10-letter words starting with PRO
Embark on a linguistic journey with words that begin with the letter PRO. This section showcases how PRO at the start shapes the identity and sound of various words. From commonly used terms to rare finds, explore the diverse range of words that start with PRO, enriching your vocabulary and appreciation for language.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| protection | 14 | payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence | every store in the neighborhood had to pay him protection |
| production | 15 | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process | they export most of their agricultural production |
| protecting | 15 | shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort | the protecting blanket of snow |
| prostitute | 12 | a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money | - |
| prosecutor | 14 | a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state | - |
| profession | 15 | an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | a profession of disagreement |
| protective | 17 | intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind | a protective covering |
| propaganda | 16 | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | - |
| processing | 15 | preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | the processing of newly arrived immigrants |
| programmed | 18 | - | - |
| prosperity | 17 | the condition of prospering; having good fortune | - |
| prohibited | 18 | forbidden by law | - |
| procession | 14 | (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son |
| pronounced | 15 | strongly marked; easily noticeable | a pronounced flavor of cinnamon |
| productive | 18 | marked by great fruitfulness | a productive vineyard |
| profitable | 17 | yielding material gain or profit | profitable speculation on the stock market |
| proportion | 14 | magnitude or extent | a building of vast proportions |
| prosperous | 14 | in fortunate circumstances financially; moderately rich | a prosperous family |
| projection | 21 | the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality | our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection |
| protestant | 12 | the Protestant churches and denominations collectively | - |
| provincial | 17 | a country person | - |
| provisions | 15 | a stock or supply of foods | - |
| profoundly | 19 | to a great depth psychologically or emotionally | - |
| providence | 18 | the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University | - |
| proceeding | 16 | (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | - |
| proclaimed | 17 | declared publicly; made widely known | the newspaper's proclaimed adherence to the government's policy |
| programmer | 17 | a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs | - |
| propulsion | 14 | the act of propelling | - |
| prosecuted | 15 | - | - |
| projecting | 22 | extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | - |
| projectile | 21 | a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled | - |
| proverbial | 17 | widely known and spoken of | her proverbial lateness |
| proprietor | 14 | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | - |
| prosthetic | 17 | of or relating to prosthetics | - |
| proficient | 17 | of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill | - |
| prosthesis | 15 | corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body | - |
| protruding | 14 | extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | his protruding ribs |
| prominence | 16 | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | he stood on the rocky prominence |
| prodigious | 14 | far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree | the young Mozart's prodigious talents |
| promissory | 17 | relating to or having the character of a promise | promissory note |
| prosciutto | 14 | Italian salt-cured ham usually sliced paper thin | - |
| procedural | 15 | relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law | - |
| prospectus | 16 | a catalog listing the courses offered by a college or university | - |
