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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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  • procurement/pɹəˈkjʊə.mənt/nounC1The work of buying what an organisation needs.
  • prodigal/ˈpɹɒdɪɡəl/adjectiveC1Spending money wastefully and without limit.
  • prodigious/pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/adjectiveC1Remarkably great in size or extent.
  • prodigy/ˈpɹɒdɪd͡ʒi/nounB2+2 meaningsA young person with an extraordinary talent, at a level normally reached only by adults.
  • productive/pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/adjectiveC1Producing a great deal.
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/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
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How much useful output a given effort produces.
  • profane/pɹəˈfeɪn/adjectiveC1Showing disrespect for what is sacred.
  • profess/pɹəˈfɛs/verbC1To claim something openly, whether truly or not.
  • profession/pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/nounB12 meaningsA job that needs long education and self-regulation.
  • professionalism/pɹəˈfɛʃənəˌlɪzəm/nounC1The skill and standards expected in a trade.
  • profitable/ˈpɹɒf.ɪ.tə.bl̩/adjectiveC12 meaningsMaking more money than it costs.
  • profound/pɹəˈfaʊnd/adjectiveC12 meaningsReaching to the very depths of thought.
  • profuse/pɹəˈfjuːs/adjectiveC1Pouring out so freely that it seems more than enough.
  • profusely/pɹəˈfjusli/adverbC1In large amounts, flowing or given freely.
  • profusion/pɹoʊˈfjuʒən/nounC1A very great and generous abundance.
  • progeny/ˈpɹɒd͡ʒəni/nounC1The children or young that come from somebody.
  • prognosis/pɹɒɡˈnəʊsɪs/nounC1The prediction of how an illness will develop.
  • prohibition/ˌpɹəʊ(h)ɪˈbɪʃən/nounC1An official ban on something.
  • prohibitive/pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/adjectiveC1So high in cost that it stops people.
  • projection/pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/nounC12 meaningsAn estimate of what will happen.
  • proliferate/pɹəˈlɪf.əɹ.eɪt/verbC1To increase quickly in number.
  • prolific/pɹəˈlɪf.ɪk/adjectiveC1Producing a great deal.
  • prominence/ˈpɹɒm.ɪ.nəns/nounC1The state of standing out and being widely noticed.
  • prominent/ˈpɹɑmɪnənt/adjectiveC12 meaningsStanding out where everyone can see it.
  • promiscuity/ˌpɹɒm.ɪˈskju.ɪ.ti/nounC1Having many casual sexual partners.
  • promiscuous/pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/adjectiveC12 meaningsCasual and indiscriminate, especially about sex.
  • prompt/pɹɒmpt/adjectiveB24 meaningsDone without delay.
  • prone/pɹəʊn/adjectiveC22 meaningsNaturally tending towards something bad.
  • pronounce/pɹəˈnaʊns/verbB12 meaningsTo make the sounds of a word.
  • pronounced/pɹəˈnaʊnst/adjectiveC1Very noticeable indeed.
  • proof/pɹuːf/nounB14 meaningsThe evidence that shows something is true.
  • prop/pɹɒp/nounC12 meaningsAn object handled by actors in a scene.
  • propaganda/ˌpɹɒpəˈɡændə/nounC12 meaningsOne-sided information spread to make people believe or support something.
  • propel/pɹəˈpɛl/verbB2+2 meaningsTo drive something forward.
  • propensity/pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/nounC1A natural tendency to behave in a certain way.
  • proper/ˈpɹɒpə/adjectiveB13 meaningsRight and suitable for the situation.
  • property/ˈpɹɒp.ə.ti/nounB12 meaningsLand and buildings owned, or anything you own.
  • prophetic/pɹəˈfɛtɪk/adjectiveC1Turning out to have foretold what happened.
  • propose/pɹəˈpəʊz/verbB24 meaningsTo put forward a plan or idea for others to consider.
  • proposition/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/nounC15 meaningsA statement that can be judged true or false.
  • propriety/pɹəˈpɹaɪəti/nounC1Correct behaviour according to accepted standards.
  • propulsion/pɹəˈpʌlʃən/nounC1The driving of a craft forward by engine thrust, as jets and rockets provide.
  • prosaic/pɹəʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/adjectiveC1Plain and dull, with nothing imaginative about it.
  • prosecute/ˈpɹɒsɪkjuːt/verbC1To bring somebody to court and argue against them.
  • prospect/ˈpɹɒspɛkt/nounB25 meaningsThe possibility that something will happen in the future.
  • prospectingnounC1Searching land for valuable minerals.
  • prospective/pɹəˈspɛktɪv/adjectiveC1Expected or likely in the future.
  • prospector/pɹəˈspɛktə/nounC1Somebody searching land for gold or minerals.
  • prosperity/pɹɑˈspɛɹ.ɪ.ti/nounC1The state of doing well and having plenty.
  • prosperous/ˈpɹɑs.pə.ɹəs/adjectiveC1Successful and comfortably rich.
  • protagonist/pɹəˈtæɡ.ə.nɪst/nounC1The central figure a story follows.
  • protocol/ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒl/nounC14 meaningsAn agreed set of rules that lets computers or devices exchange information.
  • prove/ˈpɹuːv/verbB14 meaningsTo show by evidence or argument that something is true.
  • provenance/ˈpɹɒ.və.nəns/nounC12 meaningsThe record of where something came from.
  • provide/pɹəˈvaɪd/verbA2+3 meaningsTo give people what they need.
  • providence/ˈpɹɒvɪdəns/nounC12 meaningsCare believed to be exercised by a higher power.
  • province/ˈpɹɒv.ɪns/nounC1A large region of a country with its own administration.
  • provincial/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/adjectiveC1Of the regions rather than the capital, or narrow in outlook.
  • provision/pɹəˈvɪʒ.ən/nounC15 meaningsThe act of supplying something that people need.
  • proviso/pɹəˈvaɪzoʊ/nounC1A condition attached to an agreement.