16-letter words containing po

poor white trash — white trash.
pop the question — to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped.
porcelain enamel — a glass coating, made to adhere to a metal or another enamel by fusion.
pork scratchings — small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks
port authorities — the body with overall responsibility for a port
port phillip bay — a bay in SE Australia: the harbor of Melbourne. 31 miles (50 km) long; 25 miles (40 km) wide.
portable airtime — (communications, wireless) A wireless, digital communications system enabling user-to-user voice communication, "quicknotes", and alphanumeric messaging.
portal-to-portal — noting or pertaining to the time a worker spends from entering the workplace to stepping outside, especially in relation to pay.
portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
portrait gallery — a gallery where pictures are displayed
portrait painter — artist: paints likenesses
portuguese india — a former Portuguese overseas territory on the W coast of India, consisting of the districts of Gôa, Daman, and Diu: annexed by India December 1961. Capital: Gôa.
portuguese timor — former (1914-75) Portuguese territory in the Malay Archipelago
posigrade rocket — an auxiliary rocket used to separate the sections of a multistage rocket, fired in the direction of flight.
positive vetting — the checking of a person's background, political affiliation, etc, to assess his suitability for a position that may involve national security
possession order — (in Britain) a court order that entitles a landlord legally to evict a tenant or squatter and regain possession of the property
post-apocalyptic — of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
post-boost phase — the part of a multistage missile flight when the warheads are released.
post-elizabethan — of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I, queen of England, or to her times: Elizabethan diplomacy; Elizabethan music.
post-pleistocene — noting or pertaining to the epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending 10,000 years ago, characterized by widespread glacial ice and the advent of modern humans.
post-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
post-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
post-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
postcode lottery — a situation in which the standard of medical care, education, etc, received by the public varies from area to area, depending on the funding policies of various health boards, local authorities, etc
postencephalitic — inflammation of the substance of the brain.
postfix notation — (language) (Or "Reverse Polish Notation", RPN) One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in postfix notation the functions are preceded by all their operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "1 2 +". Postfix notation is well suited for stack based architectures but modern compilers reduced this advantage considerably. The best-known language with postfix syntax is FORTH. Some Hewlett-Packard calculators use it, e.g. HP-25, HP-29C, HP-41C, HP-23SII. Compare: infix notation, prefix notation.
postindependence — Also, independency. the state or quality of being independent.
postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
postscript point — (unit, text) The variant of the point used by Postscript, equal to 0.3527777778 mm, or 1/72 inch.
potassium iodide — a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, KI, having a bitter saline taste: used chiefly in the manufacture of photographic emulsions, as a laboratory reagent, in the preparation of Gram's solution for biological staining, and in medicine as an expectorant and to treat thyroid conditions.
potato tuberworm — the larva of the potato moth.
potemkin village — a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition.
potential energy — the energy of a body or a system with respect to the position of the body or the arrangement of the particles of the system.
pourriture noble — noble rot.
poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
powerpc platform — (architecture, standard) (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
poynting theorem — the theorem that the rate of flow of electromagnetic energy through unit area is equal to the Poynting vector, i.e. the cross product of the electric and magnetic field intensities
predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
proof of postage — a document, such as a receipt, etc, that proves that you have posted or mailed something
proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
pseudo-political — of, relating to, or concerned with politics: political writers.
public transport — fare-paying travel
purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
re-apportionment — the act of redistributing or changing the apportionment of something.
reinsurance pool — the grouping of insurers that provide partial or complete insurance coverage to other insurers for (a risk on which a policy has already been issued)
report structure — A report structure is a structure containing a reporting clause and a reported clause or a quote.
reporting clause — A reporting clause is a clause which indicates that you are talking about what someone said or thought. For example, in 'She said that she was hungry', 'She said' is a reporting clause.
repossession man — someone employed to take back or repossess property, esp due to nonpayment of money due under a hire-purchase agreement

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