| pop | (noun) music of general appeal to teenagers; a bland watered-down version of rock'n'roll with more rhythm and harmony and an emphasis on romantic love | Synonyms: pop music |
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| (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: popping |
| (noun) a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring | Synonyms: soda, soda pop, soda water, tonic |
| (noun) an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk | Synonyms: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa |
| popcorn | (noun) small kernels of corn exploded by heat | - |
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| (noun) corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat | Synonyms: Zea mays everta |
| pope | (noun) the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pontiff, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ |
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| popery | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: papism |
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| popgun | (noun) plaything consisting of a toy gun that makes a popping sound | - |
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| popinjay | (noun) an archaic term for a parrot | - |
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| (noun) a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot) | - |
| poplar | (noun) any of numerous trees of north temperate regions having light soft wood and flowers borne in catkins | Synonyms: poplar tree |
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| (noun) soft light-colored non-durable wood of the poplar | - |
| poplin | (noun) a ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery | - |
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| popover | (noun) light hollow muffin made of a puff batter (individual Yorkshire pudding) baked in a deep muffin cup | - |
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| popper | (noun) a container for cooking popcorn | - |
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| (noun) a container of stimulant drug (amyl nitrate or butyl nitrite) | - |
| poppet | (noun) a mushroom-shaped valve that rises perpendicularly from its seat; commonly used in internal-combustion engines | Synonyms: poppet valve |
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| popping | (noun) a sharp explosive sound as from a gunshot or drawing a cork | Synonyms: pop |
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| poppy | (noun) annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers | - |
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| poppycock | (noun) senseless talk | Synonyms: hooey, stuff, stuff and nonsense |
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| popsicle | (noun) ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick | Synonyms: ice lolly, lollipop, lolly |
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| populace | (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: public, world |
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| popularisation | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularization, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularization |
| populariser | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularizer, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| popularism | (noun) music adapted to the understanding and taste of the majority | - |
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| popularity | (noun) the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after | - |
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| popularization | (noun) the act of making something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: popularisation, vulgarisation, vulgarization |
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| (noun) an interpretation that easily understandable and acceptable | Synonyms: popularisation |
| popularizer | (noun) someone who makes something attractive to the general public | Synonyms: populariser, vulgariser, vulgarizer |
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| population | (noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place) | - |
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| (noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn | Synonyms: universe |
| (noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state | - |
| (noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area | - |
| (noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.) | - |
| populism | (noun) the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite | - |
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| populist | (noun) someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite | - |
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