| porcupine | (noun) relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | Synonyms: hedgehog |
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| porcupinefish | (noun) spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish |
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| porcupines | (noun) meat patties rolled in rice and simmered in a tomato sauce | Synonyms: porcupine ball |
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| pore | (noun) any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal | - |
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| (noun) a minute epidermal pore in a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor can pass | Synonyms: stoma, stomate |
| (noun) any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas) | - |
| porgy | (noun) important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide | - |
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| (noun) lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States | Synonyms: scup |
| poriferan | (noun) primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies | Synonyms: parazoan, sponge |
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| pork | (noun) meat from a domestic hog or pig | Synonyms: porc |
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| (noun) a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents | Synonyms: pork barrel |
| porkchop | (noun) chop cut from a hog | - |
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| porker | (noun) a pig fattened to provide meat | - |
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| porkfish | (noun) black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | Synonyms: Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish |
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| porkholt | (noun) made of lamb or pork | - |
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| porkpie | (noun) man's hat with a low, flat crown and a snap brim | Synonyms: porkpie hat |
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| porn | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porno, pornography, smut |
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| porno | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, pornography, smut |
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| pornographer | (noun) someone who presents shows or sells writing or pictures that are sexually explicit in violation of the community mores | Synonyms: porn merchant |
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| pornography | (noun) creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire | Synonyms: erotica, porn, porno, smut |
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| poroporo | (noun) Australian annual sometimes cultivated for its racemes of purple flowers and edible yellow egg-shaped fruit | Synonyms: kangaroo apple, Solanum aviculare |
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| porosity | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porousness |
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| porousness | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porosity |
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| porphyria | (noun) a genetic abnormality of metabolism causing abdominal pains and mental confusion | - |
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| porphyrin | (noun) any of various pigments distributed widely in living tissues | - |
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| porphyry | (noun) any igneous rock with crystals embedded in a finer groundmass of minerals | Synonyms: porphyritic rock |
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| porpoise | (noun) any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth | - |
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| porridge | (noun) soft food made by boiling oatmeal or other meal or legumes in water or milk until thick | - |
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| porringer | (noun) a shallow metal bowl (usually with a handle) | - |
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| port | (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, porthole |
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| (noun) (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals) | Synonyms: interface |
| (noun) the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose | Synonyms: larboard |
| (noun) sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal | Synonyms: port wine |
| (noun) a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country | - |
| porta | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, orifice |
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| portability | (noun) the quality of being light enough to be carried | - |
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| portable | (noun) a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried | - |
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| portage | (noun) carrying boats and supplies overland | - |
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| (noun) overland track between navigable waterways | - |
| (noun) the cost of carrying or transporting | - |
| portal | (noun) a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically) | - |
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| (noun) a short vein that carries blood into the liver | Synonyms: hepatic portal vein, portal vein, vena portae |
| (noun) a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet | Synonyms: portal site |
| portcullis | (noun) gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage | - |
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| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| porter | (noun) a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley | Synonyms: porter's beer |
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| (noun) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies | - |
| (noun) a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) | Synonyms: Pullman porter |
| (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary |
| porterage | (noun) the transportation of burdens by porters | - |
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| (noun) the charge for carrying burdens by porters | - |
| porterhouse | (noun) large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin | Synonyms: porterhouse steak |
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| portfolio | (noun) the role of the head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather | - |
| (noun) a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution | - |
| (noun) a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers | - |
| porthole | (noun) a window in a ship or airplane | - |
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| (noun) an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through | Synonyms: embrasure, port |
| portico | (noun) a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area | - |
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| portiere | (noun) a heavy curtain hung across a doorway | - |
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| portion | (noun) the allotment of some amount by dividing something | Synonyms: parcel, share |
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| (noun) something less than the whole of a human artifact | Synonyms: part |
| (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: helping, serving |
| (noun) assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group | Synonyms: part, percentage, share |
| (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowery, dowry |
| (noun) something determined in relation to something that includes it | Synonyms: component, component part, constituent, part |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck |
| portmanteau | (noun) a large travelling bag made of stiff leather | Synonyms: Gladstone, Gladstone bag |
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| (noun) a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings | Synonyms: blend, portmanteau word |
| portrait | (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrayal |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portraiture, portrayal |
| portraitist | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portrayer |
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| portraiture | (noun) the activity of making portraits | - |
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| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portrayal |
| portrayal | (noun) representation by drawing or painting etc | Synonyms: delineation, depiction |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, personation |
| (noun) any likeness of a person, in any medium | Synonyms: portrait |
| (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portraying |
| (noun) a word picture of a person's appearance and character | Synonyms: portrait, portraiture |
| portrayer | (noun) a painter or drawer of portraits | Synonyms: limner, portrait painter, portraitist |
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| portraying | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depicting, depiction, portrayal |
