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,