5 Letter Words That Start With PO

power

Noun : The ability to do or undergo something.

Noun : (social) The ability to coerce, influence, or control.

Noun : (countable) The ability to affect or influence.

poise

Noun : A state of balance, equilibrium or stability.

Noun : Composure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.

Noun : Mien; bearing or deportment of the head or body.

point

Noun : A small dot or mark.

Noun : Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.

Noun : A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.

posit

Noun : Something that is posited; a postulate.

Noun : (computing) A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.

Verb : To assume the existence of; to postulate.

polar

Adjective : Of or having a pole or polarity, as:

Adjective : (geography) Of, relating to, measured from, or referred to a geographic pole (the North Pole or South Pole); within the Arctic or Antarctic circles.

Adjective : (space sciences) Of an orbit that passes over, or near, one of these poles.

pound

Noun : Various non-English units of measure.

Noun : A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.

Noun : A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (≈ 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of mass when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.

poach

Verb : (transitive) To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).

Verb : (intransitive) To be cooked in such manner.

Noun : The act of cooking in simmering liquid.

potty

Noun : A chamber pot.

Noun : A small, usually plastic, chamber pot used to toilet-train small children.

Noun : (childish, humorous) Any other device or place for urination or defecation: a toilet; a lavatory; a latrine; an outhouse.

posse

Noun : A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.

Noun : (now historical, in later use chiefly US) A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.

Noun : (US) A search party.

poser

Noun : (British) A particularly difficult question or puzzle.

Noun : Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.

Noun : Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.

pogue

Noun : (Ireland) A kiss.

Noun : (dated, slang) A purse; hence, money.

Noun : (US, slang) A young, male, passive homosexual.

porch

Noun : (architecture) A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.

Noun : A portico; a covered walk.

Noun : The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.

poesy

Noun : A poem.

Noun : The art or composition of poetry.

Noun : (archaic) The class of literature comprising poems.

poncy

Adjective : (chiefly British, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, informal) Of, relating to, or (supposedly) characteristic of a ponce.

Adjective : Intended to impress others, particularly in an excessively refined or ostentatious manner; affected, pretentious.

Adjective : Chiefly of a male person: effeminate; gay, homosexual.

pooch

Noun : (slang) A dog.

Noun : A dog of mixed breed; a mongrel.

Noun : (countable) A bulge, an enlarged part.

pouch

Noun : A small bag usually closed with a drawstring.

Noun : (zoology) An organic pocket in which a marsupial carries its young.

Noun : Any pocket or bag-shaped object, such as a cheek pouch.

pop up

Verb : (intransitive) To come up with a "pop" sound.

Verb : (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To appear without warning.

Verb : (intransitive) (Of an alert, advertisement, etc.) To suddenly appear onscreen.

pongo

Noun : (British, military slang) A soldier.

Noun : A canyon or gorge in South America, especially one cutting through a ridge or mountain range.

Noun : (British, slang) A lazy, good-for-nothing person.

posed

Adjective : (obsolete) Firm; determined; fixed.

Adjective : (often in combinations) Holding a certain pose

Verb : Alternative spelling of supposed

ponce

Noun : A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.

Noun : Synonym of kept man.

Noun : Synonym of pimp, especially one hired by a prostitute as a tout, bodyguard, and driver.

pokey

Adjective : of small volume, cramped (of a room, house)

Adjective : (slang) slow

Adjective : (slang, of a car) fast

podgy

Adjective : (informal) Slightly fat.

Adjective : (archaic, of food) Stodgy.

porno

Adjective : Pornographic.

Noun : (uncountable) Pornography.

Noun : (countable) A pornographic film.

polis

Noun : (historical) A Greek city-state.

Noun : (uncountable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) The police.

Noun : (countable, Scotland, Ireland, Geordie) A police officer.

podge

Noun : (UK, informal) a fat person

Noun : fat; fatness; podginess

pocho

Noun : (informal) A culturally assimilated Mexican-American.

Noun : (informal, uncountable) Spanglish

poker

Noun : A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.

Noun : (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.

Noun : One who pokes.

pommy

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, often derogatory) A pom; a person of British descent, a Briton; an Englishman.

Adjective : (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, derogatory) English; British.

Adjective : (heraldry) Semé of (strewn with) pommes (roundels vert).

polly

Noun : A female given name from Hebrew.

Noun : A common name for a pet parrot.

Noun : (UK, slang) A prefect at Uppingham School in Rutland, England.

potch

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To thrust.