| prospector | 16 | someone who explores an area for mineral deposits | - |
| prospering | 15 | very lively and profitable | - |
| protracted | 15 | relatively long in duration; tediously protracted | protracted negotiations |
| propelling | 15 | tending to or capable of propelling | - |
| propensity | 17 | a natural inclination | - |
| propellant | 14 | tending to or capable of propelling | propellant fuel for submarines |
| procurator | 14 | a person authorized to act for another | - |
| professing | 16 | an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | - |
| profligacy | 21 | dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | - |
| profundity | 19 | intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc | - |
| propitious | 14 | presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success | propitious omens |
| proclivity | 20 | a natural inclination | he has a proclivity for exaggeration |
| progenitor | 13 | an ancestor in the direct line | - |
| proscenium | 16 | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater | - |
| protoplasm | 16 | the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) | - |
| protractor | 14 | drafting instrument used to draw or measure angles | - |
| provenance | 17 | where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | - |
| profligate | 16 | a dissolute man in fashionable society | - |
| promontory | 17 | a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) | - |
| proscribed | 17 | excluded from use or mention | - |
| profitless | 15 | without profit or reward | let us have no part in profitless quarrels |
| programing | 16 | creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something | - |
| projective | 24 | - | - |
| promulgate | 15 | state or announce | - |
| prophetess | 17 | a woman prophet | - |
| proctology | 18 | the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the colon or rectum or anus | - |
| promptness | 16 | the characteristic of doing things without delay | - |
| propulsive | 17 | tending to or capable of propelling | the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency |
| protrusion | 12 | something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | - |
| proactions | 14 | - | - |
| proaireses | 12 | - | - |
| proairesis | 12 | - | - |
| probations | 14 | - | - |
| probenecid | 17 | a uricosuric drug that reduces the level of uric acid in the blood; used to treat gout | - |
| probiotics | 16 | - | - |
| problemist | 16 | - | - |
| procacious | 16 | - | - |
| procambial | 18 | - | - |
| procambium | 20 | - | - |
| procaryons | 17 | - | - |
| procaryote | 17 | a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | - |
| procedures | 15 | - | - |
| proceeders | 15 | - | - |
| procercoid | 17 | - | - |
| procerebra | 16 | - | - |
| processers | 14 | - | - |
| processors | 14 | - | - |
| processual | 14 | - | - |
| procidence | 17 | - | - |
| proclaimer | 16 | - | - |
| proclitics | 16 | - | - |
| procoelous | 14 | - | - |
| proconsuls | 14 | - | - |
| procreants | 14 | - | - |
| procreated | 15 | - | - |
| procreates | 14 | - | - |
| procreator | 14 | - | - |
| procrypses | 19 | - | - |
| procrypsis | 19 | - | - |
| procryptic | 21 | - | - |
| proctalgia | 15 | pain in the rectum | - |
| proctodaea | 15 | - | - |
| proctodeal | 15 | - | - |
| proctodeum | 17 | - | - |
| proctorage | 15 | - | - |
| proctorial | 14 | - | - |
| proctoring | 15 | - | - |
| proctorise | 14 | - | - |
| proctorize | 23 | - | - |
| procumbent | 18 | having stems that trail along the ground without putting down roots | - |
| procurable | 16 | capable of being obtained | - |
| procurance | 16 | the act of getting possession of something | - |
| procureurs | 14 | - | - |
| procurings | 15 | - | - |
| procyonids | 18 | - | - |
| prodigally | 17 | to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree | we are still prodigally rich compared to others |
| prodnosing | 14 | - | - |
| prodromata | 15 | - | - |
| producible | 17 | - | - |
| productile | 15 | - | - |
| proembryos | 19 | - | - |
| proenzymes | 26 | - | - |
| profascist | 17 | - | - |
| professors | 15 | - | - |
