Prolate is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 291 anagrams from letters in prolate (aeloprt).
1685-95; Latin prōlātus, past participle of prōferre to bring forward, extend; see pro-1, oblate1
The immediate inference from this was that, the degree diminishing with increasing latitude, the earth must be a prolate spheroid.
A few stars now had pierced the blue, and in the east there shone brightly a prolate moon.
The prolate or lemon-like shape is caused by the gravitative pull of the earth, balanced by the centrifugal whirl.
Mr. Murphy invites attention and objection to some assertions, as that the earth is prolate, not oblate.