, payment, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, persuasive, pickings, point, politicness, proceeds, produce, product, production, profitability, profits, promote, propriety, provocation, prudence, rake-off, realize, realize on, receipt, receipts, receivables, return, returns, revenue, reward, rightness, royalties, seasonableness, seemliness, serve, serve the purpose, service, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, store, suffice, suit the occasion, suitability, surplus, sweetener, sweetening, take, take advantage of, take-in, takings, timeliness, turn a penny, turn to account, turn to profit, turnout, unearned income, use, usefulness, utilize, value, wealth, welfare, well-being, whet, winnings, wisdom, work, work for, world of good, worth, worthwhileness, yield, yield a profit

profitable

• profitable, advantageous, advisable, aidful, appropriate, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, braw, breadwinning, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, compensating, compensative, compensatory, conducive, congruous, constructive, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable, effective, elegant, estimable, excellent, expedient, fair, famous, fat, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, fruitful, furthersome, gainful, good, good for, goodly, grand, happy, healthy, helpful, kind, laudable, likely, lucrative, meet, moneymaking, nice, noble, of value, opportune, paying, pleasant, politic, positive, productive, proper, recommendable, regal, remedial, remunerative, reparative, repaying, retributive, retributory, rewardful, rewarding, right, royal, salutary, satisfying, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound, splendid, suitable, therapeutic, timely, to be desired, useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous, well-paying, well-spent, well-timed, wise, worthwhile, yielding a return

profiteer

• profiteer, blackmailer, bleed, bleed white, bloodsucker, clip, exploit, exploiter, extort, extortionist, fleece, gouge, harpy, hold up, leech, milk, overcharge, overprice, overtax, predator, racketeer, raptor, screw, shakedown artist, shark, skin, soak, stick, sting, surcharge, swindle, vampire, victimize, vulture

profligacy

• profligacy, carnality, corruption, debauchery, degeneracy, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, eroticism, evil, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, immorality, improvidence, indecency, lasciviousness, lavishness, lechery, lewdness, libertinism, licentiousness, perversion, prodigality, promiscuity, recklessness, sensuality, sin, sinfulness, squandering, sybaritism, unrestraint, vice, voluptuousness, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, wickedness

profligate

• profligate, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, abandoned, backslider, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, carnal, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, debauchee, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, dissipated, dissipative, dissolute, easy come, easy go, erotic, evil, excessive, extravagant, fallen angel, fast, free, gallant, gay, gay deceiver, gay dog, good-for-nothing, immoderate, immoral, improvident, incontinent, indecent, iniquitous, intemperate, lady-killer, lascivious, lavish, lecher, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, loose, lost sheep, lost soul, lover-boy, miscreant, morally polluted, no-good, overgenerous, overlavish, overliberal, penny-wise and pound-foolish, pervert, perverted, philanderer, pimp, polluted, pound-foolish, prodigal, profuse, promiscuous, rake, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, recidivist, reckless, recreant, reprobate, rip, rotten, roue, rounder, scapegrace, sensual, sensualist, shameless, sinful, sinner, skirt chaser, sodomite, sorry lot, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, squandering, steeped in iniquity, swinger, sybarite, sybaritic, tainted, trollop, unbridled, unprincipled, unrestrained, vice-corrupted, vitiated, voluptuary, voluptuous, walking phallus, wanton, warped, wasteful, waster, wastethrift, wastrel, whore, whoremonger, wicked, wild, wolf, woman chaser, womanizer

profound

• profound, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, absolute, absorbing, abstract, abstruse, abysmal, acute, analytical, ankle-deep, arcane, arrant, astronomic, astute, awful, broad-minded, cabbalistic, civilized, classical, colossal, complete, consummate, crass, cryptic, cultivated, cultured, decided, deep, deep-cut, deep-down, deep-engraven, deep-felt, deep-fixed, deep-laid, deep-lying, deep-reaching, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, deep-sinking, deep-sunk, deep-sunken, deepgoing, deepish, deepsome, definitive, discerning, downright, educated, egregious, elephantine, encyclopedic, enigmatic, enormous, epic, erudite, esoteric, extreme, flagrant, giant, giantlike, gigantic, glaring, great, gross, hard, heartfelt, heavy, hermetic, heroic, hidden, homefelt, huge, immense, incomprehensible, indecipherable, indelible, infinite, informed, inscrutable, insightful, intellectual, intense, intolerable, intricate, involved, jumbo, keen, knee-deep, knotty, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, literate, mammoth, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, occult, out-and-out, outright, overpowering, overwhelming, pansophic, penetrating, perfect, pervading, piercing, poignant, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, positive, precious, prodigious, pronounced, proper, puzzling, rank, recondite, regular, sagacious, sage, sapient, scholarly, scholastic, secret, sharp, shattering, shocking, sincere, stark, stark-staring, studious, stupendous, subtle, superlative, surpassing, terrible, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, titanic, total, towering, transcendental, tremendous, tricky, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unfathomable, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, utter, vast, well-informed, well-read, wise, wise as Solomon

profundity

• profundity, Sophia, abstruseness, abyss, acumen, ampleness, astuteness, bigness, bottomlessness, broad-mindedness, broadness, capaciousness, complexity, complication, comprehensiveness, copiousness, crabbedness, crampedness, deep-downness, deep-rootedness, deep-seatedness, deepness, depth, difficulty, discernment, erudition, esoterica, expansiveness, extensiveness, extreme innerness, fathomlessness, generousness, good understanding, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, greatness, hardness, incomprehensibility, indecipherability, inscrutability, interiority, intricacy, involvement, keenness, knottiness, knowledgeability, largeness, mellow wisdom, obscurity, plumblessness, profoundness, reconditeness, ripe wisdom, sagacity, sageness, sapience, scholarliness, scholarship, seasoned understanding, sharpness, sound understanding, spaciousness, subterraneity, subtlety, tallness, wideness, wisdom, wiseness

profuse

• profuse, abounding, abundant, affluent, aggrandized, alive with, all-sufficing, ample, amplified, aplenty, ballyhooed, bighearted, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bristling, bursting, considerable, copious, crawling, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, disproportionate, dissipative, easy come, easy go, effuse, effusive, epidemic, exaggerated, excessive, exhaustless, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, fat, fecund, fertile, flush, formless, free, freehanded, freehearted, fruitful, full, galore, generous, giving, gracious, grandiloquent, greathearted, gushing, gushy, handsome, high-flown, hospitable, hyperbolic, immoderate, in plenty, in profusion, in quantity, incontinent, inexhaustible, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, jam-packed, jammed, large, largehearted, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, magnanimous, magnified, many, maximal, much, munificent, numerous, open, openhanded, openhearted, opulent, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overflowing, overgenerous, overgreat, overlarge, overlavish, overliberal, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, packed, penny-wise and pound-foolish, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, populous, pound-foolish, prevailing, prevalent, princely, prodigal, productive, profligate, profusive, proliferating, prolific, puffed, rampant, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, replete, rich, rife, riotous, running over, spendthrift, stintless, stretched, studded, superabundant, superlative, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, touted, ungrudging, unselfish, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting, wasteful, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale

profusely

• profusely, abundantly, acervatim, acutely, affluently, amazingly, amply, aplenty, astonishingly, awesomely, bigheartedly, bottomlessly, bounteously, bountifully, conspicuously, copiously, countlessly, diffusely, effusely, eminently, emphatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, extravagantly, exuberantly, famously, freehandedly, freeheartedly, freely, fully, generously, glaringly, graciously, greatheartedly, handsomely, hospitably, immeasurably, impressively, in abundance, in crowds, in full measure, in good supply, in heaps, in plenty, in quantity, in throngs, incalculably, incredibly, inexhaustibly, infinitely, innumerably, intensely, largeheartedly, lavishly, liberally, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, maximally, multitudinously, no end, nobly, notably, numerously, openhandedly, openheartedly, opulently, overflowingly, particularly, peculiarly, plenteously, plentifully, pointedly, preeminently, prodigally, prominently, pronouncedly, remarkably, richly, riotously, signally, singularly, splendidly, strikingly, superabundantly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, thickly, to the full, uncommonly, ungrudgingly, unselfishly, unsparingly, unstintingly, unusually, with both hands, with open hands, without stint, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

profusion

• profusion, abundance, accumulation, acres, affluence, agglomeration, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, avalanche, bags, barrels, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bounty, bumper crop, bushel, carpe diem, cloud of words, conglomeration, conspicuous consumption, copiousness, countlessness, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusiveness, dissipation, effusion, effusiveness, extravagance, exuberance, fecundity, fertility, flood, flow, fluency, foison, formlessness, full measure, fullness, generosity, generousness, glut, great abundance, great plenty, gush, gushing, heap, hoard, host, incontinence, infinitude, innumerability, intemperance, landslide, lavishness, leaking purse, liberality, liberalness, load, logorrhea, loose purse strings, lot, lots, luxuriance, macrology, manyness, mass, maximum, mess, more than enough, mountain, much, multifariousness, multifoldness, multiplicity, multitude, multitudinousness, myriad, myriads, nimiety, number, numerousness, ocean, oceans, opulence, opulency, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overliberality, oversupply, palilogy, peck, pile, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, pleonasm, plethora, pound-foolishness, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, productivity, profligacy, profuseness, prolificacy, prolificity, quantities, quantity, rampancy, rankness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, redundancy, reiteration, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitiveness, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rifeness, riot, riotousness, scads, sea, shower, spate, squandering, squandermania, stack, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, superfluity, superflux, surfeit, surplus, swarmingness, talkativeness, tautology, teemingness, tirade, tons, volume, waste, wastefulness, wealth, world, worlds

progenitor

• progenitor, ancestor, ancestors, ancestress, antecedent, antecedents, archetype, ascendant, ascendants, begetter, elders, fathers, forebear, forebears, forefather, forefathers, foregoer, forerunner, grandfathers, grandparent, grandparents, guide, origin, original, originator, parent, patriarchs, pattern, precursor, predecessor, predecessors, primogenitor, procreator, progenitors, progenitress, progenitrix, prototype, source

progeny

• progeny, breed, brood, children, descendants, descent, family, fruit, fry, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, heirs, hostages to fortune, inheritors, issue, kids, lineage, little ones, new generation, offspring, posterity, progeniture, rising generation, scions, seed, sons, spawn, sprouts, succession, successors, treasures, young, younglings, youngsters

prognosis

• prognosis, action, actuarial prediction, apocalypse, award, cast, condemnation, consideration, decision, decree, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, finding, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability, omen, order, precedent, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prevision, probability, prognostic, prognostication, projection, promise, pronouncement, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, resolution, ruling, sentence, sign, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, symptom, vaticination, verdict, weird

prognostic

• prognostic, apocalyptic, augural, auguring, augury, boding, divinatory, fatidic, forecasting, forerunning, foreseeing, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretelling, foretokening, forewarning, fortunetelling, haruspical, heavy with meaning, indicative, intuitive, mantic, meaningful, monitory, omen, oracular, portent, precursive, precursory, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, preindicative, premonitory, presage, presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognosticative, prophetic, sibyllic, sibylline, significant, vaticinal, vaticinatory, warning, weather-wise

prognosticate

• prognosticate, adumbrate, announce, augur, bet, betoken, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, fortune-tell, gamble, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, make book, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prophesy, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, risk, signal, soothsay, speculate, take a chance, tell fortunes, tell the future, vaticinate

prognosticator

• prognosticator, Cassandra, Druid, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, crystal gazer, divinator, diviner, divineress, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prophesier, prophet, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, seer, seeress, soothsayer, vates, weather prophet

program

• program, Beveridge Plan, Cultural Revolution, Fair Deal, Great Society, Marshall Plan, New Deal, New Frontier, Philharmonic concert, Point Four, Square Deal, affair, agenda, announcement, annunciation, approach, arrange, arrangement, attack, attempt, austerity program, automate, automatize, band concert, batting order, beadroll, beat into, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, blueprinting, book, brainwash, budget, bulletin board, business, cadastre, calculate, calculation, calendar, card, carte du jour, cast, catalog, catechize, census, census report, chamber concert, charting, checklist, checkroll, circular, commitment, communique, conception, concert, condition, contract, contrivance, contrive, cut out, deal, declaration, declaration of policy, design, device, devise, disposition, docket, dramatis personae, edict, effort, encyclical, engagement, enroll, enter, enterprise, enumerate, enunciation, envisagement, figure, figuring, file, five-year plan, forecast, foresight, forethought, frame, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, head count, honor roll, idea, imbue, impanel, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, index, indoctrinate, infix, infuse, inoculate, instill, intend, intention, inventory, issue, itemize, jury list, jury panel, keep score, keynote address, keynote speech, lay plans, layout, line, line up, lineup, list, list of agenda, long-range plan, make a projection, make arrangements, manifesto, mapping, master plan, menu, method, methodize, methodology, musical performance, musical program, muster, muster roll, nose count, notice, notification, obligation, operation, operations research, order of business, organization, organize, party platform, performance, philharmonic, pigeonhole, plan, plan ahead, plank, planning, planning function, platform, playbill, policy, polity, poll, pop concert, pops, popular concert, position paper, post, prearrange, prearrangement, procedure, proclamation, program of action, program of music, program of operation, programma, project, prom, promenade concert, pronouncement, pronunciamento, property roll, proposition, prospectus, protocol, public notice, questionnaire, rationalization, rationalize, recital, register, report, returns, robotize, roll, roll call, roster, rota, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, schematize, scheme, scheme of arrangement, score, scroll, service of music, servo-control, set up, setup, shape, slate, statement, strategic plan, strategy, symphony concert, system, systematization, systematize, tabulate, tactical plan, tactics, tally, task, tax roll, the big picture, the picture, timetable, ukase, undertaking, venture, way, white book, white paper, work, work out, work up, working plan

programme

• programme, abstract, activities, affairs, agenda, arrange, bill of fare, book, broadcast, calendar, concert, curriculum, description, design, events, formulate, lay out, list, listing, map out, menu, organize, outline, performance, plan, prearrange, precis, presentation, proceedings, production, prospectus, protocol, recital, routine, schedule, scheme, set up, show, slate, summary, syllabus, synopsis, telecast, television play