Verb : (obsolete, transitive) To trample.

Noun : (chiefly Australia, mineralogy, gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.

pop in

Verb : (informal, idiomatic, intransitive) To pay a visit in an impromptu manner.

poopy

Noun : (slang, childish) Faeces.

Adjective : (slang) Depressed, weak, or worthless.

Adjective : (informal, slang) Dirty with feces.

pooja

Noun : A female given name from Hindi.

Noun : Alternative form of puja [A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.]

poofy

Adjective : (slang) Of or pertaining to something that is puffy, filled with air, inflated.

Adjective : Capable of making a poofing sound.

Adjective : (derogatory, slang) Pertaining to, or describing homosexual behaviour or culture

porny

Adjective : (informal) Reminiscent of pornography; somewhat pornographic.

polyp

Noun : (medicine) An abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane.

Noun : (zoology) A cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles.

Noun : The sessile life stage of many cnidarians, whose free-swimming stage, if present, is the medusa.

poppy

Noun : Any plant of the genus Papaver or the family Papaveraceae, with crumpled, often red, petals and a milky juice having narcotic properties; especially a common poppy or corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) which has orange-red flowers; the flower of such a plant.

Noun : A bright red colour tinted with orange, like that of the common poppy flower.

Noun : (chiefly Australia, British, Canada) A simple artificial poppy flower worn in a buttonhole or displayed in other contexts to remember those who died in the two World Wars and other armed conflicts, especially around Remembrance Day/Remembrance Sunday.

polka

Noun : A lively dance originating in Bohemia.

Noun : The music for this dance.

Noun : A polka jacket.

ports

Noun : A commune of Indre-et-Loire department, France

Noun : A comarca in the Valencian Community in Spain

poove

Noun : (slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of poof (“male homosexual”)

pomme

Noun : (heraldry) A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.

pouty

Adjective : Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person)

Adjective : Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)

Adjective : Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)

poset

Noun : (set theory, order theory) A partially ordered set.

pooka

Noun : A fairy that supposedly appears in animal form, often large.

Noun : A convenient storage location or hiding spot created by the arrangement or form of surrounding objects

poddy

Adjective : (not comparable) Of or pertaining to a pod or pods.

Adjective : Fat, corpulent.

Adjective : (not comparable, Australia, of a young or orphaned animal) Fed by hand.

poule

Noun : A girl, a young woman, especially seen as promiscuous; a slut.

Noun : (fencing) Alternative form of pool [A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.]

Noun : Obsolete form of pool (in various senses) [A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.]

pours

Verb : (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

Verb : (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

Verb : (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

ponzi

Adjective : (finance) Pertaining to a scheme whereby investors' returns are paid for directly by later investors' investments, giving the false impression that the investment is viable.

Noun : A Ponzi scheme.

pongy

Adjective : (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Having a bad smell.

powah

Noun : Pronunciation spelling of power. [The ability to do or undergo something.]

porty

Adjective : Resembling or characteristic of port wine.

pooma

Adjective : (slang, vulgar) abbreviation of Pulled out of my ass, or more politely pulled out of mid-air: describing information for which no supporting data or attribution is offered or shown.

pooer

Adjective : (Scotland) poor

Noun : (slang) Someone who poos.

pobby

Adjective : Like pobs; pulpy, swollen.

porto

Noun : An apéritif made from port.

Noun : Synonym of port.

Noun : A city and municipality, the district capital of Porto district, Portugal.

porgy

Noun : Any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.

Noun : In particular, the scup (paugie, Stenotomus chrysops).

poult

Noun : A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).

poona

Noun : Former name of Pune.

poppa

Noun : (US, colloquial, sometimes childish) father, papa.

pores

Noun : A tiny opening in the skin.

Noun : By extension any small opening or interstice, especially one of many, or one allowing the passage of a fluid.

Verb : To study meticulously; to go over again and again.

potos

Noun : a genus of procyonida

pogey

Noun : (chiefly historical, countable) A poorhouse, workhouse, welfare office, charity hostel, etc.

Noun : (Canada, slang, uncountable, often with the) Government financial assistance, particularly employment insurance.

poked

Verb : To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.

Verb : To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

Verb : (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.

poyou

Noun : (obsolete) The six-banded armadillo, Euphractus sexcinctus.

pools

Noun : A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.

Noun : Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.

Noun : (by extension, computing) A set of resources that are kept ready to use.

ponds

Noun : An inland body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is smaller than a lake.

