12-letter words containing po
- unpossessing — having no possessions or ownership
- unreportable — not able to be reported, relayed, or spoken of
- unresponding — to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
- unresponsive — responding especially readily and sympathetically to appeals, efforts, influences, etc.: a responsive government.
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unsupporting — to bear or hold up (a load, mass, structure, part, etc.); serve as a foundation for.
- unsupportive — giving support.
- unsupposable — not able to be supposed
- up the spout — If you say that something is up the spout, you mean that it is wrong or it is no longer working.
- utility pole — one of a series of large, upright poles used to support telephone wires, electric cables, or the like.
- valpolicella — a dry, red table wine from the Veneto region of northern Italy.
- van der post — Sir Laurens (Jan). 1906–96, South African writer and traveller. His works include the travel books Venture to the Interior (1952), The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), and Testament to the Bushmen (1984) and the novels The Hunter and the Whale (1967) and The Admiral's Baby (1996)
- vaporescence — production or formation of vapor.
- vaporishness — the quality or state of being vaporish
- vaporization — the act of vaporizing.
- vapour trail — A vapour trail is a white line of water vapour left in the sky by an aeroplane, a rocket, or a missile.
- vegetal pole — the relatively inactive part of an ovum opposite the animal pole, containing much yolk and little cytoplasm.
- ventripotent — having a large belly
- video porn's — pornographic movies available on videocassette or optical disk, on the Internet, or on subscription television.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- watch pocket — a small pocket in a garment, as in a vest or trousers, for holding a pocket watch, change, etc. Compare fob1 (def 1).
- water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water vapour — steam
- watering pot — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
- weaponeering — the act of fitting out with weapons
- well-exposed — left or being without shelter or protection: The house stood on a windy, exposed cliff.
- well-pointed — having a point or points: a pointed arch.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whippoorwill — a nocturnal North American nightjar, Caprimulgus vociferus, having a variegated plumage of gray, black, white, and tawny.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- white potato — potato (def 1).
- white sapote — a tropical American tree, Casimiroa edulis, of the rue family, having greenish, inconspicuous flowers and tomatolike fleshy fruit that is yellow on the inside and gray or yellowish-green on the outside.
- williamsport — a city in central Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River.
- winning post — a post on a racetrack, marking the goal of a race.
- wooden spoon — A wooden spoon is a spoon that is used for stirring sauces and for mixing ingredients in cooking. It is made of wood and has a long handle.
- zoosporangia — Plural form of zoosporangium.
- zygapophysis — one of the four processes of a vertebra, occurring in pairs that interlock each vertebra with the vertebrae above and below.