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  • point-spread — a betting device, established by oddsmakers and used to attract bettors for uneven competitions, indicating the estimated number of points by which a stronger team can be expected to defeat a weaker team, the point spread being added to the weaker team's actual points in the game and this new figure then compared to the stronger team's points to determine winning bets.
  • pointed arch — an arch having a pointed apex.
  • polar vortex — a whirling mass of very cold air that sits over the North or South Pole: A displaced polar vortex is causing Arctic temperatures across the United States.
  • pole vaulter — A pole vaulter is an athlete who performs the pole vault.
  • politicaster — an ill-suited or disliked politician
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • polyurethane — a thermoplastic polymer containing the group NHCOO: used for padding and insulation in furniture, clothing, and packaging, and in the manufacture of resins for adhesives, elastomers, and fillers.
  • popular vote — the vote for a U.S. presidential candidate made by the qualified voters, as opposed to that made by the electoral college. Compare electoral vote.
  • porcelainite — Mineralogy. mullite.
  • porcellanite — hard and dense rock resembling unglazed porcelain
  • port alberni — a port in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, on the E central part of Vancouver Island, on an inlet of the Pacific Ocean.
  • port angeles — a city in NW Washington, on the Juan de Fuca Strait.
  • port de bras — (used with a singular verb) the technique of moving the arms properly.
  • portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
  • porto alegre — a state in S Brazil. 107,923 sq. mi. (279,520 sq. km). Capital: Pôrto Alegre.
  • porto amelia — former name of Pemba (def 2).
  • post-harvest — Also, harvesting. the gathering of crops.
  • post-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postal order — money order.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • poster board — a thick, fairly stiff cardboard composed of layers of paper or paper pulp compressed together and typically used to support displays.
  • poster paint — an opaque, water-based, typically bright-colored paint with a glue-size or gum binder, that is suitable for use on posters and is usually packaged in jars.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
  • postgraduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postmeridian — of or relating to the afternoon.
  • pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • poverty trap — If someone is in a poverty trap, they are very poor but cannot improve their income because the money they get from the government decreases as the money they earn increases.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • practitioner — a person engaged in the practice of a profession, occupation, etc.: a medical practitioner.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • pre-contract — a preexisting contract that legally prevents a person from making another contract of the same nature.
  • pre-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • pre-socratic — of or relating to the philosophers or philosophical systems of the period before the Socratic period.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • preauthorize — to give authority or official power to; empower: to authorize an employee to sign purchase orders.
  • precipitator — to hasten the occurrence of; bring about prematurely, hastily, or suddenly: to precipitate an international crisis.
  • precognizant — having prior cognizance or knowledge of a given thing
  • prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
  • prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
  • prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
  • preformation — previous formation.
  • preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
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