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  • poison bean — Also called bladderpod. a tall plant, Glottidium vesicaria, of the legume family, native to the southeastern U.S., having clusters of yellow flowers and pods containing highly poisonous seeds.
  • poison pill — a pellet of a quick-acting poison, as cyanide, for a spy to carry in order to commit suicide when faced with capture or torture.
  • polariscope — an instrument for measuring or exhibiting the polarization of light or for examining substances in polarized light, often to determine stress and strain in glass and other substances.
  • poltergeist — a ghost or spirit supposed to manifest its presence by noises, knockings, etc.
  • polyandrist — a woman who practices or favors polyandry.
  • polychasium — a form of cymose inflorescence in which each axis produces more than two lateral axes.
  • polychroism — the ability of a crystal to absorb different wavelengths of light and thus to display multiple colours
  • polycrotism — a polycrotic condition
  • polygenesis — origin from more than one ancestral species or line.
  • polyglotism — able to speak or write several languages; multilingual.
  • polyhistory — the quality of a polyhistor
  • polylithism — (programming)   A property of a data-object that can exist in many shapes and sizes, but not simultaneously; which distinguishes it from a union. It is often implemented as a set of classes (or structs) derived from a common base class (or with a common header, as in the case of structs), typically without any methods. It has been loosely described as polymorphic data.
  • polymerizes — to subject to polymerization.
  • polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
  • polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
  • polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
  • ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
  • pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
  • popish plot — an imaginary conspiracy against the crown of Great Britain on the part of English Roman Catholics, fabricated in 1678 by Titus Oates as a means of gaining power.
  • porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
  • porro prism — an isosceles, right-triangular prism in which light entering one half of the hypotenuse face is reflected at the two short sides and is reversed in orientation when it leaves the other half of the hypotenuse: used in 90°-oriented pairs in binoculars to increase the length of the optical path and to erect the final image.
  • portraitist — a person who makes portraits.
  • positioning — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • positronium — a short-lived atomic system consisting of a positron and an electron bound together.
  • possessions — wealth or property
  • possibilism — the theory in geography that human behaviour, and therefore culture, is not merely determined by the environment but by human agency, as a theory it is directly opposed to determinism
  • possibilist — of or relating to the geographical theory of possibilism
  • possibility — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
  • post chaise — a four-wheeled coach for rapid transportation of passengers and mail, used in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
  • post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
  • post-coital — sexual intercourse, especially between a man and a woman.
  • post-crisis — a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point.
  • post-cyclic — denoting rules that apply only after the transformations of a whole cycle
  • post-racial — characterized by the absence of racial discord, discrimination, or prejudice previously or historically present: post-racial politics; the post-racial era.
  • postcranial — located posterior to the head.
  • postcubital — Anatomy, Zoology. pertaining to, involving, or situated near the cubitus.
  • postdivorce — of, or relating to the period after a person is divorced
  • postediting — the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine
  • posteriorly — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
  • posterities — succeeding or future generations collectively: Judgment of this age must be left to posterity.
  • postexilian — being or occurring subsequent to the exile of the Jews in Babylonia 597–538 b.c.
  • postglacial — after a given glacial epoch, especially the Pleistocene.
  • postholiday — occurring after a holiday
  • posticteric — pertaining to or affected with icterus; jaundiced.
  • postillator — a writer of postils; an annotator, a postiller
  • postlanding — occurring after a landing (of an aircraft, shuttle, etc)
  • postmarital — occurring, effective, or provided after marriage
  • postnuptial — subsequent to marriage: postnuptial adjustments.
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