Noun : An inland body of standing water of any size that is fed by springs rather than by a river.

Noun : (informal) Chiefly in across the pond: the Atlantic Ocean.

poems

Noun : the first work by British novelist William Golding (better known for Lord of the Flies, among other novels), released in 1934, 20 years before Lord of the Flies (his second major work and first novel).

Noun : a collection of 31 poems written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1899 and 1921.

Noun : the title of three separate collections of the early poetry of W. H. Auden.

ponty

Noun : Alternative form of punty [(glassblowing) A metal rod used in the glassblowing process. After a glass vessel has been blown to approximate size and the bottom of the piece has been finalized, the rod, which is tipped with a wad of hot glass, is attached to the bottom of the vessel to hold it while the top is finalized. It often leaves an irregular or ring-shaped scar on the base when removed, called the pontil mark.]

Noun : Short for Pontypridd. [A town and Welsh community with a town council in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0790).]

poind

Noun : (obsolete, Scotland) A seizure of property etc in lieu of a debt; the animal or property so seized

Verb : (obsolete, Scotland) To seize property in this manner.

pokal

Noun : (historical) A tall drinking cup.

poops

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To make a short blast on a horn.

Verb : (obsolete, intransitive) To break wind.

Verb : (informal, intransitive) To defecate.

popsy

Noun : (informal) Grandfather.

Noun : (informal) Father.

Noun : (UK, slang, dated) A girl.

posey

Adjective : (British, informal) Pretentious; posturing.

Noun : A surname.

Noun : A place in the United States:

porer

Noun : One who pores, or studies closely.

poort

Noun : (South Africa) A mountain pass.

potsy

Noun : (uncountable, New York City) A children's game, similar to hopscotch, especially popular in New York.

Noun : (countable, New York City) The puck used in this game, usually made of a flattened tin can.

polje

Noun : (geology) An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).

poney

Noun : Archaic form of pony (the animal). [A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.]

poods

Noun : An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).

Noun : A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).

pomel

popup

Noun : Alternative form of pop-up [(Internet) A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.]

powen

Noun : Alternative form of powan [Coregonus clupeoides, a species of freshwater whitefish endemic to Loch Lomond in Scotland.]

po-po

Noun : (informal, US) One's posterior, bottom, buttocks.

Noun : (childish) Genitals, especially the vulva.

Noun : (colloquial, mildly derogatory, US) The police; a police officer.

pogie

Noun : (rowing, kayaking) A protective hand covering attached to the oars or paddles while rowing, canoeing or kayaking. They insulate the hands from wind and cold while allowing the bare hands inside to contact the paddle shaft or oar and maintain grip and feel.

Noun : (cycling, motorcycling) A protective hand covering, sometimes insulated, attached to handlebars to protect hands from wind and precipitation.

Noun : Alternative form of pogy (“type of fish”) [(eastern US dialects) menhaden (fish)]

pozzy

Noun : (British, military slang) Jam (“fruit conserve made from fruit boiled with sugar”).

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.

Noun : (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.

polak

Noun : Alternative spelling of Polack [(now Canada, US now offensive slang) A Pole, or person of Polish descent.]

povey

Noun : A surname.

potin

Noun : (obsolete) An alloy of copper, zinc, lead, and tin.

poing

Noun : (obsolete) A peacock.

Noun : (UK, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, dated) A chamberpot.

Noun : (slang) The police.

pooty

Noun : (colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.

Adjective : (dialectal) Pretty.

Verb : (dialectal) Pretty (somewhat, fairly).

pop on

Verb : (transitive, informal, UK) To turn on.

porae

Noun : A marine ray-finned fish of species Nemadactylus douglasii, found around Australia and New Zealand.

posca

Noun : A drink in Ancient Rome and Greece, made by mixing sour wine or vinegar with water and herbs.

poufy

Adjective : (hair styles) Bouffant.

Adjective : (fashion) Decorated with fabric, feathers or other material to create an impression of transparent volume and movement.

Adjective : Effeminate.

powre

Noun : Obsolete form of power. [The ability to do or undergo something.]

Verb : Obsolete form of pour. [(transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.]

poema

ponda

Noun : A taluk in South Goa district, Goa, India.

poast

Noun : (humorous, Internet) A post on an internet site, especially associated with being "terminally online" or causing mischief.

Verb : (humorous, transitive) To post on an internet site, especially with ironic or mischievous intent.

Noun : Obsolete form of post. [A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.]

poovy

Adjective : (slang) homosexual; poofy

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