| acarpous | (adjective) producing no fruit | - |
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| acrocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia at the top of the stem | - |
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| amphitropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) partly inverted; turned back 90 degrees on its stalk | - |
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| ampoule | (noun) a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) | Synonyms: ampul, ampule, phial, vial |
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| anatropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk | Synonyms: inverted |
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| angiocarpous | (adjective) having or being fruit enclosed in a shell or husk | Synonyms: angiocarpic |
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| apocarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses | - |
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| ascocarpous | (adjective) of or relating to ascocarps | - |
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| campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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| compound | (adjective) composed of more than one part | - |
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| (adjective) consisting of two or more substances or ingredients or elements or parts | - |
| (adjective) composed of many distinct individuals united to form a whole or colony | Synonyms: colonial |
| (noun) an enclosure of residences and other building (especially in the Orient) | - |
| (noun) a whole formed by a union of two or more elements or parts | - |
| (noun) a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | Synonyms: compound word |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight | Synonyms: chemical compound |
| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| compounded | (adjective) combined into or constituting a chemical compound | - |
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| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| copout | (noun) a failure to face some difficulty squarely | - |
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| decompound | (adjective) of a compound leaf; consisting of divisions that are themselves compound | - |
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| downpour | (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, pelter, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
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| dropout | (noun) someone who quits school before graduation | - |
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| (noun) someone who withdraws from a social group or environment | - |
| eelpout | (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: pout |
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| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, ling, Lota lota |
| espousal | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, adoption |
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| (noun) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast | Synonyms: bridal |
| (noun) the act of becoming betrothed or engaged | Synonyms: betrothal |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| (verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
| expounder | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expositor |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| hornpout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, pout |
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| impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
| impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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| impoundment | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, internment, poundage |
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| inpour | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpouring, inrush |
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| inpouring | (adjective) pouring inward | - |
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| (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
| iodocompound | (noun) a compound containing the covalent iodine radical | - |
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| isotropous | (adjective) invariant with respect to direction | Synonyms: isotropic |
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| orthotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) completely straight with the micropyle at the apex | - |
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| outpouring | (noun) a large flow | Synonyms: flood, overflow |
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| (noun) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) | Synonyms: barrage, bombardment, onslaught |
| (noun) the pouring forth of a fluid | Synonyms: discharge, run |
| (noun) a sudden rapid flow (as of water) | Synonyms: flush, gush |
| (noun) a natural flow of ground water | Synonyms: fountain, natural spring, outflow, spring |
| pleurocarpous | (adjective) (of mosses) having the archegonia on short lateral branches | - |
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| pompous | (adjective) characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display | Synonyms: ceremonious |
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| (adjective) puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: grandiloquent, overblown, pontifical, portentous |
| pompously | (adverb) in a pompous manner | - |
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| pompousness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| potpourri | (noun) a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume | - |
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| (noun) a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources | Synonyms: medley, pastiche |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, mixture, motley, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| pouch | (noun) a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things | - |
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| (noun) (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) | Synonyms: pocket |
| (noun) an enclosed space | Synonyms: pocket, sac, sack |
| (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| pouched | (adjective) having a pouch | - |
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| pouchlike | (adjective) shaped like a pouch | Synonyms: bursiform, pouch-shaped, saclike |
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| poudrin | (noun) small crystals of ice | Synonyms: diamond dust, frost mist, frost snow, ice crystal, ice needle, snow mist |
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| pouf | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouffe, puff |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, queen, queer |
| pouffe | (noun) thick cushion used as a seat | Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, puff |
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| poulet | (noun) the flesh of a chicken used for food | Synonyms: chicken, volaille |
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| poulette | (noun) allemande sauce with chopped parsley | - |
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| poulterer | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poultryman |
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| poultice | (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, plaster |
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| (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
| poultry | (noun) a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl | Synonyms: domestic fowl, fowl |
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| (noun) flesh of chickens or turkeys or ducks or geese raised for food | - |
| poultryman | (noun) a dealer in poultry and poultry products | Synonyms: poulterer |
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| pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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| (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
| pound | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pounding |
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| (noun) a public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs | Synonyms: dog pound |
| (noun) a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) | Synonyms: pound sign |
| (noun) a nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/sec/sec | Synonyms: lbf. |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: British pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents | Synonyms: Cypriot pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Egyptian pound |
| (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence | Synonyms: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Lebanese pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Sudanese pound |
| (noun) the basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters | Synonyms: Syrian pound |
| (noun) 16 ounces avoirdupois | Synonyms: lb |
| (noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy | - |
| (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| poundage | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, internment |
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| (noun) weight expressed in pounds | - |
| (noun) a fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals | - |
| (noun) a charge based on weight measured in pounds | - |
| poundal | (noun) a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/sec/sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons | Synonyms: pdl |
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| pounder | (noun) a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone | Synonyms: muller, pestle |
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| (noun) (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds | - |
| pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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| (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
| (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
| pour | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem |
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| (verb) flow in a spurt | - |
| (verb) cause to run | - |
| (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: decant, pour out |
| (verb) supply in large amounts or quantities | - |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pourboire | (noun) a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) | Synonyms: backsheesh, baksheesh, bakshis, bakshish, gratuity, tip |
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| pouring | (adjective) flowing profusely | Synonyms: gushing |
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| pout | (noun) catfish common in eastern United States | Synonyms: Ameiurus Melas, horned pout, hornpout |
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| (noun) marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas | Synonyms: eelpout |
| (noun) a disdainful grimace | Synonyms: moue, wry face |
| (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| pouter | (noun) one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out | Synonyms: pouter pigeon |
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| (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, sourpuss |
| poutine | (noun) a Canadian dish made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy | - |
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| poutingly | (adverb) with a pout or in a pouting manner | - |
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| propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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| spousal | (adjective) relating to a spouse | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, nuptial |
| spouse | (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, mate, partner |
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| spout | (noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain | - |
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| (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |
| spouter | (noun) a spouting whale | - |
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| (noun) an oil well that is spouting | - |
| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater |
| spouting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spurting, squirting |
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| syncarpous | (adjective) (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels | - |
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| tenpounder | (noun) game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller | Synonyms: Elops saurus, ladyfish |
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| uncompounded | (adjective) not constituting a compound | Synonyms: unmixed |
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| unpompous | (adjective) not pompous | - |
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| vapour | (noun) the process of becoming a vapor | Synonyms: evaporation, vapor, vaporisation, vaporization |
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| (noun) a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance | Synonyms: vapor |
| vapourific | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourish, vapourous |
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| (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilisable, volatilizable |
| vapourisable | (adjective) (used of substances) capable of being volatilized | Synonyms: evaporable, vaporific, vaporizable, vapourific, volatilisable, volatilizable |
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| vapourised | (adjective) converted into a gas or vapor | Synonyms: gasified, vaporized, volatilised, volatilized |
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| vapourish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourous |
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| vapourous | (adjective) filled with vapor | Synonyms: miasmal, miasmic, vaporous |
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| (adjective) resembling or characteristic of vapor | Synonyms: vaporific, vaporish, vaporous, vapourific, vapourish |
| (adjective) so thin as to transmit light | Synonyms: cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent, vaporous |
| vapourousness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, mistiness, steaminess, vaporousness |
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| vapours | (noun) a state of depression | Synonyms: blue devils, blues, megrims, vapors |
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| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |