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11-letter words containing pot

  • plenipotent — invested with or possessing full power.
  • pluripotent — (of a cell) capable of developing into any type of cell or tissue except those that form a placenta or embryo: pluripotent stem cells.
  • pot of gold — the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
  • pot scourer — a small ball of wire or stiff plastic, or a flat piece of a rough fabric used for cleaning kitchen pots and pans
  • pot sticker — a pan-fried and steamed Chinese dumpling with a ground meat or vegetable filling.
  • pot-bellied — a distended or protuberant belly.
  • pot-valiant — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • potableness — the quality of being potable or drinkable
  • potamogeton — a plant of the Potamogeton genus of perennial aquatic plants, known also as pondweed
  • potash alum — alum1 (def 1).
  • potato bean — groundnut (def 1).
  • potato cake — any of various kinds of small savoury cakes made from flour and mashed potatoes, often fried or baked
  • potato chip — a thin slice of potato fried until crisp and usually salted.
  • potato moth — a gelechiid moth, Phthorimaea operculella, the larvae of which feed on the leaves and bore into the tubers of potatoes and other solanaceous plants.
  • potato race — a novelty race in which each contestant must move a number of potatoes from one place to another, usually in a spoon, carrying one potato at a time.
  • potato vine — a tender, woody Brazilian vine, Solanum jasminoides, of the nightshade family, having starlike, blue-tinged white flowers in clusters, grown as an ornamental.
  • potato worm — tomato hornworm.
  • potentially — possibly but not yet actually: potentially useful information.
  • potentiator — to cause to be potent; make powerful.
  • potshotting — the act of taking potshots
  • potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
  • potteresque — resembling or suggestive of scenes and situations described in the Harry Potter novels of J. K. Rowling
  • potteringly — in a pottering fashion, slowly
  • potty-chair — a small chair with an open seat over a removable pot, for use by a child during toilet training.
  • potty-train — to teach a small child to use a potty or toilet
  • potvaliancy — brave only as a result of being drunk.
  • potwalloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.
  • sapotaceous — belonging to the Sapotaceae, the sapodilla family of plants.
  • seed potato — a potato tuber used for planting
  • spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
  • spot height — the elevation of a certain point.
  • spot market — a market in which commodities, as grain, gold, or crude oil, are dealt in for cash and immediate delivery (distinguished from futures market).
  • spot strike — a labor strike by a local branch of a union.
  • spot survey — a survey taken immediately and at random
  • spotted gum — an Australian eucalyptus tree, Eucalyptus maculata
  • spotted owl — a dark-brown owl (Strix occidentalis, family Strigidae) with scattered white spots and dark eyes, sometimes seen in the forests of W North America: it is an endangered species
  • spotted ray — any of various species of ray with irregular markings on the back
  • spottedness — the state, condition or quality of being spotted
  • teapot dome — a federal oil reserve in Wyoming, leased to private producer Harry F. Sinclair by Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall in 1922, leading to a major government scandal and the tarnishing of the reputation of President Warren G. Harding's administration (1921–23).
  • totipotency — (of a cell or part) having the potential for developing in various specialized ways in response to external or internal stimuli.
  • wild potato — a plant, Solanum jamesii, of the southwestern U.S., related to the edible cultivated potato.
  • yellow spot — Ophthalmology. macula (def 2b).
  • yoghurt pot — a small, usually plastic, container that is used for selling yogurt and, when empty, is often used as a craft material
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