(grammar) A separable verb prefix or a particle that precedes a verb.
(grammar) A verbal prefix in the Algonquin languages whose function is analogous to the adjective of other languages.
(grammar) Any of a class of words in the Chinese language whose function is analogous to the cases, prepositions, and postpositions of other languages.
preverbal
preverbal
adj
(child development) At an early stage of development in which one is not yet able to communicate by means of words.
(linguistics, of a part of speech) Occurring before the verb in a sentence or expression.
noun
(grammar) A preverb.
prevertebral
prevertebral
adj
(anatomy) Situated immediately in front of, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.
previsibility
previsibility
noun
(uncommon) The quality of being previsible; able to be previewed.
previsible
previsible
adj
(uncommon) foreseeable
previsibly
probative
probative
adj
(law) Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation.
probatively
proboulevard
prohibitive
prohibitive
adj
(Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
noun
(grammar) A negative imperative.
prohibitively
prohibitively
adv
In a prohibitive manner.
To a prohibitive extent.
prohibitiveness
prohibitiveness
noun
The quality of being prohibitive.
promovable
prosubstantive
protovertebra
protovertebra
noun
(anatomy) One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.
protovertebral
protovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the protovertebrae.
provable
provable
adj
Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.
provableness
provableness
noun
The quality of being provable.
proverb
proverb
noun
A drama exemplifying a proverb.
A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
verb
To name in, or as, a proverb.
To provide with a proverb.
To write or utter proverbs.
proverbed
proverbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of proverb
proverbial
proverbial
adj
Not used in a literal sense, but as the subject of a well-known metaphor.
Of, resembling, or expressed as a proverb, cliché, fable, or fairy tale.
Widely known; famous; stereotypical.
noun
(euphemistic) Used to replace a word that might be considered unacceptable in a particular situation, when using a well-known phrase.
(euphemistic, in the plural) The groin or the testicles.
proverbialism
proverbialism
noun
A proverbial phrase.
proverbialist
proverbialist
noun
One who composes, collects, or studies proverbs.
One who makes much use of proverbs in speech or writing.
proverbialize
proverbialize
verb
(intransitive) To speak in proverbs.
(transitive) To turn into a proverb.
proverbially
proverbially
adv
In a manner reminiscent of a proverb.
In a manner that uses proverbs; in proverbs.
proverbic
proverbic
adj
Of or relating to proverbs; proverbial.
proverbing
proverbing
verb
present participle of proverb
proverbiologist
proverbiologist
noun
(rare) A person who studies proverbs.
proverbiology
proverbiology
noun
(rare) The study of proverbs; the collective lore of proverbs.
proverbize
proverblike
proverblike
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a proverb.
proverbs
proverbs
noun
plural of proverb
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proverb
providable
providable
adj
Capable of being provided.
provokable
provokable
adj
That may be provoked.
pseudobenevolent
pseudobenevolent
adj
Apparently, but not actually, benevolent.
pseudobenevolently
pubovesical
pubovesical
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the pubis and urinary bladder.
pulverable
pulverable
adj
Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
pulverableness
pulverisable
pulverisable
adj
Alternative form of pulverizable
pulverizable
pulverizable
adj
Able to be pulverized.
purveyable
purveyable
adj
Able to be purveyed.
repleviable
repleviable
adj
(law) Capable of being replevied.
replevisable
replevisable
adj
Alternative form of repleviable
reprievable
reprievable
adj
Able to be reprieved.
reprobative
reprobative
adj
Expressing, or pertaining to, reprobation.
reprobatively
reprovability
reprovable
reprovable
adj
reproachable; worthy of reproof or censure
reprovableness
reprovably
reprovably
adv
In a reprovable manner.
scapulovertebral
scapulovertebral
adj
(anatomy) Relating to the scapula and the vertebrae.