programmer

• programmer, AFTRA, DJ, MC, anchor man, announcer, automatic technician, broadcaster, commentator, computer engineer, computer programmer, computer technician, computer technologist, control engineer, cybernetic technologist, cyberneticist, disk jockey, emcee, feedback system engineer, master of ceremonies, news commentator, newscaster, program director, radiobroadcaster, robot specialist, servo engineer, sound-effects man, sportscaster, systems analyst

progress

• progress, Brownian movement, Great Leap Forward, about-face, accomplishment, achieve success, advance, advancement, advancing, alchemy, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, amplification, amplify, anabasis, angular motion, arrive, ascend, ascending, ascent, assimilation, assumption, at work, axial motion, back, back up, backflowing, backing, backward motion, be a success, bear fruit, becoming, being done, bettering, betterment, bloom, blossom, blossoming, boost, break through, broaden, broadening, budge, burgeon, burgeoning, campaign, career, change, change place, change-over, circle, circuit, climb, climbing, clip, come along, come on, come through, commutation, commute, continualness, continuance, continuation, continue, continuity, conversion, course, cover ground, crossing, current, cut a swath, descend, descending, descent, develop, development, developmental change, do well, downward motion, drift, driftage, driftway, ebb, ebbing, elaboration, elevation, encouragement, endurance, enhancement, enjoy prosperity, enlarge, enlargement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, evolute, evolution, evolutionary change, evolve, evolvement, evolving, excursion, expand, expansion, expedition, explication, extend, extension, fare, fare forth, farewell, fetch, flight, flip-flop, flit, flow, flower, flowering, flux, forge ahead, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, furtherance, furthering, gain, gain ground, gait, gang, gather head, gather way, get ahead, get along, get better, get on, get on swimmingly, get on well, get over, get there, get well, globe-trotting, go, go ahead, go along, go around, go far, go fast, go forward, go on, go places, go round, go sideways, go well, go-ahead, going, going on, gradual change, graduate, grand tour, grow, grow better, growth, gyrate, happening, have it made, headway, hie, improve, improvement, in operation, in progress, in the works, increase, jaunt, journey, journeying, junket, lapse, leeway, lengthening, lick, lift, locomotion, look up, maintenance, make a breakthrough, make a success, make good, make good time, make head against, make headway, make it, make progress, make progress against, make strides, make the scene, make up leeway, march, maturate, maturation, mature, meliorate, melioration, mellow, mend, mending, motion, mount, mounting, move, move along, move forward, move on, move over, movement, moving, natural development, natural growth, naturalization, nonviolent change, oblique motion, occurring, ongoing, onrush, onward course, outing, pace, package tour, pass, pass along, pass on, passage, peregrination, perk up, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, pick up, pickup, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, plunge, plunging, preferment, proceed, proceeding, proficiency, progression, progressiveness, prolongation, promotion, prosper, protraction, pursuance, radial motion, random motion, rate, re-formation, reconversion, recovery, reduction, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, repetition, resolution, restoration, retrogress, retrogression, reversal, revival, ripen, ripening, rise, rising, roll, roll on, rolling, rolling on, rotate, round trip, rubberneck tour, run, rush, safari, sally, sashay, set, shape up, shift, shoot, show improvement, sideward motion, sink, sinking, skyrocket, soaring, spin, spread, stalk, staying power, steerageway, stem, step, step forward, sternway, stir, straight course, stream, stride, subside, subsiding, succeed, sustained action, sustenance, switch, switch-over, take off, taking place, tour, tourism, touristry, traject, trajet, transformation, transit, transition, travel, traveling, tread, trek, trend, trip, turn, turn out well, turning into, under way, unfolding, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, upbeat, upgrade, upgrowth, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, upward motion, volte-face, voyage, wane, wax, way, wayfare, wend, whirl

progressing

• progressing, advancing, ambulant, ambulative, ambulatory, ameliorative, bettering, bradytelic, circuit-riding, developing, evolutional, evolutionist, evolutionistic, evolving, expeditionary, forward, forward-looking, genetic, globe-girdling, globe-trotting, go-ahead, going, horotelic, improving, itinerant, itinerary, journeying, locomotive, looking up, maturational, maturative, maturing, meliorative, mending, moving, mundivagant, on the lift, on the mend, on tour, oncoming, ongoing, ontogenetic, onward, passing, pedestrian, perambulating, perambulatory, peregrinative, peregrine, peripatetic, phylogenetic, physiogenetic, pilgrimlike, proceeding, progressive, strolling, tachytelic, touring, touristic, touristy, traveling, trekking, unfolding, walking, wayfaring

progression

• progression, Great Leap Forward, Indian file, accomplishment, advance, advancement, alternation, amelioration, amendment, amplification, array, articulation, ascension, ascent, bank, bettering, betterment, blossoming, boost, broadening, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, coming after, concatenation, connection, consecution, consecutiveness, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, continuum, course, cycle, descent, development, developmental change, drone, elaboration, elevation, endless belt, endless round, endurance, enhancement, enlargement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, evolution, evolutionary change, evolvement, evolving, expansion, explication, extending, extension, file, filiation, flow, flowering, following, furtherance, gamut, geometrical progression, gradation, gradual change, growth, headway, hum, improvement, intensification, lengthening, lift, line, lineage, logical sequence, maintenance, maturation, melioration, mend, mending, monotone, natural development, natural growth, nexus, nonviolent change, order, order of succession, pendulum, periodicity, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, pickup, plenum, posteriority, postposition, powder train, preferment, procession, progress, prolongation, promotion, protraction, pursuance, queue, range, rank, recovery, recurrence, repetition, restoration, reticulation, revival, ripening, rise, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, sequel, sequence, series, single file, spectrum, spread, spreading, staying power, straight course, string, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sustained action, sustenance, swath, thread, tier, train, unfolding, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, upbeat, upgrowth, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, way, windrow

progressive

• progressive, Fabian, a la mode, advanced, advancing, ameliorative, ascending, avant-garde, axial, back, back-flowing, backward, bettering, catenary, consecutive, contemporary, continuing, continuous, descending, developing, down-trending, downward, drifting, dynamic, extremist, far out, fashionable, flowing, fluent, flying, forward, forward-looking, go-ahead, going, gradual, growing, gyrational, gyratory, improving, in, increasing, left, left of center, left-wing, left-winger, leftist, liberal, liberalist, liberalistic, lineal, linear, looking up, meliorative, meliorist, mending, mod, modern, modernistic, modernized, modish, mounting, moving, newfashioned, now, on the left, on the lift, on the mend, oncoming, ongoing, onward, ordinal, passing, plunging, present-day, present-time, proceeding, progressing, progressionist, progressist, progressivist, progressivistic, radical, reflowing, refluent, reformer, reformist, regressive, retrogressive, revisionist, revolutionary, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, running, rushing, sequent, sequential, serial, seriate, sideward, sinking, soaring, step by step, streaming, streamlined, successional, successive, twentieth-century, ultra-ultra, ultramodern, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, up-trending, upward, utopian, utopist, way out, welfare stater

progressivism

• progressivism, Fabianism, conversion, extremism, gradualism, left, left wing, leftism, liberalism, meliorism, radical reform, radicalism, reform, reformation, reformism, regeneration, revisionism, revolution, transformation, utopianism

prohibit

• prohibit, anticipate, arrest, avert, ban, bar, bar out, block, blockade, bridle, check, close out, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, count out, curb, curtail, cut off, debar, decelerate, deflect, deny, deter, disallow, discourage, disenable, dishearten, disqualify, dompt, embargo, enjoin, estop, exclude, exclude from, fend, fend off, foil, forbid, foreclose, forestall, freeze out, frustrate, govern, guard, hamper, help, hinder, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold up, ignore, impede, inhibit, interdict, keep, keep back, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep off, keep out, keep under control, lay under restraint, leave out, lock out, make impossible, obstruct, obviate, omit, ostracize, outlaw, pass over, preclude, prevent, proscribe, pull, pull in, refuse, rein, rein in, reject, relegate, repel, repress, repudiate, restrain, retard, retrench, rule out, save, say no to, send to Coventry, set back, shut out, slow down, snub, stave off, stop, straiten, suppress, taboo, thwart, turn aside, ward off, withhold

prohibited

• prohibited, absurd, banned, barred, closed-out, contraband, contrary to reason, debarred, deported, ejected, excluded, exiled, expelled, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hopeless, illegal, illicit, impossible, inconceivable, left out, liquidated, logically impossible, nonpermissible, not in it, not included, not permitted, not possible, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, oxymoronic, paradoxical, precluded, preposterous, purged, ridiculous, ruled out, ruled-out, self-contradictory, shut out, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unimaginable, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, unthinkable, untouchable, verboten, vetoed

prohibition

• prohibition, Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban, banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation, determent, deterrence, disallowance, disallowing, discouragement, embargo, estoppel, exception, exclusion, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, halt, hindrance, inadmissibility, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, legal restraint, lockout, monopoly, narrowing, nonadmission, obviation, omission, outlawing, outlawry, preclusion, prevention, prohibitionism, proscribing, proscription, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, rein, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction, retardation, retrenchment, self-control, slowing down, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, taboo, tariff wall, thought control

prohibitive

• prohibitive, abusive, criminal, cutthroat, dear, deterrent, deterring, discouraging, ethnocentric, exacting, exceptional, excessive, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, forbidding, forestalling, gouging, grossly overpriced, high, immoderate, inadmissible, inflationary, inhibitive, inhibitory, inordinate, insular, insupportable, interdictive, interdictory, narrow, out of bounds, out of sight, outlandish, outrageous, overpriced, parochial, preclusive, preposterous, prescriptive, preventative, preventive, prohibiting, prohibitory, prophylactic, proscriptive, repressive, restraining, restrictive, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, skyrocketing, snobbish, spiraling, suppressive, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, usurious, xenophobic

project

• project, activity, actualize, adumbrate, adventure, affair, aftertime, afteryears, aim, aim at, aller sans dire, ambition, animus, anticipate, approach, arrange, aspiration, aspire after, aspire to, assignment, attempt, await, be after, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be manifest, be no secret, be to be, be to come, beetle, blast off, blueprint, body forth, bristle up, business, busywork, by-and-by, calculate, cast, chare, charge, chart, chore, chuck, circumambulate, cock up, come, come across, come on, commission, commitment, conceive, concern, concert, concoct, conjure up, contemplate, contract, contrive, cook up, counsel, course ahead, crystal ball, cut out, deal, delineate, demonstrate, describe, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, destine, determination, determine, determinism, devise, diagram, discharge, distant future, dope out, draft, draw near, draw on, draw up, drift, drive at, duty, effect, effort, embody, emprise, engagement, enterprise, envisage, envision, errand, estimate, eventuality, exemplify, exercise, expect, expectation, exploit, extend, extend out, exteriorize, externalize, extrapolate, extrude, feat, feature, figure, fire, fish to fry, fixed purpose, fling, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foresight, foretell, forward look, frame, function, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, game plan, gest, glare, go for, go without saying, hang out, hang over, harbor a design, have every intention, hereafter, homework, hope, hurl, idea, illustrate, image, imagine, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, impend, impend over, impersonate, incarnate, intend, intendment, intent, intention, invent, jaculate, job, job of work, jut, jut out, labor, launch, lay plans, layout, lengthen, lie ahead, lob, look for, look forward to, loom, make a projection, make arrangements, make-work, matter, matters in hand, mean, meander, meaning, methodize, mind, mirror, mission, mooch, motive, near, near future, need no explanation, nisus, objectify, obligation, occupation, odd job, offing, operation, organize, outline, outlook, overhang, personate, personify, piece of work, plan, plan ahead, plot, point, poke, poke out, posteriority, pouch, pout, prearrange, predict, prediction, prefigure, prepare, present, pretypify, probability, program, project over, projection, prolong, propel, prophecy, prophesy, proposal, propose, proposition, prospect, prospectus, protrude, protuberate, purport, purpose, put forth, put forward, ramble, range, rationalize, realize, reckon, reflect, resolution, resolve, rove, sake, sauter aux yeux, scenario, schedule, schematize, scheme, screen, see, service, set up, shadow, shadow forth, shape, shoot, shoot out, shoot up, shout, show, speak for itself, stand out, start up, stick out, stick up, stint, straggle, strategy, stray, strike the eye, striving, study, systematize, task, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, thing, things to do, think, think up, threaten, throw, thrust over, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, toss, traject, transmit, undertaking, venture, view, vision, visualize, will, work, work out, work up

projected

• projected, advised, aimed, aimed at, approaching, arranged, blueprinted, calculated, charted, coming, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, deliberate, deliberated, designed, desired, destinal, destined, determined, devised, emergent, envisaged, envisioned, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, figured, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing, later, meant, meditated, methodized, nearing, of design, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, predicted, probable, prophesied, proposed, prospective, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, to come, to-be, ultimate, voluntary, willful, witting, worked out

projectile

• projectile, Irish confetti, ball, ballistic, bola, bolt, boomerang, brickbat, bullet, countermissile, discus, ejecta, ejectamenta, ejective, jaculatory, missile, quoit, rock, rocket, shell, stone, throw stick, throwing-stick, torpedo, trajectile, waddy

projecting

• projecting, beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile, excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendent, impending, incumbent, jutting, lowering, outstanding, overhanging, overhung, pending, prognathous, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient, superincumbent