| profferers | 18 | - | - |
| proffering | 19 | - | - |
| profilings | 16 | - | - |
| profilists | 15 | - | - |
| profitably | 20 | in a productive way | - |
| profiteers | 15 | - | - |
| profitings | 16 | - | - |
| profitwise | 18 | - | - |
| profluence | 17 | - | - |
| profounder | 16 | - | - |
| profulgent | 16 | - | - |
| profusions | 15 | - | - |
| progestins | 13 | - | - |
| progginses | 14 | - | - |
| proglottic | 15 | - | - |
| proglottid | 14 | - | - |
| proglottis | 13 | - | - |
| prognathic | 18 | having a projecting lower jaw | - |
| prognosing | 14 | - | - |
| prognostic | 15 | a sign of something about to happen | - |
| prograding | 15 | - | - |
| programers | 15 | - | - |
| programmes | 17 | - | - |
| progressed | 14 | - | - |
| progresses | 13 | - | - |
| prohibiter | 17 | - | - |
| prohibitor | 17 | - | - |
| proinsulin | 12 | - | - |
| projectors | 21 | - | - |
| projecture | 21 | - | - |
| prokaryons | 19 | - | - |
| prokaryote | 19 | a unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma | - |
| prokaryots | 19 | - | - |
| prolactins | 14 | - | - |
| prolamines | 14 | - | - |
| prolapsing | 15 | - | - |
| prolations | 12 | - | - |
| prolicidal | 15 | - | - |
| prolicides | 15 | - | - |
| prolifical | 17 | - | - |
| prolixious | 19 | - | - |
| prolixness | 19 | boring verbosity | - |
| prolocutor | 14 | - | - |
| prologised | 14 | - | - |
| prologises | 13 | - | - |
| prologists | 13 | - | - |
| prologized | 23 | - | - |
| prologizes | 22 | - | - |
| prologuing | 14 | - | - |
| prologuise | 13 | - | - |
| prologuize | 22 | write or speak a prologue | - |
| prolongate | 13 | - | - |
| prolongers | 13 | - | - |
| prolonging | 14 | - | - |
| prolusions | 12 | - | - |
| promenaded | 16 | - | - |
| promenader | 15 | - | - |
| promenades | 15 | - | - |
| prometheum | 19 | - | - |
| promethium | 19 | a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium | - |
| prominency | 19 | - | - |
| prominents | 14 | - | - |
| promiseful | 17 | - | - |
| promissive | 17 | - | - |
| promissors | 14 | - | - |
| promotable | 16 | - | - |
| promotions | 14 | - | - |
| promptbook | 22 | the copy of the playscript used by the prompter | - |
| promptings | 17 | - | - |
| promptuary | 19 | - | - |
| promptures | 16 | - | - |
| promulging | 16 | - | - |
| promycelia | 19 | - | - |
| pronations | 12 | - | - |
| pronatores | 12 | - | - |
| pronephric | 19 | - | - |
| pronephroi | 17 | - | - |
| pronephros | 17 | - | - |
| prongbucks | 21 | - | - |
| pronghorns | 16 | - | - |
| pronominal | 14 | a phrase that functions as a pronoun | - |
| pronouncer | 14 | - | - |
| pronounces | 14 | - | - |
| pronuclear | 14 | - | - |
| pronucleus | 14 | the nucleus of the ovum or sperm after fertilization but before they fuse to form the nucleus of the zygote | - |
| pronuncios | 14 | - | - |
| prooemions | 14 | - | - |
| prooemiums | 16 | - | - |
| proofreads | 16 | - | - |
| proofrooms | 17 | - | - |
| propagable | 17 | - | - |
| propagated | 16 | - | - |
| propagates | 15 | - | - |
| propagator | 15 | someone who spreads the news | - |
| propagules | 15 | - | - |
| propagulum | 17 | - | - |
| propanones | 14 | - | - |
| propellent | 14 | tending to or capable of propelling | - |
| propellers | 14 | - | - |
| propellors | 14 | - | - |
| propelment | 16 | - | - |
| propendent | 15 | - | - |
| propending | 16 | - | - |
| propensely | 17 | - | - |
| propension | 14 | - | - |
| propensive | 17 | - | - |
| properdins | 15 | - | - |
| properness | 14 | correct or appropriate behavior | - |
| propertied | 15 | owning land or securities as a principal source of revenue | - |
| properties | 14 | - | - |
| prophecies | 19 | - | - |
| prophesied | 18 | - | - |
| prophesier | 17 | an authoritative person who divines the future | - |
| prophesies | 17 | - | - |
| prophesize | 26 | - | - |
| prophetism | 19 | - | - |
| propionate | 14 | - | - |
| propitiate | 14 | make peace with | - |
| proplastid | 15 | - | - |
| propodeons | 15 | - | - |
| propodeums | 17 | - | - |
| propolises | 14 | - | - |
| proponents | 14 | - | - |
| proposable | 16 | - | - |
