10-letter words containing po
- responsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- responsory — an anthem sung after a lection by a soloist and choir alternately.
- roodepoort — an industrial city in NE South Africa, in the Witwatersrand. Pop: 172 601 (2001)
- rudderpost — the vertical member of a stern frame on which the rudder is hung; a sternpost.
- sally port — a gateway permitting the passage of a large number of troops at a time.
- salt spoon — a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.
- saponifier — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- seal point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- seal-point — a Siamese cat having a fawn-colored body and dark-brown points.
- sebastopol — Sevastopol.
- semipostal — a postage stamp sold by a government at a premium above its face value, the excess being used for a nonpostal purpose, as a charity.
- senna pods — the dried fruits of any of these plants, used as a cathartic and laxative
- sevastopol — a fortified seaport in the S Crimea, in S Ukraine: famous for its heroic resistance during sieges of 349 days in 1854–55, and 245 days in 1941–42.
- seven-spot — a playing card the face of which bears seven pips.
- shreveport — a city in NW Louisiana, on the Red River.
- sign-posts — a post bearing a sign that gives information or guidance.
- signposted — A place or route that is signposted has signposts beside the road to show the way.
- simferopol — a city in S Ukraine, on the S Crimean Peninsula.
- smudge pot — a container for burning oil or other fuels to produce smudge, as for protecting fruit trees from frost.
- soft power — the ability to achieve one's goals without force, esp by diplomacy, persuasion, etc
- solar pond — a pool with a bottom layer of salt water and top layer of fresh water, designed to capture solar radiation as a source of energy for generating heat or electricity.
- soup spoon — A soup spoon is a spoon used for eating soup. The bowl-like part at the end of it is round.
- south pole — the region of a magnet toward which the lines of magnetic induction converge (south pole) or from which the lines of induction diverge (north pole)
- spearpoint — the point at the end of a spearhead.
- spodomancy — divination by studying ashes
- spoil bank — a bank of excavated refuse or waste earth, as of shale from surface coal mining.
- spoilsport — a person whose selfish or unsportsmanlike attitudes or actions spoil the pleasure of others, as in a game or social gathering.
- spoken for — engaged, reserved, or allocated
- spokeshave — a cutting tool having a blade set between two handles, originally for shaping spokes, but now in general use for dressing curved edges of wood and forming round bars and shapes.
- spoliation — the act or an instance of plundering or despoiling.
- spoliative — blood-diminishing
- spondaical — composed of spondees
- spondylous — relating to a vertebra or vertebrae
- sponge bag — a small, usually waterproof, case for carrying toilet articles.
- sponge mop — a mop that makes use of a sponge as the cleaning part
- sponge off — any aquatic, chiefly marine animal of the phylum Porifera, having a porous structure and usually a horny, siliceous or calcareous internal skeleton or framework, occurring in large, sessile colonies.
- spongeable — able to be cleaned with a sponge
- spongecake — sweet cake of eggs and flour
- spongeware — earthenware decorated with color applied with a sponge.
- spongewood — an Indian plant with a pith used in making tropical hats
- spongiform — resembling a sponge, as in appearance or structure.
- spongocoel — the central cavity in the body of a sponge.
- spongology — the study of sponges
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- sponsoring — a person who vouches or is responsible for a person or thing.
- spookiness — like or befitting a spook or ghost; suggestive of spooks.
- spoon back — a back of a chair or the like, having a splat curved outward at the bottom.
- spoon hook — a fishhook equipped with a spoon lure.
- spoon nail — an abnormal condition in which the outer surfaces of the nails are concave; koilonychia.
- spoon-feed — to cause to be spoon-fed.