projection

• projection, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, acting, actualization, aeronautical chart, alienation, alphabet, archery, art, astronomical chart, atlas, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, azimuthal equidistant projection, azimuthal projection, bas-relief, beetling, bellying, blame-shifting, blueprint, boldness, brouillon, buffoonery, bulge, bulging, bump, bunch, business, calculation, cartographer, cartography, cartoon, casting, celestial chart, celestial globe, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, chorographer, chorography, chucking, climatic chart, cog, comb, compensation, conic projection, contour line, contour map, conventional representation, copy, crag, cylindrical projection, dance notation, decompensation, defense mechanism, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, diagram, displacement, display, dissociation, draft, drama, drawing, ebauche, elevation, embossment, eminence, emotional insulation, enactment, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, esquisse, estimate, excrescence, excrescency, exemplification, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, extension, exteriorization, externalization, extrapolation, extrusion, fang, fantasizing, fantasy, figuration, figure, firing, flange, flight, flinging, forecast, gag, game plan, general reference map, gibbosity, gibbousness, globe, gnomonic projection, graph, graphic scale, grid line, ground plan, gunnery, hachure, ham, hammy acting, harrow, heaving, heliographic chart, hieroglyphic, high relief, hoke, hokum, hook, house plan, hurling, hydrographic chart, ichnography, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impendence, impendency, impersonation, index, isolation, isoline, jaculation, jag, jut, jutting, knob, latitude, layer tint, ledge, legend, letter, limning, lobbing, logogram, logograph, longitude, low relief, map, map maker, map projection, mapper, mapping, meridian, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, musical notation, musketry, negativism, notation, objectification, opening, ostentation, outcropping, outline, outlining, overacting, overcompensation, overhang, overhanging, pantomiming, parallel, patter, pattern, peak, pecten, performance, performing, personation, photogrammetrist, photogrammetry, photomap, phototopography, physical map, pictogram, picturization, pitching, plan, planning, playacting, playing, plot, point, political map, polyconic projection, portraiture, portrayal, prediction, prefigurement, presentation, presenting, presentment, printing, production, profile, prognostication, project, prolongation, prominence, proposal, proposition, prospectus, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, psychotaxis, rake, ratchet, rationalization, realization, reckoning, relief, relief map, rendering, rendition, representation, representative fraction, resistance, retrospective, ridge, road map, rough, salience, salient, sawtooth, scale, scenario, schema, scheme, score, script, shooting, show, showing, sinusoidal projection, skeet, skeet shooting, skeleton, sketch, slapstick, slinging, snag, snaggle, sociological adjustive reactions, special map, spine, spire, sprocket, spur, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, steeple, stunt, sublimation, substitution, swelling, syllabary, symbol, tablature, table, taking a role, terrain map, terrestrial globe, thematic map, throwing, tooth, topographer, topographic chart, topography, trajection, transportation map, trapshooting, tuberosity, tuberousness, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, weather chart, weather map, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working drawing, writing

projector

• projector, Mark, a, architect, bazooka, calliope, cinematograph, contriver, designer, developer, deviser, enterpriser, entrepreneur, framer, hedgehog, kinematograph, launch pad, launcher, launching pad, launching platform, launching tube, magic lantern, mousetrap, organizer, planner, promoter, silo, slide projector, slide viewer, stereopticon, strategian, strategist, tactician

proletarian

• proletarian, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, average man, blue-collar worker, bourgeois, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, common man, commoner, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, little fellow, little man, menial, middle-class, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, pleb, plebeian, roturier, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, working-class, workingman, workingwoman, workman

proletariat

• proletariat, bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

proliferate

• proliferate, abound, accrue, accumulate, advance, appreciate, balloon, be fruitful, be productive, beget, bloat, boom, breed, breed true, bristle with, broaden, burgeon, copulate, crawl with, creep with, crescendo, crossbreed, develop, engender, exuberate, father, flow, fructify, gain, gain strength, generate, get, get ahead, go up, grow, gush, inbreed, increase, intensify, make love, mother, mount, multiply, mushroom, outbreed, overflow, pour, procreate, propagate, pullulate, rain, reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, run over, run up, shoot up, shower, sire, snowball, spread, stream, strengthen, swarm with, swell, teem, teem with, wax, widen

proliferation

• proliferation, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, addition, advance, aggrandizement, amplification, appreciation, ascent, augmentation, ballooning, begetting, bloating, boom, boost, breeding, broadening, buildup, burgeoning, crescendo, crossbreeding, development, dissogeny, edema, elevation, endogamy, engenderment, enlargement, escalation, expansion, extension, flood, fructification, gain, generation, greatening, growth, gush, hike, inbreeding, increase, increment, inflation, jump, leap, linebreeding, mounting, multiple, multiplication, multiplication table, multiplier, multiplying, outbreeding, procreation, production, productiveness, prolification, propagation, pullulation, raise, reproduction, rise, snowballing, spread, surge, swelling, tables, tumescence, up, upping, upsurge, upswing, uptrend, upturn, waxing, widening, xenogamy

prolific

• prolific, abounding, abundant, alive with, blooming, bounteous, bountiful, breeding, bristling, bursting, bursting out, conceptive, conceptual, copious, crawling, creative, crowded, crowding, diffuse, diffusive, effusive, esemplastic, extravagant, exuberant, fecund, fertile, flourishing, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, in profusion, ingenious, inspired, inventive, jam-packed, jammed, lavish, lush, luxuriant, notional, original, originative, overflowing, packed, plenteous, plentiful, pleonastic, populous, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferating, proliferous, propagating, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, reproducing, reproductive, rich, rife, seminal, shaping, spawning, studded, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thick, thick as hail, thick with, thick-coming, thriving, thronged, thronging, uberous, visioned

prolix

• prolix, all jaw, blah, broken-record, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effusive, endless, everlasting, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive, extended, filled out, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, gratuitous, gregarious, gushy, harping, humdrum, in excess, invariable, irksome, jog-trot, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, monotonous, multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential, overtalkative, padded, pleonastic, prolonged, protracted, redundant, singsong, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out, supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic, tautologous, tedious, tiresome, to spare, treadmill, uncalled-for, unessential, uneventful, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelenting, unvarying, verbose, voluble, wearisome, windy, wordy

prolixity

• prolixity, bedizenment, big mouth, boringness, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, dullness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill, frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, gingerbread, glibness, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, humdrumminess, humdrumness, irksomeness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, monotonousness, needlessness, openness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability, spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness, tautology, tediousness, tiresomeness, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity, volubility, wearifulness, wearisomeness, windiness, wordiness

prologue

• prologue, act, afterpiece, avant-propos, bit, breakthrough, chaser, curtain, curtain call, curtain raiser, divertimento, divertissement, epilogue, exode, exodus, exordium, expository scene, finale, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, hoke act, innovation, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, introduction, leap, number, overture, postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, protasis, routine, scene, shtick, sketch, skit, song and dance, stand-up comedy act, striptease, turn, verse, voluntary

prolong

• prolong, adjourn, continue, dawdle, defer, delay, drag on, drag out, draw, draw out, dwell on, elongate, endure, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold, hold off, hold over, hold up, keep, keep alive, keep going, keep up, last, lay aside, lay by, lay over, lengthen, lengthen out, let out, linger on, maintain, perpetuate, persist, pigeonhole, postpone, preserve, procrastinate, produce, prolongate, prorogate, prorogue, protract, pull, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, recess, reserve, retain, set aside, set by, shelve, shift off, sleep on, spin out, stand over, stave off, stay, strain, stretch, stretch out, string out, suspend, sustain, table, take a recess, tauten, temporize, tense, tighten, waive

prolongation

• prolongation, adjournal, adjournment, coming after, consecution, consecutiveness, continualness, continuance, continuation, continuity, deferment, deferral, descent, elongation, endurance, extension, extension of time, following, lengthening, line, lineage, lingering, logical sequence, maintenance, order, order of succession, perpetuation, perseverance, persistence, posteriority, postponement, postposition, procession, procrastination, production, progress, progression, prorogation, protraction, pursuance, putting-off, repetition, rotation, run, sequence, series, staying power, straight course, strain, stretch, stretching, stringing out, subjunction, succession, successiveness, suffixation, sustained action, sustenance, tabling, tension, uninterrupted course, unremittingness, way

prolonged

• prolonged, dragged out, dragging, drawn, drawn out, drawn-out, elongated, extended, interminable, languishing, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, long, long-continuing, long-drawn, long-drawn-out, long-pending, long-winded, longsome, marathon, overlong, prolongated, protracted, pulled, spun out, spun-out, straggling, strained, stretched, stretched out, stretched-out, strung out, taut, tense, tight

prom

• prom, Philharmonic concert, assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, band concert, barn dance, brawl, caucus, chamber concert, colloquium, commission, committee, concert, conclave, concourse, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, country dance, dance, date, diet, eisteddfod, fancy-dress ball, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, gathering, get-together, hop, housewarming, levee, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, meet, meeting, mixer, musical performance, musical program, panel, party, performance, philharmonic, plenum, pop concert, pops, popular concert, program, program of music, promenade, promenade concert, quorum, rally, reception, recital, record hop, rendezvous, seance, service of music, session, shindig, shindy, sit-in, sitting, soiree, square dance, stag dance, symphony concert, symposium, synod, tea dance, the dansant, turnout

promenade

• promenade, airing, alameda, amble, bal, bal costume, bal masque, ball, barn dance, beaten path, beaten track, berm, bicycle path, boardwalk, boulevard, bridle path, caravan, catwalk, cavalcade, column, constitutional, cortege, country dance, dance, defile, display, dress parade, esplanade, fancy-dress ball, fastwalk, file, file off, flaunt, flyover, foot pavement, footpath, footway, forced march, funeral, garden path, go on parade, groove, hike, hiking trail, hop, jaunt, line, mall, march, march past, mask, masked ball, masque, masquerade, masquerade ball, mixer, motorcade, mule train, mush, pack train, parade, path, pathway, perambulate, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, pomp, prado, procession, prom, public walk, ramble, record hop, review, run, runway, rut, saunter, schlep, shindig, shindy, show off, sidewalk, skimmington, square dance, stag dance, stream, stretch, stretch the legs, string, stroll, strut, take a stretch, take a walk, tea dance, the dansant, towing path, towpath, track, trail, train, traipse, tramp, trottoir, trudge, turn, walk, walking tour, walkway

prominence

• prominence, account, altitude, arete, arrantness, atmospheric visibility, authority, bas-relief, bellying, blatancy, boldness, bulge, bulging, ceiling, ceiling unlimited, celebrity, clarity, clearness, consequence, conspicuity, conspicuousness, crag, crystal-clearness, definiteness, definition, dignity, distinction, distinctness, elevation, embossment, eminence, esteem, evidence, evidentness, exaltation, excellence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fame, flagrance, flagrancy, gibbosity, gibbousness, glory, grandeur, greatness, growth, hauteur, headland, height, heighth, heroism, high mightiness, high relief, high visibility, highness, hill, hillock, honor, hummock, illustriousness, importance, influence, influentialness, kudos, loftiness, low relief, low visibility, magnanimity, majesty, manifestness, mark, memorability, moment, mount, name, nobility, notability, note, noteworthiness, noticeability, notoriety, notoriousness, obtrusiveness, obviousness, ostentation, outcrop, outcropping, outgrowth, outstandingness, patentness, peak, percipi, perpendicular distance, pinnacle, plainness, point, position, precedence, preeminence, pressure, prestige, priority, projection, promontory, pronouncedness, protrusion, protuberance, protuberancy, rank, relief, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, ridge, rise, salience, saliency, salient, seeing, seniority, significance, spine, spur, standing, stature, strikingness, strong relief, sublimity, supereminence, swelling, tallness, toploftiness, tor, tuberosity, tuberousness, tumefaction, tumescence, visibility unlimited, visibility zero, weight, weightiness

prominent

• prominent, Olympian, absolute, acclaimed, aerial, airy, altitudinous, apparent, arrant, arresting, ascendant, ascending, aspiring, august, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, blatant, bold, bulging, celebrated, chief, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, clothed with authority, colossal, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, conspicuous, controlling, creditable, crystal-clear, defined, definite, discernible, distinct, distinguishable, distinguished, dominant, dominating, duly constituted, egregious, elevated, eminent, emissile, empowered, esteemed, estimable, ethereal, evident, ex officio, exalted, exceptional, excrescent, excrescential, extraordinary, extruding, eye-catching, famed, famous, first, flagrant, foremost, glaring, glorious, godlike, governing, great, hanging out, haughty, hegemonic, hegemonistic, heroic, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, honorable, honored, identifiable, illustrious, imperative, important, in focus, in relief, in the foreground, in the limelight, influential, jutting, lauded, leading, lofty, magnanimous, magnificent, main, majestic, marked, memorable, mighty, momentous, monocratic, monumental, mounting, noble, notable, noted, noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, of mark, official, ostensible, outstanding, outtopping, overlooking, overtopping, patent, plain, popular, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, principal, prognathous, projecting, pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, puissant, raised, ranking, rare, recognizable, remarkable, rememberable, renowned, reputable, respected, ruling, salient, senior, signal, significant, soaring, special, spiring, staring, stark-staring, steep, sticking out, striking, sublime, substantial, superb, superior, superlative, supernal, supreme, telling, to the front, topless, toplofty, topping, totalitarian, towering, towery, unforgettable, unmistakable, uplifted, upreared, weighty, well-defined, well-known, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved, well-thought-of

prominently

• prominently, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, apparently, arrantly, astonishingly, awesomely, blatantly, boldly, celebratedly, clearly, consequentially, conspicuously, copiously, definitely, discernibly, distinctly, egregiously, eminently, emphatically, evidently, exceedingly, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, famously, far and away, flagrantly, generously, glaringly, gloriously, grandly, greatly, importantly, impressively, incomparably, incredibly, inimitably, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, manifestly, markedly, marvelously, materially, momentously, nobly, notably, notedly, noticeably, notoriously, observably, obtrusively, obviously, ostensibly, outstandingly, par excellence, paramountly, particularly, patently, peculiarly, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, pointedly, popularly, preeminently, profusely, pronouncedly, recognizably, remarkably, richly, saliently, seeably, signally, significantly, singularly, splendidly, staringly, starkly, strikingly, superlatively, supremely, surpassingly, surprisingly, the most, to crown all, transcendently, uncommonly, unconcealedly, undisguisedly, unmistakably, unusually, visibly, with clarity, wonderfully, wondrous, worthily

promiscuity

• promiscuity, casualness, chambering, crudity of intellect, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disproportion, disruption, disturbance, easy virtue, entropy, haphazardness, imprudence, incoherence, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscriminateness, indiscrimination, inharmonious harmony, insensibility, insensitivity, irregularity, lack of feeling, lack of refinement, laxity, lightness, loose morals, looseness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, perturbation, promiscuousness, randomness, sleeping around, swinging, syncretism, tactlessness, turbulence, uncriticalness, undiscriminatingness, undiscriminativeness, unfastidiousness, unmeticulousness, unparticularness, unpreciseness, unselectiveness, unsymmetry, untactfulness, ununiformity, upset, wantonness, waywardness, whorishness

