Skip to content A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z prorogue To suspend (a parliamentary session) or to discontinue the meetings of (an assembly, parliament etc.) without formally ending the session. proroguement The act of proroguing; a prolongation or extension. proroguer One who prorogues. proroguing A prolongation or extension. proroyal Supporting or favouring royalty. proroyalty Supporting or favouring royalty. prorsiradiate Inclined forward. prorubricyte A red blood cell precursor, the third nucleated stage of red blood cell production. prorupt To cause something to burst forth. prorupted Having burst forth. proruption The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. prosaccade A saccade towards a target prosaccadic Relating to a prosaccade prosaic Pertaining to or having the characteristics of prose. prosaicality The quality of being prosaic. prosaically In a prosaic manner; straightforwardly. prosaicalness The quality of being prosaic. prosaicism The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. prosaicness The characteristic of being prosaic. prosaism A manner, quality, expression, style, phrase or word that is prosaic. prosaist A person who writes prose. prosal Of or pertaining to prose; prosaic. prosapogenin The aglycone of a saponin prosaposin A glycoprotein that is a precursor for saposins A, B, C, and D. prosaptide A glycoprotein related to prosaposin prosarcopenic That promotes sarcopenia prosateur A writer of French prose. prosauropod Any member of the Prosauropoda, a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs with a long neck and small head, forelimbs shorter than the hindlimbs, and a very large thumb claw for defense. proscaline 4-propoxy-3,5-DMPEA, a psychedelic and hallucinogenic drug. proscenium The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra. proschema A screen or pretext for doing something, especially for waging war. Proschwitz A village in Saxony, Germany. Proscia A surname from Italian. proscience In favour of science or its methods or the scientific establishment. proscientific In favour of science. proscillaridin A cardiac glycoside of the bufanolide type. prosciurine Any squirrel of the genus Prosciurillus prosciutto A dry-cured ham from Italy, thinly sliced. prosclerotic That leads to sclerosis proscolex An early larval form of a trematode worm; a redia. proscribable Capable of being proscribed. proscribe To forbid or prohibit. proscribed Forbidden or prohibited. proscriber One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits. proscript A prohibition; an interdiction. proscription A prohibition. proscriptionist Someone who proscribes; a prohibitor. proscriptive proscribing or prohibiting, for example as according to a norm or standard proscriptively In a proscriptive manner. proscriptiveness The quality of being proscriptive. proscriptivism A proscriptive approach. proscriptivist One who is characterized by proscribing; one who tends to proscribe. proscutellum The penultimate segment of the pronotum of an arthropod. proscylliid Any fish in the family Proscylliidae. proscynema A formulaic inscription expressing adoration of or homage to a particular deity. Prosdocimus A male given name from Greek. prose Language, particularly written language, not intended as poetry. prosecco A dry, slightly sparkling Italian white wine made from that grape; also a geographical indication. prosecrecy Supporting or favouring secrecy. prosecretin A precursor to secretin, activated by gastric acid prosecretory That leads to secretion prosect To dissect beforehand, as in preparation for an anatomical lecture. prosection An anatomical dissection carried out by an experienced anatomist as a demonstration for others. prosector A person who prepares a body for dissection by students, or dissects them as demonstrations. prosectorial Of or relating to a prosector. prosectorship The role or status of prosector. prosecutability The quality of being prosecutable. prosecutable Able to be prosecuted. prosecutably In a prosecutable manner. prosecute To start criminal proceedings against. prosecutee Synonym of defendant. prosecution The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor. prosecutional Pertaining to prosecution, or to the prosecution of a particular case. prosecutive Of or pertaining to prosecution. prosecutor A prosecuting attorney. prosecutorial Relating to prosecuting of criminal cases. prosecutorially In a prosecutorial manner or context. prosecutorship The rank or office of prosecutor. prosecutrix A female prosecutor prosegment A section of amino acids at one end of