14-letter words containing po
- numa pompilius — died 673? b.c, 2nd legendary Sabine king of Rome 715–673?
- of set purpose — with a specific end in view
- old portuguese — the language of Portugal as spoken and written from the 14th to the middle of the 16th centuries.
- one-trick pony — a person or thing considered as being limited to only one single talent, capability, quality, etc
- onium compound — type of chemical salt
- opossum shrimp — any small, shrimplike crustacean of the order Mysidacea, the females of which carry their eggs in a pouch between the legs.
- opposite field — the opposite part of the outfield in relation to the batter, as left field for a right-handed batter.
- oppositionally — In terms of, or by means of, opposition.
- oppositionists — Plural form of oppositionist.
- ordinary point — Mathematics. a point in a domain in which a given function of a complex variable is analytic.
- oriental poppy — a poppy, Papaver orientale, of Asia, having bristly stems and leaves and showy scarlet, pink, or white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental.
- overpopulation — to fill with an excessive number of people, straining available resources and facilities: Expanding industry has overpopulated the western suburbs.
- overproportion — to make or measure in excess of the correct, normal, or desired proportion.
- package policy — an insurance policy which incorporates cover for different types of risk, such as liability and property
- pakapoo ticket — Australian Slang. something that is indecipherable or confusing: scrawled over like a pakapoo ticket.
- party politics — politics based on strict adherence to the policies and principles of a political party regardless of the public interest; partisan loyalism.
- passport photo — image on identity document
- pharmacopoeial — a book published usually under the jurisdiction of the government and containing a list of drugs, their formulas, methods for making medicinal preparations, requirements and tests for their strength and purity, and other related information.
- pharmacopoeian — an individual who has expert knowledge of a pharmacopoeia
- pharmacopolist — a person who sells pharmaceutical products
- philanthropoid — an individual who does work for a charitable body
- plastic police — a collective term for several classes of public officer (including community support officers) authorized to perform certain tasks and duties in support of the police force, but having lesser powers than the police
- plenipotential — relating to a plenipotentiary
- pleurapophysis — one of the lateral processes of a vertebra forming the ribs
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- point estimate — the process of determining a single estimated value (point estimate) of a parameter of a given population.
- point mutation — a change in a single base in a nucleotide sequence.
- point of honor — an issue that affects one's honor, reputation, etc.: It was a point of honor with him to avenge any insult to his family.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- point the bone — to wish bad luck (on)
- point-by-point — detailed and deliberate; taking every point into consideration
- point-to-point — a cross-country horse race between specified points, in which each rider is often free to select his or her own course between the points.
- pointe-a-pitre — a seaport on central Guadeloupe, in the E West Indies.
- pointed domain — (theory) In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
- pointing stick — TrackPoint
- poison dogwood — poison sumac.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).