11-letter words containing po
- bumper pool — a pool game played on a small, often octagonally shaped table with two pockets, having strategically placed cushioned pegs on the playing surface, usually necessitating bank shots to sink balls.
- caddy spoon — a small spoon used in taking tea from a storage caddy.
- campo santo — a cemetery
- candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
- carpogonium — the female sex organ of red algae, consisting of a swollen base containing the ovum and a long neck down which the male gametes pass
- carpophores — Plural form of carpophore.
- carpophorus — an epithet of both Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, meaning “fruit-bearer.”.
- carpospores — Plural form of carpospore.
- centipoises — Plural form of centipoise.
- cephalopode — Archaic form of cephalopod.
- cephalopods — Plural form of cephalopod.
- chamber pop — pop music that incorporates orchestral arrangements
- chamber pot — A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night.
- chamber-pot — a portable container, especially for urine, used in bedrooms.
- champollion — Jean François (ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa). 1790–1832, French Egyptologist, who deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta stone
- checkerspot — any of several butterflies of the genus Melitaea, having black wings with yellowish-brown, checkerlike markings.
- checkpoints — Plural form of checkpoint.
- cheek pouch — a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents and some other mammals: used for holding food
- chenopodium — (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Chenopodium.
- cherepovets — city in NE Russia, on the Rybinsk Reservoir: pop. 319,000
- chicken pox — a disease, commonly of children, caused by the varicella zoster virus and characterized by mild headache and fever, malaise, and eruption of blisters on the skin and mucous membranes.
- chimney pot — A chimney pot is a short pipe which is fixed on top of a chimney.
- chiropodist — A chiropodist is a person whose job is to treat and care for people's feet.
- choke point — a place of greatest congestion and often hazard; bottleneck.
- chokepoints — Plural form of chokepoint.
- chug report — (humour) From "chug" - to drink heavily. A bug report whose the submitter is thought to have had one too many. Not as bad as a drug report.
- ciclosporin — a drug extracted from a fungus and used after organ transplantation to suppress the body's immune mechanisms, and so prevent rejection of an organ
- circumpolar — (of a star or constellation) visible above the horizon at all times at a specified locality on the earth's surface
- clothespole — a pole for supporting a clothesline
- cluj-napoca — city in Transylvania, NW Romania: pop. 322,000
- code police — (humour) (By analogy with George Orwell's "Thought Police" in "1984") A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that enforce programming style rules. Used ironically, to suggest that the practice under discussion is condemned mainly by anal-retentive weenies. "Dike out that goto or the code police will get you!" The ironic usage is perhaps more common.
- colourpoint — a breed of domestic cat
- colporteurs — Plural form of colporteur.
- colposcopes — Plural form of colposcope.
- componental — of, relating to, or having components
- componentry — the components of a machine, vehicle, stereo system, etc.
- comportable — (obsolete) suitable; consistent.
- comportance — comportment
- comportment — conduct; bearing
- compositely — In a composite manner.
- compositing — made up of disparate or separate parts or elements; compound: a composite drawing; a composite philosophy.
- composition — When you talk about the composition of something, you are referring to the way in which its various parts are put together and arranged.
- compositive — synthetic; involving composition
- compositors — Plural form of compositor.
- compositous — relating to or belonging to the plant family Asteraceae
- compossible — possible in coexistence with something else
- compost bin — a container designed to expedite the development of compost
- compostable — capable of being used as compost
- compotation — the act of drinking together in a company
- compotatory — of, relating to, or fond of compotation