9-letter words starting with po
- port vila — the capital of Vanuatu, on the island of Efate. Pop: 44 040 (2009)
- portadown — a town in S Northern Ireland, in the district of Armagh. Pop: 25 958 (2001)
- portalled — a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance, as to a palace.
- portapack — the first portable combined videotape recorder and camera
- portatile — portable
- portative — capable of being carried; portable.
- porterage — the work of a porter or carrier.
- porteress — portress.
- portfolio — a flat, portable case for carrying loose papers, drawings, etc.
- porthouse — a company that produces port
- porticoed — provided with a portico or porticoes.
- porticoes — a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns or piers, usually attached to a building as a porch.
- portiered — having a portiere, a curtain hanging across a doorway
- portieres — a curtain hung in a doorway, either to replace the door or for decoration.
- portinari — Cândido [kahn-dee-doo] /ˈkɑ̃ di dʊ/ (Show IPA), 1903–62, Brazilian painter.
- portioner — a person who receives or holds a portion, or who divides something into portions.
- portobelo — a small port in Panama, on the Caribbean northeast of Colón: the most important port in South America in colonial times; declined with the opening of the Panama Canal. Pop: 3300 (1997)
- portofino — a village in NW Italy, SE of Genoa: tourist resort.
- portolani — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- portolano — a descriptive atlas of the Middle Ages, giving sailing directions and providing charts showing rhumb lines and the location of ports and various coastal features.
- portrayal — the act of portraying.
- portrayed — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portrayer — to make a likeness of by drawing, painting, carving, or the like.
- portreeve — the reeve of a port
- portulaca — any of various fleshy-leaved plants of the genus Portulaca, especially P. grandiflora, widely cultivated for its showy, variously colored flowers.
- posidrive — having a patent screwhead that allows greater torque
- posigrade — of, relating to, or designating motion in the same direction as the current or normal motion
- positives — explicitly stated, stipulated, or expressed: a positive acceptance of the agreement.
- posologic — of or relating to doses of medicines
- possessed — spurred or moved by a strong feeling, madness, or a supernatural power (often followed by by, of, or with): The army fought as if possessed. The village believed her to be possessed of the devil.
- possesses — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- possessor — to have as belonging to one; have as property; own: to possess a house and a car.
- post horn — a straight or coiled copper or brass horn with no valves or slide, originally used to announce mail coaches.
- post mill — a windmill built round a central post on which the whole mill can be turned so that the sails catch the wind
- post race — a race in which each owner is allowed to list a number of possible entries and, at a stipulated time before the race, specify which horse will actually compete.
- post road — (formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
- post time — the time at which the entries in a race are required to be at the starting post.
- post town — a town having a main Post Office branch
- post-boat — mailboat.
- post-free — British. postpaid.
- post-hole — a hole dug in the earth for setting in the end of a post, as for a fence.
- post-obit — effective after a particular person's death.
- post-paid — with the postage prepaid
- post-pose — to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.”.
- post-rock — a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation
- postaudit — an audit of accounting records, conducted at some interval of time after a transaction or a series of transactions has already occurred.
- postaxial — pertaining to or situated behind the axis of the body, especially the posterior side of the axis of a limb.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- postdated — to date (a check, invoice, letter, document) with a date later than the actual date.
- posteriad — toward the posterior; posteriorly.