promiscuous

• promiscuous, Paphian, abandoned, aimless, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amoral, amorphous, amphibious, assorted, blanket, blended, botched, bungling, capricious, careless, casual, causeless, chambering, chaotic, clumsy, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, confused, conglomerate, cursory, dappled, debauched, deficient, depraved, designless, desultory, disarticulated, discontinuous, dishonorable, disjunct, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, dispersed, disproportionate, disregardful, dissipated, dissolute, driftless, dysteleological, easy, eclectic, equivocal, erratic, faithless, fast, fifty-fifty, fitful, formless, frivolous, general, gratuitous, half-and-half, half-assed, haphazard, heedless, helter-skelter, heterogeneous, higgledy-piggledy, hit-and-miss, hit-or-miss, immethodical, immoderate, immoral, imprudent, inchoate, incoherent, indecent, indifferent, indiscreet, indiscriminate, indiscriminative, inexplicable, insensitive, intermingled, intermixed, intricate, ironic, irregular, irresponsible, jumbled, lax, libertine, licentious, light, loose, loose-moraled, many-sided, meaningless, medley, messy, mindless, mingled, miscellaneous, misshapen, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, neglectful, negligent, nonjudgmental, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, of easy virtue, of loose morals, orderless, patchy, perfunctory, planless, pluralistic, profligate, purposeless, random, scrambled, senseless, shapeless, slack, slipshod, slipshoddy, sloppy, slovenly, sluttish, spasmodic, sporadic, stochastic, straggling, straggly, stray, syncretic, systemless, tactless, thoughtless, thrown together, unaccountable, unarranged, unbridled, uncaring, unchaste, unclassified, unconscientious, unconsidered, uncontrolled, uncritical, uncriticizing, uncurbed, undemanding, undifferentiating, undirected, undiscreet, undiscriminating, undiscriminative, unexacting, unfaithful, unfastidious, unfussy, ungoverned, ungraded, uninhibited, unjoined, unmethodical, unmeticulous, unmotivated, unordered, unorganized, unparticular, unplanned, unrestrained, unselective, unsorted, unsubtle, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, untactful, unthinking, untidy, ununiform, vague, varied, wandering, wanton, wayward, wholesale, whorish, wild

promise

• promise, accede, accord, actuarial prediction, adumbration, afford hope, agree, agree to, agreement, apocalypse, arrangement, aspiration, assent, assumption, assurance, assure, assured faith, augur, augur well, augury, auspice, avouch, bargain, bargain for, be promising, bespeak, betoken, betokening, betokenment, bid fair, bid fair to, binding agreement, bond, capability, cartel, cheer, cheerful expectation, collective agreement, commitment, compact, confidence, consent, consortium, contract, convention, conviction, countersign, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, dependence, desire, dicker, do a deal, doomed hope, earnest, employment contract, engage, engagement, ensure, expectation, fair prospect, faith, fervent hope, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshadow, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foresight, foretell, foretelling, foretoken, foretokening, formal agreement, give hope, give indication of, give prospect of, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, guarantee, guaranty, guesswork, have favorable odds, have good prospects, high hopes, hint, hint at, hold out hope, hold out promise, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, imply, improbability, increase the chances, indicant, indicate, indication, inspire, inspire hope, inspirit, insure, ironclad agreement, justify hope, legal agreement, legal contract, likelihood, look like, make a deal, make a promise, make fair promise, make likely, make more likely, make probable, mutual agreement, oath, offer the expectation, omen, pact, paction, pass, pawn, pledge, plight, portent, potential, prayerful hope, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, preindication, premonitory shiver, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, presumption, probability, probabilize, prognosis, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, prophesying, prospect, prospects, prospectus, protocol, raise expectation, raise expectations, raise hope, reassure, reliance, sanguine expectation, security, seem likely, shadow, show a tendency, show signs of, sign, soothsay, speculation, stand fair to, statistical prediction, stipulate, stipulation, suggest, support, swear, token, tokening, transaction, troth, trust, type, understanding, undertake, undertaking, underwrite, union contract, valid contract, vaticination, vouch, vow, wage contract, warrant, warranty, well-grounded hope, word, word of honor

promised land

• promised land, Agapemone, Arcadia, Beulah, Beulah Land, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Heaven, Land of Beulah, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Paradise, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, a better place, arcadia, better world, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, eternal home, eternity, faerie, fairyland, glory, happy hunting ground, heaven, heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, otherworld, paradise, presence of God, realm of light, the Promised Land, the happy land, the world above, utopia, wonderland

promised

• promised, affianced, agreed, anticipated, arranged, assured, augured, awaited, betrothed, bound, committed, compacted, compromised, contracted, covenanted, due, engaged, expected, foreseen, foreshadowed, foreshown, foretokened, guaranteed, hoped-for, imminent, in prospect, in view, indicated, intended, long-expected, obligated, on the horizon, overdue, pledged, plighted, predicted, prefigured, preindicated, presaged, presignified, presumed, pretypified, probable, prognosticated, prospective, sealed, settled, signed, signified, stipulated, sworn, threatened, undertaken, underwritten, warranted

promising

• promising, apt, auspicious, benign, benignant, bright, bright with promise, cheering, couleur de rose, encouraging, fair, favorable, favoring, foreseeable, fortunate, full of promise, golden, good, happy, heartening, hopeful, in the cards, inspiring, inspiriting, liable, likely, looking up, lucky, odds-on, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, optimistic, positive, predictable, predictable within limits, pregnant of good, presumable, presumptive, probable, propitious, prosperous, reassuring, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, statistically probable, supportive, verisimilar

promissory note

• promissory note, CD, IOU, MO, acceptance, acceptance bill, arrangement, bank acceptance, bank check, bill, bill of draft, bill of exchange, blank check, bond, certificate, certificate of deposit, certified check, check, checkbook, cheque, commercial paper, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, covenant of indemnity, debenture, debenture bond, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, demand bill, demand draft, draft, due bill, exchequer bill, formal contract, group policy, implied contract, indent, indenture, insurance policy, letter of credit, money order, mortgage deed, negotiable instrument, note, note of hand, paper, parol contract, policy, postal order, recognizance, sight bill, sight draft, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, time bill, time draft, title deed, trade acceptance, treasury bill, voucher, warrant

promontory

• promontory, beak, bill, breakwater, cape, chersonese, coral reef, delta, foreland, head, headland, hook, mull, naze, ness, peninsula, point, reef, sandspit, spit, spur, tongue

promote

• promote, abet, acculturate, act for, actuate, advance, advantage, advertise, advocate, aggrandize, aid, ameliorate, amend, animate, answer, assist, back, ballyhoo, bark, be instrumental, be right, befit, befitting, benefit, better, bill, boost, bring forward, build up, bulletin, call attention to, champion, circularize, civilize, commend, communicate, compel, conduce to, contribute to, cry, cry up, develop, do the trick, edify, educate, elevate, emend, encourage, endorse, energize, enhance, enlighten, ennoble, enrich, espouse, establish, exalt, expedite, facilitate, fatten, favor, fill the bill, fit, force, forward, foster, further, galvanize, give a write-up, give publicity, go between, go straight, graduate, hasten, help, hype, impart, impel, improve, improve upon, inspire, inspirit, kick upstairs, knight, lard, lend wings to, lift, make an improvement, make for, mediate, meliorate, mend, minister to, motivate, move, move to action, not come amiss, nurture, pass, patronize, placard, plug, post, post bills, post up, prefer, present, press-agent, profit, propagandize, propel, publicize, puff, push, push forward, put forward, quicken, raise, recommend, refine upon, reform, sanction, sell, serve, set forward, set in motion, side with, socialize, spark, speak for, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, speed, spiel, sponsor, stimulate, straighten out, strengthen, subserve, suit the occasion, support, tout, transfigure, transform, up, upgrade, uplift, work, write up

promoter

• promoter, Maecenas, a, abettor, adherent, admirer, advocate, aficionado, angel, apologist, applauder, appreciator, architect, backer, booster, buff, champion, claqueur, commender, contriver, defender, dependence, designer, developer, deviser, encomiast, encourager, endorser, enterpriser, entrepreneur, eulogist, eulogizer, exponent, extoller, fan, favorer, framer, friend at court, lauder, lover, mainstay, maintainer, organizer, panegyrist, paranymph, partisan, patron, planner, plugger, praiser, projector, protagonist, puffer, reliance, rooter, second, seconder, sectary, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, strategian, strategist, support, supporter, sustainer, sympathizer, tactician, tout, touter, upholder, votary, well-wisher

promotion

• promotion, Great Leap Forward, abetting, acknowledgment, advance, advancement, advancing, advertisement, advertising, advocacy, advocating, affiche, aiding, amelioration, amendment, appreciation, ascent, assisting, backing, ballyhoo, bettering, betterment, bill, billboard, blurb, boost, boosting, broadside, brochure, bruiting, buildup, career, championing, circular, commendation, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, course, cultivation, developing, development, direct-mail selling, drumbeating, elevation, encouragement, enhancement, enrichment, espousal, eugenics, euthenics, exaltation, expediting, expedition, facilitation, fanfare, flack, flier, flyer, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fostering, furtherance, furthering, go-ahead, good word, hand-out, handbill, hard sell, hawking, headway, helping, helping along, high-pressure salesmanship, hoarding, honorable mention, huckstering, hype, improvement, improving, inspiration, inspiriting, jobbing, leaflet, lift, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, march, market research, marketing, marketing research, melioration, mend, mending, merchandising, nurturing, ongoing, onward course, passage, peddling, pickup, placard, plug, plugging, poster, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, presentation, press-agentry, progress, progression, progressiveness, promoting, propaganda, public relations, publicity, publicization, publicizing, puff, puffery, recognition, recommendation, recovery, restoration, retailing, revival, rise, rolling, rolling on, rushing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, sanction, sanctioning, selling, sellout, soft sell, space, special treatment, speeding, stimulating, stimulation, strengthening, support, travel, upbeat, upgrade, upgrading, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, way, wholesaling

prompt

• prompt, accordant, acquiescent, admonish, adumbrate, affect, affirmative, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing, aide-memoire, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, allude to, amenable, animated, anxious, approving, apt, ardent, argue into, arouse, assenting, attentive, avid, awake, awaken, bend, bias, breakneck, breathless, bright, bring, bring about, bring around, bring to recollection, brisk, broad hint, bursting to, cajole, call forth, call up, carry, carry back, cause, caution, charge, clue, coax, color, compliable, compliant, consentient, consenting, content, convince, cooperative, cue, cursory, dashing, decide, decisive, desirous, determine, dispatchful, dispose, disposed, docile, double-quick, draw, drop a hint, eager, eagle-winged, egg on, elicit, encourage, endorsing, engage, enjoin, enlist, enthusiastic, evoke, exhort, expeditious, expostulate, express, fain, fast, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, festinate, feverish, flapper, fleet, flying, forward, full of life, furious, galloping, game, gentle hint, gesture, get, get to do, give a hint, give rise to, give the cue, glance at, glimmer, glimmering, goad, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, help, hint, hint at, hold the promptbook, hurried, hustling, immediate, impatient, impel, implication, imply, in the mind, in the mood, incite, incline, inclined, index, indicate, indication, induce, influence, inkling, innuendo, insinuate, insinuation, inspire, instant, instantaneous, interest in, intimate, intimation, issue a caveat, jog the memory, jogger, keen, kick, last-minute, lead, light of heel, light-footed, lively, look, lure, memorandum, mercurial, minded, motivate, move, muster up, nag, nimble, nimble-footed, nod, nothing loath, nudge, occasion, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, on the spot, on time, panting, passing, permissive, persuade, pliant, preach, precipitate, predispose, predisposed, prevail, prevail on, prevail upon, prick, procure, prod, prompt the mind, prompter, prompting, prone, propel, provoke, punctual, put in mind, put in remembrance, qui vive, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, raring to, ratifying, ready, ready and willing, recall, receptive, reckless, remember, remembrance, remembrancer, remind, remind one of, reminder, remonstrate, responsive, rouse, running, sanctioning, scent, sharp, sic, sign, signal, slap-bang, slapdash, sleepless, smart, snap, snappy, soften up, spanking, speedy, spirited, spoor, spry, spur, stimulate, stimulus, submissive, suggest, suggestion, summary, summon up, superficial, suspicion, sway, swift, symptom, talk into, telltale, tempt, tickler, timely, tinge, tone, track, tractable, unblinking, ungrudging, unhesitating, unloath, unnodding, unrefusing, unreluctant, unsleeping, unwinking, urge, urgent, vigilant, vital, vivacious, vivid, wakeful, warn, watchful, wear down, weigh with, well-disposed, well-inclined, whisper, wide-awake, willed, willing, willinghearted, win over, winged, wink, work, zealous, zestful

prompter

• prompter, MC, abettor, actuator, aide-memoire, animator, auteur, ballyhoo man, barker, cajoler, callboy, coax, coaxer, costume designer, costumer, costumier, cue, director, emcee, encourager, energizer, equestrian director, exhibitor, firer, flapper, gadfly, galvanizer, hint, impeller, impresario, inducer, inspirer, jogger, makeup man, master of ceremonies, memorandum, mover, moving spirit, persuader, playreader, pleader, prime mover, producer, prompt, prompting, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, ringmaster, scenewright, set designer, showman, spark, spark plug, sparker, spieler, stage director, stage manager, stimulator, tempter, theater man, theatrician, ticket collector, tickler, usher, usherer, usherette, wheedler

prompting

• prompting, actuation, aide-memoire, animation, cue, direction, flapper, hint, influence, inner-direction, jogger, memorandum, motivation, moving, other-direction, prompt, prompter, remembrance, remembrancer, reminder, stimulation, tickler

promptly

• promptly, PDQ, agilely, amain, animatedly, anxiously, apace, ardently, at flank speed, at once, avidly, breathlessly, by forced marches, cursorily, de bonne volonte, decisively, directly, double-quick, eagerly, enthusiastically, expeditiously, fast, feverishly, flat-out, forthwith, furiously, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, helter-skelter, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, immediately, impatiently, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in no time, in passing, in seven-league boots, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, keenly, lickety-cut, lickety-split, momentarily, nimbly, on the double, on the instant, on the run, on the spot, pell-mell, post, posthaste, pretty damned quick, pronto, punctually, quick, quickly, rapidly, readily, right away, right off, slapdash, smartly, snappily, speedily, spryly, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, superficially, swiftly, trippingly, under forced draft, vivaciously, whip and spur, willingly, with a rush, with a will, with alacrity, with all haste, with all speed, with dispatch, with giant strides, with good will, with gusto, with haste, with open arms, with rapid strides, with relish, with speed, with zest, without delay, without further delay, without hesitation, zealously, zestfully