a protein molecule that assists in folding prosegregation In favor of segregation, especially racial segregation. proselike Resembling prose. proselyte One who has converted to a religion or doctrine, especially a gentile converted to Judaism. proselyter A person who proselytes; a proselytizer. proselytess A female proselyte; a female gentile who has converted to Judaism. proselytic Pertaining to proselytism. proselytingly So as to proselytize. proselytism The practice of proselytizing. proselytist One who proselytises. proselytistic Synonym of proselytic. proselytization The act or process of proselytizing. proselytize To advertise one’s religious beliefs; to convert (someone) to one’s own faith or religious movement or encourage them to do so. proselytizing proselytism proselytor A proselytizer, one who proselytes. proselytory Proselytizing. proselytute A person given to excessive religious proselytizing. proseman A male writer of prose. proseminar A seminar that is open to (and accessible to) upper level undergraduates; contrasts with a graduate seminar (for graduate students only), which assumes more background. proseminary A seminary that prepares pupils for a higher institution. prosemite Someone who favors Semitism. prosencephalic Of or pertaining to the prosencephalon. prosencephalon The forebrain. prosenchyma The tissues formed of elongated cells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, such as the principal cells of ordinary wood. prosenchymal Relating to the prosenchyma. prosenchymatous Relating to the prosenchyma. prosenescent Promoting senescence. prosensory Describing cells or other structures that will develop into sensory ones prosentential Of or pertaining to pro-sentences. prosententially As a pro-sentence. prosenthesis The quantity that determines the divergence between two successive whorls in a shoot. prosequence A part of a protein that is present in this protein's inactive form but is removed during activation. It is usually required for protein folding or maintenance. proser One who writes prose. proseriate Any flatworm of the order Proseriata Proserpina The goddess of springtime, queen of the underworld and the wife of Pluto; the Roman equivalent of Persephone. Proserpine A river in Queensland, Australia, named for the goddess in 1859. proserpinid Any snail in the family Proserpinidae. proseuche A place of prayer; among the Jews, one that was not a synagogue, or the temple, usually roofless. prosewise In terms of prose, as opposed to poetry. prosexist In favour of sexism. proshot A professionally filmed version of a live stage production. prosification The process of prosifying. prosifier One who prosifies. prosify To convert or translate into prose. prosign Any of a set of special sequences in Morse code used as control characters and punctuation. prosilient Eminent; prominent; distinguished above others. prosily In a prosy manner. prosimetric In the form of a prosimetrum. prosimetrical Consisting both of prose and verse. prosimetrum A poetic composition consisting of both prose and verse, usually in alternation prosimian A primate that is not a monkey or an ape, generally nocturnal with large eyes and ears. Such primates were formerly grouped in the suborder Prosimii, but are now considered a paraphyletic group and not a clade. prosiness The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness. prosing Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. prosingly Using prose prosiopetic Of the nature of prosiopesis; compare aposiopetic. prosiphon A minute tube found inside the protoconch of ammonites, connected to the caecum. Prosise A surname. prosist A writer of prose. prosit Toast to indicate one is drinking to someone's, or to each other's, health. proskynesis The act of bowing down before a lord or ruler, especially in ancient Persia. proskynetarion an object of religious reverence proslambanomenos The lowest note in Ancient Greek music, appended to the bottom of the scale. proslave Synonym of proslavery. proslaver One who supports the idea of slavery. proslavery Supporting slavery. proslaveryism Synonym of proslavery (“support for the institution of slavery”). proslepsis The pretence of passing over a subject while at the same time describing it fully. prosleptic Being or involving a particular kind of proposition in a syllogism. (See Wikipedia article.) proso Panicum miliaceum, a grass used as a crop. prosobranch A gastropod with gills in front of the heart, formerly thought to belong to a single group, Prosobranchia. prosobranchiate Synonym of prosobranch (“having the gills anterior to the heart”).