| propositae | 14 | - | - |
| propositus | 14 | the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
| propounded | 16 | - | - |
| propounder | 15 | - | - |
| propraetor | 14 | - | - |
| propretors | 14 | - | - |
| proproctor | 16 | - | - |
| propulsors | 14 | - | - |
| propulsory | 17 | - | - |
| propylaeum | 19 | - | - |
| propylenes | 17 | - | - |
| propylites | 17 | - | - |
| proratable | 14 | - | - |
| prorations | 12 | - | - |
| prorectors | 14 | - | - |
| prorogated | 14 | - | - |
| prorogates | 13 | - | - |
| proroguing | 14 | - | - |
| prosaicism | 16 | - | - |
| prosateurs | 12 | - | - |
| prosciutti | 14 | - | - |
| proscriber | 16 | - | - |
| proscribes | 16 | - | - |
| proscripts | 16 | - | - |
| prosecting | 15 | - | - |
| prosectors | 14 | - | - |
| prosecutes | 14 | - | - |
| proselyted | 16 | - | - |
| proselytes | 15 | - | - |
| proselytic | 17 | - | - |
| proseminar | 14 | - | - |
| proseuchae | 17 | - | - |
| prosifying | 19 | - | - |
| prosilient | 12 | - | - |
| prosimians | 14 | - | - |
| proslavery | 18 | - | - |
| prosodians | 13 | - | - |
| prosodical | 15 | - | - |
| prosodists | 13 | - | - |
| prospected | 17 | - | - |
| prostatism | 14 | - | - |
| prosternum | 14 | - | - |
| prostheses | 15 | - | - |
| prostomial | 14 | - | - |
| prostomium | 16 | - | - |
| prostrated | 13 | - | - |
| prostrates | 12 | - | - |
| protamines | 14 | - | - |
| protanopes | 14 | - | - |
| protanopia | 14 | dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue | - |
| protanopic | 16 | inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green | - |
| protectant | 14 | - | - |
| protecters | 14 | - | - |
| protectors | 14 | - | - |
| protectory | 17 | - | - |
| protectrix | 21 | - | - |
| proteiform | 17 | - | - |
| proteinase | 12 | any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | - |
| proteinoid | 13 | - | - |
| proteinous | 12 | - | - |
| protending | 14 | - | - |
| protension | 12 | - | - |
| protensity | 15 | - | - |
| protensive | 15 | - | - |
| proteolyse | 15 | - | - |
| proteomics | 16 | the branch of genetics that studies the full set of proteins encoded by a genome | - |
| protervity | 18 | - | - |
| protesters | 12 | - | - |
| protesting | 13 | - | - |
| protestors | 12 | - | - |
| prothallia | 15 | - | - |
| prothallic | 17 | - | - |
| prothallus | 15 | - | - |
| protistans | 12 | - | - |
| protocoled | 15 | - | - |
| protocolic | 16 | - | - |
| protoctist | 14 | any of the unicellular protists | - |
| protoderms | 15 | - | - |
| protogenic | 15 | - | - |
| protogines | 13 | - | - |
| protohuman | 17 | - | - |
| protonated | 13 | - | - |
| protonates | 12 | - | - |
| protonemal | 14 | - | - |
| protopathy | 20 | - | - |
| protophyte | 20 | - | - |
| protoplast | 14 | a biological unit consisting of a nucleus and the body of cytoplasm with which it interacts | - |
| protostars | 12 | - | - |
| protostele | 12 | - | - |
| protostome | 14 | - | - |
| prototroph | 17 | - | - |
| prototypal | 17 | representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | she was the prototypal student activist |
| prototyped | 18 | - | - |
| prototypes | 17 | - | - |
| prototypic | 19 | representing or constituting an original type after which other similar things are patterned | - |
| protoxides | 20 | - | - |
| protoxylem | 24 | - | - |
| protozoans | 21 | - | - |
| protozoons | 21 | - | - |
| protreptic | 16 | - | - |
| protrudent | 13 | - | - |
| protrusile | 12 | capable of being thrust forward, as the tongue | - |
| protrusive | 15 | thrusting outward | - |
| proustites | 12 | - | - |
| provanting | 16 | - | - |
| provection | 17 | - | - |
| proveditor | 16 | - | - |
| provedores | 16 | - | - |
| provencale | 17 | - | - |
| provenders | 16 | - | - |
| proverbing | 18 | - | - |
| providable | 18 | - | - |
| proviruses | 15 | - | - |
| provitamin | 17 | vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues | - |
| provocable | 19 | - | - |
| provocants | 17 | - | - |
| provocator | 17 | - | - |
| provokable | 21 | - | - |
| provolones | 15 | - | - |
| prowlingly | 19 | - | - |
| proximally | 24 | - | - |
| prozymites | 26 | - | - |