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| portulaca | (noun) a plant of the genus Portulaca having pink or red or purple or white ephemeral flowers | - |
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| portwatcher | (noun) a watchman on a wharf | Synonyms: port watcher |
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| pose | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, affectedness, mannerism |
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| (noun) affected manners intended to impress others | Synonyms: airs |
| (noun) a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes | - |
| poser | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: sticker, stumper, toughie |
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| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: model |
| (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poseur |
| poseur | (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poser |
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| poseuse | (noun) a woman poseur | - |
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| posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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| posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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| position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
| (noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
| (noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
| (noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
| (noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
| (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| positioning | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
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| positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
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| positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
| positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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| posology | (noun) the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines | - |
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| posse | (noun) a temporary police force | Synonyms: posse comitatus |
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| posseman | (noun) an able-bodied man serving as a member of a posse | - |
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| possession | (noun) anything owned or possessed | - |
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| (noun) the act of having and controlling property | Synonyms: ownership |
| (noun) (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck) | - |
| (noun) the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior | Synonyms: self-command, self-control, self-possession, self-will, will power, willpower |
| (noun) a territory that is controlled by a ruling state | - |
| (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: monomania |
| (noun) being controlled by passion or the supernatural | - |
| possessive | (noun) the case expressing ownership | Synonyms: genitive, genitive case, possessive case |
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| possessiveness | (noun) excessive desire to possess or dominate | - |
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| possessor | (noun) a person who owns something | Synonyms: owner |
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| posset | (noun) sweet spiced hot milk curdled with ale or beer | - |
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| possibility | (noun) a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena | Synonyms: hypothesis, theory |
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| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: opening, possible action |
| (noun) a future prospect or potential | - |
| (noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibleness |
| possible | (noun) something that can be done | - |
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| (noun) an applicant who might be suitable | - |
| possibleness | (noun) capability of existing or happening or being true | Synonyms: possibility |
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| possum | (noun) nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America | Synonyms: opossum |
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| (noun) small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails | Synonyms: opossum, phalanger |
| possumwood | (noun) medium-sized tree of dry woodlands in the southern and eastern United States bearing yellow or orange very astringent fruit that is edible when fully ripe | Synonyms: American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana |
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| post | (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, position, situation |
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| (noun) the delivery and collection of letters and packages | - |
| (noun) an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position | - |
| (noun) military installation at which a body of troops is stationed | Synonyms: military post |
| (noun) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office | Synonyms: mail, mail service, postal service |
| (noun) a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) | Synonyms: stake |
| (noun) A message on a social media website | - |
| (noun) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered | Synonyms: mail |
| (noun) the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand | Synonyms: station |
| postage | (noun) a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that postal fees have been paid | Synonyms: postage stamp, stamp |
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| (noun) the charge for mailing something | - |
| postalveolar | (noun) (phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge. | Synonyms: post-alveolar, post-alveolar consonant, postalveolar consonant |
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| postbag | (noun) letter carrier's shoulder bag | Synonyms: mailbag |
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| postbox | (noun) public box for deposit of mail | Synonyms: letter box, mailbox |
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| postcard | (noun) a card for sending messages by post without an envelope | Synonyms: mailing-card, post card, postal card |
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| postcava | (noun) receives blood from lower limbs and abdominal organs and empties into the posterior part of the right atrium of the heart; formed from the union of the two iliac veins | Synonyms: inferior vena cava |
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| postcode | (noun) a code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail | Synonyms: postal code, ZIP, ZIP code |
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| postdiluvian | (noun) anything living after Noah's flood | - |
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| postdoc | (noun) a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree | Synonyms: post doc |
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| (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoctoral |
| postdoctoral | (noun) a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research | Synonyms: post doc, postdoc |
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| poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
| (noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
| posterboard | (noun) a cardboard suitable for making posters | Synonyms: paperboard, poster board |
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| posterior | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| (noun) a tooth situated at the back of the mouth | Synonyms: back tooth |
| posteriority | (noun) the quality of being toward the back or toward the rear end | - |
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| (noun) following in time | Synonyms: subsequence, subsequentness |
| posterity | (noun) all future generations | - |
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| (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: descendants |
| postern | (noun) a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle | - |
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| postfix | (noun) an affix that is added at the end of the word | Synonyms: suffix |
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| postgraduate | (noun) a student who continues studies after graduation | Synonyms: grad student, graduate student |
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| posthitis | (noun) inflammation of the foreskin of the penis; usually caused by bacterial infection | - |
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| posthole | (noun) a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post | Synonyms: post hole |
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| posthouse | (noun) an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders | Synonyms: post house |
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