| Port-Salut |
a semihard yellow cheese made from whole cow's milk. |
| Portugal |
a southern European country on the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and the Atlantic. |
| Portuguese |
of or pertaining to Portugal or its people, culture, language, or the like. [3 definitions] |
| Portuguese man-of-war |
a sea hydrozoan found in warm oceans, having a bladderlike sac that resembles a sail and allows it to float, and trailing many long stinging tentacles that may inflict severe injury. |
| portulaca |
any of various related annual plants that have thick stems and leaves and bear small, brightly colored flowers that open only in sunlight. |
| pose1 |
to take or hold a bodily position, as in modeling clothing or having one's likeness painted or photograph taken. [7 definitions] |
| pose2 |
to puzzle or embarrass with a difficult problem or question. |
| Poseidon |
in Greek mythology, the god of the sea; Neptune. |
| poser1 |
one who poses; poseur. |
| poser2 |
a vexing or confusing question or problem. |
| poseur |
one who adopts an affected attitude or manner in order to impress others. |
| posh |
costly and elegant; luxurious. |
| posit |
to assume or set down as a fact or as a given. [3 definitions] |
| position |
the location of a person or thing. [9 definitions] |
| positive |
definite; certain. [13 definitions] |
| positive electricity |
a deficiency of electrons in an object, causing an attraction for negatively charged objects. |
| positively |
in a positive way. [3 definitions] |
| positivism |
the philosophy that observable facts from the sciences, rather than metaphysical speculation, are the only allowable basis of knowledge and thought. |
| positron |
in physics, an elementary particle equal to an electron in mass, spin, and magnitude of charge, but whose charge is positive. |
| positronium |
a short-lived atomic system that a positron and electron form before they destroy each other. |
| posology |
the branch of pharmacology that deals with the dosages of drugs. |