promptness

• promptness, OK, abruptness, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, acuity, acuteness, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agility, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, air speed, alacrity, alertness, amenability, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, approbation, approval, ardor, assent, attention, attentiveness, avidity, avidness, aye, blessing, breathless impatience, brightness, briskness, celerity, cheerful consent, cheerful readiness, compliance, connivance, consent, cooperativeness, decisiveness, dispatch, docility, eagerness, elan, endorsement, enthusiasm, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness, favorable disposition, favorableness, feverishness, flight, flit, flurry, forwardness, furiousness, gameness, goodwill, ground speed, gust, gusto, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, immediacy, immediateness, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulsiveness, instantaneousness, keen desire, keenness, knots, life, lightning speed, liveliness, miles per hour, nimbleness, okay, permission, pliability, pliancy, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness, promptitude, punctuality, punctualness, quickness, rapidity, rashness, ratification, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, right mood, round pace, rpm, rush, sanction, sharpness, sleeplessness, smartness, snappiness, speed, speediness, spirit, spryness, submission, suddenness, summariness, swift rate, swiftness, tractability, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, velocity, verve, vitality, vivacity, wakefulness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness

promulgate

• promulgate, abide by, adhere to, administer, advertise, announce, annunciate, bid, blare, blare forth, blaze, blaze abroad, blazon, blazon about, broadcast, call on, call the signals, call upon, carry out, carry through, celebrate, charge, command, commission, complete, cry, cry out, declaim, declare, decree, dictate, direct, discharge, disseminate, effect, effectuate, enforce, enjoin, execute, fill out, fulfill, give an order, give the word, herald, herald abroad, honor, implement, instruct, issue a command, issue a writ, make, make out, mandate, observe, ordain, order, order about, proclaim, pronounce, prosecute, publish, put in force, put through, render, rule, say the word, shout, sound, thunder, thunder forth, toot, transact, trumpet, trumpet forth

prone

• prone, accumbent, acquiescent, agreeable, alacritous, amenable, answerable for, apt, apt to, ardent, bent, calculated to, capable of, compliant, consenting, content, cooperative, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, crouching, debased, decumbent, deferential, dependent on, depressed, disposed, disposed to, dispositioned, docile, draped, eager, enthusiastic, exposed, exposed to, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, flat, forward, game, given, given to, groveling, horizontal, in danger of, in the mind, in the mood, incident to, inclined, inclined to, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, leaning, level, liable, liable to, likely, likely to, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lying, lying down, minded, minded to, naked to, neap, obeisant, obliged to, obnoxious, obsequious, on bended knee, open, open to, pliant, predisposed, predisposed to, procumbent, prompt, prone to, prostrate, quick, ready, ready and willing, ready for, ready to, receptive, reclining, recumbent, reposing, responsible for, responsive, resupine, runty, sensitive, servile, short, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squat, squatty, standing to, stooped, stumpy, subject, subject to, subservient, supine, susceptible, susceptive to, tending, tractable, unelevated, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, within range of, zealous

prong

• prong, V, affluent, bayou, billabong, branch, confluent, confluent stream, crotch, crutch, delta, dendritic drainage pattern, effluent, fan, feeder, fork, furcula, furculum, groin, inguen, offshoot, ramification, stem, tributary, trident, wishbone

pronged

• pronged, V-shaped, Y-shaped, acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, barbed, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, cornuted, crotched, cusped, cuspidate, dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, hispid, horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed, ramous, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, unbated

pronounce

• pronounce, act on, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, articulate, assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, bid, breathe, broadcast, call on, call the signals, call upon, charge, chime, chorus, come out with, command, commission, communicate, condemn, contend, convey, declare, declare roundly, decree, deliver, dictate, direct, disclose, doom, emit, enjoin, enunciate, express, find, find against, find for, fling off, formulate, give, give an order, give expression, give notice, give out with, give the word, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, have, hold, impart, insist, instruct, issue a command, issue a manifesto, issue a statement, issue a writ, judge, lay down, let out, lip, maintain, make a statement, make an announcement, make known, mandate, manifesto, ordain, order, order about, out with, pass, pass judgment, pass sentence, phonate, phrase, pour forth, predicate, present, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce judgment, pronounce on, protest, publicize, publish, publish a manifesto, put, put forth, put in words, put it, put out, raise, report, return a verdict, rule, say, say the word, sentence, set down, set forth, sound, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for, stand on, state, submit, tell, throw off, utter, utter a judgment, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, word

pronounced

• pronounced, absolute, affirmed, alleged, announced, arrant, articulated, asserted, asseverated, assured, attested, averred, avouched, avowed, blatant, bold, certified, classical, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear-cut, complete, conspicuous, consummate, crass, crystal-clear, decided, declared, defined, definite, definitive, deposed, distinct, downright, egregious, enunciated, evident, flagrant, glaring, gross, hanging out, identifiable, in focus, in relief, in the foreground, intolerable, lingual, linguistic, manifestoed, marked, notable, noticeable, notorious, nuncupative, obtrusive, obvious, oral, ostensible, out-and-out, outright, outstanding, parol, patent, perfect, plain, pledged, positive, precious, predicated, professed, profound, prominent, proper, rank, recognizable, regular, said, salient, shattering, shocking, sounded, specific, speech, spoken, staring, stark, stark-staring, stated, sticking out, striking, strong, superlative, surpassing, sworn, sworn to, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unalloyed, unambiguous, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, undisguised, unequivocal, unmistakable, unmitigated, unmixed, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, unwritten, utter, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, vouched, vouched for, vowed, warranted, well-defined, well-marked, well-pronounced, well-resolved

pronouncement

• pronouncement, Parthian shot, action, address, advertisement, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, appointment, assertion, asseveration, averment, avouchment, avowal, award, brevet, broadcast, bull, bulletin board, circular, command, comment, communique, conclusion, condemnation, consideration, crack, creed, decision, declaration, decree, decree-law, decreement, decretal, decretum, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, dictum, diktat, doom, edict, edictum, encyclical, enunciation, exclamation, expression, fiat, finding, greeting, imperative, interjection, ipse dixit, judgement, law, manifesto, mention, note, notice, notification, observation, opinion, order, ordinance, ordonnance, phrase, position, position paper, positive declaration, precedent, predicate, predication, proclamation, profession, prognosis, program, programma, promulgation, pronunciamento, proposition, protest, protestation, public notice, publication, question, reflection, remark, report, rescript, resolution, rule, ruling, say, say-so, saying, senatus consult, senatus consultum, sentence, stance, stand, statement, subjoinder, thought, ukase, utterance, verdict, vouch, white book, white paper, word

pronto

• pronto, PDQ, all at once, all together, apace, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, decisively, directly, expeditiously, flat-out, forthwith, full tilt, hastily, immediately, in a flash, in a hurry, in a jiff, in a jiffy, in a twink, in a twinkling, in no time, in nothing flat, in short order, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, lickety-split, now, on the instant, on the spot, per saltum, posthaste, pretty damned quick, promptly, quickly, rapidly, right away, right now, right off, simultaneously, smartly, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, swiftly, then and there, this minute, this very minute, tout de suite, uno saltu, with all speed, without delay, without further delay

proof

• proof, Christophany, Ditto copy, Photostat, Satanophany, Xerox, Xerox copy, absolute indication, account, acid test, acquaintance, affirmation, airtight, ammunition, angelophany, announcement, appearance, argument, assay, attestation, authentication, avatar, backing, backing up, ballproof, basis for belief, bearing out, blank determination, blue, blue book, blueprint, body of evidence, bolstering, bombproof, briefing, bring out, brouillon, bulletin, bulletproof, burden of proof, burglarproof, buttressing, certification, chain of evidence, circumstantiation, clue, cold-type proof, color proof, communication, communique, computer proof, conclusive evidence, confirmation, contact print, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, corrosionproof, criterion, crucial test, crucible, damning evidence, dampproof, data, datum, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, determination, directory, disclosure, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, dispatch, dissemination, docimasy, document, documentation, embodiment, engrave, enlargement, enlightenment, epiphany, essay, establishment, evidence, evincement, exhibit, expression, fact, facts, factual information, familiarization, feeling out, fire-resisting, fireproof, first draft, flameproof, foolproof, fortification, foundry proof, galley, galley proof, gen, general information, get out, ground, grounds, grounds for belief, guidebook, handout, hard information, hectograph, hectograph copy, hermetic, holeproof, impenetrable, impervious, impervious to, impregnable, impress, impression, imprint, incarnation, incidental information, incontrovertible evidence, indication, indisputable evidence, induction, inductive reasoning, info, information, instruction, insulate, intelligence, ironclad proof, issue, item of evidence, kiteflying, knowledge, leakproof, light, logical thought, manifestation, mark, material grounds, materialization, measure, mention, message, mimeograph, mimeograph copy, multigraph, muniments, mute witness, negative, noiseproof, notice, notification, offprint, onus, onus probandi, ordeal, overprint, page proof, philosophy, photocopy, photograph, photostatic copy, piece of evidence, plate proof, pneumatophany, positive, premises, presentation, press proof, print, probation, progressive proof, promotional material, proof against, proof before letter, proof sheet, protective, prove, proving, proving out, publication, publicity, publish, pull, pull a proof, punctureproof, put out, put to bed, put to press, ratification, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, reason, reason to believe, reasonableness, reasoning, reinforcement, reissue, release, relevant fact, report, reprint, repro proof, resistant, revelation, revise, rough draft, rough sketch, run, run off, rustproof, settlement, shatterproof, shellproof, sidelight, sign, slip, sophistry, sounding out, soundproof, specious reasoning, stamp, standard, stat, statement, stone proof, strengthening, strike, strong, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, sure sign, sweet reason, symptom, tempered, test, test case, testament, testimonial, testimony, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, theophany, tight, token, touchstone, tough, transmission, trial, trial impression, try, undergirding, unmistakable sign, validation, vandyke, verification, waterproof, watertight, weatherproof, wherefore, white book, white paper, why, whyfor, witness, word

prop

• prop, advocate, afford support, airscrew, alpenstock, arm, athletic supporter, back, back up, backbone, backing, bandeau, bear, bear out, bear up, bearer, beef up, blackface, bolster, bolster up, bra, brace, brace up, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buoy up, buttress, cane, carrier, carry, case harden, cervix, clown white, column, confirm, corset, costume, cradle, crook, crutch, cushion, driver, fan, finance, fortify, foundation garment, fulcrum, fund, gird, girdle, give support, greasepaint, guy, guywire, harden, hold, hold up, impeller, invigorate, jock, jockstrap, keep, keep afloat, keep up, lean, lend support, mainstay, maintain, maintainer, makeup, mast, neck, nerve, paddle wheel, pillow, piston, practical piece, prop up, propellant, propeller, property, propulsor, refresh, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, reinvigorate, rest, resting place, restrengthen, rigging, rotor, screw, screw propeller, shore, shore up, shoulder, shroud, spine, sprit, staff, stand, standing rigging, stave, stay, steel, stick, stiffen, stiffener, strengthen, strengthener, subsidize, subvention, subventionize, support, supporter, sustain, sustainer, temper, theatrical makeup, toughen, truss, turbine, twin screws, underbrace, undergird, underlie, underpin, underpinning, underset, upbear, uphold, upholder, upkeep, upright, vertical, walking stick, wheel

propagate

• propagate, bear, beget, bestrew, breed, breed true, bring forth, broadcast, bruit about, circulate, circumfuse, copulate, crossbreed, cultivate, deal out, deliver, develop, diffract, diffuse, dispense, disperse, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, engender, fan out, father, generate, get, grow, herald, inbreed, increase, issue, make known, make love, mother, multiply, noise abroad, outbreed, overscatter, oversow, overspread, proclaim, procreate, produce, proliferate, promote, promulgate, propagandize, publicize, publish, radiate, raise, reproduce, reproduce in kind, retail, scatter, sire, sow, sow broadcast, splay, spread, spread out, strew, transmit, utter

propagation

• propagation, airing, attenuation, bandying, begetting, book, breeding, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, circulation, circumfusion, crossbreeding, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, display, dissemination, dissipation, dissogeny, distribution, divergence, endogamy, engenderment, evaporation, evulgation, expansion, fragmentation, generation, inbreeding, issuance, issue, linebreeding, multiplication, outbreeding, peppering, periodical, printing, procreation, proliferation, promulgation, publication, publishing, radiation, scattering, scatterment, shotgun pattern, sowing, spattering, splay, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, sprinkling, strewing, telecasting, ventilation, volatilization, xenogamy

propane

• propane, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, peat, pentane, propellant, rocket fuel, turf

propel

• propel, actuate, advance, animate, bowl, bunt, butt, compel, drive, drive on, egg on, energize, exhort, force, forward, foster, galvanize, get moving, give an impetus, give momentum, goad, impel, incite, launch, mobilize, motivate, move, move to action, nudge, pedal, pole, power, prick, prod, promote, prompt, push, put in motion, roll, row, send, set agoing, set going, set in motion, shove, shunt, spark, spur, start, stimulate, sweep, sweep along, thrust, treadle, troll, trundle, whip on

propellant

• propellant, active, airscrew, alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, catalyst, charcoal, charge, coal, coke, combustible, dope, driver, driving, ethane, ethanol, exhaust, fan, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, impeller, impelling, impetus, impulse, in motion, incentive, incitation, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, jet propulsion, kerosene, liquid oxygen, methane, methanol, mobile, motile, motivation, motivational, motive, motor, moving, natural gas, octane, oil, paddle wheel, paraffin, peat, pentane, piston, prop, propane, propeller, propelling, propulsion charge, propulsive, propulsor, propulsory, provocative, pulsive, pushing, reaction propulsion, rocket fuel, rocket propulsion, rotor, screw, screw propeller, shoving, spur, stimulant, stirring, thrust, transitional, traveling, turbine, turf, twin screws, wheel

propelling

• propelling, active, bunt, butt, drive, driving, driving force, impelling, impulsion, in motion, mobile, motile, motivational, motive, motive power, motor, moving, propellant, propelment, propulsion, propulsive, propulsory, pulsion, pulsive, push, pushing, shove, shoving, shunt, stirring, thrust, transitional, traveling

