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  • port adelaide — the chief port of South Australia, near Adelaide on St Vincent Gulf. Pop: 33 145 (2006)
  • portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
  • posix threads — (programming)   (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
  • post meridiem — p.m.
  • post-actinide — transactinide
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • postmodernism — (sometimes initial capital letter) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, especially a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
  • postmodernist — relating to late 20th-century art movement
  • potty trained — Potty trained means the same as toilet trained.
  • poult-de-soie — a soft, ribbed silk fabric, used especially for dresses.
  • powdered milk — dry milk.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • pre-committed — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • pre-contrived — to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.
  • pre-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
  • pre-disclosed — to make known; reveal or uncover: to disclose a secret.
  • pre-education — the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
  • pre-mentioned — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
  • pre-organized — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
  • pre-portioned — to divide into portions before packaging, selling, etc.: to preportion meals for schools and hospitals.
  • preadaptation — a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment.
  • preadmonition — a forewarning, premonition; the act of admonishing in advance
  • preconfigured — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
  • predefinition — the process or action of defining in advance; an advance definition
  • predestinator — a person or thing that predestinates something.
  • prediagnostic — of, relating to, or used in diagnosis.
  • prediscussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
  • predistortion — preemphasis.
  • predominantly — having ascendancy, power, authority, or influence over others; preeminent.
  • predominately — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • predominating — to be the stronger or leading element or force.
  • prejudication — the act of judging beforehand
  • premedication — any drugs administered to sedate and otherwise prepare a patient for general anaesthesia
  • premeditation — an act or instance of premeditating.
  • premium bonds — (in Britain) bonds issued by the Treasury since 1956 for purchase by the public. No interest is paid but there is a monthly draw for cash prizes of various sums
  • prepositioned — to position in advance or beforehand: to preposition troops in anticipated trouble spots.
  • preproduction — Movies. the steps necessary to prepare a film for production, as casting, choosing locations, and designing sets and costumes.
  • pride and joy — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
  • prism diopter — a unit of prismatic deviation, in which the number one represents a prism that deflects a beam of light a distance of one centimeter on a plane placed normal to the initial direction of the beam and one meter away from the prism.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • promised land — Heaven.
  • propagandizer — a person who engages in, or subjects others to, propaganda
  • propositioned — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
  • pseudisodomic — (of ashlar) composed of stones having the same length, laid in courses of different heights.
  • pseudo-heroic — Also, heroical. of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
  • pseudo-poetic — of or relating to a poet or poets.
  • pseudo-social — relating to, devoted to, or characterized by friendly companionship or relations: a social club.
  • pseudoaquatic — not aquatic but indigenous to moist regions.
  • pseudoclassic — falsely or spuriously classic.
  • pseudoscience — any of various methods, theories, or systems, as astrology, psychokinesis, or clairvoyance, considered as having no scientific basis.
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