slavophobe
stapediovestibular
subapprobative
subapprobativeness
subcompensative
subgovernorship
subpavement
subpredicative
subprovince
subprovince
noun
A province making up part of a larger province.
subprovinces
subprovinces
noun
plural of subprovince
subpulverizer
subreptive
subreptive
adj
(obsolete) surreptitious
subscriptive
subscriptive
adj
Of or pertaining to a subscription, or signature.
subscriptively
subscriptively
adv
In a subscriptive manner; as a subscript.
subsumptive
subsumptive
adj
Relating to, or containing, a subsumption.
subtersuperlative
superbelievable
superbelievableness
superbelievably
superbeloved
superbenevolence
superbenevolent
superbenevolent
adj
Very benevolent.
superbenevolently
superbrave
superbrave
adj
Very brave.
superbravely
superbraveness
superserviceable
superserviceable
adj
overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
superserviceableness
superserviceableness
noun
The quality of being superserviceable.
superserviceably
superserviceably
adv
In a superserviceable manner.
unabsorptive
unabsorptiveness
unapprovable
unapprovable
adj
Not approvable.
unapprovableness
undeprivable
undeprivable
adj
Of which one cannot be deprived.
undevelopable
undevelopable
adj
Not developable.
undisprovable
undisprovable
adj
not able to be proven false, unfalsifiable
unimprovable
unimprovable
adj
Not capable of being improved
unimprovableness
unimprovableness
noun
The quality of being unimprovable.
unperceivability
unperceivable
unperceivable
adj
Not perceivable; imperceptible.
unperceivably
unperceivably
Adverb
imperceptibly
unpreservable
unpreservable
adj
Not preservable.
unpreventability
unpreventability
noun
The quality of being unpreventable.
unpreventable
unpreventable
noun
Something that cannot be prevented.
unpreventableness
unpreventableness
Noun
The quality of being unpreventable.
unpreventably
unpreventably
adv
In an unpreventable manner.
unpreventible
unpreventible
adj
Alternative form of unpreventable
unprobative
unprohibitive
unprohibitive
adj
Not prohibitive.
unprohibitively
unprovable
unprovable
adj
That cannot be proved or verified by any test
unprovableness
unprovableness
noun
The quality of being unprovable.
unproverbial
unproverbial
adj
Not proverbial.
unproverbially
unprovidable
unprovidable
adj
Not providable.
unprovokable
unprovokable
adj
That cannot be provoked.
unpulverable
unrepleviable
unreplevinable
unreplevisable
unreprievable
unreprievable
adj
Not capable of being reprieved.
unreprievably
unreprobative
unreprobatively
unreprovable
unreprovable
adj
Alternative spelling of unreproveable
unreprovableness
unreprovableness
noun
The quality of being unreprovable.
unreprovably
unreprovably
adv
In an unreprovable manner.
upboulevard
vaporable
vaporable
adj
vaporizable
vaporizable
vaporizable
adj
Capable of being vaporized.
vapourable
vapourable
adj
Alternative form of vaporable
vapourisable
vapourisable
adj
(British spelling) Alternative form of vaporizable
vapourizable
vapourizable
adj
Oxford British English form of vaporizable
varicoblepharon
venereophobia
venereophobia
noun
A morbid fear of venereal disease.
vermiphobia
vermiphobia
noun
An abnormal or irrational fear of worms or being infected by worms.
vesicopubic
vestibulospinal
vestibulospinal
adj
Of or pertaining to the vestibular and spinal nerves.
vibraphone
vibraphone
noun
A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above the tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.
vibraphones
vibraphones
noun
plural of vibraphone
vibrophone
vibrophone
noun
Alternative form of vibraphone
vibroscope
vibroscope
noun
An instrument for observing or tracing vibrations.
An instrument resembling the phenakistoscope.
vibrotherapeutics
vibrotherapeutics
noun
vibrotherapy
vituperable
vituperable
adj
Liable to, or deserving, vituperation or severe censure.