propensity

• propensity, a thing for, affinity, an ear for, an eye for, animus, aptitude, aptness, bent, bias, capacity for, cast, character, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness, eccentricity, fancy, fascination, favor, feeling for, felicity, flair, genius for, gift for, grain, idiosyncrasy, inclination, inclining, individualism, innate aptitude, kidney, leaning, liability, liking, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness, readiness, sensitivity to, set, slant, soft spot, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, susceptibility, sympathy, temper, temperament, tendency, tropism, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, type, warp, weakness, willingness

proper thing

• proper thing, bon ton, candor, conformity, consuetude, convention, cricket, custom, established way, etiquette, fair play, fair shake, fair-mindedness, fairness, fashion, folkway, good sportsmanship, haute couture, high fashion, manner, manners, mode, mores, observance, practice, praxis, prescription, prevailing taste, right, rightfulness, rightness, ritual, social convention, sportsmanlikeness, sportsmanliness, sportsmanship, square deal, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, stream of fashion, style, swim, the fair thing, the handsome thing, the proper thing, the seemly, the thing, time-honored practice, tradition, trend, usage, use, vogue, way, what is done, what is right, what should be, wont, wonting

proper

• proper, Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodated to, according to, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapted, adapted to, adjusted to, admitted, advantageous, advisable, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, all right, alone, answerable to, applicable, apposite, appropriate, approved, apropos, apt, arrant, au fait, authentic, authoritative, balanced, banausic, becoming, befitting, being done, beneficial, blamed, by, canonical, capable, characteristic, civil, classical, comely, comme il faut, commodious, competent, complete, condign, conformable, conformable to, conforming, conformist, confounded, congruent with, congruous, consistent with, consummate, convenient, conventional, correct, crashing, crass, customary, de rigueur, dead right, decent, decided, decorous, defensible, definitive, delicate, deserved, desirable, desired, diagnostic, dignified, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, downright, due, egregious, elegant, employable, equitable, established, evangelical, even, evenhanded, exact, expected, expedient, fair, fair and square, faithful, faultless, favorable, feasible, felicitous, firm, fit, fitten, fitting, flagrant, flawless, formal, fructuous, functional, genteel, gentlemanly, glaring, good, good for, gross, happy, helpful, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in accordance with, in agreement with, in character, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in uniformity with, individual, infernal, inspired, intolerable, intrinsic, just, just right, justifiable, justified, kosher, ladylike, lawful, legal, letter-perfect, level, likely, literal, marked, meet, meet and right, merited, meticulous, modest, nice, normal, normative, of general utility, of help, of service, of the faith, of use, okay, only, opportune, orthodox, orthodoxical, out-and-out, outright, own, particular, peculiar, per, perfect, polite, politic, positive, practical, pragmatical, precious, precise, prig, priggish, prissy, profitable, profound, pronounced, proper to, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, qualified, quintessential, rank, received, recognized, recommendable, refined, regular, respectable, respective, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigorous, satisfactory, scriptural, seasonable, seemly, sensible, separate, serviceable, shattering, shocking, single, singular, solely, sortable, sound, special, specific, square, standard, stark, stark-staring, straight, straight-up-and-down, straitlaced, strictly speaking, stuffy, suitable, suitable for, suited, superlative, surpassing, textual, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, timely, to be desired, total, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true to form, true-blue, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, uniform with, unique, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, urbane, useful, usual, utilitarian, utter, warrantable, warranted, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, wicked, wise, worthwhile

properly

• properly, acceptably, according to use, accurately, adequately, advantageously, advisably, aesthetically, amply, appropriately, aptly, artistically, as is proper, as is right, becomingly, by right, by rights, comme il faut, condignly, congruously, conveniently, conventionally, correctly, customarily, decently, decorously, deservedly, desirably, disinterestedly, dispassionately, duly, elegantly, equally, equitably, evenly, expediently, fair, fairly, faultlessly, feasibly, fitly, fittingly, flawlessly, genteelly, gracefully, impartially, impersonally, in all conscience, in good taste, in reason, inequity, injustice, just right, just so, justifiably, justifiedly, justly, meetly, nicely, opportunely, orthodoxly, perfectly, politely, practically, quietly, right, rightfully, rightly, satisfactorily, seasonably, seemly, sic, simply, so, sortably, straight, suitably, tastefully, to advantage, traditionally, unobtrusively, upon even terms, warrantably, warrantedly, well, with taste, without distinction

propertied

• propertied, blessed with, enfeoffed, having, having and holding, holding, in possession of, landed, landholding, landowning, master of, occupying, owning, possessed of, possessing, property-owning, proprietary, seized of, tenured, worth

property

• property, acreage, acres, adverse possession, affection, affluence, alodium, aroma, assets, attribute, available means, badge, balance, banner, belongings, blackface, body-build, bottomless purse, brand, bulging purse, burgage, cachet, capital, capital goods, capitalization, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, chattels, chattels real, claim, clown white, colony, complexion, composition, configuration, constituents, constitution, costume, crasis, cut, de facto, de jure, demesne, dependency, derivative title, device, dharma, diathesis, differentia, differential, disposition, distinctive feature, domain, dominion, earmark, easy circumstances, effects, embarras de richesses, estate, ethos, feature, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiber, fiefdom, figure, flavor, fortune, frame, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, fund, gavelkind, gear, genius, gold, grain, greasepaint, grist, grounds, gust, habit, hallmark, handsome fortune, having title to, high income, high tax bracket, hold, holding, holdings, honor, hue, humor, humors, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ilk, image, impress, impression, independence, index, indicant, indicator, individualism, insignia, keynote, kind, knight service, land, landed property, lands, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, lineaments, liquid assets, lot, lots, lucre, luxuriousness, makeup, mammon, mandate, mannerism, manor, mark, marking, material wealth, means, measure, messuage, mold, money, money to burn, moneybags, nature, note, occupancy, occupation, oddity, odor, opulence, opulency, original title, owning, paraphernalia, parcel, particularity, peculiarity, pelf, physique, picture, plat, plot, possessing, possession, possessions, possessorship, practical piece, praedium, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, prop, property rights, proprietary, proprietary rights, proprietorship, prosperity, prosperousness, quadrat, quality, quiddity, quirk, real estate, real property, realty, representation, representative, resource, resources, riches, richness, savor, seal, seisin, shape, sigil, sign, signal, signature, singularity, six-figure income, smack, socage, somatotype, sort, specialty, spirit, squatting, stamp, streak, stripe, sublease, substance, suchness, supply, sure sign, symptom, system, taint, tang, taste, telltale sign, temper, temperament, tenancy, tenantry, tendency, tenements, tenor, tenure, tenure in chivalry, theatrical makeup, title, toft, token, tone, trait, treasure, trick, type, underlease, undertenancy, upper bracket, usucapion, vein, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, virtue, way, wealth, wealthiness, worth

prophecy

• prophecy, actuarial prediction, afflatus, aftertime, afteryears, apocalypse, augury, by-and-by, cast, course ahead, crystal ball, determinism, direct communication, distant future, divination, divine inspiration, divine revelation, epiphany, eventuality, expectation, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, guesswork, hereafter, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, improbability, inspiration, mystical experience, mysticism, near future, offing, omen, oracle, outlook, posteriority, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, prognosis, prognostication, project, promise, prophesying, prospect, prospectus, revelation, soothsay, soothsaying, speculation, statistical prediction, the future, the morrow, the sweet by-and-by, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, vaticination, vision, weird

prophesied

• prophesied, approaching, coming, desired, destinal, destined, determined, emergent, eventual, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, forecast, foreknown, foreseen, foreshown, foretold, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, later, nearing, planned, plotted, predicted, presaged, probable, projected, prospective, to come, to-be, ultimate

prophesy

• prophesy, adumbrate, anticipate, approach, augur, await, be destined, be fated, be imminent, be to be, be to come, bode, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, come, come on, divine, dope, dope out, dowse for water, draw near, draw on, expect, forebode, forecast, foresee, foreshadow, foretell, forewarn, fortune-tell, guess, harbinger, hariolate, herald, hope, lie ahead, look for, look forward to, loom, make a prediction, make a prognosis, make a prophecy, near, plan, plot, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate, project, promise, read palms, read tea leaves, read the future, soothsay, speculate, tell fortunes, tell the future, threaten, vaticinate

prophet of doom

• prophet of doom, Cassandra, Druid, Eeyore, Jeremiah, admonisher, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, cautioner, crystal gazer, cynic, defeatist, divinator, diviner, divineress, flagman, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, killjoy, lighthouse keeper, lookout, lookout man, malist, monitor, negativist, nihilist, palmist, pessimist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, retreatist, seek-sorrow, seer, seeress, sentinel, sentry, signaler, signalman, soothsayer, vates, warner, weather prophet, worrywart

prophet

• prophet, Cassandra, Don Quixote, Druid, Quixote, astrologer, augur, calamity howler, clairvoyant, crystal gazer, daydreamer, divinator, diviner, divineress, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, forecaster, foreknower, foreseer, foreshower, foreteller, fortune-teller, fortuneteller, geomancer, haruspex, idealist, lotus-eater, oracle, palmist, predictor, prefigurer, presager, prognosticator, prophesier, prophet of doom, prophetess, psychic, pythoness, religious prophets, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, seeress, sibyl, soothsayer, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, vates, visionary, warlock, weather prophet, wishful thinker, witch

prophetic

• prophetic, Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apocalyptic, apostolic, augural, auguring, canonical, divinatory, evangelic, evangelistic, fatidic, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, gospel, haruspical, inspired, interpretive, mantic, mysterious, mystic, oracular, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful, presaging, prescient, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, revealed, revelational, revelatory, scriptural, sibyllic, sibylline, strange, textual, textuary, theopneustic, unexplainable, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise

prophylactic

• prophylactic, IUD, aegis, antacid, antidote, antiseptic, arm guard, aseptic, backstop, bag, birth control device, boiled, buffer, bulwark, bumper, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, copyright, counteractant, counteractive, counteragent, counterirritant, covering, crash helmet, cushion, custodial, dashboard, decontaminated, defensive, deterrent, deterring, diaphragm, discouraging, disinfected, dodger, face mask, fender, finger guard, foot guard, forbidding, forestalling, fostering, fuse, goggles, governor, guard, guardian, guarding, guardrail, hand guard, handrail, hard hat, helmet, hygienic, immunizing, insulation, interlock, intrauterine device, knee guard, knuckle guard, laminated glass, life preserver, lifeline, lightning conductor, lightning rod, mask, mudguard, neutralizer, nose guard, nullifier, offset, oral contraceptive, pad, padding, palladium, parental, pasteurized, patent, pessary, pilot, preclusive, preventative, preventive, prohibitive, protecting, protective, protective clothing, protective umbrella, remedy, rubber, safeguard, safeguarding, safety, safety glass, safety plug, safety rail, safety shoes, safety switch, safety valve, sanitary, screen, screening, seat belt, sheltering, shield, shielding, shin guard, skin, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, sterile, sterilized, sun helmet, the pill, tutelary, umbrella, uninfected, vigilant, watchful, windscreen, windshield

prophylaxis

• prophylaxis, active treatment, adjuvant treatment, antigen treatment, causal treatment, conservative treatment, cross-firing, diathermic treatment, dietetic treatment, drip treatment, drug treatment, empiric treatment, epidemiology, expectant treatment, fever treatment, health physics, heat treatment, hot-air treatment, hygiene, hygienics, light treatment, mental hygiene, palliative treatment, perennial treatment, preseasonal treatment, preventive dentistry, preventive medicine, preventive treatment, prophylactic psychology, prophylactodontia, prophylaxy, public health, radiotherapeutic treatment, rational treatment, sanitation, shock treatment, specific treatment, starvation treatment, supporting treatment, surgical treatment, symptomatic treatment, tonic treatment, vibration treatment

propinquity

• propinquity, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agnation, alliance, ancestry, approach, approximation, assemblage, association, blood, blood relationship, bond, brotherhood, brothership, closeness, cognation, combination, common ancestry, common descent, confines, connectedness, connection, consanguinity, contiguity, contiguousness, contrariety, convergence, cousinhood, cousinship, dealings, deduction, disjunction, enation, environs, fatherhood, filiation, foreground, fraternity, homology, immediacy, immediate foreground, intercourse, intimacy, junction, kindred, kinship, liaison, link, linkage, linking, maternity, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, motherhood, mutual attraction, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, paternity, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, precinct, proximity, purlieus, rapport, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, sibship, similarity, sisterhood, sistership, sympathy, tie, tie-in, ties of blood, union, vicinage, vicinity

propitiate

• propitiate, adapt, adjust, allay, appease, assuage, atone, atone for, calm, compensate, conciliate, conform, content, cool, defuse, dulcify, expiate, give satisfaction, immolate before, intercede, lay, lay the dust, live down, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make propitiation, make reparation, make right, make sacrifice to, make up for, mediate, mollify, offer sacrifice, pacify, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, placate, pour balm on, recompense, reconcile, redeem, redress, repair, sacrifice, satisfy, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, soothe, square it, square things, sweeten, tranquilize

propitiation

• propitiation, United Nations troops, amends, appeasement, atonement, calming, compensation, composition, compromise, conciliation, detente, dulcification, easing of relations, expiation, expiatory offering, indemnification, indemnity, making amends, making good, making right, making up, mediation, mollification, pacification, peace offering, peace-keeping force, peacemaking, peacemongering, piaculum, placability, placation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, redemption, redress, relaxation of tension, reparation, restitution, satisfaction, soothing, squaring, tranquilization

propitiatory

• propitiatory, Christlike, Christly, acquiescent, apologetic, appeasing, ascetic, atoning, celestial, cleansing, compensational, compensatory, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, divine, empyrean, expiatory, expurgatory, godlike, godly, heavenly, incarnate, incarnated, ingratiating, intercessional, intercessive, irenic, lustral, lustrational, lustrative, made flesh, mediative, mediatory, mollifying, obeisant, obliging, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, penitential, piacular, placative, placatory, propitiative, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, reclamatory, recompensing, reconciliatory, redeeming, redemptive, redressing, reparative, reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive, restitutory, righting, salvational, satisfactional, self-existent, soothing, squaring, superhuman, supernatural, tractable, transcendent

