prestezza
A painting technique which uses a series of fast brushstrokes to create the impression of faces and objects, rather than working out their details

presymphonies
plural of presymphony

presymphony
A small symphony.

pretranslator
A program or process that performs pretranslation.

pretranslators
plural of pretranslator

preventral
In snakes, any of a set of scales positioned anterior to the ventral scales and are wider than they are long, but not coming into contact with the paraventral row of dorsal scales on either side of the body.

preventrals
plural of preventral

printo
An error made during printing.

prizelist
A list of prizes

prizelists
plural of prizelist

procope
Synonym of apheresis.

proem
An introduction, preface or preamble.

proemia
plural of proemium
plural of proemion

proemion
Alternative form of proemium.

proemium
Synonym of proem.

proemiums
plural of proemium

proems
plural of proem

professionalese
Characteristically professional language or jargon

progg
A left-wing, anticommercial musical movement in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s.

prognostication
A statement about or prior knowledge of the future.

prognostications
plural of prognostication

prognostification
Alternative form of prognostication.

prognostifications
plural of prognostification

proheme
Obsolete spelling of proem (“preamble”).

prohemes
plural of proheme

prolusion
A trial before the principal performance; a prelude.
An introductory essay.

prolusions
plural of prolusion

promag
A professionally published magazine.

promags
plural of promag

promythia
plural of promythium

promythium
A section of text that comes before the story.

pronumeral
variable (symbol)

pronumerals
plural of pronumeral

prooemia
plural of prooemion
plural of prooemium

prooemion
A preface, an introduction.

prooemium
Alternative form of proemium.

prooemiums
plural of prooemium

proostracum
The anterior prolongation of the guard of the phragmocone of belemnites and allied fossil cephalopods, whether horny or calcareous.

propaedia
An introductory volume of an encyclopaedia

propaedias
plural of propaedia

propedia
An introductory volume included in the Encyclopedia Britannica, presenting information in a condensed format.

propedias
plural of propedia

prosimetra
plural of prosimetrum

prosimetrum
A poetic composition consisting of both prose and verse, usually in alternation

proslambanomenoi
plural of proslambanomenos

proslambanomenos
The lowest note in Ancient Greek music, appended to the bottom of the scale.

prosodia
plural of prosodion

prosodies
plural of prosody

prosodion
A processional hymn.

prosodions
plural of prosodion

prosody
The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

prosthaphaeresis
Alternative spelling of prosthaphæresis

protension
A drawing out; extension; stretching; duration.

protensions
plural of protension

protensity
Synonym of protension.

protohaem
Alternative form of protoheme.

protohaems
plural of protohaem

protoheme
A synonym for any of several hemes (followed by a letter)

protohemes
plural of protoheme

protolang
A constructed ancestor language from which other naturalistic conlangs are descended (actually or retroactively).
Clipping of proto-language.

protolexicon
The lexicon of a protolanguage

protolexicons
plural of protolexicon

protolinguistics
The linguistics of protolanguages

protomyth
An initial form of a myth that is inferred or known about only from secondary sources; a motif that is not yet accorded the status of myth, but may (it is supposed) become one.

protomyths
plural of protomyth

protoporcelain
An early Chinese glazed stoneware, from the Han dynasty, that had some of the characteristics of true porcelain without its translucency.

protoporcelains
plural of protoporcelain

protosign
Simple gestures that might eventually develop into a sign language system.

protospacer
A particular DNA motif.

protospacers
plural of protospacer

prouision
Obsolete typography of provision.

prouisions
plural of prouision

prozine
A professional magazine; a journal

prozines
plural of prozine

pruta
Alternative spelling of prutah.

prutah
A bronze coin, equivalent to the Roman quadrans, used in ancient Palestine.
An aluminium coin, worth one thousandth of a pound, used in Israel until 1960.

prutahs
plural of prutah

prutas
plural of pruta

prutot
plural of prutah

prutoth
plural of prutah

psalmbook
A book of psalms.

psalmbooks
plural of psalmbook

psephomancy
Divination by drawing pebbles from a pile.

pseudepigraphies
plural of pseudepigraphy

pseudepigraphy
The composition of pseudepigrapha, false credit of authorship to give ideas greater legitimacy.

pseudisodomon
An early style of masonry used by the Greeks, in which the courses have differing height, length, or thickness of stones, though the stones in any one course are alike.

pseudisodomum
Alternative form of pseudisodomon.

pseudocharacter
A text character invented for language recognition tests, etc. and not occurring in real-world writing.

pseudocharacters
plural of pseudocharacter

pseudocode
A description of a computer programming algorithm that uses the structural conventions of programming languages but omits detailed subroutines or language-specific syntax.
Any format or language that resembles a programming language but is not.

pseudocodes
plural of pseudocode

pseudocolor
Alternative spelling of pseudocolour.

pseudocoloring
Alternative spelling of pseudocolouring.

pseudocolors
plural of pseudocolor

pseudocolour
An arbitrary colour assigned to each gray level of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography

pseudocolouring
The assignment of arbitrary colours to the grey levels of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography

pseudocolours
plural of pseudocolour

pseudodigraph
A graph that resembles a directed graph but violates one of the normal rules, as for example by including a directed loop.
A pair of juxtaposed letters that seems, or might sometimes seem, to be a digraph, especially when read quickly at a glance or with low reading comprehension.

pseudodigraphs
plural of pseudodigraph

pseudodirectories
plural of pseudodirectory

pseudodirectory
A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated to represent some other objects in the form of files (for example '/proc' in Linux).

pseudodocumentaries
plural of pseudodocumentary

pseudodocumentary
A film that mimics the style of a documentary but is not actually produced by filming real events

pseudofiction
Writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel

pseudofictions
plural of pseudofiction

pseudofile
A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other object in the form of a file (for example '/proc/cpuinfo' in Linux).

pseudofiles
plural of pseudofile

pseudogame
An activity or situation with certain aspects of a game.

pseudogames
plural of pseudogame

pseudogenome
A collection of genes that is only an incomplete genome

pseudogenomes
plural of pseudogenome

pseudograph
A graph that may contain loops as well as multiple edges between vertices

pseudographs
plural of pseudograph

pseudohaiku
False or free-form haiku; any form of syllabically parsimonious or otherwise pithy poetry, usually comprising three lines of verse per poem.

pseudoimage
An image constructed from secondary sources

pseudoimages
plural of pseudoimage

pseudolalia
Human sounds resembling speech that are not language.

pseudoletter
A sign or symbol that has the characteristics of a letter but is not found in any alphabet.

pseudoletters
plural of pseudoletter