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  • 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
  • porismatical — porismatic
  • 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 of call — a port visited briefly by a ship, usually to take on or discharge passengers and cargo or to undergo repairs.
  • 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
  • portentously — of the nature of a portent; momentous.
  • porthole die — a die having several openings for the extrusion of separate parts of an object later formed by the welding or fusing together of these parts.
  • 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-nuclear — pertaining to or involving atomic weapons: nuclear war.
  • post-pyloric — the opening between the stomach and the duodenum.
  • postal meter — a postal franking machine
  • postal order — money order.
  • postbrachial — belonging to the arm, foreleg, wing, pectoral fin, or other forelimb of a vertebrate.
  • postcardlike — (of a scene) resembling a postcard
  • postdelivery — of, relating to, or occurring after a delivery
  • postdoctoral — of or relating to study or professional work undertaken after the receipt of a doctorate: postdoctoral courses.
  • poster child — a child appearing on a poster for a charitable organization.
  • poster color — poster paint.
  • postimperial — of, relating to, or designating the period after an empire
  • postliminary — of or relating to postliminy
  • postliterate — of or relating to a (hypothetical) time or stage in society when literacy is no longer necessary or valued
  • postprandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
  • postsurgical — pertaining to or involving surgery or surgeons.
  • pot marigold — calendula (def 1).
  • 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.
  • potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
  • poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
  • poverty line — a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • pratincolous — living in a meadow.
  • pre-election — a choice or selection made beforehand.
  • pre-rational — agreeable to reason; reasonable; sensible: a rational plan for economic development.
  • preallotment — an allotment given in advance.
  • predilection — a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
  • 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
  • preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
  • preneolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
  • preovulatory — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
  • preselection — to select in advance; choose beforehand.
  • primogenital — relating to primogeniture
  • pro-catholic — of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
  • pro-equality — the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability: promoting equality of opportunity in the workplace.
  • pro-military — of, for, or pertaining to the army or armed forces, often as distinguished from the navy: from civilian to military life.
  • problematics — problems or difficulties in a particular situation or subject
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