propitious

• propitious, advantageous, amicable, appropriate, auspicious, befitting, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign, benignant, brave, bright, bright with promise, cheering, convenient, cooperative, dexter, encouraging, expedient, fair, favorable, favoring, felicitous, fit, fitting, fortunate, friendly, full of promise, golden, good, happy, helpful, inspiring, inspiriting, kind, kindly, kindly-disposed, looking up, lucky, meet, neighborly, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, opportune, pregnant of good, promising, prosperous, providential, reassuring, ripe, rosy, seasonable, sortable, suitable, supportive, timely, toward, useful, well-affected, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning, well-meant, well-timed, white

proponent

• proponent, adherent, advocate, apologete, apologist, apologizer, backer, champion, defender, enthusiast, exponent, expounder, friend, justifier, partisan, patron, pleader, promoter, proposer, spokesman, spokesperson, spokeswoman, subscriber, successful advocate, supporter, upholder, vindicator, whitewasher

proportion

• proportion, accommodate, accord, acreage, adapt, addition, adjust, adjust to, agreement, allegory, allotment, allowance, amount, amplitude, analogousness, analogy, approximation, area, arithmetical proportion, arrangement, array, assimilate, attune, balance, balancing, beauty, big end, bigger half, bigness, bilateral symmetry, bit, bite, body, breadth, budget, bulk, caliber, cancel, capacity, change, chunk, coequality, coextension, commensurability, commission, comparability, comparableness, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, comparativeness, compare, comparing, comparison, compass, compensate, concinnity, concord, conform, conformity, confrontation, confrontment, congruity, consistency, contingent, continued fraction, continuum, contrast, contrastiveness, coordinate, correlation, correspondence, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, coverage, cut, cut to, deal, degree, deployment, depth, destiny, diameter, differentiation, dimension, dimensions, disposal, disposition, distinction, distinctiveness, distribution, divide, dividend, division, dole, dynamic symmetry, emptiness, empty space, end, enlarge, equal share, equality, equalize, equate, equation, equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency, euphony, eurythmics, eurythmy, even, even up, evenness, evolution, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, extrapolation, fate, field, finish, fit, fix, formation, fraction, galactic space, gauge, gear to, geometric ratio, girth, grade, graduate, greatness, group, half, halver, harmonic proportion, harmonize, harmony, height, helping, homologate, homologize, identity, improper fraction, infinite space, integrate, integration, interest, interpolation, interstellar space, interval, inversion, involution, justice, keeping, key to, largeness, layout, leap, length, level, levelness, likeness, likening, lineup, lot, magnitude, make plumb, make uniform, mark, marshaling, mass, match, matching, measure, measuredness, measurement, meed, mess, metaphor, modicum, modify, modulate, moiety, multilateral symmetry, multiplication, notation, notch, nothingness, nuance, opposing, opposition, order, orderedness, organization, outer space, par, parallelism, parity, part, pas, peace, peg, percent, percentage, period, piece, pitch, plane, plateau, point, poise, polarity, portion, practice, pro rata, proportionability, proportionality, proportionate, proportions, prorate, put in tune, quantum, quiet, quietude, quota, quotum, radius, rake-off, range, rank, rate, ratio, ration, reach, reconcile, rectify, reduction, regularity, regularize, regulate, relation, relationship, remove, rhythm, right, round, routine, rule of three, rung, scale, scope, segment, set, set right, setup, shade, shadow, shape, shapeliness, share, similarity, similarize, simile, similitude, size, slice, small share, sort, space, spatial extension, sphere, spread, square, stair, stake, standard, step, stint, stock, strike a balance, structure, subtraction, suitableness, superficial extension, surface, sweetness, symmetricalness, symmetry, sync, synchronize, system, tailor, tract, tranquillity, transformation, tread, trilateral symmetry, trim to, trope of comparison, true, true up, tune, uniformity, void, volume, weighing, width

proportional representation

• proportional representation, Australian ballot, Hare system, PR, absentee voting, aye, ballot, ballot-box stuffing, canvass, canvassing, card voting, casting vote, colonization, counting heads, cumulative system, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, election fraud, enfranchisement, fagot vote, floating, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system, nay, no, nontransferable vote, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural system, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential system, preferential voting, proxy, proxy voting, record vote, referendum, repeating, representation, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single system, single transferrable vote, single vote, single-member district, snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting machine, voting right, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

proportional

• proportional, 3-D, affinitive, analogical, analogous, appertaining, associative, balanced, commensurable, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, congenial, connective, consistent, contingent, correlated, correlative, corresponding, cubic, dependent, dimensional, distributional, distributive, en rapport, equal, even stephen, fifty-fifty, flat, fourth-dimensional, half, half-and-half, halvers, harmonious, in accordance with, linking, particular, per capita, per head, pertaining, pertinent, pro rata, proportionable, proportionate, proportioned, prorated, reciprocal, referable, referring, related, relating, relational, relative, respective, several, space, space-time, spatial, spatiotemporal, spherical, stereoscopic, superficial, surface, symmetrical, sympathetic, three-dimensional, two-dimensional, volumetric

proportionate

• proportionate, accordant, adequate, affinitive, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike, ample, answerable, appertaining, associative, at one, at par, au pair, barely sufficient, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, comparable, comparative, compatible, competent, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, connective, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, decent, distributional, distributive, drawn, due, en rapport, enough, equal, equal to, equalized, equivalent, even, even stephen, fifty-fifty, fit, good, good enough, half, half-and-half, halvers, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, knotted, level, like, like-minded, linking, minimal, minimum, nip and tuck, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on all fours, on even ground, par, particular, per capita, per head, pertaining, pertinent, plenty, plenty good enough, positive, pro rata, proportionable, proportional, prorated, quits, reconcilable, referable, referring, relating, relational, relative, respective, satisfactory, satisfying, self-consistent, several, square, stalemated, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, symbiotic, sympathetic, synchronized, synchronous, tied, unanimous, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, up to

proportionately

• proportionately, ad eundem, appositely, as, as well, ceteris paribus, comparatively, correspondingly, distributively, each to each, equally, equivalently, even stephen, evenly, fifty-fifty, germanely, half-and-half, identically, in equal shares, in proportion, indifferently, not absolutely, pertinently, pro rata, relatively, relevantly, respectively, severally, so, to a degree, to an extent, without distinction

proposal

• proposal, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, aim, ambition, animus, aspiration, bid, briefing, caution, caveat, consultation, council, counsel, desideration, desideratum, design, designation, desire, determination, direction, draft, effect, engagement, exhortation, expostulation, fixed purpose, function, game plan, guidance, hortation, idea, improper suggestion, indecent proposal, instance, instruction, intendment, intent, intention, invitation, layout, marriage proposal, meaning, mind, monition, motion, motive, naming, nisus, nomination, offer, offer of marriage, opinion, outline, parley, pass, plan, point, presentation, proffer, project, projection, proposition, prospectus, purpose, recommendation, remonstrance, request, resolution, resolve, sake, scenario, scheme, sexual advance, striving, study, suggestion, tender, thought, view, warning, will

propose

• propose, advance, advise, advocate, aim, aim at, ask, aspire after, aspire to, assert, be after, become engaged, bid, brief, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, call attention to, coach, come up with, commend to attention, confer, consult with, contemplate, counsel, design, designate, desire, destine, determine, direct, drive at, expect, go for, guide, harbor a design, have every intention, instruct, intend, introduce, kibitz, launch, lay before, lay down, make a motion, mean, meddle, mind, moot, move, name, name for office, nominate, offer, offer a resolution, open up, plan, pop the question, pose, posit, postulate, predicate, prefer, prescribe, present, proffer, project, proposition, propound, purport, purpose, put, put forth, put forward, put it to, put up, recommend, request, resolve, run, run for office, set before, set forth, solicit, start, submit, suggest, table, tender, think

proposed

• proposed, advised, aimed, aimed at, calculated, conscious, considered, contemplated, deliberate, deliberated, designed, envisaged, envisioned, intended, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, of design, planned, projected, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied, teleological, voluntary, willful, witting

proposition

• proposition, a priori principle, a priori truth, accost, advance, affair, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, announcement, annunciation, approach, apriorism, assertion, asseveration, assumed position, assumption, attempt, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, basis, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, brocard, business, categorical proposition, commend to attention, commitment, conclusion, conjecture, contract, creed, data, deal, declaration, dictate, dictum, effort, engagement, enterprise, enunciation, first principles, formula, foundation, game plan, golden rule, ground, guesswork, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, importune, improper suggestion, indecent proposal, inference, instance, introduce, invitation, ipse dixit, launch, law, lay before, lemma, major premise, make a motion, make a pass, make advances, make an overture, manifesto, minor premise, moot, motion, move, obligation, offer a resolution, open up, operation, overture, pass, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, plan, pose, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, postulation, postulatum, predicate, predication, prefer, premise, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, principium, principle, proclamation, profession, proffer, program, project, projection, pronouncement, proposal, propose, propositional function, propound, prospectus, protest, protestation, put, put forth, put forward, put it to, recommend, request, resolution, rule, say, say-so, saying, scenario, self-evident truth, set before, set forth, set of postulates, settled principle, sexual advance, solicit, stance, stand, start, statement, submit, suggest, suggestion, sumption, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, task, theorem, thesis, throw a pass, truism, truth, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, undertaking, universal truth, utterance, venture, vouch, word, work, working hypothesis

propound

• propound, advance, assert, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, commend to attention, introduce, launch, lay before, lay down, make a motion, moot, move, offer, offer a resolution, open up, pose, posit, postulate, predicate, prefer, proffer, propose, proposition, put, put forth, put forward, put it to, recommend, set before, set forth, start, submit, suggest

proprietary

• proprietary, balm, balsam, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, dominion, dominium, drops, drug, electuary, elixir, ethical drug, feoffee, feudatory, generic name, herbs, householder, inhalant, laird, land tenure, landed, landholding, landlady, landlord, landownership, landowning, lincture, linctus, lord, lordship, master, materia medica, medicament, medication, medicinal, medicinal herbs, medicine, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, mixture, nonprescription drug, officinal, overlordship, owner, ownership, patent medicine, pharmacon, physic, possession, possessive, possessorship, possessory, powder, preparation, prescription drug, propertied, property, proprietary medicine, proprietary name, proprietor, proprietorship, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, seigniory, simples, sovereignty, squire, syrup, theraputant, tisane, titleholder, vegetable remedies

proprieties

• proprieties, amenities, civilities, civility, comity, convention, courtliness, decencies, decorum, dictates of society, diplomatic code, elegance, elegancies, etiquette, exquisite manners, formalities, good form, good manners, manners, mores, natural politeness, point of etiquette, politeness, politesse, protocol, punctilio, quiet good manners, rules of conduct, social code, social conduct, social graces, social procedures, social usage, the conventions, the mores, the proprieties, the right things, what is done

proprietor

• proprietor, beneficiary, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, deedholder, feoffee, feudatory, holder, householder, innkeeper, laird, landholder, landlady, landlord, landowner, licensee, lord, manager, master, mesne, mesne lord, mistress, owner, partner, possessor, property owner, proprietary, proprietress, proprietrix, publican, rentier, squire, titleholder

propriety

• propriety, Atticism, admissibility, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, amenities, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, auspiciousness, becomingness, beneficialness, bienseance, breeding, ceremony, chargedness, chasteness, chastity, civilities, civility, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clearness, comeliness, conformity, convenance, convenience, convention, conventional usage, conventionalism, conventionality, correctitude, correctness, courtesy, criticality, crucialness, custom, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, defensibility, delicacy, desirability, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, drumhead justice, dueness, ease, elegance, elegancy, equitableness, equity, etiquette, evenhandedness, expedience, expediency, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fitness, fittedness, fittingness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, form, formality, fruitfulness, genteelness, gentility, give-and-take, good form, good taste, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, happiness, health, justice, justifiability, justifiableness, justification, justness, lawfulness, legality, limpidity, loadedness, lucidity, mannerliness, measure for measure, meetness, modesty, mores, naturalism, naturalness, naturism, neatness, nemesis, niceness, normalcy, normality, normalness, normativeness, opportuneness, order, orderliness, pellucidity, percentage, perspicuity, plainness, poetic justice, polish, politeness, politesse, politicness, pregnancy, profit, profitability, properness, propitiousness, proprieties, protocol, prudence, pudency, pudicity, punctilio, purity, qualification, realism, refinement, regularity, relevance, respectability, restraint, retributive justice, right, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, ripeness, ritual, rude justice, scales of justice, seasonableness, sedateness, seemliness, shame, simplicity, smoothness, social convention, social usage, straightforwardness, suitability, suitableness, summary justice, taste, tastefulness, terseness, the proprieties, timeliness, tradition, unaffectedness, urbanity, usefulness, warrantability, warrantedness, what is right, wholesomeness, wisdom, worthwhileness

propulsion

• propulsion, action and reaction, aeromotor, atomic power, bunt, butt, clout, compulsion, drive, driving force, electric power, electropower, horsepower, hydraulic power, hydroelectric power, impellent, impelling force, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, incitement, irresistible force, jet power, jet propulsion, manpower, moment, momentum, motive power, nuclear power, piston power, power, power plant, pressure, propelling, propelment, pulsion, push, pushing, ram-jet propulsion, reaction, reaction propulsion, resojet propulsion, rocket power, rocket propulsion, shove, shoving, shunt, solar power, steam power, thermonuclear power, thrust, turbojet propulsion, water power

prorate

• prorate, ask, assess, charge, charge for, demand, divide, divvy, exact, impose, levy, make dutiable, parcel, portion, pro rata, proportion, proportionate, quota, ration, require, share, shift, stick for, tax, tithe

prosaic

• prosaic, Attic, Spartan, actual, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, banal, banausic, bare, barren, bland, boring, breadwinning, businesslike, candid, characterless, chaste, classic, classical, cliched, commercial, common, commonplace, dead, direct, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, everyday, factual, flat, frank, garden, garden-variety, hackneyed, ho-hum, homely, homespun, household, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, irksome, jejune, lackluster, lean, lifeless, literal, lowly, lusterless, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mediocre, moneymaking, monotonous, mouldy, mundane, natural, neat, nondescript, open, ordinary, overdone, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, practicable, practical, prose, prosing, prosy, pure, pure and simple, realistic, routine, run-of-the-mill, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stale, stark, stereotyped, stock, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tedious, threadbare, tired, tiresome, trite, unadorned, unaffected, undistinguished, unembellished, uneventful, unexceptional, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninteresting, uninventive, unnoteworthy, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, utilitarian, vapid, workaday, workday, working

