9-letter words starting with po
- pontianak — a seaport on W Kalimantan (Borneo), in central Indonesia.
- pontifice — a priest in ancient Rome
- pontlevis — a drawbridge.
- pontonier — an officer or soldier in charge of bridge equipment or the construction of pontoon bridges.
- pontypool — a town in Torfaen, in SE Wales.
- pony club — an international youth organization that educates young people about horses and horse riding
- pony pack — a tray of usually one dozen growing plants that can be bought from a nursery for transplanting: a pony pack of tomato plants.
- pooh-pooh — to express disdain or contempt for; dismiss lightly: He pooh-poohed all their superstitious fears.
- pool hall — poolroom (def 1).
- poop deck — a weather deck on top of a poop.
- poopooing — excrement; feces.
- poor farm — a farm maintained at public expense for the housing and support of paupers.
- poor laws — laws that provide for public relief and assistance for the poor
- poor rate — a rate or tax levied by parishes for the relief or support of the poor
- poor-will — a goatsucker, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, of western North America.
- poorhouse — (formerly) an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.
- pooterish — characteristic of or resembling the fictional character Pooter, esp in being bourgeois, genteel, or self-important
- pop group — a band which plays pop music
- pop music — popular music
- pop psych — psychological or pseudopsychological counseling, interpretations, concepts, terminology, etc., often simplistic or superficial, popularized by certain personalities, magazine articles, television shows, advice columns, or the like, that influence the general public.
- popliteal — of or relating to the ham, or part of the leg back of the knee.
- popliteus — a thin, flat, triangular muscle in back of the knee, the action of which assists in bending the knee and in rotating the leg toward the body.
- poplog ml — SML for the Poplog system from the University of Sussex, UK.
- poppering — a type of pear tree
- poppy day — Remembrance Day
- poppy red — poppy (def 4).
- poppycock — nonsense; bosh.
- poppyhead — a finial or other ornament, often richly carved, as the top of the upright end of a bench or pew.
- popularly — by the people as a whole; generally; widely: a fictitious story popularly accepted as true.
- populated — to inhabit; live in; be the inhabitants of.
- porbandar — a seaport in SW Gujarat, in W India.
- porbeagle — a shark of the genus Lamna, especially L. nasus, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
- porcelain — a strong, vitreous, translucent ceramic material, biscuit-fired at a low temperature, the glaze then fired at a very high temperature.
- porchetta — Italian boneless stuffed pork cut from a whole roast pig
- porcupine — any of several rodents covered with stiff, sharp, erectile spines or quills, as Erethizon dorsatum of North America.
- poriferan — any animal of the phylum Porifera, comprising the sponges.
- pork chop — cutlet of pig meat
- porogamic — pertaining to or designating porogamy
- poromeric — any of various microporous synthetic materials used as leather substitutes.
- poroscope — an instrument for measuring porosity
- poroscopy — a method for identifying people by the impression left by the pores of the finger(s)
- porphyria — a defect of blood pigment metabolism in which porphyrins are produced in excess, are present in the blood, and are found in the urine.
- porphyric — of or relating to porphyria
- porphyrin — a dark red, photosensitive pigment consisting of four pyrrole rings linked by single carbon atoms: a component of chlorophyll, heme, and vitamin B 1 2 .
- porphyrio — any aquatic bird of the genus Porphyrio
- porporate — wearing purple
- porringer — a low dish or cup, often with a handle, from which soup, porridge, or the like is eaten.
- port arms — a position in military drill in which one's rifle is held diagonally in front of the body, with the muzzle pointing upward to the left.
- port dues — the charge for the use of a port
- port said — a seaport in NE Egypt at the Mediterranean end of the Suez Canal.