5-letter words containing po
- poach — to trespass, especially on another's game preserve, in order to steal animals or to hunt.
- poaka — a stilt (bird) native to New Zealand
- poake — a waste matter from the tanning of hides
- poboy — poor boy.
- pocal — PETRA Operator's CommAnd Language.
- poche — the walls, columns, and other solids of a building or the like, as indicated on an architectural plan, usually in black.
- pocho — an American of Mexican parentage, especially one who has adopted U.S. customs and attitudes; an Americanized Mexican.
- pocks — a pustule on the body in an eruptive disease, as smallpox.
- pocky — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or covered with pocks.
- podal — relating to feet
- poddy — a newborn or unweaned calf, especially one that is taken from its mother and hand-fed.
- podex — the posterior of an animal
- podge — a short chubby person
- podgy — pudgy.
- podia — a small platform for the conductor of an orchestra, a public speaker, the recipient of a sports medal, etc.
- podo- — foot or feet
- poesy — the work or the art of poetic composition.
- pofac — A subset of Fortran.
- pofod — Probability of Failure on Demand
- pogey — Slang.. Also, pogy. a package of food, candy, or other treats sent to a child at boarding school, a person in an institution, etc. candy or a treat.
- pogge — a poacher, Agonus cataphractus, common near the British Isles and ranging north to Greenland and Iceland.
- pohai — a gulf in the Yellow Sea, on the NE coast of China.
- poilu — a French common soldier.
- poind — to take (property of a debtor) in execution or by way of distress; distrain
- point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
- poise — a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in which a stress of one dyne per square centimeter is required to maintain a difference of velocity of one centimeter per second between two parallel planes in the fluid that lie in the direction of flow and are separated by a distance of one centimeter. Symbol: P.
- pokal — a large German standing cup of silver, glass, or other material.
- poker — a card game played by two or more persons, in which the players bet on the value of their hands, the winner taking the pool.
- pokey — a jail
- polar — of or relating to the North or South Pole.
- poled — a long, cylindrical, often slender piece of wood, metal, etc.: a telephone pole; a fishing pole.
- poler — a person or thing that poles.
- poley — (of cattle) hornless or polled
- polio — poliomyelitis.
- polis — an ancient Greek city-state.
- polit — political
- polje — a large elliptical depression in karst regions, sometimes containing a marsh or small lake
- polka — a lively couple dance of Bohemian origin, with music in duple meter.
- pollo — chicken.
- polly — a tame parrot.
- polos — a tall, cylindrical headdress represented, especially on statutes, as worn by women in ancient Greece.
- poly- — Poly- is used to form adjectives and nouns which indicate that many things or types of something are involved in something. For example, a polysyllabic word contains many syllables.
- polyp — Zoology. a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body, and free end with mouth and tentacles, especially as applied to coelenterates. an individual zooid of a compound or colonial organism.
- pombe — any alcoholic drink
- pomes — the characteristic fruit of the apple family, as an apple, pear, or quince, in which the edible flesh arises from the greatly swollen receptacle and not from the carpels.
- pommy — a British person, especially one who is a recent immigrant.
- ponca — a member of a North American Indian people formerly of northern Nebraska, now living mostly in northern Oklahoma.
- ponce — a seaport in S Puerto Rico.
- pondo — a member of a Negroid people of southern Africa, living chiefly in Pondoland
- pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.