prosaicism

• prosaicism, aridity, aridness, banality, barrenness, bromide, chestnut, cliche, commonness, commonplace, commonplace expression, commonplaceness, corn, dearth of ideas, dryness, dullness, familiar tune, flatness, hackneyed saying, infecundity, infertility, insipidness, lieu commun, locus communis, matter of fact, matter-of-factness, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, plainness, platitude, prosaicness, prosaism, prose, prosiness, reiteration, retold story, rubber stamp, shibboleth, staidness, stereotyped saying, stolidity, stuffiness, tag, trite saying, triticism, truism, twice-told tale, uncreativeness, unembellishedness, unfancifulness, unidealism, unimaginativeness, unoriginality, unpoeticalness, unromanticism, vapidity

proscenium

• proscenium, L, R, acting area, anteriority, apron, apron stage, backstage, band shell, bandstand, board, bold front, brave face, brave front, bridge, coulisse, display, dock, dressing room, facade, face, facet, facia, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, fore, forefront, foreground, forehand, foreland, forepart, forequarter, foreside, forestage, foreword, front, front elevation, front man, front matter, front page, front view, frontage, frontal, frontier, frontispiece, greenroom, grid, gridiron, head, heading, lap, lightboard, obverse, orchestra, orchestra pit, performing area, pit, preface, prefix, priority, proscenium stage, shell, stage, stage left, stage right, switchboard, the boards, window dressing, wings

proscribe

• proscribe, anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, bar, blackball, blacklist, boycott, bring home to, cast out, censure, condemn, convict, cut, damn, debar, denounce, denunciate, deny, deport, disallow, disfellowship, doom, embargo, enjoin, exclude, exclude from, excommunicate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, find guilty, forbid, fugitate, inhibit, interdict, ostracize, outlaw, pass sentence on, penalize, preclude, prevent, prohibit, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, refuse, reject, relegate, repress, rule out, rusticate, say no to, send away, send down, send to Coventry, sentence, shut out, snub, spurn, suppress, taboo, thrust out, transport

proscription

• proscription, Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, anathema, anathematizing, ban, banishment, blackball, blacklist, blasphemy, boundary, bounds, boycott, boycottage, censure, commination, condemnation, confinement, continence, contraband, conviction, curse, damnation, death sentence, death warrant, denial, denouncement, denunciation, disallowance, discipline, doom, embargo, evil eye, exclusion, excommunication, execration, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, fulmination, guilty verdict, hex, imprecation, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, judgment, law, limit, limitation, malison, malocchio, moderation, no-no, ostracism, ostracization, preclusion, prescription, prevention, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, qualification, rap, refusal, rejection, repression, restrain, restriction, restrictive covenants, ruling out, sentence, statute, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, thundering, verdict of guilty, whammy, zoning, zoning laws

prose

• prose, banality, bromide, causerie, chat, chestnut, chin, cliche, commonplace, commonplace expression, corn, expository writing, familiar tune, hackneyed saying, in prose, language, lieu commun, locus communis, matter of fact, matter-of-fact, matter-of-factness, nonmetrical, nonpoetic, old joke, old saw, old song, old story, plain, plainness, platitude, platitudinize, prosaic, prosaicism, prosaicness, prosaism, prosiness, prosing, prosy, rap, reiteration, retold story, stereotyped saying, talk, text, trite saying, triticism, twice-told tale, unimaginative, unimaginativeness, unimpassioned, unversified, write prose, yarn

prosecute

• prosecute, abide by, accuse, adhere to, administer, arraign, bring action against, bring into court, bring suit, bring to justice, bring to trial, carry on, carry out, carry through, charge, chase, chivy, complete, conduct, continue, discharge, do, dog, drag into court, effect, effectuate, employ, enforce, engage in, execute, exercise, fill out, follow, follow through, follow up, fulfill, give chase, go after, go in for, go into litigation, go on with, go to law, hollo after, honor, hound, hunt, implead, implement, indict, law, litigate, make, make after, make out, observe, perform, persist, practice, promulgate, prosecute at law, pursue, put in force, put in suit, put on trial, put through, quest, quest after, raise the hunt, render, run after, search, see through, seek, seek in law, seek justice, seek out, specialize in, sue, tackle, take on, take out after, take to, take to court, take up, transact, try, undertake, use, wage, work at

prosecution

• prosecution, accusal, accusation, accusing, action, allegation, allegement, arraignment, bill of particulars, blame, bringing of charges, bringing to book, carrying out, case, cause, cause in court, charge, chase, complaint, completion, count, delation, denouncement, denunciation, discharge, dogging, effectuation, enforcement, execution, follow, follow-up, following, fulfillment, hue and cry, hunting, impeachment, implication, imputation, indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, judicial process, lawsuit, laying of charges, legal action, legal case, legal proceedings, legal process, legal remedy, litigation, observance, plaint, proceedings, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, reproach, searching, seeking, shadowing, stalking, suit, suit at law, taxing, tracking, tracking down, trailing, transaction, true bill, unspoken accusation, veiled accusation

prosecutor

• prosecutor, AG, DA, KC, QC, SSC, US attorney, accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, attorney general, civilian, claimant, complainant, corporation lawyer, court-appointed lawyer, criminal lawyer, defense counsel, delator, district attorney, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, junior counsel, law agent, leader, libelant, mouthpiece, party, petitioner, plaintiff, private attorney, prosecuting attorney, public prosecutor, publicist, silk, silk gown, solicitor general, special pleader, stuff gown, stuff-gownsman, suitor, the prosecution

proselyte

• proselyte, Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, apostate, apostle, backslider, believer, bolter, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, collaborationist, collaborator, communicant, convert, daily communicant, defector, deserter, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, fanatic, fifth columnist, follower, good Christian, mugwump, neophyte, pietist, quisling, receiver, recidivist, recreant, religionist, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, saint, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, theist, traitor, truster, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, votary, zealot

prosody

• prosody, Stabreim, accent, accentuation, alliterative meter, beat, cadence, emphasis, ictus, level of stress, lilt, measure, meter, metrical pattern, metrics, movement, number, numbers, primary stress, prosodic pattern, prosodics, quantitative meter, rhythm, rhythmic pattern, rhythmical stress, scanning, scansion, secondary stress, stress, stress accent, stress pattern, swing, syllabic meter, tertiary stress, vers libre, versification, weak stress

prospect

• prospect, aftertime, afteryears, airscape, anticipation, aptitude, aspect, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, bare possibility, by-and-by, certainty, chance, chances, cheerful expectation, cityscape, client, cloudscape, command, conceivability, conceivableness, confidence, contemplation, contingency, conviction, course ahead, crystal ball, customer, dekko, delve into, dependence, design, desire, determinism, dig into, discretion, distant future, domination, doomed hope, envisagement, envisionment, even chance, eventuality, expectancy, expectation, explore, eye, eyeful, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, fair expectation, fair prospect, faith, farseeingness, farsightedness, favorable prospect, fervent hope, field of view, field of vision, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, forward look, future, future tense, futurism, futurity, go, good chance, good cheer, good hope, good possibility, great expectations, hereafter, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, horizon, immediate future, immediate prospect, imminence, in prospect, in sight, in store, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, intention, ken, landscape, leer, leering look, liability, likelihood, likeliness, likely, limit of vision, line of sight, longsightedness, look, look for, look-in, looking ahead, lookout, lustful leer, mark, mine, naked eye, near future, odds, off chance, offing, on the horizon, on the table, opportunity, outlook, outlook over, outside chance, outside hope, pan, pan for gold, panorama, patron, perspective, plan, possibilities, possibility, possible, possibleness, posteriority, potential, potentiality, prayerful hope, prediction, preparation, prepublication, presumption, presumptive evidence, preview, prevision, probabilism, probability, probable, project, projected, promise, prophecy, prospection, prospects, providence, provision, prudence, quarry, range, readiness, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, regard, regular, regular customer, reliance, remote possibility, riverscape, sagacity, sanguine expectation, scan, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scope of vision, search for, seascape, security, sidelong look, sift, sight, sightliness, skyscape, sly look, small hope, spectacle, sucker, survey, sweep, tendency, the attainable, the feasible, the future, the morrow, the possible, the sweet by-and-by, thinkability, thinkableness, thought, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come, tomorrow, townscape, trust, unastonishment, verisimilitude, view, virtuality, vista, waterscape, well-grounded hope, what is possible, what may be, what might be

prospective

• prospective, anticipated, approaching, awaited, coming, desired, destinal, destined, determined, due, emergent, eventual, expected, extrapolated, fatal, fated, fatidic, foreseen, forthcoming, future, futuristic, hereafter, hoped-for, imminent, impending, in prospect, in view, incipient, later, long-expected, nearing, on the horizon, overdue, pending, planned, plotted, potential, predicted, presumed, probable, projected, promised, prophesied, to come, to-be, ultimate

prospectus

• prospectus, actuarial prediction, agenda, aim, ambition, animus, announcement, apocalypse, aspiration, batting order, bill, bill of fare, blueprint, budget, calendar, card, carte du jour, conspectus, counsel, description, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, docket, effect, fixed purpose, foreboding, forecast, forecasting, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, function, game plan, guesswork, idea, improbability, intendment, intent, intention, lineup, list of agenda, meaning, menu, mind, motive, nisus, omen, outline, plan, playbill, point, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, program, program of operation, programma, project, projection, promise, prophecy, prophesying, proposal, proposition, protocol, purpose, resolution, resolve, roster, sake, scenario, schedule, scheme, slate, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, striving, study, vaticination, view, will

prosper

• prosper, advance, arrive, be blooded, be successful, catch on, click, come along, come off, come on, connect, develop, do well, enjoy prosperity, fare well, farewell, flourish, gain, get ahead, get on, get on swimmingly, get on well, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, go well, graduate, grow, grow rich, make, make a hit, make good, make headway, make it, make progress, meet with success, pass, prevail, profit, progress, qualify, succeed, take, thrive, turn out well, work well, work wonders, yield

prosperity

• prosperity, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, abundance, accomplishment, advantage, affluence, age of Aquarius, arrival, assets, bed of roses, benefit, boom, bottoming out, bottomless purse, bounty, bulging purse, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, cooling off, crisis, depression, do, downturn, ease, easy circumstances, easy street, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, embarras de richesses, era of prosperity, expanding economy, expansion, fair weather, fortunate outcome, fortune, go, gold, golden age, golden era, golden time, good, good fortune, good times, growth, halcyon days, handsome fortune, heaven, heyday, high growth rate, high income, high tax bracket, independence, inflation, interest, life of ease, low, lucre, luxuriousness, luxury, mammon, market expansion, material wealth, millennium, money, money to burn, moneybags, opulence, opulency, palmy days, peak, peaking, pelf, piping times, plenty, possessions, property, prosperous issue, prosperousness, recession, recovery, reign of Saturn, riches, richness, rosy era, six-figure income, slowdown, slump, substance, success, sunshine, the good life, thriving, treasure, upper bracket, upturn, utopia, victory, wealth, wealthiness, well-being

prosperous

• prosperous, abounding in riches, affluent, appropriate, assured of success, auspicious, benign, benignant, booming, comfortable, comfortably situated, coming, convenient, crowned with success, desirable, disgustingly rich, easy, fair, fat, favorable, favoring, felicitous, flourishing, flush, fortunate, frightfully rich, full of promise, golden, good, halcyon, happy, in clover, in funds, in good case, in luxury, in the money, independent, independently rich, independently wealthy, loaded, lucky, luxurious, made, made of money, moneyed, monied, of good omen, of happy portent, of promise, on Easy Street, on the up-and-up, on top, on velvet, oofy, opportune, opulent, out in front, promising, propitious, prospering, provided for, rich, rich as Croesus, rolling in money, seasonable, snug, strong, substantial, succeeding, successful, surefire, thriving, triumphant, wallowing in wealth, warm, wealthy, well, well provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-timed, well-to-do

prosthetics

• prosthetics, antiseptic surgery, aseptic surgery, chiroplasty, cryosurgery, dental surgery, electrosurgery, general surgery, heart surgery, major surgery, minor surgery, neurosurgery, open-heart surgery, operation, operative surgery, oral surgery, organ transplantation, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, radiosurgery, reconstructive surgery, reparative surgery, surgery, thoracic surgery, urological surgery, veterinary surgery

prostitute

• prostitute, B-girl, Cyprian, Paphian, abuse, adulterate, alloy, bawd, befoul, bimbo, brass, call girl, canker, catamite, cheapen, chippy, coarsen, cocotte, confound, contaminate, convert, corrupt, courtesan, cruiser, daughter of joy, debase, debauch, defalcate, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, demean, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, distort, divert, drab, embezzle, erring sister, fallen, fallen woman, fille de joie, foul, harlot, hetaera, hooker, hustler, hustling, infect, loose woman, lower, maladminister, meretricious, meretrix, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mismanage, misuse, moll, nightwalker, on the, on the town, painted woman, pander, pave, peculate, pervert, pickup, pilfer, pimp, poison, pollute, poule, pro, procure, profane, prostituted, quean, ravage, ravish, scarlet, scarlet woman, sell out, stew, streetwalker, streetwalking, strumpet, taint, tart, tomato, trollop, trull, twist, ulcerate, unfortunate woman, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, white slave, whore, whorish, working girl

prostitution

• prostitution, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, abuse, abuse of office, adulteration, befouling, befoulment, black market, bootlegging, contamination, conversion, corrupt administration, corruption, debasement, defalcation, defilement, degradation, desecration, devaluation, diversion, embezzlement, envenoming, festering, fouling, gambling, gray market, harlotry, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, infection, loan-sharking, lowering, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, misusage, misuse, moonshining, narcotics traffic, organized crime, pandering, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pimping, poisoning, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, solicitation, soliciting, streetwalking, suppuration, the rackets, the syndicate, traffic in women, usury, vice, violation, vitiation, white slavery, whoredom, whoremastery, whoremonging