13-letter words starting with po

port du salut — Port-Salut.
port engineer — a person who is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the machinery of the vessels of a shipping line and for the supervision of its engineering personnel.
port harcourt — a seaport in S Nigeria.
port language — ["Communicating Parallel Processes", J. Kerridge et al, Soft Prac & Exp 16(1):63-86 (Jan 1986)].
port of entry — port1 (def 3).
port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
portal system — a vascular arrangement in which blood from the capillaries of one organ is transported to the capillaries of another organ by a connecting vein or veins.
porte-cochere — a covered carriage entrance leading into a courtyard.
porte-monnaie — a purse or pocketbook
portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
portrait mode — an orientation that is vertical rather than horizontal
position line — line of position.
positive sign — the sign (+) used to indicate a positive quantity
posix threads — (programming) (Pthreads) A POSIX standard API that defines a set of C programming language types, functions and constants for creating and manipulating pre-emptive threads. The standard's full name is "POSIX.1c, Threads extensions (IEEE Std 1003.1c-1995)". Implementations are available on many Unix-like POSIX-conformant operating systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris as well as DR-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Pthreads was designed and implemented in the PART Project (POSIX / Ada-Runtime Project).
possessedness — the state or condition of being possessed
possessionary — of, relating to, or characterized by possession
possessionate — (of clergy or religious groups) having possessions or provisions
possessorship — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
possibilities — the state or fact of being possible: the possibility of error.
post exchange — a retail store on an army installation that sells goods and services to military personnel and their dependents and to certain authorized civilian personnel. Abbreviation: PX.
post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
post meridiem — p.m.
post-actinide — transactinide
post-cambrian — Geology. noting or pertaining to a period of the Paleozoic Era, occurring from 570 million to 500 million years ago, when algae and marine invertebrates were the predominant form of life.
post-colonial — of or relating to the period following a state of colonialism.
post-conquest — the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
post-consumer — noting or pertaining to a product after it has been used and recycled: a chair made of postconsumer plastic.
post-contract — an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.
post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
post-graduate — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or consisting of post-graduates: a postgraduate seminar.
post-marriage — (broadly) any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established in various parts of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage: Anthropologists say that some type of marriage has been found in every known human society since ancient times. See Word Story at the current entry.
post-midnight — the middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
post-prandial — after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.
post-socratic — of or relating to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., or to the Socratic method.
post-tertiary — denoting or formed after the Tertiary period of geological time
postage costs — the cost of having mail delivered
postage meter — an office machine used in bulk mailing that imprints prepaid postage and a dated postmark.
postage rates — the rates charged for the delivery of mail, depending on type, weight etc
postage stamp — small adhesive label for mail
postage-stamp — of very small area or size: a postage-stamp bikini.
postauricular — of or relating to the ear or to the sense of hearing; aural.
postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
postcanonical — written at a later date than the books belonging to a canon, especially the Bible.
postclassical — of or relating to a time after the classical period, especially in art, culture, or literature.
postcommunion — the part of a communion service that follows after the congregation has received communion.
postconciliar — occurring or continuing after the Vatican ecumenical council of 1962–65.
postcranially — affecting the postcranium

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