14-letter words starting with po
- pocket borough — (before the Reform Bill of 1832) any English borough whose representatives in Parliament were controlled by an individual or family.
- pocket edition — pocketbook (def 3).
- podophthalmous — relating to a crustacean
- poetic justice — an ideal distribution of rewards and punishments such as is common in some poetry and fiction.
- poetic licence — If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect.
- poetic license — license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
- poetry reading — a public recital or rendering of a poem
- poikiloblastic — (of metamorphic rocks) having small grains of one mineral embedded in metacrysts of another mineral.
- poikilothermal — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- poikilothermia — Medicine/Medical. the inability to regulate core body temperature (as by sweating to cool off or by putting on clothes to warm up), found especially in some spinal cord injury patients and in patients under general anesthesia.
- poikilothermic — cold-blooded (def 1 .) (opposed to homoiothermal).
- point calimere — a cape on the SE coast of India, on the Palk Strait
- point d'esprit — a bobbinet or tulle with oval or square dots woven in an irregular pattern.
- point estimate — the process of determining a single estimated value (point estimate) of a parameter of a given population.
- point mutation — a change in a single base in a nucleotide sequence.
- point of honor — an issue that affects one's honor, reputation, etc.: It was a point of honor with him to avenge any insult to his family.
- point of order — a question raised as to whether proceedings are in order, or in conformity with parliamentary law.
- point pleasant — a borough in E New Jersey.
- point the bone — to wish bad luck (on)
- point-by-point — detailed and deliberate; taking every point into consideration
- point-to-point — a cross-country horse race between specified points, in which each rider is often free to select his or her own course between the points.
- pointe-a-pitre — a seaport on central Guadeloupe, in the E West Indies.
- pointed domain — (theory) In most formulations of domain theory, a domain is defined to have a bottom element and algebraic CPOs without bottoms are called "predomains". David Schmidt's domains do not have this requirement and he calls a domain with a bottom "pointed".
- pointing stick — TrackPoint
- poison dogwood — poison sumac.
- poison hemlock — hemlock (defs 1, 3).
- polar distance — codeclination.
- polar equation — an equation in which the variables are polar coordinates.
- polar maritime — a type of cold, wet air mass originating at high latitudes over ocean areas
- polar molecule — a molecule in which the centroid of the positive charges is different from the centroid of the negative charges.
- polar outbreak — a vigorous thrust of cold, polar air across temperate regions.
- polar sequence — a series of stars in the vicinity of the N celestial pole whose accurately determined magnitudes serve as the standard for visual and photographic magnitudes of stars
- polar zenithal — a type of map projection in which part of the earth's surface is projected onto a plane tangential to it at one of the poles
- polarizability — to cause polarization in.
- polemoniaceous — belonging to the Polemoniaceae, the phlox family of plants.
- police academy — a school for training police officers
- police custody — If somebody or something is in police custody, they are kept somewhere secure, under the supervision of police officers, for example in a police station.
- police officer — any policeman or policewoman; patrolman or patrolwoman.
- police station — police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
- police village — a village lacking corporate status as a municipality, its affairs being administered by an elected board of trustees.
- policy adviser — a person who provides ideas or plans that are used by an organization or government as a basis for making decisions
- policy science — a branch of the social sciences concerned with the formulation and implementation of policy in bureaucracies, etc
- policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
- polite society — sophisticated company
- politicization — to bring a political character or flavor to; make political: to politicize a private dispute.
- poly-syllogism — an argument made up of a chain of syllogisms, the conclusion of each being a premise of the one following, until the last one.
- polyacrylamide — a white, solid, water-soluble polymer of acrylamide, used in secondary oil recovery, as a thickening agent, a flocculant, and an absorbent, and to separate macromolecules of different molecular weights.
- polycarboxylic — of or like a polycarboxylate
- polycarpellary — consisting of two or more carpels.
- polydispersity — the state of being polydisperse
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