6-letter words containing s, o, p
- porism — a type of mathematical proposition considered by Euclid, the meaning of which is now obscure. It is thought to be a proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions
- pornos — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
- porose — having pores; porous
- porous — full of pores.
- porson — Richard. 1759–1808, English classical scholar, noted for his editions of Aeschylus and Euripides
- posada — (in some Spanish-speaking countries) a government-operated or -approved inn offering moderately priced rooms to tourists, especially in a historic area.
- poseur — a person who attempts to impress others by assuming or affecting a manner, degree of elegance, sentiment, etc., other than his or her true one.
- poshly — in a posh manner
- posies — a flower, nosegay, or bouquet.
- posing — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
- posnet — a small pot with a handle and three feet
- posole — a thick, stewlike soup of pork or chicken, hominy, mild chili peppers, and coriander leaves: traditionally served at Christmas and often favored as a hangover remedy.
- posser — a short stick used for stirring clothes in a washtub
- posses — posse comitatus.
- posset — a drink made of hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or the like, often sweetened and spiced.
- possie — a job; position.
- posslq — either of two persons, one of each sex, who share living quarters but are not related by blood, marriage, or adoption: a categorization used by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- possum — opossum.
- postal — of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.
- posted — Chiefly British. a single dispatch or delivery of mail. the mail itself. the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient. an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
- poster — post horse.
- postie — A postie is a postman.
- postil — a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
- postop — postoperative.
- posybl — Programming system for distributed applications. A Linda implementation for Unix networks by Ioannis Schoinas <[email protected]>.
- potash — potassium carbonate, especially the crude impure form obtained from wood ashes.
- potass — potash.
- pothos — any of various tropical climbing vines belonging to the genera Pothos and Epipremnum, of the arum family, especially E. aureum, widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.
- potosi — a city in S Bolivia: formerly a rich silver-mining center. 13,022 feet (3970 meters) above sea level.
- powers — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- presto — quickly, rapidly, or immediately.
- prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- proems — an introductory discourse; introduction; preface; preamble.
- proles — a member of the proletariat.
- prones — a sermon or a brief hortatory introduction to a sermon, usually delivered at a service at which the Eucharist is celebrated.
- proofs — evidence sufficient to establish a thing as true, or to produce belief in its truth.
- prosed — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proser — a person who talks or writes in prose.
- proses — the ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse.
- proset — A derivative of SETL with Ada-like syntax developed at the University of Essen in 1990. Formerly known as SETL/E.
- prosit — good health! cheers!
- prossy — to exhibit pride or haughtiness; put on airs.
- proust — Joseph Louis [zhaw-zef lwee] /ʒɔˈzɛf lwi/ (Show IPA), 1754–1826, French chemist.
- pseudo — not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; sham.
- psocid — any of numerous minute winged insects of the family Psocidae (order Psocoptera), including most of the common barklice, having mouth parts adapted for chewing and feeding on fungi, lichens, algae, decaying plant material, etc., and occurring on the bark of trees and the leaves of plants.
- psoric — a cure for psora
- psycho — a psychopathic or psychotic person.
- psyton — (humour) /si:'ton/ (From TMRC) The elementary particle carrying the sinister force. The probability of a process losing is proportional to the number of psytons falling on it. Psytons are generated by observers, which is why demos are more likely to fail when lots of people are watching. This term appears to have been largely superseded by bogon; see also quantum bogodynamics.
- ptosis — a drooping of the upper eyelid.
- pushto — Pashto.