prolate：扁长的，延长的；扩大的，扩展的  

词根词缀：pro-前 + -lat-携带,拿取 + -e

• the Paralympics
• the peloton
• the Pole Star
• the preterite
• the Privy Council
• the proletariat
• the Queen's English
• the rag trade
• the Raj
• therapeutic
• therapeutics
• therapist
• therapy
• the rat race
• Theravada
• there
• thereabouts
• the Real Mccoy
• the Red Crescent
• the Red Cross
• therefore
• the Richter scale
• the Rig Veda
• thermal
• thermodynamics