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5-letter words starting with po

  • pones — the player on the dealer's right. Compare eldest hand.
  • ponga — a tall tree fern, Cyathea dealbata, of New Zealand, with large feathery leaves
  • pongo — an anthropoid ape, esp an orang-utan or (formerly) a gorilla
  • ponty — a rod used for shaping molten glass
  • ponzi — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
  • ponzu — a type of Japanese dipping sauce made from orange juice, sake, sugar, soy sauce, and red pepper
  • pooch — a dog.
  • pooed — excrement.
  • pooka — (in folklore) an Irish spirit, mischievous but not malevolent, corresponding to the English Puck.
  • pool2 — Parallel Object-Oriented Language 2. Philips Research Labs, 1987. Strongly typed, synchronous message passing, designed to run on DOOM (DOOM = Decentralised Object-Oriented Machine).
  • poole — a port in Dorset, in S England.
  • pools — Also called pocket billiards. any of various games played on a pool table with a cue ball and 15 other balls that are usually numbered, in which the object is to drive all the balls into the pockets with the cue ball.
  • poona — a city in W Maharashtra, W India, SE of Mumbai.
  • poopo — a lake in SW Bolivia, in the Andes. 60 miles (95 km) long; 12,000 feet (3660 meters) above sea level.
  • poori — a light, round, unleavened wheat bread of India, usually deep-fried.
  • poort — (in South Africa) a steep narrow mountain pass, usually following a river or stream
  • poove — poof2 .
  • pop-1 — Package for Online Programming. Edinburgh, 1966. First of the POP family of languages. Used reverse Polish notation. Implemented as a threaded interpreter. EPU-R-17, U Edinburgh (Jul 1966). "POP-1: An Online Language", R. Popplestone, Mach Intell 2, E. Dale et al eds, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1968.
  • pop-2 — Robin POPplestone, Edinburgh, 1967. An innovative language incorporating many of Landin's ideas, including streams, closures, and functions as first-class citizens. ALGOL-like syntax. The first implementation was named Multi-POP, based on a REVPOL function written in POP-1, producing the reverse-polish form as output. "POP-2 Papers", R.M. Burstall et al, Oliver & Boyd 1968. "Programming in POP-2", R.M. Burstall et al, Edinburgh U Press 1971. "POP-2 User's Manual", R. Popplestone, Mach Intell 2, E. Dale et al eds, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh 1968.
  • popov — Alexander Stepanovich (alɪkˈsandər stɪˈpanəvitʃ). 1859–1906, Russian physicist, the first to use an aerial in experiments with radio waves
  • poppa — father.
  • poppy — any plant of the genus Papaver, having showy, usually red flowers. Compare poppy family.
  • popsy — a girl or young woman.
  • porae — a large edible sea fish, Nemadactylus douglasi, of New Zealand waters
  • poral — of or relating to pores
  • porch — an exterior appendage to a building, forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.
  • porea — Port Office Regional Employees Association
  • pored — to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
  • porer — a person who makes a close inspection of something
  • porge — to cleanse a slaughtered animal ceremonially in accordance with religious laws
  • porgy — a sparid food fish, Pagrus pagrus, found in the Mediterranean and off the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America.
  • porky — of, relating to, or resembling pork.
  • porno — pornography
  • porns — Sometimes, porno [pawr-noh] /ˈpɔr noʊ/ (Show IPA). pornography; sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, produced to elicit sexual arousal (often used attributively): arrested for selling porn; a porn star; porn films.
  • porny — Informal. pertaining to, resembling, characteristic of, or containing pornography; pornographic: porny photos.
  • porta — an aperture in an organ, such as the liver, esp one providing an opening for blood vessels
  • porte — a city in NW Indiana.
  • porto — Portuguese name of Oporto.
  • porty — resembling port; affected by port
  • posed — to assume a particular attitude or stance, especially with the hope of impressing others: He likes to pose as an authority on literature.
  • posen — German name of Poznań.
  • poser — wannabe, pretentious person
  • poset — partially ordered set
  • posey — characteristic of or being a poser, especially in being trendy or fashionable in a superficial way.
  • posho — corn meal
  • posit — to place, put, or set.
  • posix — Portable Operating System Interface
  • posse — posse comitatus.
  • possy — possie.
  • post- — Post- is used to form words that indicate that something takes place after a particular date, period, or event.
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