11-letter words starting with po
- polyphonist — a musical composer of or theorist in polyphony
- polyphonous — Music. polyphonic composition; counterpoint.
- polysorbate — any of a class of emulsifying and dispersing agents used in various foods and pharmaceutical preparations.
- polyspermia — the secretion of an excessive amount of semen.
- polystyrene — a clear plastic or stiff foam, a polymer of styrene, used chiefly as an insulator in refrigerators and air conditioners.
- polysulfide — a sulfide whose molecules contain two or more atoms of sulfur.
- polytechnic — of, relating to, or offering instruction in a variety of industrial arts, applied sciences, or technical subjects: a polytechnic institute.
- polytrophic — (of certain bacteria) deriving nourishment from many organic substances.
- polyvalence — Chemistry. having more than one valence.
- polyvoltine — multivoltine.
- polyzoarium — a bryozoan colony, or its supporting skeleton.
- pomegranate — a chambered, many-seeded, globose fruit, having a tough, usually red rind and surmounted by a crown of calyx lobes, the edible portion consisting of pleasantly acid flesh developed from the outer seed coat.
- pomiculture — the growing or cultivation of fruit.
- pompadoured — styled in a pompadour
- pompelmouse — a large citrus fruit
- pompom girl — a female cheerleader, as for a football team, whose routines often include the waving of large flowerlike clusters or streamers resembling pompoms.
- pond hockey — ice hockey played on a frozen pond
- pond-skater — any of various heteropterous insects of the family Gerrididae, esp Gerris lacustris (common pond-skater), having a slender hairy body and long hairy legs with which they skim about on the surface of ponds
- ponderation — a weight
- ponderingly — in a pondering manner
- ponderosity — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- ponderously — of great weight; heavy; massive.
- pondicherry — a union territory of India, on the Coromandel Coast: formerly the chief settlement of French India; territory includes Mahé (on the Malabar Coast), Karikal, and Yanaon. 181 sq. mi. (469 sq. km).
- pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- pontoppidan — Henrik [hen-reek] /ˈhɛn rik/ (Show IPA), 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel prize 1917.
- pony league — a baseball league similar to a Little League and having teams whose players are from 13 to 14 years of age.
- ponzimonium — theoretical financial turmoil in the wake of uncovering suspected Ponzi schemes
- pooh sticks — a children's game: each player throws a stick into a stream from one side of a bridge and the winner is the person whose stick emerges first on the other side
- pool a risk — If an insurer pools a risk, it takes on a share of each risk underwritten by every other member in an association of insurers or reinsurers.
- pool player — a person who plays pool
- pop concert — a concert of popular and light classical music played by a symphony orchestra.
- pop culture — cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people.
- pop-up book — book: illustrations open out
- pop-up menu — a menu that suddenly appears when an option is selected
- pope's nose — the fleshy protuberance at the posterior end of a dressed fowl, especially the tailpiece of a cooked chicken.
- popish plot — an imaginary conspiracy against the crown of Great Britain on the part of English Roman Catholics, fabricated in 1678 by Titus Oates as a means of gaining power.
- popmobility — a form of exercise that combines aerobics in a continuous dance routine, performed to pop music
- poppet head — the framework above a mining shaft that supports the winding mechanism
- pore fungus — any fungus of the families Boletacea and Polyporaceae, bearing spores in tubes or pores.
- pore volume — The pore volume is the total volume of very small openings in a bed of adsorbent particles.
- pork barrel — a government appropriation, bill, or policy that supplies funds for local improvements designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents.
- porkchopper — a labor official put on the union payroll as a reward for past loyalty or services.
- porkpie hat — a hat with a round flat crown and a brim that can be turned up or down
- pornography — sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.
- pornotopian — of or relating to a pornotopia
- porphyratin — any of various complex compounds formed of metals and porphyrins
- porphyritic — of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling porphyry, its texture, or its structure.
- porriginous — pertaining to or designating porrigo
- porro prism — an isosceles, right-triangular prism in which light entering one half of the hypotenuse face is reflected at the two short sides and is reversed in orientation when it leaves the other half of the hypotenuse: used in 90°-oriented pairs in binoculars to increase the length of the optical path and to erect the final image.